Africa category: 4903 books
Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
How did rivers contribute to the economic and political development of modern Africa? How did African and European notions of nature's value and meaning differ? And how have these evaluations of Africa's rivers changed between 1850 and the present day? Drawing upon examples from across the African...
History, Culture and Tourism of South Africa
The entire apartheid history and regime, colonization and pre-colonization era
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
South Africa is a well-known country in Africa continent, by her colonial history and apartheid period of the Southern African country, this book contains the complete History and Culture of South Africa along her mixed racial history. Government of South Africa and ruling system, discover the true...
Madiba A to Z
The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
From the makers of the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela. This book, which provided key source material for the film, is an unexpurgated collection of the views and opinions of South Africa's first...
The Uncertain Business of Doing Good
Outsiders in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to ‘do good’. The persistence of this impulse is intriguing. From Doctor Livingstone 150 years ago to the rock star...
Born in Africa
The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. After a century of investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. But vital clues still remain hidden.
In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows...
East Africa and Its Invaders
From the Earliest Times to the Death of Seyyid Said in 1856
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
East Africa and Its Invaders, originally published in 1938, covers the history of mid-East Africa—the area between Mozambique and Cape Guardafui—from its beginnings down to the death of the greatest Arab ruler in East Africa, Seyyid Said, in 1856.
The author—prominent British Empire historian...
by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Lucy Corne
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Southern Africa is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Clamber up the world's oldest sand dunes in Sossusvlei, step back in time on Mozambique...
by Lonely Planet, Michael Grosberg, Anthony Ham
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Lonely Planet West Africa is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the Senegalese music scene in Dakar, sun yourself in the coastal paradise of Freetown, or hike through lush highlands in Kpalime; all with your...
Whisperings in the Blood
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
An exquisitely compelling story of courage, destiny and the search for home When orphan girl Bertha Frank gets onto a ship in New York in February 1937 to go to South Africa to marry a man she's never met, she doesn't know that she is repeating a journey to escape poverty and the persecution of the...
by Amos van der Merwe
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Africa: a continent of mystery, magic, wonder – and stories. It is here our ancestors huddled around the glowing embers of a late-night fire for the first time, and it is here the very first stories were told. Some of these stories are true, of course, but others simply reflect the impressive creativity...
Living in . . . South Africa
With Audio Recording
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Discover what it’s like to grow up in South Africa with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world!
Dumela! My name is David, and I’m a kid just like you living in South Africa. South Africa is a country...
Long Walk to Nowhere
Human Trafficking in Post-Mandela South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The end of apartheid has triggered massive illegal immigration into South Africa from all parts of Africa and beyond. Along with urbanization and internal migration, the end of apartheid has encouraged human smuggling and the trafficking of men, women, and children into the commercial sex market and...
Eden
The Biblical Garden Discovered in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Science teaches that the first modern humans originated in East Africa and spread from there to the rest of the world. Their modern representatives are the Khoisan peoples of Southern and East Africa. The Bible teaches that humans originated in the Garden of Eden and spread from there to the rest...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Colonial rule shaped the map of Africa like no other event in history. New borders were delineated; explorers and colonial armies were getting into the interior of the continent in order to grab the "magnificent cake of Africa."
Colonialism on the Margins of Africa examines less known and smaller...