Africa category: 4903 books
by Sebastian Veit
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject African Studies, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Summer Academy 2008 ), course: Energy & Environment , 27 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Climate change has emerged as the most critical challenge to sustained...
The Last Afrikaner Leaders
A Supreme Test of Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Finalist for the Alan Paton Award
In his latest book, renowned historian Hermann Giliomee challenges the conventional wisdom on the downfall of white rule and the end of apartheid. Instead of impersonal forces, or the resourcefulness of an indomitable resistance movement, he emphasizes the...
Contested Histories in Public Space
Memory, Race, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying particular...
by Israel Muchena
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
By its nature, insurance is intended to provide financial protection for basic human needs such as shelter, means of self-sustenance, and well-being. You would expect that most, if not all, people would be covered by it in one form or another. Unfortunately, that is not the case for most people in...
by Parker MacDonald Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Call Me Steve
Lessons From A Samburu Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
“Lengang’arangetengop. At no time in human history has a book started with that name, I bet.”
And so begins the true story of a Calgary man’s life-changing journey to Africa and the start of his life-long friendship with a Samburu warrior with an impossibly long name. On his first day at a...
Subalterns and Social Protest
History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical...
Freedom by a Thread
The History of Quilombos in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil *brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of *quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil...
by C. H. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The present book had been intended for publication in South Africa before the end of 1899, with the object of laying bare the wicked and delusive aims of the Afrikaner Bond combination, to which the Anglo-Boer war alone is attributable, and to counteract its disastrous influences so far as then still...
by Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Sitting on the cusp between Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, Niger is in many ways a remarkable place, blending in the harsh Sahelian environment a great diversity of cultures and lifestyles to make up a poor but resilient nation. The country was established in the early 20th century in what...
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Into the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The waves of change sweeping the MENA compel social scientists and anthropologists in particular to move beyond local specificities and images of ‘untouched’ communities or Middle East exceptionalism to consider wider patterns of social and cultural change.... [The essays in this volume] reflect...
Roots
The History How Britain Carved South Africa's Neo-Liberal Age, 1806-1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
In Africa no European country has had an influence as Britain. The first tangible break in the development was achieved by the South African parliament in 1934. But already Britain had shaped and predetermined South Africas future. The country wanted no other than evolutionary change, and this theme...
Insider's Guide
Top Wildlife Photography Spots in Botswana and Namibia
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Part tourist guide, part monograph, this book journeys through South Africa’s amazing wildlife reserves. Indicating what types of animals to find and in which provinces to find them, this record not only contains stunning pictures and pertinent, detailed information but also teaches wildlife enthusiasts...
African Cuisine
Edible Excellence, #7
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Africa is the second biggest continent on the globe. It's inhabited by diversified people of different ethnic groups and cultures, therefore their cooking styles and techniques vary a lot.
Because food imports are very limited, ninety percent of food products are home grown and organic.
Most African...