Africa category: 4903 books
by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham, Brett Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Lonely Planet Africais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you.
Wander the cobbled streets and graceful pracasrimmed by once grand churches and stately colonial-era buildings, against a backdrop of turquoise seas,...
Season of Rains
Africa in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis...
Visions of Freedom
Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
As America commits military personnel to Central Africa, learn about the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), led by Joseph Kony. In announcing the deployment of U.S. military troops, President Obama stated: "For more than two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has murdered, raped, and kidnapped...
Ubuntu
One Woman's Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu – the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one.
At the age of twenty-eight, while sitting in a friend’s backyard in the remote mining township of Jabiru, Heather Ellis has a light-bulb moment: she is going to ride a motorcycle...
Substance Dependency, PTSD and Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) in South Africa
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This article briefly reflects the extent to which substance dependency and traumatic events, which may lead to a diagnosis of a post-traumatic stress disorder, are becoming a feature of life all over South Africa. Many social workers are familiar with current evidence-based approaches and are skilled...
by Berlitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This fully revised and updated Berlitz Pocket Guide is packed with all the information you need to enjoy South Africa, in a genuinely pocketable format. Be inspired to visit this beautiful country by the brand new Berlitz Pocket Guide South Africa, a concise, full-colour guide that combines lively...
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
South Africa is one of the most popular destinations in the world because it has so much to offer...
At the top of the list is their spectacular scenery, such as Drakensburg Mountains, Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Peninsula--all of which offer a wonderful backdrop for their vast and amazing...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This fully revised and updated Insight Pocket Guide is packed with all the information you need to enjoy South Africa, in a genuinely pocketable format. Be inspired to visit this beautiful country by the brand new Insight Pocket Guide South Africa, a concise, full-colour guide that combines lively...
The Unknown of the Known in Africa
The rise and the fall of the African Chiefdoms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Unknown of the Known in Africa is the story of George Eden Bess from Germany who does research as a historian. George unveils unknown King Shaka and his plan to make Southern Africa to be in his palm of hand. George's purpose becomes a plan to bring back Africans united, as there is no African...
Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me
Remembrances from My Life as a German Settler in South West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast. Here they begin a farm in a quite remote area where they raise cattle, sheep,...
Sense Africa Five Ways
Wordcatcher Real Life Stories and Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent. At about 30.3 million km², including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and constitutes 20.4% of its total land area.
I'm always surprised when people refer to 'Africa' as a country, although...
Africa. Past, Present, and Future
SHORT STORY #12. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
After African continent throughout colonial power, thousands of engineers, technicians from all over the world, and the Peace Corp volunteers from the United States, went to work in Africa to help them to build their countries independence.
During that time there were a lot of excitement and...
by Frederic Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
A white girl disappears in the Congo jungle. A Belgian planter escapes his past. An African king bests an award-winning American journalist in a contest of will.
Author Frederic Hunter developed these stories from his experience as a State Department official and a journalist in Africa in the...