Africa category: 4903 books
Bushman Rock Art
An Interpretive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The prehistoric record of southern Africa extends back some 2 million years. The oldest cultural artefacts are stone tools such as handaxes, cleavers and choppers. In more recent centuries, archaeologists have found an extensive repertoire of artefacts including not only stone tools, but tools of...
Amazing Africa Projects
You Can Build Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
While Africa is one continent it contains many diverse countries. Amazing Africa Projects You Can Build
Yourself introduces readers ages 9 and up to the stunning landscapes, ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, unique traditions, and amazing wildlife of the vast African continent.
With...
From Africa to Brazil
Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how...
by Olayanju Olajide
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This book is written mainly from my experience since my arrival in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. I came to the UK before I came in contact with any Afro American or Caribbean. In Nigeria I know some people whose parents originally returned to Nigeria from Brazil and Cuba. The names of these...
A History of Modern Africa
1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries.
Adopts a long-term approach to current issues,...
Eritrea at a Crossroads
A Narrative of Triumph, Betrayal and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
I congratulate Andebrhan Welde Giorgis on his high-quality and extremely informative book that has not only the merit to be an update on the political situation in Eritrea but also asks the pertinent questions on the future of his marvelous country. He does it with tact and success, based on his long...
Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa
Explaining Riots in Europe and Violence in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa is an interdisciplinary treatment of a topic that is usually addressed by political scientists and military strategists. Rather than follow Thomas P. M. Barnett’s, Samuel Huntington’s and Edward Saïd’s top-down approach to the turn-of-the-twenty-first...
by Mary Devey
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
If you are ready for some ghostly haunts around Africa, then you might like some of the stories told in Part I where Africa's goblin is said to wreck many lives, break countless marriages and cast just about any trouble and mischief it knows in everyone's way. Then there are witches in Africa…lots...
A History of the Water Hyacinth in Africa
The Flower of Life and Death from 1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Humans and animals are not the only creatures that migrate. Plants also do. This book is a comprehensive and analytical account of the migration of an Old World plant, water hyacinth (also known to botanists as Eichhornia Crassipes) from the Amazon Basin and surrounding areas to Africa through human...
by Clifton Crais
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Poverty and violence are issues of global importance. In Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor. Based on a wealth of archival sources, this detailed history changes our understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate...
After Freedom
The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.
The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election,...
The South Africa Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory—Muslim as well as Jewish—in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study...