Africa category: 4903 books
Xenophobia in South Africa
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the aftermath, Hashi Kenneth Tafira went...
Shadows of Empire in West Africa
New Perspectives on European Fortifications
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and others to present a...
Brothers and Strangers
Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Unprecedented in scope and detail, Brothers and Strangers is a vivid history of how the mythic Africa of the black American imagination ran into the realities of Africa the place. In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey—convinced that freedom from oppression was not possible for blacks in the Americas—led...
by James Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce OM GCVO PC FRS FBA (10 May 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician.
Bryce's intellectual distinction and political industry made him a valuable member of the Liberal Party. As soon as the late 1860s, he acted...
Africa Doesn't Matter
How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
What happens to the billions of aid dollars given yearly? Why do trade rules that fail African countries also cost us at the checkout line? Why don’t the African people matter? In this engaging, jargon-free, reader-friendly guide, longtime aid worker and diplomat Giles Bolton offers his radical...
AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face
Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation, Daniel Jordan Smith argues, transformed into...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
This monograph describes how a failed state in 2030 may impact the United States and the global economy. It also identifies critical capabilities and technologies the US Air Force should have to respond to a failed state, especially one of vital interest to the United States and one on the cusp of...
Leading an African Renaissance
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book looks at the challenges and possibilities facing leadership in Africa today by providing a rich history of the continent, the complexities the continent has experienced, and the great hope and encouragement that remains. It explores what African leadership is and the possible effects it...
Nigeria - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with an internal market of 150 million people and an economy growing at around 8 percent a year, is potentially Africa's next powerhouse. It is nearly one and a half times the size of Texas, with a landmass varying from sandy beaches and tropical jungles,...
Contemporary Issues in African Society
Historical Analysis and Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book examines the twin critical processes of state-building and nation-building in Africa and the confluence of major domestic and global issues that shape them. The book covers topics such as the expansive role of non-governmental organizations, the growing influence of charismatic Pentecostalism,...
Fraud at the Hague-Bakassi
Why Nigeria’S Bakassi Territory Was Ceded to Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Fraud at the Hague-Bakassi examines how the 9/11 attacks on America affected many countries around the world. The strength of the fundamentalist Islamic groups triggered the war on terror, which unnerved many countries around the globe. To counter this, President George W. Bush began the invasion...
Desert Rats
The Desert War 1940-3 in the Words of Those Who Fought There
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The story of the last surviving 'Desert Rats' in their own words and their experience of war in North Africa. From 1940-3 Britain was engaged in a life and death struggle with the Axis powers in North Africa, a titanic, swaying conflict that surged back and forth across the barren wastes of Egypt,...
by John D. Hargreaves
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are seen here in the wider context of changing international relationships.
My Mercedes is Not for Sale
From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
—Janis Joplin
A journalist’s intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa.
“Look, there’s my car,” I say, pointing at my Mercedes in the parking lot.
“Where?”...