Africa category: 4903 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in literature, film, performance, music,...
by Rebecca Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Johannesburg offers visitors the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of history-makers like Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu and to visit landmarks important in South Africa's road to social reform. The South African people refer to Johannesburg as Egoli, the City of Gold, given...
by Oscar Scafidi
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Unexplored Equatorial Guinea finally gets a guidebook! This one-time Spanish colony is one of the smallest countries in continental Africa, both in terms of size and population, and is ranked by the United Nations among the ten least visited countries in the world. From the oil-rich capital of Malabo...
Memoirs of a Reluctant Servant
Two Years of Triumph and Sorrow in Liberia, Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Liberia, Africa was a country that became synonymous for corruption, poverty and death. Samuel K. Doe and Charles Taylor were warlords that razed a once beautiful land and brought down terror on innocent Liberians. Author Jerome Cabeen stepped off a plane in September of 2008 into the unknown world...
The African AIDS Epidemic
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History answers President Thabo Mbeki’s provocative question as to why Africa has suffered this terrible...
An African Volk
The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Looking at these events from the other side, An African Volk explores how the apartheid state strove to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way...
Thinking Freedom in Africa
Toward a theory of emancipatory politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom...
De Africa Romaque
Merging cultures across North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Conference proceedings
Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010
The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature...
by Kathleen R. Smythe
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Africa's Past, Our Future engages the history of the African continent through the perspective of global issues such as political instability, economic development, and climate change. Since the past may offer alternative models for thinking about our collective future, this book promotes an appreciation...
Unreasonable Histories
Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing...
by Vernon W. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Charles Wilson and his wife, Mabel Sarah had a small diamond claim in Klipdam when the Anglo-Boer War commenced in October 1899. The area was occupied by Boer Army soon after and eventually in December 1899, the family was forced to leave everything behind and move to The British Army controlled area...
Africa Calls My Name
Remembering, Not Wondering
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
The allure of Africa has drawn explorers and thrill seekers for hundreds of years, but what compels a young family to leave behind financial stability, family and friends, most of their belongings, and all that is familiar, for the unknown?
Follow Elaine, mining engineer husband Roy, and children...