Africa category: 4903 books
by Akpam Mboma
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
During the last two decades, many countries in sub-Sahara Africa embraced centralization as a new management strategy to render local government, broadly understood, more democratic, accountable, and responsive to the pressing social and economic needs of their citizens. The urgency of these reforms...
Operation Idris
Inside the British Administration of Cyrenaica and Libya, 1942-52
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Operation Idris provides the unofficial story behind the British Administration’s cultivation of Sayyid Mohammed Idris as the figurehead for their project of indirect rule in Cyrenaica.
Operation Idris looks beneath the veneer of the British administration of eastern Libya (Cyrenaica) from...
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra
An African Society in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and...
by Reuben Eneze
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The author presented his book Igbo Culture in a most convincing way by quoting expert opinions on most of the issues he discussed in the book. Through his carefully researched work and detailed analysis of facts, he showed in the book that Igbo youths working hard like their ancestors can reform Igboland...
Inequalities and Conflicts in Modern and Contemporary African History
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
The book deals with historical, social, economic, political, and international causes, contexts, and consequences of inequalities and conflicts in Africa. In particular, the book is to puts conflicts and turbulences in Ethiopia in a broader, African comparative perspective. It also identifies and...
Give a Man a Fish
Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death...
Biko's Ghost
The Iconography of Black Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
“When you say, ‘Black is Beautiful,’ what in fact you are saying . . . is: Man, you are okay as you are; begin to look upon yourself as a human being.” With such statements, Stephen Biko became the voice of Black Consciousness. And with Biko’s brutal death in the custody of the South African...
by Tommaso Besozzi
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Il sogno del settimo viaggio raccoglie i migliori reportage dall’Africa che Besozzi, uno dei più grandi giornalisti italiani del dopoguerra, autore su «L’Europeo» e «Il Giorno» di scoop clamorosi come quello sulla vera morte del bandito Giuliano, pubblicò durante gli anni Cinquanta. Protagonisti...
by Coen van Wyk
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This is an account of the political shenanigans of the National Party in South Africa during the 1950s in their endeavours to deprive coloureds of their rights in terms of the constitution.
by Stephen Francis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Several strips of South Africa’s most popular comic, Madam & Eve, are collected in this satirical compendium. It follows the motley crew of Madam, Eve, Thandi, and Mother Anderson-who are like old friends to most South Africans-as they dash about in their dysfunctional, chaotic, and totally...
by Al Berenger
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A colorfully illustrated, pocket-size picture book biography of activist, philanthropist, and South African President Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary, activist, politician, and philanthropist who opposed apartheid and served as the president of South Africa...
Unspotted
One Man's Obsessive Search for Africa's Most Elusive Leopard
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
People have driven Cape Leopards to the brink of extinction. Can we bring them back?
The majestic Cederberg mountains in the Western Cape region of South Africa are home to the elusive Cape Mountain Leopard. But for how long? The population has been decimated over centuries by human enemies...
The Finger of God
Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers. Called the Israelites, they refused to leave their holy village of Ntabelanga, where they had been gathering since early 1919...
The Athens of West Africa
A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).