Africa category: 4903 books
by Brother Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book reveals exactly how we are enslaved and how we may break the shackles and gain our freedom. After all, only you can own yourself; no one else can.
Backed up by meticulous research, this book will reveal all the ways that we are enslaved and controlled from banking and money to maritime law...
Women and Resource Use - A study of rural women in a spiny desert region in Madagascar
A study of rural women in a spiny desert region in Madagascar
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject African Studies, grade: 2.1 (68.00), Oxford University, 74 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In many places throughout the developing world, women have a central role in growing food crops, collecting water and fuel-wood, and...
The French Army and Its African Soldiers
The Years of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
As part of France’s opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as the 1950s, the French Army clung to the hope that...
Interlopers of Empire
The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, casting...
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
Improvising Medicine
An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part of an ongoing surge...
From Slaves to Oil
United States Role in the Plunder of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Famine, drought, internecine wars, corrupt leaders and culture have all been postulated as the cause of African underdevelopment despite its enormous wealth of resources. These myths are a smokescreen for the major causes of poverty, malnutrition, lack of amenities and death in Africa which has been...
Mastering the Niger
James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery—as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle—was entangled with the production, circulation,...
by Richard J. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy. Richard J. Reid helps students understand different patterns of military organization through Africa's history; the evolution of weaponry, tactics, and strategy; and the increasing prevalence of warfare and militarism...
Kgalema Motlanthe
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Presenting a superb account of a man characterized by his reticence, this biography offers a rare and thorough insight into the life of one of South Africa’s most powerful: Kgalema Motlanthe. From Motlanthe’s ancestral family to his political awakenings as he discovered the African National Congress,...
by Paul Moorcraft
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court.
He has been a central personality in Islamic and African politics,...
by Kenneth Kalu
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues, this does not mean that foreign aid has failed; rather, it means that foreign aid in its current form...
Prevail
The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-?1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
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...
Abortion Under Apartheid
Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Abortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1990), when termination of pregnancy was criminalized. It analyzes the flourishing clandestine abortion industry, the prosecution of medical and "backstreet" abortionists, and the passage in 1975...