Africa 17

First Published in 1979. The collection of writings brought together in this book was written within the last ten years in different circumstances and for different purposes. However, they have one ……続きを見る

Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hi……続きを見る

____________________ 'An eye-opening account of the controversial role this gorgeous, coveted pigment has played through the millennia' - Elle '[McKinley's] discoveries resonate, and her unique expe……続きを見る

A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few r……続きを見る

This volume seeks to explain the European partition of Africa between 1880-1900. 続きを見る

A useful guide to the state of the slave trade in 1850 and how the trade increased from then until 1873 when up to three times the amount of slaves were being traded. First published in 1873. 続きを見る

Going behind the headlines and deep into the brutal world of the Congo, this exposé examines why eastern Congo is the most dangerous place on the planet. While the Western world takes for granted it……続きを見る

The definitive book on post-apartheid South Africa from an award-winning journalist When Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress declared victory over the bitter injustice of apartheid, som……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, spy, linguist, po……続きを見る

For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His eccentric leadership as the nation's "Brother Leader," his repressive r……続きを見る

President Juliys Kambarge Nyerere was the first President of the United Republic of Tanzania and Founder of the Nation. He came into power through the ballot ñ a democratic process held in 1961, and……続きを見る

Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the……続きを見る

My Father, Maker of the Trees is a story not only of surviving the Rwandan genocide--it is also a story of spiritual rebirth, healing, and redemption of a land and a people. This incredible true acc……続きを見る

One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a contribution to the discipline of comparative politics. We f……続きを見る

The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative appro……続きを見る

Short stories from the South African War. They are historical fragments found during our research. Included a story of a brave youngster who walked about 500 miles to find his father; 2 about Winsto……続きを見る

Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social and economic change in the……続きを見る

Through the work of leading African writers, artists, musicians and educatorsーfrom Nobel prizewinner Wole Soyinka to names hardly known outside their native landsーAn African Voice describes the co……続きを見る

In the latter half of the 19th Century a group of particularly intrepid explorers navigated their way into the interior of Africa, documenting what they saw, mapping the territory they crossed, and ……続きを見る

A Brief outline of Captain Speke's Journey to the source of the Nile at Lake N'yassa (Victoria) in 1862.続きを見る

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1861 edition by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. This edition comes with an oversize map available as a free download. John Petherick (1813 – 1882), Wel……続きを見る

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves wh……続きを見る

A detailed story of the first air battles over Africa. 続きを見る

The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book presents an interdisci……続きを見る

A Cambridge University professor, Horace Holly, and his ward, Leo Vincey, together with their servant, Job, travel to Africa. They follow instructions on the "Sherd of Amenartas" left to Vincey by h……続きを見る

This mid nineteenth century piece gives a brief account of Captain Richard Burton's journey across Africa to become the first white man to visit to Lake Tanganyika.続きを見る

Algeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab, and African worlds. Yet, unlike the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Algeria's fight for independence has rarely been viewed as an internati……続きを見る

In 1875 the Livingstonia Mission landed on the west shore of Lake Nyasa. The first advance of the missionaries into Ngoniland was in 1878, and this 1899 work describes the enforced setting up of the……続きを見る

The book tells the story of the Batloung, a Batswana tribe of Southern Africa, from the early nineteenth century to ca. 1960. It provides historical insight into the Batloung's ancient customs, prac……続きを見る

In a single decade, between 1818 and 1828, Shaka transformed a modest chieftaincy into one of the most powerful kingdoms in southern Africa. His empire, whose heartland lay to the north of the Thuke……続きを見る