Africa category: 4903 books

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African Kings and World Trade. State Formations and Trade Patterns in pre-colonial South-East Africa

And their relation to the Indian Ocean Rim before the arrival of the Europeans

by Heinrich Bruellau
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Anthology from the year 1999 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 2,0, University of Hamburg (Afrikanische Studien), language: English, abstract: In Europe a lot of historians have worked on African history for the period after the continent came under colonial rule. But little has been written...
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by Philip Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017

This new seventh edition of Bradt's Mozambique remains the most established and only standalone guide to this alluring country. Complete with in-depth coverage of transport, wildlife, history, culture and accommodation, plus invaluable practical advice and regional and local maps, this honest handbook...
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by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham, Ray Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s East Africa is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Feel the pounding of hooves as wildebeest stampede across the plains of the...
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Africa since 1940

The Past of the Present

by Frederick Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019

Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's...
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Africa and its Global Diaspora

The Policy and Politics of Emigration

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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent. As the Africa diaspora strengthens its socio-economic and political clout, countries of origin in Africa...
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An Economic History of Development in sub-Saharan Africa

Economic Transformations and Political Changes

by Ellen Hillbom, Erik Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019

‘This is a desperately needed book. It not only surveys the field of African economic history at the level of undergraduate students, but provides several fresh perspectives, drawing on insights from the latest research on the evolution of African societies and their economic prosperity. This valuable...
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The Tragic Romance of Africa

A True Adventure

by Dennis Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Dennis Hubbard was a naïve 21 year old when he arrived at a small mining town called Broken Hill in tropical Northern Rhodesia, where he spent the next two years. They were to become the greatest and most formative of his life. Together with his best friend Fred, he became involved in expeditions...
Cover of South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol.8 (of 8) (Illustrations)
by Various, Louis Creswicke
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

Everyone who has followed the story of the War in South Africa from start to finish will assuredly have acquired a keen and lasting interest in the land which has been won by the expenditure of so much blood and treasure. Earnestly will he discuss in his mind all questions connected with the development...
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by Ian Mathie
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013

West Africa in the 1970s: volatile years immediately following independence brought the author in contact with a number of Presidents, five Kings, two Emperors, dozens of village and tribal chiefs and a succession of extraordinary people. Circumstances contrived to place him at dinner with four heads...
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Liberia

Description, History, Problems

by Frederick Starr
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017

Africa has been partitioned among the nations. The little kingdom of Abyssinia, in the north, and the Republic of Liberia, upon the west coast, are all of the continent that remain in the hands of Africans. Liberia alone is in the hands of negroes. Will it remain so, or is it destined to disappear?...
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by William A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018

This compelling book serves as a comprehensive resource for readers interested in contemporary security issues in Africa. It details the impact of complex challenges in Africa and explains why addressing them grows increasingly important. • Acknowledges principal terms, underlying concepts,...
Cover of Half a Piece of Cloth: The Courage of Africa's Countless Widows
by Jane Crane
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

From dirt-floor huts to refugee camps to halls of power, Jane L. Crane traveled across Africa to see if the plight of widows was as dire as she'd heard. Is one in four women in Africa, many young with young children, really a widow? In an easy-to-read style, Half A Piece of Cloth tells the gripping...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as unmappable terrain—a repository for outsiders’ wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the development of the academic study of Africa. Critical Terms for...
Cover of Trans Africa '62
by Neville Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Cairo to Cape Town by Motorcycle This is a vintage travel adventure that took place in 1962 as two 19-year-old neighbors and high school classmates from Ohio embarked on a journey of a lifetime:  a motorcycle journey from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa. The pair visited...
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