Africa category: 4903 books
Out of Bounds
Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
We are the young people,
We will not be broken!
We demand freedom
And say
"Away with slavery
In our land of Africa!"
For almost fifty years apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and "Coloreds." This unique and dramatic...
Affluence Without Abundance
The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
“Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMAN KIND and HOMO DEUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW
WASHINGTON...
The African Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Early Explorers of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
In the latter half of the 19th Century a group of particularly intrepid explorers navigated their way into the interior of Africa, documenting what they saw, mapping the territory they crossed, and competing with one another to be the first to discover the fabled 'source of the Nile'.
The...
The Kingdom of Waalo
Senegal Before the Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Situated along the Senegal River, the Kingdom of Waalo was the smallest of the Wolof states of Senegal, but it illustrates the broader consequences of a shift from trans-Saharan to trans-Atlantic commerce during a time of competing European, Muslim, and indigenous African forces. From the establishment...
King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1999
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its...
Tower of the Sun
Stories from the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten’s gripping first-person narratives from the war zones, police states, and revolutionary capitals of the Middle East and North Africa paint a vivid picture of peoples and nations at war with themselves, each other, and—sometimes—with the rest of the world.
His...
Dark Star Safari
Overland from Cairo to Capetown
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances.
Gauging...
Crazy River
Exploration and Folly in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Cape Town (South africa) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section...
Relentless
An Immigrant Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
SHE REFUSED TO GIVE UP, EVEN IF IT MEANT NEVER GOING HOME AGAIN
A young African mother receives devastating news that her first-born child has a life-threatening medical condition. But when war breaks out in her newly independent nation and her husband is forcibly conscripted into the army,...
Diamonds, Gold, and War
The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between...
Rat Roads
One Man’s Incredible Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In this extraordinary book, celebrated journalist Jacques Pauw gives a human face to some of the most tumultuous events in recent African history. Rat Roads chronicles the remarkable journey of Kennedy Gihana, a young Tutsi man who fought against the genocidaires in Rwanda, but was part of an army...
Shebeen Tales
Messages from Harare
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Throughout southern Africa, shebeens are where jokes are born, news is embellished and exchanged. They are unique vantage points where men go after a day's work, both to escape from the troubled world around them and to observe and comment on it. In Shebeen Tales, Zimbabwe's leading author offers...
The South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary...