South Africa category: 561 books
by John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
A guide to South African politics and reconstruction after the terror and destruction of the Boer war.
by Alan P Landau
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
The remarkable story of the Langbourne brothers is picked up in 1893. Morris, just 17, makes the bold and risky decision to head north, deeper into Africa. Morris and his younger brother David thus embark on a new adventure - to set up business as traders. After walking through the African bush for...
In the Dark with My Dress on Fire
My Life in Cape Town, London, Havana and Home Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
During the struggle to end apartheid, Blanche La Guma led a complex and demanding life as a nurse-midwife by day and underground activist-within a clandestine Communist cell-by night. Harassed, banned, and at one time imprisoned, Blanche worked tirelessly to support her family in Cape Town while providing...
by Charles G. Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
A coffee break book.
Early in the South African Border war, I am stationed near the Angola border as a military transport driver. This is the story of one memorable exciting incident that took place there.
by Andrew Knight
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The Anglo – Zulu wars, a clash between the might of the British Empire with the African Zulu Kingdom, began in 1879.
In 1874, Sir Henry Bartle Frere was appointed High Commissioner for Southern Africa. His mission was to bring the various African kingdoms, tribal areas, and Boer Republics together...
Gesture and Power
Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis,...
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives
Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
A vivid portrait of homosexual African women, this collection of essays examines and celebrates same-sex practices while acknowledging their taboo status in many African cultures. From Uganda to Namibia, governmental homophobia and female strength are among the thoroughly discussed issues.
A Thousand Hills
Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous...
Poisoned Wells
The Dirty Politics of African Oil
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars' worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and development, but is instead causing violence, poverty,...
Bitter Harvest
The Great Betrayal and the Dreadful Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
This book is the autobiography of Ian Smith, the last Prime Minister of Rhodesia. After discussing his early life, Smith tells how he sought to keep Rhodesia on a path to full democracy during the West's decolonization of Africa.
African Adventure
Letters From Famous Big-Game Hunters
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
THIS small volume contains some of the letters I have received during the last thirty years or more from well-known big-game hunters and field-naturalists, many of whom have now passed away.
They were so interesting to me that I thought they might interest others who have shot in wilder Africa....
Heart of a Game Ranger
Stories from a Wild Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
MARIO CESARE, after decades as warden of Olifants River Game Reserve, has his feet firmly planted in this magnificent slice of Big Five country to the west of the Kruger Park. Cesare recounts some of the hair-raising, heartbreaking and heartwarming moments: a buffalo calf reunited with its pining...
by Edwin Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The Gulistan of Sa'di
tr. by Edwin Arnold
One of the most important of the medieval Persian poets, SA'DI (1194-1292) is still read widely today, with an influence that extends to Western writers such as La Fontaine, Diderot, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Goethe, and Emerson. He spent much of his...
The Boer War
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the...