Africa category: 4903 books
by Maduka E. Agbodike Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
This masterpiece is perhaps the most controversial treatise ever written by an African author or published. I have been reading various books but this is the first time I read one, which analytically used religious books, sciences, historic facts, various mysteries and nature to present, in simple...
Evolving Public Space in South Africa
Towards Regenerative Space in the Post-Apartheid City
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Evolving Public Space in South Africa discusses the transformation of public space highlighted in the country. Drawing on examples from major cities, the author demonstrates that these spaces are not only becoming wasted space, but are also adapting and evolving to accommodate new users and uses...
National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa
A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO's Exile Camps
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book traces the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) across its three decades in exile through rich, local histories of the camps where Namibian exiles lived in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola. Christian A. Williams highlights how different Namibians experienced these sites, as well as...
by Peter Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Seabirds hold a special place in the hearts of birders, not least because of the challenge of getting to grips with a group of birds that is largely inaccessible, and living in an often hostile habitat. Seabirds of Southern Africa is the first book focusing exclusively on the nearly 1,000 birds that...
Half a World Away in Africa
Sleepwalking on Kilimanjaro and Running from Lions
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Where else but Africa, can you touch mountain snow one day and run from a lion, another?
Robbed of all his possessions, riddled with flu and wearing borrowed pink tracksuit bottoms, the Kilimanjaro climb was doomed to fail. Alistair was determined to raise money for charity and somehow made...
The Immigrant
A Journey of Good Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
When South Africa ended its policy of racial segregation and peacefully transitioned to a democracy in 1994, Jennie Gungiah was filled with hope and patriotism. As a young teacher who had attended all-Indian segregated schools as a child, she was thrilled to have students of all races in her classroom....
Riding the Demon
On the Road in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In Niger, where access to rail and air travel requires overcoming many obstacles, roads are the nation’s lifeline. For a year in the early 1990s, Peter Chilson traveled this desert country by automobile to experience West African road culture. He crisscrossed the same roads again and again with...
The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil
A Frenchman between France and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings...
Colonizing Consent
Rape and Governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry reconstructs the history of rape in South Africa's Eastern Cape, from the precolonial era to the triumph...
by Michelangelo Bartolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Se non sapete dove andare in vacanza, andate dove volete. Se non sapete che libro portare con voi, non avete scelte: “Sognando l’Africa in sol maggiore” ROBERTO GERVASO Bartolo ha il dono naturale di saper raccontare cose straordinarie in modo leggero, vivace, divertente e appassionante; ci...
Reclaiming Home
Diary of a Journey Through Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Reclaiming Home is the diary of Lesego Malepe’s travels in South Africa in 2004, the 10th anniversary of South Africa’s democracy. The book begins with Malepe taking the bus from Pretoria, where she grew up, to Cape Town, where she visits Robben Island—the prison where her brother served a life...
by Verney Lovett Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2018
In Savage Africa written by Verney Lovett Cameron who was an English traveller in Central Africa. This book was published in 1887. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...
by Francis Wiafe-Amoako
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2019
The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following sections: Basic Facts; Land...
Organise or Die?
Democracy and Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Organise or Die? Democracy and Leadership in South Africa?s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is the first in-depth study of one of the leading trade unions in the country. Founded in 1982, the trade union played a key role in the struggle against white minority rule, before turning into a central...