Africa category: 4903 books
Knowing Mandela
A Personal Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.
As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela...
The Desert War
Book 4 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.
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Why was North Africa such a key component in Britain's success over Mussolini and his Italian Army?
How did they blunt Italy's actions?
What challenges did they face?
And what new technologies were brought...
Operation Torch 1942
The invasion of French North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified the European theatre as his country's priority. Their first joint operation with the British was an amphibious invasion of French North Africa, designed to relieve pressure...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945
North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
This first volume in the seminal series on World War II aerial combat, pilots, and tactics that “reads like an encyclopedia on the subject” (Portland Book Review).
In the early days of World War II, both Allied and Axis powers extended the theater of war to North Africa, where hard-fought...
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Setswana – Swahili - English Translations
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Swahili (from Tanzania) meets Setswana (from Botswana). This book provides translations for words, phrases and simple sentences in Swahili and Setswana against the English language. The English language serves as a medium for those who neither understand Swahili nor Setswana, thus making it easy for...
Hunting Africa
British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.
Gesture and Power
Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis,...
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories From Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1999
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.
This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone...
Rainbow's End
A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .
In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks...
And Home Was Kariakoo
A Memoir of East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write.
Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here...
by Phil Gray
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
An account of the author’s travels in Southern Africa, told with whacky humor and unvarnished candor. The story weaves the thrill of the safari experience with poignant vignettes of contemporary African life and a scathing review of one country's despotic regime.Phil Gray is a Hawaii...
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives
Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
A vivid portrait of homosexual African women, this collection of essays examines and celebrates same-sex practices while acknowledging their taboo status in many African cultures. From Uganda to Namibia, governmental homophobia and female strength are among the thoroughly discussed issues.
Cold War in the Congo
The Confrontation of Cuban Military Forces, 1960-1967
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East- West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted. In this absorbing volume Villafana details the contribution made by Cuban exiles to the preservation of democracy...
A Thousand Hills
Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous...