African

The post-apartheid public sphere in South Africa has been characterised by race tensions and distrust. Socio-economic inequalities and structural unemployment are contributing to widespread crises. In addressing the conceptual and empirical questions...

This volume explores the relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania. In his conclusion, Isaria Kimambo reflects on the efforts of successive historians to strike a balance between external causes of change and...

Written by a talented and diverse group of South African women, this collection conveys love in its various forms: romantic love, love of family, love of friends, and love of community-all of which have the power to transform, like revolution, in ways...

This is the story of 150 years of conflict and contested claims over control and access to the waters and banks of the River Zambezi, one of Africa's longest and most important rivers. This book is a history of claims to the Zambezi, focussed on the...

Ghana's first radio programme of original literature, The Singing Net, began in 1955 as part of the development of a national radio station in the years leading to independence in 1957. Its central aim was to bring Ghanaian writers to the forefront of...

Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and...

Reveals how the African intelligentsia shaped their own lives under colonial rule. This work shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation. It examines strikes by...

This text offers introductory essays on eight major Caribbean novels and shorter essays on ten other Caribbean novels, as well as a brief historical survey of the development of the Caribbean novel. North America: Heinemann; Caribbean: Ian Randle...

This volume examines linguistic, literary, gender and generation issues in both autobiographies and fictional treatments of childhood in the works of Camara Laye, Wole Soyinka, Mongo Beti, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Zaynab Alkali, Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi...

North America: Africa World PressBook InformationISBN 9780852555187Author Eldred Durosimi JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint James CurreyPublisher James CurreyWeight(grams) 206g

Exposes the subtle and ambiguous role ethnicity can play in social conflict. Social conflict is routinely attributed to ethnic differentiation because divinding lines between rival groups often follow ethnic contours; and cultural symbolism has often...

The Standard Text Book. This work is intended as an accessible introduction to Africa for travellers and other individuals in search of a general account of the continent. In addition, it is suitable as a course text for students of development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797494985Author John EppelFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint AmabooksPublisher AmabooksWeight(grams) 150g

Examines war and the impact of warfare on identity formation in Ethiopia. Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the...

The majority of the medieval manuscripts in Corpus Christi which contain Middle English prose came to the College as part of the bequest of Matthew Parker (1504-75), archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1568 had been given authority by the Privy Council to...

Analyses how South Africa's apartheid regime controlled neighbouring states beyond its own borders through invasion, disruption to fuel suplies, attempted assassination and the backing dissident groups. Joseph Hanlon pieces together the details of...

'Achebe is the man who invented African literature because he was able to show, in the structure and language of Things Fall Apart, that the future of African writing did not lie in simple imitation of European forms but in the fusion of such forms with...

Describes the manner in which the Herero of Namibia struggled to maintain control over their own freedom in the face of advancing German colonial control. The Herero-German war led to the destruction of Herero society in all of its pre-war facets. Yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620931519Author Karen DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Karen DanielsPublisher Karen DanielsWeight(grams) 140g

Presents an account of the UDF's efforts in the struggle for freedom. This study argues that South Africa after apartheid cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the UDF and its role in the transition to democracy. North America: Ohio...

The focus is centered on town politics and the ways in which the Ga political action shaped Accra's transition from pre-colonial city-state to colonial port city. North America: HeinemannBook InformationISBN 9780852556436Author John ParkerFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063089044Author Nana Ekua Brew-HammondFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm)...