Africa category: 4903 books
by Rob Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Starting eight million years ago, Understanding Africa provides an accurate and detailed account of the natural, political and social forces that have created the Africa we know of today and which have shaped the continent's destiny through the ages
by F. M. K. Ridgway
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
This book is an unusual true-life story as seen through the Diary of a teenage girl. The book portrays the adventurous and sometimes hilarious mis-adventurous life of a young widow and her 3 children, which takes place in 4 countries - South Africa, America, Canada and England. It paints a picture...
Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial
Political and Socio-Cultural Identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This volume, which draws together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, situates the continent within its historic and socio-political...
Building a New South Africa
One Conversation at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Once a thriving, multiracial community, the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg was home to many famous artists, musicians, and poets. It was also a place where residential apartheid was first put into practice with forced removals, buildings bulldozed, and the construction of new, cheap housing for...
Slave Owners of West Africa
Decision Making in the Age of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial...
African Immersion
American College Students in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Based on previously unused primary sources including extensive interviews in Cameroon, personal journals, diaries, responses to questionnaires, and a variety of secondary sources, this study is a critical analysis of US study abroad programs in Africa. Using the University of Dayton Cameroon Immersion...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality...
To Africa & Beyond
Walking Through the Storms of Life with a Thankful Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
To Africa and Beyond: Walking Through The Storms of Life With a Thankful Heart is a book about pilgrimage: physical, psychological and spiritual. It is about travel, adventure and personal fulfillment. It is about helping people on three continents through their challenges of discouragement and confusion...
by Philip Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
With 16 well-researched chapters and 26 useful maps, this new thoroughly updated second edition of Bradt's The Gambia remains the most comprehensive guide available in any language to what is the smallest country on mainland Africa. Significant development has taken place in recent years and this...
by Philip Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This new, thoroughly updated eighth edition remains the only practical guidebook to Tanzania to reflect the overall shift of tourism away from backpackers and budget camping safaris to upper-end and mid-range safaris and beach holidays. Unlike other guidebooks, the main focus is background and practical...
At Home Abroad
An American Girl in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
At Home Abroad is a stunning autobiography of Nancy Henderson-James's youth in Africa. Heart-wrenching is her uprooting at age 15 when the war for independence began, from Angola, whose natural world, people, customs, languages she so loved. Nancy bravely and articulately recounts a true saga of personal...
The Game Ranger, the Knife, the Lion and the Sheep
20 Tales about Curious Characters from Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The Game Ranger, the Knife, the Lion and the Sheep offersspellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters fromSouth Africa, past and very past. Let us introduce you to some ofthe characters you'll meet inside.Starting with Krotoa, the Khoi maiden who is found working in theVan Riebeeck...
by Heather DiLorenzo Williams and Warren Rylands
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Did you know that there are 54 countries in Africa? It is the second-largest continent on Earth. Discover these and other interesting facts in Africa.
Between Worlds
German Missionaries And The Transition From Mission To Bantu Education In South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid era has highlighted questions about the past and the persistence of its influence in present-day South Africa. This is particularly so in education, where the past continues to play a decisive role in relation to inequality. Between Worlds: German...