Africa category: 4903 books
by Lt.-Colonel Lewis William George Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
General Sir Redvers Buller V.C. was among the most popular generals of his age, born in 1839 he was commissioned into the 60th Rifles in and started a military career that would last 40 years.
His postings were many and varied; China in 1860, before many years in Canada and a distinguished part in...
Southern African Liberation Struggles
New Local, Regional and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Probing beyond the heroic portrayals of armed struggles and nationalist resistance, this collection of essays illustrates the intertwined histories of Southern African liberation struggles and those of regional and international solidarity movements, beginning in the 1960s through the establishment...
Transnationalism in Southern African Literature
Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique.
Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of ‘colonial’ languages such as English and...
The Boy Is Gone
Conversations with a Mau Mau General
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family...
Interdisciplinary Academic Essays vol 4. 2013
International Elite University Journal
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Scientific Study from the year 2012 in the subject African Studies, University of Nigeria, language: English, abstract: Elite-Universitaetsjournal enters its Vol.3 with yet more interdisciplinary academic essays. This edition of our journal covers writings in Accountancy and lack of accountability...
Generations Past
Youth in East African History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting...
Liberation Diaries
Reflections on 20 Years of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Told from the perspective of the everyday person, this book is a compilation of 38 essays written by South Africans reflecting on the journey of 20 years of democracy, against expectations, aspirations, and outcomes. Contributors of different demographic backgrounds and ideological persuasions were...
by Iris Berger
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought...
Regional Intervention Politics in Africa
Crisis, Hegemony, and the Transformation of Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book analyses regional interventions in African conflict spaces by engaging with political discourse theory.
Interventions are a performance of agency, but what happens if interventions are performed by forces that scholars have hardly ever considered as relevant agents in this regard?...
by H. Rider Haggard
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Haggard lived for years among the British Empire’s colonial officials in South Africa. Also published as A History of the Transvaal, this 1899 work of nonfiction describes the inhabitants, their laws and customs, and the clash of powers. History as only Haggard could tell it.
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
No one ever died saying "I wish I had traveled less"...and safaris are one of the BEST trips you'll ever take!
Did you know that African safaris are as affordable as many U.S. vacations?
Did you know there are many wonderful family safaris?
Did you know that WHEN you...
The British Imperial Century, 1815–1914
A World History Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
The British Imperial Century provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-century, to its denouement on the eve of the First World War.Considering the impact of British imperial...
With Christ in the School of Deliverance
Inspiring Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Its a contextually relevant and insightful book of profound, scholastic, and literary standard ever written on the subject of deliverance from an African perspective. It deals with the origins of Africans genealogically, how the devil manipulated ancient African customs to enslave them in heathenistic...
A Primer for Teaching African History
Ten Design Principles
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
A Primer for Teaching African History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching African history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who...