Africa category: 4903 books
by Tamara Leigh Hollingsworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Nelson Mandela helped create a new world for South Africa in his fight against apartheid. Readers will learn about Mandela's fight for peace and equality and how he used peaceful protests to make his way from a political prisoner to the first South African President of Africa in this nonfiction biography....
If You Were Me and Lived in... Kenya
A Child's Introduction to Cultures Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Let's travel to Kenya! Number five in this exciting series travels to Africa to learn about the thrilling country of Kenya. This extraordinary book "If You Were Me and Lived in...Kenya- A Child's Introduction to Cultures Around the World" explores life for children on a new continent. The...
Looking For Mr Legba
A Voodoo quest
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
The author's odyssey through West Africa leads him to question rational interpretations of reality, reminding us of Scipio Africanus who declared more than 2,000 years ago that, "out of Africa always something strange emerges.
This is a Voodoo quest. Ghana, Togo, Burkino Faso and Benin...
A Long Way Home
Migrant Worker Worlds 1800-2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression...
Eagles over Gazala
Air Battles in North Africa May-June 1942
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
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Patterns in Circulation
Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women—through the making and circulation of wax cloth—became influential agents of taste and history. Traveling deep into the shifting terrain of...
The Enculturated Gene
Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegalese...
by N Kasturi
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Responding to the yearnings of the people of East Africa for His grace, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba made a divine visit to that place by leaving Mumbai on 30th June, 1968. Sri. N. Kasturi, who was one of the fortunate few to have basked in His divine sunshine during that visit, has brought out this...
by Herodotus, Ezana, Strabo
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Primary Accounts of African Civilization: The Meroe, Kush, and Axum is a collection of accounts about African civilizations written by some of the oldest and most prominent historians of antiquity, including Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, who lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC ...
Tembien
Note di un Legionario Della “28 Ottobre” in africa orientale
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Per comprendere l’importanza del presente saggio non si puòprescindere dalla formazione culturale dell’autore, Biagio Pace:professore universitario e deputato, combatté in Africa Orientale come Seniore della M.V.S.N., comandante di una Compagnia Mitraglieri, e in tale veste partecipò alla difesa...
by Damola Taiwo
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
The description of my book is about African art, food dishes, fashion industry, natural resources, business, geographical section, cultural aspects and lifestyle within my location of experience (West Africa).
In this universe, every heritage has its own life style and different cultural techniques....
by Colleen E. Kriger
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Written by eminent scholars on Africa and practitioners who have worked in or with the African Union (AU), this report brings together the analysis and research of 17 largely Pan-African scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civil society representatives. A particularly timely and welcome addition...
A World of Their Own
A History of South African Women’s Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have neglected their distinctive gendered dynamics. A World of Their Own is the first book to explore the meanings of black women’s...