Africa category: 4903 books
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Discover South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland with themost incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan tosafari in Kruger National Park, savour the fine wines of the Western Cape orexplore the village where Nelson Mandela grew up, The Rough Guide to South Africa, Lesotho &...
Fears, Tears, Cheers and Hope
"Out of a violent and bloody past, South Africa's extraordinary relatively peaceful transition to democracy was a minor "miracle"...
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Following on from my Rainbow books on South Africa
A book by craig lock
"How apartheid was finally buried, without requiem; but in
joyous celebration, will remain forever in the hearts and minds
of a nation reborn. When tears came, and there was dampness in
the eyes of even the most stern,...
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by Murray Gough, Peter Travers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Three friends confronting middle-age set out to explore the world and the great sweep of people who inhabit it. A 4WD journey across the Sahara to Africa - sights & adventures from one of the world’s most colourful overland routes.
For travellers, 4WD enthusiasts, and armchair adventurers.
This...
The Rift
A New Africa Breaks Free
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.
Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs...
by Susan Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
To the surprise of many, George W. Bush pledged $10 billion to combat AIDS in developing nations. Noted specialist Susan Hunter tells the untold story of AIDS in Africa, home to 80 percent of the 40 million people in the world currently infected with HIV. She weaves together the history of colonialism...
North Africa
A History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically underestimated. In a book that may lead scholars to reimagine the concept of Western civilization,...
Decolonizing Africa and African Development
The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara’s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumba’s call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africa’s underdevelopment and the short-circuiting of the...
The Betrayal of Africa
A Groundwork Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail
Think Africa, and many people think of brutal war,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. A three-country case study was used to analyze the economic, political, and social impacts of entrepreneurship, and the development of entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa was studied through...
Africa and the New World Era
From Humanitarianism to a Strategic View
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
Over the last decade, there has been a shift toward a strategic view of Africa. China and the US import much of their oil from Africa which is clearly emerging on the world stage as a strategic player. Africa and the New World Era probes the importance and significance of this shift and its implications for Africa's international relations.
Water: New Short Story Fiction from Africa
An Anthology from Short Story Day Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Water. This is the third in the SSDA collection of anthologies, which aim to break the one-dimensional view of African storytelling and fiction writing.
Short...
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
"For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this."-Athol Fugard
"A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it."-Sunday Independent
The...
ON THE ROOF IN AFRICA
NAMIBIA & BOTSWANA
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The Travelling Hobos are actually a UK couple who were firmly planted in England’s suburbia. Like so many people, they had become tired of the seemingly never ending treadmill of a nine to five existence that many of us so often feel we are on.
Deciding that the call of their pending mid...
by John Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped...