Africa category: 4903 books
Historical Memory in Africa
Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A vast amount of literature—both scholarly and popular—now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive...
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 1918-2013
Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
December 2014 marked a year since the passing of Nelson Mandela—a man who was as much myth as flesh and blood. Transition pays tribute to Mandela’s worldly attainments and to his otherworldly sainthood. Featuring remembrances from Wole Soyinka, Xolela Mangcu, Pierre de Vos, and Adam Habib, this...
The Second Colonial Occupation
Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In this insightful book, development historian Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina addresses the crisis of development in Africa by locating it in its colonial historical past. Using Nigeria as a case study, he argues that the nature and practice of British colonialism in this colony created social and economic...
by Myles Osborne, Susan Kingsley Kent
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa:...
by Kara Benson
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Extract from “Letters From Zimbabwe”
Trent’s pick-up has a name: ‘Fugly’. Yes, it means exactly what you think it does! When he came to pick me up, I thought a nightmare had rolled into our yard. They must have collected bits and pieces for decades and stuck them together to make this pick-up...
by Wilson Maiyo Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In the precincts of our universe, history is the clock face that tells a people their historical time of the moment. Without employing the use of natural cardinal points, history becomes the compass which the sages use to locate themselves and their communities on the invisible world map that indicates...
12 Days in Africa
A Mother's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Lisa traveled to Uganda with her teenage son on a twelve-day mission trip. In an orphanage her world view abruptly changed as she held a shivering emaciated little boy who lay dying of malaria. He had no one else in the world to care that he was passing. This experience and others while on the trip...
A Burning Hunger
One Family’s Struggle Against Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
If the Mandelas were the generals in the fight for black liberation, the Mashininis were the foot soldiers. Theirs is a story of exile, imprisonment, torture, and loss, but also of dignity, courage, and strength in the face of appalling adversity. Originally published in Great Britain to critical...
Politics of the Womb
Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003
In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female...
Peacebuilding in the African Union
Law, Philosophy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Particularly in the context of internal conflicts, international law is frequently unable to create and sustain frameworks for peace in Africa. In Peacebuilding in the African Union, Abou Jeng explores the factors which have prevented such steps forward in the interaction between the international...
A Biafran Soldier’S Survival from the Jaws of Death
Nigerian – Biafran Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
A Biafran Soldiers Survival from the Jaws of Death: Nigeria-Biafran Civil War is a reflection of a personal experience in the battlefield and an insight about certain activities in some war theaters. Attempt was made to illustrate how Nigeria waged a war of genocide against Eastern Nigeria especially...
The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria
Their Life Stories in Signs, Symbols, and Motifs
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Dr. Robin Renee Sanders, having lived in Africa for several years, was always struck by the ancestral, socio-historical and educational aspects of certain African cultural practices, especially languages, artifacts, and sign and symbol systems from the Ovahimba in Namibia and Pygmies in Congo, to...
by Ian Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The rise of one African leader would bring the Mau Mau movement to an end. This is the exciting story of the great MAN HUNT IN KENYA
An extraordinary man roamed the vast forests and craggy foothills of Kenya’s Aberdare plateau. He was a man of animal instincts and animal cunning. He was a...
by Martins Udenga
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Angola Economy and Political Leadership. Angola Early Economic situation. Angola Present Economy. Angola War history. The Angolan government faces a paradox: It is an incredibly rich country, but also a very poor one. Like most African countries, it faces some of the steepest development challenges...