Africa category: 4903 books
North Africa, Revised Edition
A History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically underestimated. In a book that may lead scholars to reimagine the concept of Western civilization, incorporating...
African Dominion
A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context
Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation,...
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara
Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society. Contributors explore the dramatic changes...
by Matthew Owuma
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Obsessed with Africa’s inability to develop in all ramifications, obsessed with Africa’s huge poverty rate, youth unemployment and humongous international financial debt, despite the unimaginably huge reserve of natural wealth and annual developmental aids the continent receives, one is therefore,...
Africa's Development Impasse
Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential...
by Daniel Hardie
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Africa Safari Travel, every adventurer and wildlife enthusiast’s dream destination.
Get your camera and sense of adventure ready as you learn, discover and see the ‘Big 5’ game animals, gigantic herds and other lingering predators that are most popular on safari and the parks that gives...
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
THE AFRICAN SAFARI BOX SET shares all you need to know about traveling to South Africa and going on safari, which is an adventure of a lifetime! AND buying these TWO books in ONE box set saves you 40%!
In TERRANCE TALKS TRAVEL: A Pocket Guide to South Africa you will learn...
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The Making of Modern South Africa
Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africa provides a comprehensive, current introduction to the key themes and debates concerning the history of this controversial country. Engagingly written, the author provides a sharp, analytical overview of the new South Africa.
Examines the major...
Africa and the North
Between Globalization and Marginalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system.
This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role...
Healing Traditions
African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients’ access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country’s traditional...
Africa in Fragments
Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
*Africa in Fragments *is one of a few texts to tackle many topics on the position and challenges of Africa, its peoples, and its diaspora in the world today. It is part of a new genre that makes old and new academic debates on the problems and predicaments of Africanness accessible
to a broad...
by Steve Kemper
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements.
In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone,...
Securing Africa
Local Crises and Foreign Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as specifically African problems or the problems of Europeans in Africa, but newer scholarship on other aspects of Africa has come to stress the interconnectness of Africa and the wider world....
by Rene Lemarchand
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously...