Africa category: 4903 books
Transatlantic Feminisms
Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Transatlantic Feminisms is an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women’s lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this unique collection of fifteen essays addresses...
Timbuktu: A Ladybird Expert Book
The secrets of the fabled but lost African city
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.
Learn about Timbuktu, in this clear and authoritative introduction to the place considered to be one of the most important trading cities of the medieval world.
Written by curator and cultural historian Gus Casely-Hayford, this book delves...
by Beth Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Set along the cliffs between mountain and sea, Hermanus is one of the most popular holiday and travel destinations in South Africa. Initially it was the abundance of fish in Walker Bay, along which the village rapidly grew, that attracted holidaymakers. Today, the stars of the bay are undoubtedly...
by James Forson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
In this entertaining collection of short stories, James Forson light-heartedly explores some of his memories of the Western Cape Province in South Africa and confronts some of the challenges and ironies of the world of business. Sometimes humorous, sometimes pithy, the stories strike a responsive chord with our own life experiences. A pleasant read to while away the weekend.
Southern African Muckraking
300 years of investigative journalism which has shaped the region
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Southern African Muckraking: 300 years of investigative journalism which has shaped the region celebrates the rich and untold history of investigative journalism in southern Africa and the crucial role it has played in holding power to account over the last 300 years. It is the third book in the best-selling...
by S. Mark, Stanley Trapido, S. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
"The standard of contribution is high . . . the reader gets a good sense of the cutting edge of historical research."
– African Affairs
by Alberto Arecchi
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 14, 2017
La presentazione di poche decine di figure femminili, scelte tra le molte che si sono distinte nella storia dell’Africa per fervore religioso, passione culturale o doti guerriere, non basta certo a “rendere giustizia” al ruolo che la donna ha sempre sostenuto nella vita di questo grande continente.
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by A. Akinyeme, Akintunde Akinyemi
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Orature and Yorùbá Riddles takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of riddles in Africa. Because of its oral and all too often ephemeral nature, riddles have escaped close scrutiny from scholars. The strength of the Yorùbá as the focus of this study is impressive indeed: a major...
The Mobile Workshop
The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites,...
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
From African Slave to Power-Broker
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch's origins...
Medicinal Rule
A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings – and found them. The resulting misunderstandings last until this day. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups,...
Habitat and Struggle
The Case of the Kruger Park in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Join Leslie Dikeni in his intriguing journey into the contested state of the Kruger National Park in the early years of the democratic transition. He speaks to chefs and wardens, cleaners and government officials, ecologists and secretaries. As word of his research spreads, those whose voices had...
by Shunna Pillay
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A panoramic look at South Africa in the 1950s, this spirited tale explores the people, music, and hardships common to areas such as District Six, Durban, and Sophiatown. Based on the life of musician Shunna Pillay, the story focuses on what it feels like to yearn for freedom amid governmental and societal constraints.
Africa in the Twenty-First Century
The Promise of Development and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book interrogates contemporary debates, controversies, achievements, challenges, and future prospects of African development and democratization from varied theoretical perspectives. The diverse issues and sub-themes addressed in this volume include tenets of democracy such as democratization,...