South Africa category: 561 books
Turfloop a Conscious Pariah
How University of the North Brought in the Age of Barack Obama Beyond Our Wildest Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
This book provides reflections on the butterfly effect on how Turfloop brought in the Age of Barack Obama. What is the Age of Barack Obama?
To paraphrase Dr Ineke Van Kessel, a prominent historian at the Leiden University in the Netherlands:
The University of the North also known as...
by David Hilton-Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Here is an idiosyncratic view of one of South Africa’s loveliest districts. History is certainly revealed, but the book is much more than dry-as-dust fact and chronologies. The mountains and valleys and abundant vegetation of the northern Drakensberg have inspired many people. Their stories enliven...
by Kathy Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
On 15 November 1899, near the start of the Anglo-Boer War, an armoured train manned by British soldiers and containing a young British journalist named Winston Churchill ground its way towards Chieveley in the misty hinterland of Natal, South Africa. The Boers, those fearsome, brave Afrikaner farmers...
by David Fleminger
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The Kruger National Park is an internationally renowned wildlife sanctuary and one of South Africa’s top tourist attractions. However, this wasn’t always the case. For the first 30 years of the park’s existence, it was very unpopular and many people downright hated the idea of a reserve dedicated...
The Other Zulus
The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighboring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus, enabling the British to claim victory and, ultimately, to annex the Zulu kingdom. Less than thirty years later, in 1906, many of those same Natal Africans,...
Finding Voice
A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Using her own fieldwork as a case study, Berman shows how hands-on work in the arts with learners of all ages and...
Aids To Scouting
for N.-C.O.s and Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. It was a non-typical training manual filled with personal stories of intrigue and even games. Its goal was to encourage the development of light reconnaissance scouting skills within the...
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...
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.
The People’s Zion
Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
In The People’s Zion, Joel Cabrita tells the transatlantic story of Southern Africa’s largest popular religious movement, Zionism. It began in Zion City, a utopian community established in 1900 just north of Chicago. The Zionist church, which promoted faith healing, drew tens of thousands of marginalized...
by Coen van Wyk
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This is an account of the political shenanigans of the National Party in South Africa during the 1950s in their endeavours to deprive coloureds of their rights in terms of the constitution.
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by Frederick David Baillie
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The siege of Mafeking still stands as one of the British Military’s high achievements, especially during the depths of the badly handled Boer War. The successful defence and relief were a shot in the arm for the British public which had become all too used to defeats and reverses in South Africa....
by Lea Ann Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Xhosa storyteller Inkululeko tells the story of her life and narrates the history of South Africa from the start of the twentieth century until just before the end of apartheid. He stories help preserve the native African culture, inspiring her people and keeping hope alive.
Liberia
Description, History, Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Africa has been partitioned among the nations. The little kingdom of Abyssinia, in the north, and the Republic of Liberia, upon the west coast, are all of the continent that remain in the hands of Africans. Liberia alone is in the hands of negroes. Will it remain so, or is it destined to disappear?...