Africa category: 4903 books
by Anuj Tikku
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The African leg of my travels was the most inspirational for me , I travelled to 12 African countries on the trot one after the other over a period of six months . It was wild life and the terrain of Africa which was pulling me forward . I had spent my childhood in Nigeria and was familiar with the...
Power and State Formation in West Africa
Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. The book examines how political entities in Nzema were structured territorially, as well as the formation of ruling groups and aspects of their political, economic, and military actions.
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered
Southern African Precedents And Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African...
Public History and Culture in South Africa
Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to questions...
by Andrew Nash
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African history—one often obscured or patronized as Afrikaner liberalism. It traces this current of thought from nineteenth-century disputes over Dutch liberal theology through Stellenbosch existentialism...
Mottak
An African Tale of Immigration and Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Imagine being stranded in the heart of winter, in an isolated town at the northern edge of the world. Though born on the continent of Africa, political officials have made citizenship and social mobility at home difficult for many youth and young adults to realize. And so some flee to Europe, seeking...
Africa Unite !
Une histoire du panafricanisme
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2017
De la révolution haïtienne de 1791 à l'élection du premier président noir des États-Unis en 2008, en passant par les indépendances des États africains et la lutte contre l'apartheid, l'itinéraire de ceux qui ont mis leur vie au service de la libération de l'Afrique et de l'émancipation...
Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World
History and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes.
Gupta considers decolonization through the twined lenses...
by Richard Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas...
by DUARTE BARBOSA
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by the Portugueses India officer, Duarte Barbosa.This book is one of the travel literature.He died in 1521 at the feast of rajah Humabon on Cebu Island in the Philippines.
by H. Rider Haggard
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Cetywayo and his White Neighbors’.
Cetywayo and His White Neighbors, or Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal and the Transvaal is an 1882 non-fiction book by H. Rider Haggard, his first full-length published...
Surgical Experiences in South Africa 1899-1900
Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
Itinerary — Linen Holdall with surgical instruments — Surgical outfit — Personal transport — General health of the troops — Climate —...
by Simon Forty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen photographs show the men, weapons and equipment of...
by John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction (1903) is a history of South Africa told from John Buchan's personal viewpoint: "I have tried in the main to state as clearly as I could the outstanding problems of South African politics as they appear to one observer. I have tried to write what is...