Africa category: 4903 books
Reinventing Hoodia
Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017
Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming...
Africa in Europe
Antiquity into the Age of Global Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
Africa in Europe, in two volumes, meticulously documents Europe's African presence from antiquity to the present. It incorporates findings from areas of study as diverse as physical anthropology, linguistics, social history, social theory, international relations, migrational studies, and globalization....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror in Nigeria that has resulted in over 10,000 fatalities and threatens the security and stability of West Africa. Boko Haram has...
by M. Amoah
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Nationalism, especially supranationalism is the bane of global governance, and globalization. Whereas globalization seeks to unify the globe to function to advantage, supranationalisms operate to frustrate the coherence and achievement of this aim. This book delves into the Theories of Nationalism,...
Songs & Secrets
South Africa from Liberation to Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
"If you picked up this book in the expectation of revelling in the true confessions of a disaffected spy-master put it back. If you opened this book in the hope of enjoying the confidences of a disillusioned cadre of the South African liberation movement close it, put it down. If you bought...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Two volumes introduce the history of colonial wars in Africa and illustrate why African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan continue to experience ethnic, political, and religious violence in the early 21st century.
• Begins with a helpful introduction...
by Timothy J Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
The Unwinding of Apartheid: UK-South African Relations, 1986-1990
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This volume examines diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and South Africa from 1986 to 1990, when deadlock gave way to the first stages in the unwinding of apartheid.
By the middle of 1986, the South African Government had succeeded in containing the township revolt, but its hesitant...
Student Resistance to Apartheid at the University of Fort Hare
Freedom Now, a Degree Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The book explores forms of popular student resistance to apartheid education in South Africa, particularly at the University of Fort Hare (UFH), by tracing student activism at UFH from 1970 to 2000; highlighting the factors that influenced the development of a culture of student resistance; investigating...
Repainting the Walls of Lunda
Information Colonialism and Angolan Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola....
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
Turning Water into Gold
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This is the first full- length historical analysis of Victoria Falls. The text offers a critical examination of Victoria Falls providing new insight into the British Southern African project and reveals how Victoria Falls became one of the first modern African tourist destinations. This book makes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Africa has a long and fascinating history and is a place of growing importance in the world history curriculum. This detailed encyclopedia covers the history of African kingdoms from antiquity through the mid-19th century, tracing the dynasties' ties to modern globalization and influences on world...
The Equality of Believers
Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
This major work by the preeminent historian of southern Africa religious history demonstrates the critical importance of egalitarian Christianity for the creation of apartheid as well as for resistance to it.
Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas
Race and Gender in Research and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Through the research and experiences of 16 scholars whose native homes span ten countries, this collection shifts the discussion of belonging and affinity within Africa and its diaspora toward local perceptions and the ways in which these notions are asserted or altered.