Africa category: 4903 books
Burning the Grass
At the Heart of Change in South Africa, 1990-2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In the great modern narrative nonfiction tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Burning the Grass is a literary masterpiece of true crime based on the April 2010 murder of Eugène Terre'Blanche, firebrand leader of the far-right AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging--the Afrikaner Resistance Movement), who...
Modern South Africa in World History
Beyond Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development...
by Yusuf Ibrahim Gamawa
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
As this book goes to print, the BBC is reporting an attack on a luxury tourist resort in Mali by Tuareg and Islamists militants. A very short while back, in 2012, in fact, the rebellion in the North came within a whisker of seizing Mali. If it had not been for the timely armed intervention of France,...
by Christopher L. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
The first contribution to Global Flashpoints: A Scarecrow Press Series, Christopher Daniels’ Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa provides readers with a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the spate of piracy and terrorism plaguing the waters of Somalia and the global threat posed...
A Civilised Savagery
Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called...
by Shanthee Manjoo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
From the opening Sanskrit mantra to the final act of voting in South Africa's first democratic elections, this lyrical memoir provides a unique perspective on South Africa's modern history. The account shows how a young Hindu woman of Indian ancestry, living in South Africa in the 1940s, defied convention,...
by Pamela Sisman Bitterman
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Muzungu the Swahili word for white folk translated literally means "confused person wandering about." During the author's months working and traveling through Kenya this description fits her to a tee. Her audacious Kenyan adventure makes for a bucket load of anecdotes and impressions born...
The Invisible Cure
Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007
The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where...
Learning to Play With a Lion?s Testicles
Unexpected Gifts From the Animals of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The cheeky title of Melissa Haynes's story of adventure in Africa, Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles, earned the book some big publicity on NBC-TV/Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on September 4,2013 where it topped the show's list of "Titles Not to Read" for September 2013. Melissa's book was also...
by Athol Fugard, Marianne McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
“A rare playwright who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.”—The New YorkerThis new play about life and art by renowned playwright Athol Fugard is based on his early friendship with actor Andrew Huegonit, considered the finest...
Fodor's Essential South Africa
with The Best Safari Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
Everything about Africa that stirs the imagination is concentrated in its southernmost country. Lions freely roam vast game reserves such...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South...
Making Money
Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change. In Making Money, Colleen Kriger examines the influence of the global trade on the Upper Guinea...
Making and Unmaking Nations
War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that puzzle, he examines postcolonial Africa, analyzing countries in which genocide...