Africa category: 4903 books
In Darkest Africa
Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
In Darkest Africa: Or, the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria by Henry Morton Stanley.
On 28 October 1888 the Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley was entrenched deep in the unexplored Ituri rainforest of the Congo. He had been hacking his way back and forth through...
by Leonard Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that country’s history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants, this richly illustrated book is essential reading for anyone...
Historian
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
In this eloquent memoir, already widely read and praised in the author’s native South Africa, Hermann Giliomee weaves together the story of his own life with that of his country--a nation that continues to absorb and inspire him, both despite and because of its tortuous history.
An...
A Rainbow in the Night
The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's...
Journey of Hope
The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement...
The Life and Times of E. R. Braithwaite
Honorary White, Reluctant Neighbors, and A Kind of Homecoming
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Three compelling memoirs from the author of the “moving and inspiring” international bestseller, To Sir, With Love (The New York Times).
E. R. Braithwaite wrote powerfully and poignantly about racial discrimination—both in his most famous novel, based on his own experience teaching in London’s...
The State vs. Nelson Mandela
The Trial that Changed South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
On July 11, 1963, a seemingly harmless dry cleaning van drew up outside a rural farm near Johannesburg, South Africa. Within seconds, heavily armed police had burst out and arrested the entire high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned...
8115: A Prisoner's Home
A Prisoner's Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela describes his house at 8115 Vilakazi Street, Soweto, as '... identical to hundreds of others ... it had the same standard tin roof, the same cement floor, a narrow kitchen, and a bucket toilet at the back.' Little did Mandela know when he...
by Henry Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
A brief biography of an icon like Nelson Mandela is a difficult undertaking. This offering is ideal for someone, not from Africa, who would like to know what motivated a man to give his life to a cause that would see him spend the most productive years of his life in jail.
Inside you will...
How To Steal A Country
State Capture in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
How to Steal a Country describes the vertiginous decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma and its terrible consequences. Robin Renwick’s account reads in parts like a novel – a crime novel – for Sherlock Holmes old adversary, Professor Moriarty, the erstwhile Napoleon...
by Paul Bjerk
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere emerged as one of independent Africa’s most influential leaders....
The Suicidal State in Somalia
The Rise and Fall of the Siad Barre Regime, 1969–1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa. Documenting and delving deep into the reign and rule of General Mohamed Siad Barre regime in Somalia from 1969 up to 1991, the book puts emphasis on African agencies—ostensibly shaped by external beneficiaries and patrons—over...
Animal Farm Prophecy Fulfilled in Africa
A Call to a Values and Systems Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Animal Farm Prophecy Fulfilled in Africa: A Call to a Values and Systems Revolution discusses why deep levels of poverty and suffering persist in Africa despite all the successive regime changes over the last half century. It discusses why more people are poorer now than they were in the colonial...
by Odi Moghalu
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The Horn of Africa consists of five nations with unique historical experiences from lofty and distinguishing to awful and tarnishing. North-East Africa is a region shaped by history from migrations and invasions to modern global politics and internal dynamics of historical ethnic and religious sectarian...