Africa category: 4903 books
Oduduwa's Chain
Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa’s Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples and offers a provocative rethinking...
Vlakplaas: Apartheid Death Squads
1979–1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Faced with the ‘total onslaught’ by its enemies, in 1979, Apartheid South Africa established Vlakplaas – lit. ‘shallow farm’, a 100-hectare farm nestling in the hills outside Pretoria on the Hennops River – as a secret operation under the arm of C1, a counter-terrorism division of the...
by Lea Ann Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Xhosa storyteller Inkululeko tells the story of her life and narrates the history of South Africa from the start of the twentieth century until just before the end of apartheid. He stories help preserve the native African culture, inspiring her people and keeping hope alive.
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by Patti Wheeler, Keith Hemstreet
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
When Gannon and Wyatt arrive in Botswana for an African safari, they find themselves tangled up in much more than a family vacation. After receiving word that a poacher has shot and wounded a lioness, they set off into the wild in the hopes of saving the mother and her cubs before the poacher finishes...
Mwende
Ricordi di due anni in Africa
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Emozioni intense, natura prepotente di indescrivibile bellezza, persone straordinarie, vita quotidiana in un ospedale missionario, viaggi on the road tra Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar e Sudan.
A 35 anni, malgrado una carriera avviata come ingegnere clinico, Stefania sente il bisogno di cambiare rotta....
The Royal Alphabets
A Collection of African Empires in World History
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Take a trip back to the riches of African history and brace yourself as this book utilizes the alphabets to educate readers on pre-colonial Africa. The Royal Alphabets is a unique and positive representation of Africa and its many cultures dating back thousands of years and into present time. In this...
Queens of Africa
Learn To Control Anger
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
A new boy has joined Dreamland International and Wuraola, Nneka and Azeezah want to make him welcome. Azeezah’s brother Zafar has been asked to be Leo’s ‘buddy’ for the first week but it isn’t easy. Zafar asks the girls to help him and they show Leo how to control his anger so he can make friends.
by Ellen Alpsten
Language: German
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Kenia - das ist für Ava eine Explosion von Farben, Musik und Gefühlen. Seit ihrem ersten Praktikumstag bei einer Hilfsorganisation schwankt sie ständig zwischen den Extremen. Tagsüber arbeitet sie bei einer Initiative, die Kindern im Slum von Nairobi Kunst näher bringen will, und abends stürzt...
Remaking Mutirikwi
Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The Mutirikwi river was dammed in the early 1960s to make Zimbabwe's second largest lake. This was a key moment in the Europeanisation of Mutirikwi's landscapes, which had begun with colonial land appropriations in the 1890s. But African landscapes were not obliterated by the dam. They remained active...
Cairo & Sharm el-Sheikh Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Cairo is Egypt’s capital city and is the largest city in both Africa and the entire Arab world. The historic Pyramids are located in the suburb of Giza. The city has a population of 19 million and downtown Cairo is the city’s modern day hub with streets lined with cafés, restaurants, and...
Unpopular Sovereignty
Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices of the end of empire....
The Eight Zulu Kings
From Shaka to Goodwill Zwelithini
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
In Eight Zulu Kings, well-respected and widely published historian John Laband examines the reigns of the eight Zulu kings from 1816 to the present. Starting with King Shaka, the renowned founder of the Zulu kingdom, he charts the lives of the kings Dingane, Mpande, Cetshwayo, Dinuzulu, Solomon and...
Working the System
A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system—an emic notion of their current political and...
by Kevin Shillington
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
This fourth edition of this best-selling core history textbook offers a richly illustrated, single volume, narrative introduction to African history, from a hugely respected authority in the field. The market-leading range of illustrated material from prior editions is now further improved, featuring...