Africa category: 4903 books
Saharan Frontiers
Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel’s description...
Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa
From Honor to Respectability
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Examining the process of abolition on the island of Pemba off the East African coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island. By examining the social vulnerability...
The American Colonization Society
And the Founding of the First African Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Most historical narratives about Africans in America begin with Jamestown, Virginia, where enslaved Angolans were sold in 1619. However, this book commences with blacks as explorers in the Americas before Christopher Columbus arrival. The point here is to demonstrate that slavery robbed Africa of...
China’s Expanding African Relations
Implications for U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Across economic, political, and security domains, the growth of China’s presence in Africa has been swift and staggering, which has fed both simplistic caricatures of China’s role on the continent and fears of renewed geopolitical competition. A closer look reveals a more balanced picture. This...
Third World Child
Born White, Zulu Bred
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
GG Alcock's parents, Creina and Neil, were humanitarians who gave up comfortable lives to move to rural Zululand. In a place called Msinga, a dry rock-strewn wilderness and one of the most violent places in Africa, they lived and worked among the Mchunu and Mthembu tribes, fighting for the rights...
Aids To Scouting
for N.-C.O.s and Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. It was a non-typical training manual filled with personal stories of intrigue and even games. Its goal was to encourage the development of light reconnaissance scouting skills within the...
The Forger’s Tale
The Search for Odeziaku
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace...
Amani Haki Yetu
Peace Is Our Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
On December 30, 2007, President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of Kenyas presidential election. Within minutes of this declaration, rioting erupted across Kenya, from the coast of the Indian Ocean to the banks of Lake Victoria. These riots lasted two months, claiming the lives of nearly 1500...
Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development
Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills...
by Christiana Oware Knudsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
The period between the 9th and the 19th centuries was a dark period in the history of West African Women. The effect of this dark period continues today, in part, in the form of persistent gender inequalities.
Prior to this period, ancient West African women were empowered to the point that...
by Alexander Gordon Laing.
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1825 edition by John Murray, London. This is an illustrated edition Major Alexander Gordon Laing (27 December 1793 – 26 September 1826) was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu via the north/south route. His travels as a member of the military...
by James Alexander Currie, Bonnie J. Fladung
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Follow the daring safari of James Currie as his love of birds, fascination with wildlife and craving for adventure lead him into humorous and life threatening situations. James captures the essence of what it means to be African today, facing everything from the Big Five to the vestiges of apartheid...
Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War
The West African National Secretariat, 1945-48
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
The West African National Secretariat (WANS) has almost been forgotten by history. A pan-Africanist movement founded in 1945 by Kwame Nkrumah and colleagues in London and France, WANS campaigned for independence and unity. Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast in late 1947. The colonial government accused...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse. This book examines the gradual shift and four major transformations in the study of Pan-Africanism. It offers an "academic post-mortem" that seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism...