Africa category: 4903 books
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
For 30 years, the African National Congress, led by Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, was the core of opposition to the white supremacist apartheid regime in South Africa. After organizing strikes and founding the armed military wing of the ANC, Mandela spent 27 years in jail before emerging as a worldwide symbol of human freedom.
Conversations and Soliloquies
A Window on South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
In the midst of apartheid in South Africa, journalist Maurice Hommel documented the cruel injustices and tensions running rampant within the country. What he saw forever impacted his life.
Conversations and Soliloquies presents a collection of Hommels essays and articles from the last fifty-five...
The Truth about Crime
Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from...
Between Two Worlds
Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and...
Congo Diary
The Story of Che Guevara's "Lost" Year in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Featuring a foreword by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ("Che Guevara in Africa"), this book fills in the missing chapter in Che Guevara's life as head of the secret Cuban force that went to aid the liberation movement in the Congo against the Belgian colonialists in 1965. The idea was to prepare...
Conflict in the Horn of Africa
The Kenya-Somalia Border Problem 1941–2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Conflict in the Horn of Africa examines how the Kenya-Somalia border problem has deep roots in pre-colonial and colonial times mirroring the phenomenon of shifting territorial and human frontiers and treaties which Britain, France, Italy, and Ethiopia made before and after World Wars I and II. This...
Omoluwabi 2.0
A Code of transformation in 21st century Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
In Omoluwabi 2.0, Adewale Ajadi lays out a new way of organising and transforming, organisations, countries and continents, based on the Yoruba principle of Omoluwabi, updated for the 21st century.
"There are not many original thinkers who dare to explore new territories with creative...
Discover Cape Verde, Tourism Information
Cape Verde in an environment for relaxation, beaching and holiday making
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Cape Verde is an interesting place for tourism, it is an island situated within the exit door of African continent of Western coast of Africa, an ideal place for relaxation is Cape Verde, take a holiday trip to this small country of Africa with less than a million people in population, which makes...
Going to the Mountain
Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela's life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known.
To the rest of the world, Nelson Mandela was a giant:...
by W.J.D. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The most pleasant memories of my boyhood are clustered around the old family fireplace, in our home in Brighton, England, when my father, gathering us all around him, with occasionally a few intimate friends, recounted such tales of war as often made me desire I was a man at once, in order that I...
Great Battles: The Battle of Isandlwana
The Great Zulu Victory of 1879
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is Saul David's compelling examination of one of history's greatest battles.
On 22nd January, at Isandlwana in Zululand, South-East...
by Stephen Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
"This incredible true story reads like the wildest fiction."—Booklist
In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-ton Grosvenor, had been lost on the wild and unexplored coast of southeast Africa. Astonishingly,...
by Oryx Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Based on the 10-part documentary television series of the same name, The South African Story with Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a travelogue with a difference. Created by veteran journalists Roger Friedman and Benny Gool, and taking in all the country's nine provinces, it is a colourful tapestry which...
by Sean Stilwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the emergence and consolidation of slavery to specific historical forces both internal and external to the...