Africa category: 4903 books
The Idealist
Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg • Forbes • The Spectator
Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award**
A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty
"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew...
The Story of an African Working Class
Ghanaian Miners' Struggles 1870-1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
A story of struggle against exploitative mining companies, repressive governments, and authoritarian trade union leaders
Combines lively historical narrative with original analysis
A unique contribution to the history of Africa and its working class
Beautifully designed series is part of Zed's 40th Anniversary 'Africa Revisited' celebrations
by Andrew Knight
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The Anglo – Zulu wars, a clash between the might of the British Empire with the African Zulu Kingdom, began in 1879.
In 1874, Sir Henry Bartle Frere was appointed High Commissioner for Southern Africa. His mission was to bring the various African kingdoms, tribal areas, and Boer Republics together...
Angels of Mercy
Foreign Women in the Anglo-Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
After the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War, hundreds of women left their countries for South Africa, some in search of adventure, others with a strong desire to help the victims of war. They came from all over the world – from Britain and its colonies, and from pro-Boer countries in Europe. But, whatever...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
South Africa is known to have many tribes, and each has its own belief system. Shaka Zulu was a leader who united South African tribes. How did he do it? Reading his life story will help you understand the traits of a true leader. Would you like to unite peoples when you grow up? Then be inspired by biography book for kids age 9 to 12.
Through Masai Land.
A journey of exploration among the snowclad volcanic mountains and strange tribes of eastern equatorial Africa.
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1885 edition by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London. This edition contains illustrations. The original edition included 2 large maps which are available as a free download. Joseph Thomson (14 February 1858 - 2 August 1895) was a Scottish geologist...
More Than Just a Game
Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer
In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer...
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Do you want to know all of the important facts about Nelson Mandela? Amongst many other things, the first democratically elected president of South Africa spent 27 years in jail, brought an end to apartheid in the country, and became one of the most celebrated public figures in human history. This easy-to-digest...
by Heidi Holland
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Despite the African National Congress being at the height of its powers, its future is today less certain than at any time in its long history. In the past, the liberation movement went through two huge transformations with remarkable agility; the first at the instigation of the hot-headed young rebel,...
The Art of Conversion
Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile...
Signal and Noise
Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or...
Out of Africa
and Shadows on the Grass
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.
Lost and Found in Johannesburg
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions
Lost and Found in Johannesburg begins with a transgression—the armed invasion of a private home in the South African city of Mark Gevisser's birth. But far more than the riveting...
by Beryl Crosher-Segers
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Courage to Love in the Shadow of Hate.
A Darker Shade of Pale tells of Beryl Crosher-Segers' family and community life in apartheid-era South Africa.
With a piercing narrative, she details the injustices, humiliation and challenges she faced under the brutal reign of the National Party....