Africa category: 4903 books
Middle Passages
African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the ?middle passage,? but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans...
by James Ciment
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic
In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner...
Angola: Promises and Lies
Promises and Lies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Angola's civil war was the longest in Africa. Once the battleground for a proxy war between the Cold War superpowers, the country was supposed to become a model for a smooth transition from armed conflict to democracy. The government, earlier backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and the UNITA rebels,...
The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War
South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein,...
The Flechas
Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965–1974
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa. Following the...
LIFE Nelson Mandela
A Life of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
From his youth as the leader of rebels to his years as president and elder statesman of South Africa, Nelson Mandela changed the world through his messages of peace and reconciliation. Rediscover the amazing journey of this inspiring leader in LIFE Nelson Mandela—a photographic biography and Special...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945
Tunisia and the End in Africa, November 1942–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The third volume in the epic military aviation series focuses on the Allied invasion of North Africa during World War II.
This work of WWII history takes us to November 1942 to explain the background of the first major Anglo-American venture: Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa....
Scribbling the Cat
Travels with an African Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity...
Spies in the Congo
America's Atomic Mission in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb-and to make sure nobody saw them doing it
Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the world's only...
Chinese Engagement in Africa
Drivers, Reactions, and Implications for U.S. Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Examines Chinese engagement with African nations, focusing on (1) Chinese and African objectives in the political and economic spheres and how they work to achieve them, (2) African perceptions of Chinese engagement, (3) how China has adjusted its policies to accommodate African views, and (4) whether...
Counterinsurgency in Africa
The Portugese Way of War 1961-74
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Portugal was the first colonial power to arrive in Africa and the last to leave. As other European states were granting independence to their African possessions, Portugal chose to stay and fight despite the small odds of success. That it did so successfully for thirteen years across the three fronts...
by Rayne Kruger
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
It was natural for the South African-born writer Rayne Kruger to choose the Boer War for a work of non-fiction. Settled in England, he returned to Johannesburg to interview survivors and consult written records, and Goodbye Dolly Gray, first published in 1959, went on to become the first modern one-volume...
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing...
My Traitor's Heart
A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in “a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage” (Michael Kerr).
Rian Malan’s classic work of reportage, My Traitor’s Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways...