Africa category: 4903 books
Tourism and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Current issues and local realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Over the past 20 years, the perception of tourism as an effective contributor to socio-economic development in the developing world has propagated, with many viewing tourism as a provider for poverty alleviation and towards other UN Millennium Development Goals. Over the same period, readers have...
by Gordon Dyus
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Twilight of the Bwanas is a new look at the colonial period of East Africas history. Many books have been written about specific events or individuals but readers who simply want to know what it was like to have been in East Africa during the colonial era are faced with a confusing choice of source...
Sufferings in Africa
The Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Listed by Abraham Lincoln, alongside the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress, as one of the books that most influenced his life, few true tales of adventure and survival are as astonishing as this one. Shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in August of 1815, James Riley and his crew had no idea...
First Footsteps in East Africa
An Exploration of Harar
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Averse to writing, as well as to reading, diffuse Prolegomena, the author finds himself compelled to relate, at some length, the circumstances which led to the subject of these pages.
In May 1849, the late Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, formerly Superintendent of the Indian Navy, in conjunction...
To the Gold Coast for Gold (Complete)
A Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
The following extract from 'Wanderings in West Africa,' a book which I wrote in 1862 and published (anonymously) in 1863, will best explain the reasons which lately sent me to Western Africa:--
In several countries, for instance, Dinkira, Tueful, Wásá (Wassaw), and especially...
Drumbeats Of The Black Christo
Traditional African Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In this traditional African Christian poetry, the author betrays the ignorance of all those who have misrepresented Africa and religion, especially Christianity in its true sense in Africa. To him, it is never true that Africans never knew Christ until the introduction of the Christian religion...
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Volume 5
From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit Lord Robert's Entry into Pretoria
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Volume five of six of Creswicke's classic military history of the Boer War. This volume covers the period from the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Robert's Entry into Pretoria.
African politics and leadership, Governance, and Human right abuse Profile
African development programs, agriculture, education
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Africa is a continent that have being struggling from various development fields, agriculture, education, infrastructure, leadership and governance, most of the countries in Africa are running under the same level of development, and the reason for being too backwards are well known to them, but unable...
The Cafe de Move-on Blues
In Search of the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela,...
From the Heart of Africa
A book of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A collection of African wisdom gorgeously illustrated by artists from Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, the United States and more.
Aphorisms are universal. They give guidance, context and instruction for life's issues, and they help us understand each other and the world around us. We...
by Amy McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The abundance of natural resources endemic to central and eastern Africa has been critical in shaping the trajectory of the civilizations that have made the region their home. Like the rest of the continent, however, the areas’ riches also made them vulnerable to slave traders and colonizers who...
by Chris Stuart, Tilde Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This handy guide provides an introduction to more than 120 species of mammals found in North Africa and the Middle East. The authoritative text includes key facts about identification, habitat, behaviour, distribution and status, and each species is illustrated with colour photographs, including many...
by Rob Cleveland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When two greedy jungle cats discover a large piece of cheese, they can't decide how to divide it fairly. The clever monkey comes to their rescue. Or so they think. After reading this trickster tale from West Africa, you will think twice before asking a monkey for help.