Africa category: 4903 books
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa
The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Alice Dinerman offers a detailed chronicle of the Mozambican government’s attempts to revise the country's troubled postcolonial...
by Neville Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Thoughts on the New South Africa is a collection of essays which Alexander brought together just before his death. It reflects on the main issues that preoccupied him throughout his life and sheds light on South African society today. The three main issues included the fundamental necessity for South...
Beyond the state
The colonial medical service in British Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice...
BLACK TRANSLANTIC HISTORY
From West Africa to beyond. What I learned tracing 300 years of my ancestry
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
When you ask someone where they come from and they are from Europe they usually know. If, like me, your family were at some stage enslaved then where do you come from? is a big question. Yes as black people we all know we are African, but Africa has such an array of people and tribes. Join me on a...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This new Handbook examines the issues, challenges, and debates surrounding the problem of security in Africa.
Africa is home to most of the world's current conflicts, and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understood by employing different levels of analysis: the...
African Peace Militaries
War, Peace and Democratic Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book provides a critical understanding of the emerging role of African militaries in peacetime democratic Africa.
This book departs from the dominant perspective which simply presents the military as an ‘enemy’ of democracy because of the history and legacy of unending military coup...
How Societies Are Born
Governance in West Central Africa before 1600
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?
Jan Vansina continues a career-long...
The Promise of Justice. Book One. The Story
King Justice Mpondombini Sicau's struggle for the amaMpondo Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
General Jan Smuts ironically described the amaMpondo in 1936 as "a native tribe considered somewhat backward in comparison to other tribes of the Union of South Africa" yet “unusually conservative and tenacious” resisting “the disintegration of native life.” In the democratic era their struggle...
A Living Man from Africa
Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
The Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American...
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
Future Imperfect?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the...
Mission, Science, and Race in South Africa
A. W. Roberts of Lovedale, 1883–1938
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Lost in the Stars is a biographical study of Alexander William Roberts, a Free Church of Scotland missionary educator who in 1883 was posted to the Lovedale Institution at Alice, South Africa. Inspired by the night sky of the southern hemisphere, Roberts became a leading observer of variable stars...
by Albie Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa’s security forces. His right arm was blown off, and he lost sight in one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery...
Diasporic Africa
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora...