Africa category: 4903 books
by Jack Spence, David Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century.
David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama. They chart...
Rights to Land
A guide to tenure upgrading and restitution in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The issue of land rights is an ongoing and complex topic of debate for South Africans. Rights to Land comes at a time when land redistribution by government is underway. This book seeks to understand the issues around land rights and distribution of land in South Africa and proposes that new policies...
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Five to his Death
Continued by a Narrative of his Last Moments and Sufferings, Obtained from his Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
This book (first published in 1874) contains extracts from last journals written by David Livingstone, together with an account of his last moments and sufferings. This fantastic volume is recommended for those with an interest in the life and work of the famous explorer, and is not to be missed by...
Biafra
The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under the control of Victorian capitalist Sir George Taubman Goldie. It was handed over to indigenous rule...
by Emily Hobhouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book contains Emily Hobhouse's 1902 work, "The Brunt of the War and Where It Fell". It constitutes an authentic insight into the life of women and children in the Boer war, as witnessed first-hand by the author. This volume is recommended for those looking to understand the roots of...
by Michael A. Reid, Zaire Reid
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A Short Walk in a Long Journey is a story about an American election observer’s experience in the 1994 South African election. This election marked the beginning of democracy in South Africa with the election of Nelson Mandela as president. A Short Walk in a Long Journey is a non-fictional narrative,...
Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa
Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South Africa. Identifying the many layers of dispossession definitive of the South African past, the book presents a provocative new argument about land rights and the residues of settler colonialism.
Student Power in Africa's Higher Education
A Case of Makerere University
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book, the first of its kind to treat Uganda, provides a historical analysis of the role of student voices in the development of Uganda's higher education. It not only chronicles incidents of student protests, but also explores and analyses their trigger points as well as the strategies employed...
by Karin Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth...
Rhodesialeaks
Financial History of Economic Exploitation in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Rhodesialeaks is the Financial History of Economic Exploitation in Southern Africa. It is the basis of a £4,000,000,000.00 Hut Tax Refund claim filed against the British Crown and Government in June 2017. The book details financial statements of the British South Africa Company which was founded...
Bushmen Soldiers
The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions During the Border War 1974-90
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous population to take up arms on South Africa's behalf, they were among the last to lay them down. The border's oldest and most bush-wise people, they became feared as relentless trackers...
Fantafrica
Wandering and Wondering Across Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In this travel adventure, Pete Martin experiences the joy of providing housing, schooling and football training to street children in Ghana. Subsequently, he embarks on a journey of discovery across various parts of Africa – a journey on the outside becomes a journey on the inside. The author comes...
Of Islands, Ports and Sea Lanes
Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Of Islands, Ports, and Sea Lanes,/i> explains the operational and strategic importance of the ports and sea lanes of Africa and the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. In addition, it offers a novel account of the war in the Indian Ocean, a busy and vital theater of military operations throughout...
by Diane and Peter Swan
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Acclaimed BBC Wildlife Presenter Chris Packham has written the forward to this much sought after African Wildlife Guide.
In an extract from his forward, he says: "This informative and unique guide provides visitors to Kenya and Tanzania with a level of knowledge and interest that will...