Africa category: 4903 books
by Jennifer McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
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A Place That Matters Yet
John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
A Place That Matters Yet unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg’s MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. Sara Byala, in examining...
Prevail
The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean...
The ANC's War against Apartheid
Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Liberation of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
For nearly three decades, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), waged a violent revolutionary struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Stephen Davis works with extensive oral testimonies and the heroic myths that were constructed after 1994 to...
Apartheid Israel
The Politics of an Analogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine.
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
A collection of historical documents from the African National Congress. The ANC, led by Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and Oliver Tambo, was, in partnership with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the core of the movement against the white supremacist Apartheid regime in South Africa.
A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907
Europe’s Last Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in...
Uganda - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Once notorious for the tyranny of Idi Amin, immortalized in the film The Last King of Scotland, Uganda has, for the last twenty-six years or so, struggled to overcome its negative image. It has largely been successful. Rated the best country to visit in 2012, it was one named of the best tourist destinations...
You Went Where?
An Unexpected Journey to Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This is a story of love and family that involved a three month visit to Cameroon, a country that most Americans have a hard time finding on a map. Relatively few visitors find their way here since most tours focus on the plains of East Africa. Cameroon is located on the Gulf of Biafra just under the...
Searching for Boko Haram
A History of Violence in Central Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
For the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations for the rise of this violent insurgent group look beyond its roots in worldwide jihadism and recent political conflicts in central Africa. Searching for Boko Haram is the first book to examine...
by Cheikh Anta Diop
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1988
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
The Zulus at War
The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership...
The First Victory
The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important...
Crossings
Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing on the subject has focused on the European traders...