Africa category: 4903 books
Land, Chiefs, Mining
South Africa's North West Province Since 1840
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of the focuses are: an important Tswana kgosi (chief...
by I. P. A. Manning
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
A history of Zambia from British South Africa Chartered Company rule to the present. I concentrate on wildlife conservation and management, and from 1966, on my conservation efforts, for two years attempting to save the Zambian black rhino (1987-88), but, in particular, on my attempts to implement...
An Environmental History of Southern Malawi
Land and People of the Shire Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This book is a pioneering and comprehensive study of the environmental history of Southern Malawi. With over fifty years of experience, anthropologist and social ecologist Brian Morris draws on a wide range of data – literary, ethnographic and archival – in this interdisciplinary volume.
Specifically...
by Ruthie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This project began as a dissertation for a Doctorate Degree but as the work progressed it was presented to the California State Department of Education to be examined as a text in the Middle schools system. After the third meeting of the Board the votes were against the book due to the reference of...
The Demographics of Empire
The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social...
Nations Divided
American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
The anti-apartheid struggle remains one of the most fraught episodes in the history of modern Jewish identity. Just as many American Jews proudly fought for principles of justice and liberation in the Civil Rights Movement, so too did they give invaluable support to the movement for racial equality...
The Role of Regional Integration in Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution in Africa
The Case of African Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
This book seeks to trace and evaluate the performance of various mechanisms established by the African Union since its inception in 1963 to manage the current African situation. This work cites different case studies such as Burundi, the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The History of Business in Africa
Complex Discontinuity to Emerging Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive study of the history of African business. By analyzing the specificities of African business culture, as well as the dynamically changing African policy context, the author sheds new light on the development of African enterprises, markets and institutions. The book...
Authentically African
Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. In Authentically African, Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display...
Globalization and Africa’s Transition to Constitutional Rule
Socio-Political Developments in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book contributes to the discourse on post-colonial and globalization theories, focusing on Nigeria's transition to a federal system of government. The project analyzes 10 years of civil rule in Nigeria, between 1999 and 2009, and its constitutional arrangements while also engaging in comparative...
Peace Operations in the Francophone World
Global governance meets post-colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces.
Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers...
The Political Economy of the Interior Gold Coast
The Asante and the Era of Legitimate Trading, 1807–1875
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book analyzes the Gold Coast and the Asante kingdom in the years following the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and prior to the start of colonial rule. The Asante state, one of the largest in the Gold Coast and West Africa after the eighteenth century is the central focus of this work....
Carrying the Vision
Eelin and Her Missionary Friends
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Using a trajectory of 20th century Anglican approaches to mission in rural Africa, the book tells the story of the development of an educational institution by tracing the faith journey of Eelin Beardall, a woman who dedicated thirty years of her life to the people of Nyamandlovu in Matabeleland region...
by Tudor Parfitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Tudor explains how many African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern race narratives over a millennium in which Jews were cast as black and black Africans were cast as Jews, he reveals a complex interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses.