Africa category: 4903 books
by David Sunderland
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South(ern) Africa:
Long Histories and Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book traces the history of innovations from precolonial times and examines precolonial settlements in southern Africa such as Mapungubwe in LImpopo Province, Bokoni in Mpumalanga Province, and Msuluzi in KwaZulu-Natal Province from the perspective of their indigenous technological efforts to...
Markets on the Margins
Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
In 1987, workers in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike, and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them, the NUM set up a job creation programme, starting with worker co-operatives before shifting to wider enterprise development strategies....
by Guy Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Ever since the end of World War II, and even more so since 1960, when 17 African colonies became independent of colonial rule, the African continent has been ravaged by a series of wars. These wars have ranged from liberation struggles against former colonial powers to power struggles between different...
White Women Captives in North Africa
Narratives of Enslavement, 1735-1830
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa.
The Farmerfield Mission
A Christian Community in South Africa, 1838-2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The Farmerfield Mission explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans in 1838 by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an exclusive area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.
Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
A Social History of Human Science, 1855–2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Poverty is South Africa's greatest challenge. But what is 'poverty'? How can it be measured? And how can it be reduced if not eliminated? In South Africa, human science knowledge about the cost of living grew out of colonialism, industrialization, apartheid and civil resistance campaigns, which makes...
Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa
Ni Wakati
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This book examines social change in Africa through the lens of hip hop music and culture. Artists engage their African communities in a variety of ways that confront established social structures, using coded language and symbols to inform, question, and challenge. Through lyrical expression, dance,...
The Roots of Political Instability in Nigeria
Political Evolution and Development in the Niger Basin
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The constant drumbeat of headlines about Darfur, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, as well as the other states in Africa that are beleaguered by political instability have made the causes of failed states and intra-state political conflicts a major issue, both academic and practical. Using Harry Eckstein...
The Politics of Heritage in Africa
Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration,...
Inside African Anthropology
Monica Wilson and her Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal...
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This book maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in 1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks at the Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonial modernity and coloniality of power and their equally sinister accessories,...
El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa
International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands. From the ongoing Italian geomorphic study of the Alamein arena to individual memories of non-combatant Alexandrians, from the Free French to the seasoned colonial...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
This monograph tells the story of thousands of U.S. Marines who supported Operations Sharp Edge, Assured Response, Quick Response, Noble Obelisk, and Joint Task Force Liberia, the noncombatant evacuation operations in 1990, 1991, 1996, and 2003 from Liberia, in 1996 from the Central African Republic,...