Africa category: 4903 books

Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town’s foreshore live a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam. When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of the Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generation subculture...

This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production...

Un treno, un computer, una destinazione incerta, ma nella testa un sogno improvviso, la voglia di iniziare a scrivere e di visitare un paese sconosciuto. L'Africa. Il bisogno di partire, di cambiare, di conoscere, di scoprire, di mettersi alla prova, di sentire, di staccare la spina, di allontanarsi...

In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined...

Oral literature has always been part of the East African culture since time immemorial. Stories have been passed on from the older to the younger generations, mostly to inculcate good values in life such as honesty, courage, hard work, respect and humility, among others. In all the eleven...

Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone presented a unique situation historically as the focal point of early abolitionist efforts, settlement within West Africa by westernized Africans, and a rapid demographic increase through the judicial emancipation of Liberated Africans. Within this complex and often...

Die Magie und die Härten Afrikas - vier Hamburger sollen sie erleben. Eine als Traumurlaub geplante Reise nach Namibia nimmt einen unvorhergesehenen Verlauf und konfrontiert die Vier mit der eigenen Wahrheit.

Abgründige, authentische Einblicke erhält ein Junglehrer aus Deutschland, der sich nicht nur im Dunstkreis der Deutschen Schule Pretoria aufhalten wollte, sondern auf eigene Faust Südafrika zu erkunden suchte. Dass der Autor dabei zwangsläufig in schwierige Situationen geriet, konnte nicht ausbleiben....

No matter how often one sets out, "for to admire, and for to see, for to behold this world so wide," he never quite gets over being surprised at the erratic manner in which "civilization" distributes itself; at the way it ignores one spot upon the earth's surface, and upon another,...

En este magico cuento, una niña nos mostrara que existen jirafas con alas que nos llevan en su lomo a descubrir africa pero tambien nos descubren la solidaridad, esperanza y generosidad. A tale of solidarity and the beauty that lies within us. A journey into the heart of Africa and into the heart and hope of our inner child. Lexile Level: 780L

A journalist’s harrowing account of life in Zimbabwe—and the human rights atrocities perpetuated—under President Robert Mugabe’s despotic rule. Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence,...

Out, Out, Brief Candle! is the remarkable story of African children who have survived terrible fires and gone on to thrive at Children of Fire, a charity based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Martin Klammer recalls his time helping the children develop their personal writing and rehearse and perform...

Molte ragazze sognano il principe azzurro ma Federica, che di lavoro fa l'assistente turistica, lo sogna nero. Con la sua voglia di viaggiare, di vivere, di conoscere il mondo e le culture differenti, va da un capo all'altro del mondo col cuore aperto, accogliendo tutto ciò che il viaggio le regala....

Discendente di grandi navigatori, cittadino più illustre di Shasmahal, la città meravigliosa, con un passato di incredibili avventure e storie da raccontare, Madhat Suburban ha intrapreso da anni la via del mare, in balia di quelle onde che lo aiutano a tenere all’orizzonte la vita reale. Ma Madhat...