Africa category: 4903 books
The Language of the Land
Living Among the Hadzabe in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A rare adventure with the last Stone Age hunting and gathering tribe in Africa.
In 1997 James Stephenson arranged to have almost a full year free, a year he wanted to spend among the Hadzabe in East Africa. He had visited these people several times previously and with every trip his fascination...
by Deb Denis
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
When she was 45 years old, Deb Denis (who is not an athlete) set a goal to climb Africa-s tallest peak before she turned 50. She knew she could train up for the challenge - she had 5 years to get ready for it, after all. The opportunity to go to East Africa presented itself before she knew it, much...
Inside Apartheid
One Woman’s Struggle in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In Inside Apartheid, South African-born Janet Levine recounts the horrors and struggles she faced against the minority white government’s brutal system of repression from a rare perspective—that of a white woman who worked within the system even as she fought to transform it.
With candor and...
Yours for the Union
Class and Community Struggles in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
*Yours for the Union *stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it covers the crucial period of 1930–47, when South Africa's rapid industrialisation led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled...
Stones of Contention
A History of Africa’s Diamonds
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Africa supplies the majority of the world’s diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.
Stones of Contention explores the major developments in the remarkable history...
by Vincent Lawal
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Botswana Governance and Political History, Towards the turn of the 19th century, the people who resided in the area known as Botswana, made up at least eight ethnic Chiefdoms whose peoples shared a common language and history, and co-existed in relative peace. Traditional boundaries of the southern...
by David Fick
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Divided into geographic regions and representing every African nation, this comprehensive collection of case studies explores how successful business enterprises of varying size, along with community projects, help to create jobs in Africa. A valuable guide to conducting business anywhere on the continent,...
CultureShock! South Africa
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
CultureShock! South Africa takes you to a country that was once torn apart by legalized segregation and censorship but which has since reinvented itself. With its diverse peoples as well as a rich and varied heritage, the country offers an experience like no other. This book is an essential and comprehensive...
Letters of Stone
From Nazi Germany to South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old postcard-size photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room. Only later did he learn that the women were his father’s mother and sisters, photographed in Berlin in 1937, before...
Tinderbox
How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox...
by Donna Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Nelson Mandela led a long and remarkable life. From his earliest days herding cows in a South African village, he became a child of privilege, a rebellious runaway, an impoverished student, a father, a successful lawyer, a political dissident, a rising star in the African nationalist movement, an...
by Ronald L .McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
We generally think of Asia as the home of Martial Arts, but Egypt had the first organized Martial Arts training as far back as 2000 BC.
Africa has unique Martial Art Styles that are practiced today. We invite you to enjoy learning about them in The History of African Martial Arts, part of the...
Red Tape and White Knuckles
One Woman's Motorcycle Adventure Through Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
In Red Tape and White Knuckles, celebrated adventurer and author Lois Pryce shares the story of her 10,000 mile journey through the vast continent of Africa. Setting off from her home in London, Lois makes her way to the shores of Tunisia, the Sahara Desert, war-torn Angola, and the Congo basin...
by Es'kia Mphahlele
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin Classics
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue is...