Africa category: 4903 books
The Fuzileiros
Portuguese Marines in Africa, 1961–1974
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its Empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces of Africa. Following the...
Boko Haram
Inside Nigeria's Unholy War
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world. Yet it remains a mysterious – almost unknowable – organisation. ˜ rough exhaustive on-the-ground reporting, Mike Smith takes readers inside the con°...
Secret SAS Missions in Africa
C Squadron’s Counter-Terrorist Operations 1968–1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This fascinating book is the first to cover the little known C Squadron of the Special Air Service. Operating in East Africa, the Squadron was involved in almost continuous counter communist terrorist operations over the period 1968 to 1980.
In the unstable final stages of British colonial...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The Thabo Mbeki I Know is a collection that celebrates one of South Africa’s most exceptional thought leaders. The contributors include those who first got to know Thabo Mbeki as a young man, in South Africa and in exile, and those who encountered him as a statesman and worked alongside him as an...
A Continent for the Taking
The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the...
by Peter Fraenkel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In this memoir, Fraenkel writes as a member of an enclosed minority: German Jew within a predominantly Lithuanian Jewish community which was part of a white settler community, itself a minority in a predominantly black African territory. A young settler reprimanded him for stepping out of the way...
Yevu (White Woman)
My Five Weeks With The Ewe Tribe of Ghana, West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
YEVU is the true story of a 63-year-old American widow’s solitary journey to Africa on a volunteer, humanitarian mission. Having spent the years immediately prior to her journey rebuilding her life after a series of personal losses, Taubert’s journey of healing led her to seek an opportunity to do...
Democracy in Africa
Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today,...
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times.
At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations,...
by Douglas Foster
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The most important historical and journalistic portrait to date of a nation whose destiny will determine the fate of a continent.
A brutally honest exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have...
Africa's Social and Religious Quest
A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors...
Into the House of the Ancestors
Inside the New Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity . . .
INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS
"Rich . . . fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review
"A master of eyewitness description and of the telling interview,...
Out Of America
A Black Man Confronts Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Nothing in Keith Richburg's long and respected journalistic career at the Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper's correspondent in Africa. He found a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and warlords silenced dissent with machine guns and...
20 Years of Democracy in South Africa
A Sunday Times Timeline
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Highlights from South Africa's first twenty years of freedom, from Nelson Mandela's inauguration to the 2010 World Cup. A timeline of events augmented by Sunday Times coverage.