Africa category: 4903 books
by Colin Legum
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
Activist, scholar, and political journalist Colin Legum assesses Africa's experience since independence and offers judicious predictions about the continent's future. Covering 50 years of sweeping change, this provocative and insightful book examines Africa's struggle for democracy, mounting economic problems, and AIDS.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
This important late 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
To date, most analyses of the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) network have focused on qualitative analysis to determine trends and patterns in the group's evolution...
French Caribbeans in Africa
Diasporic Connections and Colonial Administration, 1880-1939
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the French Caribbean presence in the colonial administration in Africa before World War II.
by Elizabeth Obadina
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Ethnic or racial classifications often say more about culture and shared experience than about genetics or common ancestry. In Africa, a continent where up to 3,000 languages are spoken, ethnicity can be especially difficult to define. Unfortunately, perceived ethnic differences have all too often...
Human Trafficking and Security in Southern Africa
The South African and Mozambican Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This book investigates the links between human trafficking and national security in Southern Africa. Human trafficking violates borders, supports organised crime and corrupts border officials, and yet policymakers rarely view the persistence of human trafficking as a security issue. Adopting an expanded...
by William Reno
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
This book surveys the history of armed conflict in Africa in the period since decolonization and independence. The number of post-independence conflicts in Africa has been considerable, and this book introduces to readers a comprehensive analysis of their causes and character. Tracing the evolution...
Memoirs of a Born Free
Reflections on the New South Africa by a Member of the Post-apartheid Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Apartheid isn't over—so Malaika Wa Azania boldly argues in Memoirs of a Born Free, her account of growing up black in modern-day South Africa. Malaika was born in late 1991, as the white minority government was on its way out, making her a "Born Free"—the name given to the generation...
Total Onslaught
War and Revolution in Southern Africa Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
The history of humanitarian intervention has often overlooked Africa. This book brings together perspectives from history, cultural studies, international relations, policy, and non-governmental organizations to analyze the themes, continuities and discontinuities in Western humanitarian engagement with Africa.
by Patricia Bamurangirwa
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The true story of understanding of some young people in Africa. In her book, Patricia Bamurangirwa delves into the more serious aspects of emigrating from Africa to Britain and other Western countries alike and challenges some of them face. This is a heartfelt book that aims to bring hope and confidence...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The Sahel is an arid region spanning the width of Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Traditionally, the Sahel has been home to pastoralist groups that roamed its vast expanses...
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa
A Church of Strangers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid...
Elephant-Hunting In East Equatorial Africa
Being An Account Of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting Under Mount Kenia And Amoung The Ndorobo Savages Of The Lorogo Mountains, Including A Trip To The North End Of Lake Rudolph
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
This book is an account of three years' of East Equatorial Africa ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo natives of the Lorogi mountains. It describes the adventures, the country and the game in great detail and includes a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. It was originally published...
by Julia Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.” -Cicero It was the 1860s, and slave traders were slipping across the seas between Zanzibar and Arabia. Irish surgeon Dr. William Edward Dillion hunted them down in British tall ships, tasked with the medical care for...