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Author : Anup Sah,Anup Shah,Manoj Shah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015074272884
A day-by-day photographic journal of the annual migration path taken by the animals of the Serengeti Plain as they follow the cycle of the rains.
Author : Barrington Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442646896
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questions of law, and that the role of the law in shaping Black life was often ambiguous and shifted over time. Comprised of eleven engaging chapters, organized both thematically and chronologically, it includes a substantive introduction that provides a synthesis and overview of this complex history. This outstanding collection will appeal to both advanced specialists and undergraduate students and makes an important contribution to an emerging field of scholarly inquiry.
Author : Angus Hyslop
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409207276
BEYOND AFRICA... THE LONDON YEARS... A SON... HEARTBREAK... RETURN TO AFRICA... FARMING IN RHODESIA... ATTACKS BY TERRORISTS...
Author : Roger Stewart,Marion Whitehead
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775848165
The English botanist William Burchell arrived in Cape Town in June 1811 to explore the flora and fauna of the vast southern African interior. Over a four-year period, and travelling in a custom-built ox wagon, he amassed an astonishing 63 000 specimens of plants, bulbs, insects, reptiles and mammals – many not previously documented for science – as well as over 500 paintings and illustrations. While the outbound trek is well described in Burchell’s famous Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, little has been published about the challenges and discoveries made on his return journey to Cape Town, from 1812–1815. This pioneering book traces the homeward leg of Burchell’s epic odyssey – through the arid northern Cape, the Great Karoo, the war-ravaged eastern Cape, and along the Eden-like southern Cape coast. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, including Burchell’s letters and the detailed map he created to record his trek, the authors have crafted a thought-provoking and beautifully illustrated account that encompasses both the genius of the man and the natural history of the region that so intrigued him. Sales points: Fills a major gap in what is known of Burchell’s travels in southern Africa; sheds new light on Burchell’s character and his discoveries; contains information, illustrations and watercolours not published before; coincides with the bicentenary of the publication of Vol. 1 of Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa.
Author : Philip Braithwaite,Helen Braithwaite
Publisher : ShieldCrest
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781915657237
This book will transport the reader through a sixteen year adventure that we as a family experienced, with all its trials and tribulations. How we learnt to live with and work alongside and try to understand apartheid and all the different cultures and customs of the people of South Africa, up to and past its transformation into democracy. Our interests, hobbies, activities and passions are described and journeys and travel are detailed with relevant history. Our love of the fauna and flora and wildlife are expressed as are passions for the railways and preservation. But above all is our love of this country- its wide diversity, cultures, customs and people. Phil and Helen Braithwaite.
Author : Magashe Titus Mafolo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1990901050
There is a cliché the more things change, the more they remain the same. Does this aptly describe the true nature of the African continent?Vol. 1 and 2 of this trilogy take us through epic periods in African Odyssey. In Vol. 3, we finally see the 21st century ushering in optimism and the hope of better things ahead as leaders embarked on programmes of the regeneration of the African continent. The continental body, Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was transformed into the African Union (AU) with institutions and programmes aimed at helping African countries, individually and collectively, to move faster towards regeneration and development.Many countries embraced and applied democratic principles and ethos. Human rights became the rallying mantra for the masses. Economic development and technological advancement remained on the agenda of many countries. An air of renaissance became prevalent across the African continent.And yet, one wonders whether the 2019 headlines, a far cry from the optimism and hope, are a true reflection of a continent that has seem more indecencies of wars, conflicts and rape of resources than any other? Are the headlines a summary of unavoidable pains of birth or rebirth? The author embarked on an effort to capture history, connect the dots and therefore contribute to on-going regeneration efforts of various actors on the African scene. With this detailed and comprehensive scholarly work, the author challenges Africa and Africans to avoid repeating past mistakes. The Swahili adage: Life can be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards, summarises the author's instructive message for Africa, a continent whose might and greatness cannot be denied.
Author : Mariam Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029502120
Author : William Robert Foran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : STANFORD:36105083170139
Author : Edward Clarence Trelawney-Ansell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UCAL:$B685039
Author : William Cowen
Publisher : Radcliffe Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000050703507
This biography gives an account of William Cowen's medical practice in Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Zambia. He worked as Medical Officer of Health during a politically turbulent period which brought him into contact with such people as Ian Smith, Roy Wellensky and Garfield Todd.
Author : Titus Mafolo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1990901042
Author : Jonny Steinberg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Liberia
ISBN : 9780099524229
"In his latest book, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, Steinberg takes us to Park Hill Avenue on Staten Island, where a community of Liberians have made their home. Through interviews and shadowing of two community leaders, Steinberg strives to understand the peculiarities of this community; while it appears at times as if a piece of Liberia has been sliced off and dropped in New York, the Park Hill community is ravaged by conflict between different interest groups. To understand what is going on in 2008 New York, Steinberg travels back - back to Liberia and back to the country's tragic recent history of civil war, military coups and mass exterminations. The story of Liberia is a gruesome and miserable one but Steinberg's empathy for his subjects never allows the narrative to descend into voyeurism. The combination of hard nosed investigative journalism, a gift for storytelling and an obvious empathy for the characters that he shadows makes Steinberg an author who demands to be read, whatever the subject matter. A brilliant and important book which will delight Steinberg's thousands of followers and doubtless earn him many more"--Book Lounge.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Lisa A. Lindsay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469631134
A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland (present-day southwestern Nigeria), Lisa Lindsay documents this "free" man's struggle to find economic and political autonomy in an era when freedom was not clear and unhindered anywhere for people of African descent. In a tour de force of historical investigation on two continents, Lindsay tells a story of Vaughan's survival, prosperity, and activism against a seemingly endless series of obstacles. By following Vaughan's transatlantic journeys and comparing his experiences to those of his parents, contemporaries, and descendants in Nigeria and South Carolina, Lindsay reveals the expansive reach of slavery, the ambiguities of freedom, and the surprising ways that Africa, rather than America, offered new opportunities for people of African descent.
Author : Harold Courlander
Publisher : Marlowe & Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569247897
The Master of the Forge tells the tale of Numukeba, a blacksmith from the village of Naradugu, who abandons his forge to seek honor and nobility as a soldier of fortune. Numukeba arms himself with the weapons of his forge and talismans of magical power and sets out on an eleven-year journey through the land. He undergoes frequent trial by combat, outwits kings, heroes and beasts, descends into the land of the dead, is turned into a dog, and is sold into slavery. Throughout his travels he is harassed by the sorcerer Etchuba, the personification of chance, against whom Numukeba struggles to prove that man's destiny is not a series of accidents, but is written in steel as unbending as the weapons born in his forge.