Africa category: 4903 books
On the Bridge of Goodbye
The Story of South Africa's discarded San Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Set against the southern African canvas of war and upheaval, On the Bridge of Goodbye tells the story of the famous San (Bushman) soldiers who fought first for the Portuguese in Angola, and then for South Africa from bases in northern Namibia. When South Africa withdrew from Namibia, many of these...
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
"If there is a more urgent and indispensible playwright in world theatre than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."—Jack Kroll, NewsweekOne of the true contemporary masters of the stage, South African playwright Athol Fugard has written one of his most stunning works. Sorrows...
by Alan P Landau
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Fleeing persecution in Poland in 1879, a young Jewish family settled in England where two brothers begin work in a cigarette factory. After falling upon hard times they migrate to Ireland where the eldest brother is briefly accused of murder. Enduring poverty and scant support from their father after...
by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
The story of Africa’s struggle for independence has often focussed on the key figures in the independence movement, figures like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, etc.
Left out in the discussion is the proverbial common man on the street...
West Africa before the Colonial Era
A History to 1850
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the...
Twentieth-Century South Africa
A Developmental History
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
The twentieth century has brought considerable political, social, and economic change for South Africa. While many would choose to focus only on the issues of race, segregation, and apartheid, this book tries to capture another facet: its drive towards modernisation and industrialisation. While considering...
The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland
The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata demonstrates that conflicts within...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Using ongoing missions in Africa as a case study, this research seeks to answer the question: is the United States Government pursuing an effective strategy for building security cooperation...
Africa's Top Wildlife Countries
Safari Planning Guide to Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Africa's Top Wildlife Countries highlights and compares wildlife reserves and other major attractions in the continent’s best countries for game viewing - making the planning of the journey of a lifetime easy! African countries, and the wildlife reserves within them, vary greatly as to the types...
Africa in the Time of Cholera
A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony...
South Africa's 'Border War'
Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
South Africa's 'Border War' provides a timely study of the 'war of words' waged by retired South African Defence Force (SADF) generals and other veterans against critics and detractors. The book explores the impact of the 'Border War' on South African culture and society during apartheid and in the...
The Politics of Peacemaking in Africa
Non-State Actors' Role in the Liberian Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
'Throws light on the role of several key agents in bringing to an end one of the darkest episodes in post-independence African history.' Ebenezer Obadare, University of Kansas Until the 1990s, conflict resolution and peacemaking fell to states, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations. In...
The ANC and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Essential writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The history of the ANC, which is the oldest liberation movement on the African continent, is one that has generated a great deal of interest amongst historians in recent years. Gone are the days when the history of African nationalism could be relegated to the margins of the study of the South African...
Contesting French West Africa
Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French West Africa. But as this dynamic, deeply researched study reveals, the expanding school system also became the site of escalating conflicts. As French authorities worked to develop truncated schools...