Africa category: 4903 books
Beyond the Malachite Hills
A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict - even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and, in places, the complete breakdown...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Much has been written about Chinese enterprise in sub-Saharan Africa, most bad and some good, which is mainly due to the profit-driven approach, where aid distribution is tied to trade, directly...
by Sol. T. Plaatje
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
A work of impassioned political propaganda, exposing the plight of black South Africans under the whites-only government'.
Sol Plaatje’sNative Life in South Africa, originally published in 1916, was first and foremost a response to the landmark Natives’ Land Act of 1913. It arose out of...
Mbeki and After
Reflections On The Legacy Of Thabo Mbeki
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
For nearly ten years _ indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela?s presidency _ Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa?s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South...
Mandela's Kinsmen
Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost "tribal" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei,...
by Jonathan Farley
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Southern Africa surveys the contemporary history of the whole region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one short succinct volume.
Positioning the collapse of Portugal’s African Empire in the context of the region’s...
Proudly We Can Be Africans
Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
The Great Silence
From Mushroom Valley to Delville Wood, South African Forces in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When war struck in 1914, it struck not just in Europe, but everywhere across the globe, including South Africa, whose troops saw action in five theatres. They fought one another on home soil, during a rebellion fuelled by old resentments; they fought the Germans in the deserts of South West Africa and...
by Chima J. Korieh, Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a...
by Stuart O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
In ‘EVERYTHING ALL OF THE TIME’ Stu O’Brien embarks on an adventure from Egypt to Morocco and overland through West Africa. Along the way he battles extreme heat, a mystery illness, hunger, corruption and strange sexual advances. He encounters vanishing roads, military escorts, smouldering civil...
Militancy and Violence in West Africa
Religion, politics and radicalisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa.
Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However,...
Teaching Africa
A Guide for the 21st-Century Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Teaching Africa introduces innovative strategies for teaching about Africa. The contributors address misperceptions about Africa and Africans, incorporate the latest technologies of teaching and learning, and give practical advice for creating successful lesson plans, classroom activities, and study...
by Ian van der Waag
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socioeconomic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Natal colonies together into the Union of South Africa.
The...