Africa category: 4903 books
Integration and Peace in East Africa
A History of the Oromo Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
This book analyzes the development of indigenous religious, commercial, and political institutions among the Oromo mainly during the relatively peaceful two centuries in its history, from 1704 to 1882. The largest ethnic group in East Africa, the Oromo promoted peace, cultural assimilation, and ethnic integration.
Contextualizing Africans and Globalization
Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book consciously interrogates the varieties of opinions with regards to the socio-political and religious dynamics of Africans in the African continent as well as in the diaspora in the context of globalization. It highlights the significance and the consequences of globalization on these areas...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
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There was never a war in history in which the right was absolutely...
Medical Imperialism in French North Africa
Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward “modernization,” and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize ideas...
One Hundred Years of the ANC
Debating Liberation Histories Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the continent, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic event has generated significant public debate within both the ANC and South African society at large. There is...
by Meyer Fortes
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a contribution to the discipline of comparative politics. We feel sure that the first object has been attained, for the societies described are representative of...
Waste of a White Skin
The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the U.S. and South Africa in the early twentieth century, Waste of a White Skin focuses on the American Carnegie Corporation’s study of race in South Africa, the Poor White Study,...
by Patrice Delchambre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
The author, Patrice Delchambre (Leopoldsburg, Belgium) has been living in Africa for 30 years, of which 20 years in Zimbabwe. She has a degree in Germanic languages, is active in the social and development sector and works at the International School as a teacher in Fine Arts and French. She is a...
Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa
The case of the Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.
by Bronislaw Malinowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This antique text contains a detailed treatise on the contacting of indigenous tribes and communities on the continent of Africa. This brochure is a reprint of a series of papers that appeared during 1934, 1935 and 1936 in the journal of the African Institute, the sponsor of the field-work out of...
The End of the Line (including audiolink/version)
A true story of "the bad old days", but with the fresh hope of the new.
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
This is my second book and first novel (from 1993)
''The End Of The Line' could be described as “faction” - fiction with a serious
factual grounding. It is simple, and therefore moving. It gives yet another highly
individual portrait of that troubled land, and it does so through a believable...
Iron Fist From The Sea
South Africa's Seaborne Raiders 1978-1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This seminal work documents the clandestine sea borne operations undertaken by South Africa’s 4 Reconnaissance Commando Regiment. It breathtakingly reveals the versatility and effectiveness of this elite unit which worked with a range of other South African and Rhodesian forces, including the Rhodesian...
by Carl Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, and biodiversity conservation, African states face a range of environmental...
by Michael Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its turbulent history. In this original study, Michael Lambert opens three windows on to this history, using the creation of identities as his...