Africa category: 4903 books
The Changing Face of Christianity
Africa, the West, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of...
by Walker Norris
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The world around us was in turmoil. We watched racial tensions grow with the untimely deaths of prominent leaders. From political to spiritual, the world was changing forever. There are many people in my family that I could dedicate this book to, but I want to honor my great-grandmother because she...
On Uganda's Terms
A Journal by an American Nurse-Midwife Working for Change in Uganda, East Africa During Idi Amin's Regime
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
On Uganda's Terms is the gripping tale of the author's experiences as an American nurse during the vicious and brutal reign of Idi Amin. Ms. Hale tells the story of the struggles she faced while striving to improve the Ugandan health care system in the 1960s - 70s. Recalling a saying from the Talmud—"If...
by Jason Bruner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Starting in the mid-1930s, East African revivalists (or, Balokole: "the saved ones") proclaimed a message of salvation, hoping to revive the mission churches of colonial East Africa. Frustrated by what they believed to be the tepid spiritual state of missionary Christianity, they preached...
Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa
Past and present
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
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by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Uganda and Rwanda are small countries, but they are BIG on adventure.
Options are plentiful, ranging from jet boating to bungee jumping. They also offer unique wildlife safaris, such as gorilla trekking and chimpanzee tracking. You’ll also find many other primates, hundreds of species of...
Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa
Franco-British relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination. Historically divided between the French and British empires, the country experienced a remarkable drive to self-determination in 1961, culminating in both the re-unification of two of its divided territories...
City of Extremes
The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes how a loose alliance of city builders—including real estate developers, large-scale property owners, municipal officials, and security specialists—has...
The Nature of Whiteness
Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they...
Europe's Relations with North Africa
Politics, Economics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The rapid evolution of events in the European, Middle Eastern, and North African spheres has reinvigorated the debate on Euro-Mediterranean relations. Since 1995 these relations have operated under the auspices of the Barcelona Process, which laid the foundations for three initiatives that define...
by Dan Connell
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
In 1991, Eritrea won a 30-year war for independence from Ethiopia, and in 1993, it was recognized as Africa’s newest nation after more than a century of conquest and occupation by a succession of external powers that included the Ottomans, Egypt, Italy, Great Britain and Ethiopia. Each had left...
A Soviet Journey
A Critical Annotated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In 1978, the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma (1925–1985) published A Soviet Journey, a memoir of his travels in the Soviet Union. Today it stands as one of the longest and most substantive first-hand accounts of the USSR by an African writer. La Guma’s book is consequently a rare...
by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This edition features illustrations.
Extract
...The subject of this paper was the discovery, mostly in the king’s compound and the Juju houses, of numerous works of art in brass, bronze, and ivory...
Why do Africans Have Less Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer? And no Depression, Osteoporosis, Arthritis, or Asthma?
SHORT STORY #10. Nonfiction series #1 - #60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Why do Africans have less heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? And no depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, or asthma? This observation the author made soon she arrived in Rwanda, Central Africa. To find the answer she asked her then husband, a physician. But he did not know either. Later, she moved...