Africa category: 4903 books
History and Culture of Guinea-Bissau, Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Guinea-Bissau
History, Culture, Government, Ethnic differences, Tourism, Music, Religion of People’s Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Guinea-Bissau is an African country from Western Region of Africa, Portuguese colony, a small poor nation of Africa, Guinea-Bissau has known instability of government and always unstable economy, multi ethnics made up Guinea-Bissau, but how do they live? How does Guinea-Bissau cope with her economy? Thought Guinea-Bissau is a peaceful nation, and an attraction for tourism
Tourism in Lesotho, travel information
Tour, Investments, Nature discovery, international vacation, relaxation, visit Lesotho
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Lesotho and its multi value. Lesotho is a country in Southern Africa. Known as the Kingdom in the Sky because of its lofty altitude — it has the highest of lowest point of any country in the world (1400m) and is the only country to be entirely above 1000m! Lesotho is totally surrounded by South...
The Class of '79
Three Students Who Risked Their Lives to Destroy Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Out of the class of 1979 at Rhodes University one of the quietest girls in the class, Marion Sparg joined the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto we Sizwe, trained in exile in Angola, and was eventually convicted of bombing three police stations. The Cape Times journalist Zubeida...
Apartheid Guns and Money
A Tale of Profit
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. To counter this, a global covert network of nearly...
The Ghetto in Global History
1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of ‘the ghetto’ over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book allows readers to draw thought-provoking...
Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition
The Legacy of the Songhoy People
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
By balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people. Drawing from a number of academic disciplines and original research that documents the oral and literate traditions of...
Ghana - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The "Gateway to Africa," Ghana welcomes around a million tourists, aid workers, and business travelers a year—visitors who invariably come away with glowing reports of a fertile land, tropical scenic beauty, rich culture and traditions, and many first-rate tourist attractions. It is, however,...
A Double-Edged Sword
A Quest for a Place in the African Sun
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Providing insight into South African values and culture, this book is a comprehensive study of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) and its role in history. Essentially, it examines the Contralesa’s position during the Mass Democratic Movement’s struggles in the late...
by Martin Edge
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
‘The Front of Beyond’ is a collection of travellers’ tales from East Asia, Africa and the Middle East.In the late 1980s and the 1990s I was working as a lecturer. The only perk of this eighty hour a week job was ten weeks holiday a year. So two or three times a year I would leave the...
Colonial Systems of Control
Criminal Justice in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars...
One Life at a Time
An American Doctor's Memoir of AIDS in Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
When Dr. Daniel Baxter arrived in Botswana in 2002, he was confident of the purity of his mission to help people with AIDS, armed with what he thought were immutable truths about life—and himself—that had been forged on his AIDS ward in New York City ten years earlier. But Baxter’s good intentions...
Where Fire Speaks
A Visit With the Himba
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
On the wild river that divides Namibia from Angola, members of the Himba tribe herd cattle as they have done for hundreds of years.But the world of the Himba sits in the shadow of third-world development and the inevitability of change that threatens their way of life; now, they are more likely to attend...
by Garth Alperstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This is a story about growing up in a small racist town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, during the Apartheid years. The author is the oldest son of the town’s mayor, a publican. He grew up between the hotel, where he was exposed at an early age to much of the town’s less salubrious goings...
Through the Dark Continent
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Through the Dark Continent is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century Africa and the European explorers who travelled through it.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and...