Africa category: 4903 books
The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa
The Kat River Settlement, 1829–1856
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This book provides a detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. The settlement was created by the British to use the Khoekhoe as a living barrier between the Cape Colony and the amaXhosa. It was fought over with some regularity,...
From Foot Safaris to Helicopters
100 Years of the Davis Family in Missions
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Dr. Elwood Davis and his wife Bernice arrived in Mombasa, Kenya in January 1911 as medical missionaries with the Africa Inland Mission. This book features letters, diary entries and rare photographs showing the story of God's humble servants laboring to share the truth about Jesus Christ in Africa....
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
South Africa Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Lizzie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Spend the day hiking on the extensive network of trails that cover the Drakensberg Mountains or take the more relaxing option and sunbathe on some of Africa’s finest beaches. Experience Zululand – famous for its history and landscapes – and the traditional Zulu lifestyles that are preserved...
Craig’s Letters to Newspapers
A collection of my letters to the editor and various others: First ("Baby") Steps on The Writing Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Craig’s Letters to Newspapers
My various letters to newspapers and others ...mainly in South Africa
First Steps on the writing journey:
A collection of my letters (from my album) that started me out on “the writing journey”
A collection of my letters to the editor and various...
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Often, new exporters will feel a bit overwhelmed about trading with South Africa. Much consideration and planning will need to go into deciding on the company type, delivery of products and services, marketing strategies, and local conditions.
Better Than Some, Worse Than Others
The way it was: - Remembering the South African Border War in the 1980’s and 90’s.
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Not yet seventeen, Wayne Webster, along with many young men around South Africa, abruptly leaves a life of relative peace and tranquility to fulfill his obligatory military service duties during the South African Border War. He has no idea what the next two years will hold, and how they will change him...
Nigeria
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As the "Giant of Africa" Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African literature, film, and music. Yet the country...
by James L. A. Webb, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa investigates the changing entomological, parasitological and medical understandings of vectors, parasites and malarial disease that have shaped the programs of malaria control and altered the transmission of malarial infections. It examines the...
by Toby Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African...
Africa since 1940
The Past of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Frederick Cooper's book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa is part of the textbook series New Approaches to African History. This text will help students understand the historical process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between...
Southern Africa's Responses to International HIV/AIDS Norms (1990-2005)
The Politics os Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
The southern African region has the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. In some countries, HIV infection affects nearly 40% of the adult population. This work shows that, despite the formal commitment of the governments of the region to follow international guidelines to combat the epidemic and...
by Walter Rodney
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America,...
by Donald R. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Updated to reflect the local impact of current events such as global recession as well as the latest scholarly studies, this fascinating work shows how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in Niumi, a little-known territory located on the north bank of the Gambia...