Africa category: 4903 books
African Humanity
Shaking Foundations: a Sociological, Theological, Psychological Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
My thesis is basically intended for theological and philosophical students and at the same-time their lecturers in biblical theology, systematic theology and philosophy of religion. There is no doubt in my mind that these disciplines must surgically forcefully put through the hermeneutical operation...
The South African Mosaic II
A Sociological Analysis of Post-Apartheid Conflict, Two Decades Later
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The book revisits a study conducted in 1994 on subjects defined as historically disadvantaged by the apartheid regime. However, despite the ravages of that regime, these individuals had succeeded and gotten extraordinary opportunities to pursue higher education in colleges and universities in the...
by Andrew Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Ideal for students and general readers, this single-volume work serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in countries in North Africa and the Middle East, covering subjects ranging from the latest young adult book craze in Egypt to the hottest movies in Saudi Arabia.
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Learning Zulu
A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property,...
Internal Frontiers
African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress’s development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism. In so doing, Soske combines intellectual, political, religious, urban, and gender history...
Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes
Country in Transition 1896-1898
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
This is a unique and detailed first-hand account of Ethiopia in 1896-98 includes 78 photographs taken in Ethiopia at the time. It recounts the adventures and observations of a Russian officer with remarkable understanding for the many varied people who lived there and keen insight into their destiny....
Africa in Europe
Interdependencies, Relocations, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Africa in Europe, in two volumes, meticulously documents Europe's African presence from antiquity to the present. It incorporates findings from areas of study as diverse as physical anthropology, linguistics, social history, social theory, international relations, migrational studies, and globalization....
by Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina, Mike Adeyeye, Joseph Kingsley Adjei
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The democratization process which bolstered a culture of periodic elections has also fostered election-related violent conflicts. As democratic transitions gained currency in the new millennium, orderly transitions through the ballot boxes began replacing military coups but deaths and destructions...
by Arthur Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa is a collection of the experiences of famous British big game hunter Arthur Neumann hunting elephants. A table of contents is included.
The End of Barbary Terror
America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and...
by Kwesi Yankah
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Attracting renewed attention by a new generation of scholars, the book presents a comprehensive ethnography of proverb communication in an African culture and achieves a significant breakthrough in proverb studies. The author critically reviews the dynamics of the proverb, one verbal genre that embodies...
Transforming the Frontier
Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
International peace parks—transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries—have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development. In Transforming the Frontier, Bram Büscher shows how cross-border...
The Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain
1820 Settler
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
This is the story of the 1820 Settler, Jeremiah Goldswain, in his own words. After thirty-eight years on the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony, he sat down to write his memoirs. It is a close-up view of four decades during a period when the British Empire was expanding in southern Africa, with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it has merely transferred the...