Africa category: 4903 books
by Eva Walter
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
A new genre in books: Reality Journal writing. This ebook includes word for word transcription from the author's notes including descriptions and drawings of her trip through Southern Africa. This Journal was merely a collection of memories to share with family until friends started asking for copies.
The Zanzibar Chest
A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
An examination of colonialism and its consequences. “A sweeping, poetic homage to Africa, a continent made vivid by Hartley’s capable, stunning prose” (Publishers Weekly).
In his final days, Aidan Hartley’s father said to him, “We should have never come here.” Those words spoke...
Children of the Country
Coast to Coast Across Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
'Joseph Hone went to Zaire for the BBC. His aim was a series of talks about crossing Africa from coast to coast, as Stanley had done. That intention began, and ended, in Kinshasha... Having fallen in love in boyhood with the idea of Africa, he had looked for 'great liberating spaces', and found himself...
Recreating Africa
Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the...
South from Limpopo
Travels through South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
South from Limpopo is a social, cultural and political journey through South Africa, before, during and after the transfer of power in 1994, by the much-loved and formidable travel writer, Dervla Murphy. It is an account of three journeys, covering more than 6000 miles by bicycle, which took Murphy...
Fishing in the Sky
The Education of Namory Keita
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
What distinguishes this remarkable narrative from other accounts of personal growth is not just its vivid and intimate picture of West African life, but the fact that its author embarked on his adventure at an age when most men and women are resigned to life in a rocking chair. At age sixty-six, after...
Origins of Pan-Africanism
Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the...
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda—once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro—and chaos.Angola,...
This House Has Fallen
Nigeria In Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation.Each year, with depressing...
The Wrong Race
In Apartheid-Racist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The persistent trauma of extreme, institutionalized racism can be expected to take its toll on anyone. But resilience, instead, is the main theme of Azra Daniel Francis’s latest book, a raw and deeply personal memoir that details his experience growing up in South Africa. Through vignettes of people,...
Kruger, Kommandos & Kak
Debunking the Myths of The Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it’s also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists...
by Charles Nordhoff
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
In the mid 19th century an English gentleman goes to Africa, not to discover or convert, simply for pleasure. Illustrated.
by Terry Crawford-Browne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In 2007 Terry Crawford-Browne published the explosive Eye On The Money. It was primarily an account of the international banking sanctions campaign against apartheid during the 1980s, but also dealt with the early stages of the now well-documented South African arms deal scandal. Eye On The Diamonds...
Thomas Sankara
An African Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively short, Sankara left an indelible mark on his...