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Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004997800
Author : Henry M
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1016049870
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Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307555502
An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.
Author : Sihle Khumalo
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781415202937
In 2003 Sihle Khumalo decided to give up a lucrative job and a comfortable life style in Durban and to celebrate his 30th birthday by crossing the continent from south to north. Celebrating life with gusto and in inimitable style, he describes a journey fraught with discomfort, mishap, ecstasy, disillusionment, discovery and astonishing human encounters. A journey that would be acceptable madness in a white man is regarded by the author’s fellow Africans as an extraordinary and inexplicable expenditure of time and money. Newly conscious of language barriers and regional difference in a continent still unexplored by the majority of Africans, the author presents a strikingly original and highly enjoyable account of a unique adventure. Each chapter is prefaced by a description of the ‘father of the nation’ of the country in question and ends with a hilarious ‘important tip’.
Author : Opio Dokotum
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781920033682
Hollywood and Africa - recycling the Dark Continent myth from 19082020 is a study of over a century of stereotypical Hollywood film productions about Africa. It argues that the myth of the Dark Continent continues to influence Western cultural productions about Africa as a cognitive-based system of knowledge, especially in history, literature and film. Hollywood and Africa identifies the colonial mastertext of the Dark Continent mythos by providing a historiographic genealogy and context for the terms development and consolidation. An array of literary and paraliterary film adaptation theories are employed to analyse the deep genetic strands of HollywoodAfrica film adaptations. The mutations of the Dark Continent mythos across time and space are then tracked through the classical, neoclassical and new wave HollywoodAfrica phases in order to illustrate how Hollywood productions about Africa recycle, revise, reframe, reinforce, transpose, interrogate and even critique these tropes of Darkest Africa while sustaining the colonial mastertext and rising cyberactivism against Hollywoods whitewashing of African history.
Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11368102
Author : Henry M. Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544821379
Through the Dark Continent is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century Africa and the European explorers who travelled through it.Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, his work in and development of the Congo Basin region in association with King Leopold II of the Belgians, and commanding the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1899.
Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : UVA:X000304262
Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : UOM:39015002580721
Author : Tim Jeal
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571265640
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
Author : Tim Butcher
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446420935
**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous nineteenth century trans-Africa expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of unlikely characters, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers. Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still. ‘A masterpiece’ John Le Carré ‘Extraordinary, audacious, completely enthralling’ William Boyd ‘A remarkable marriage of travelogue and history, which deserves to make Tim Butcher a star for his prose, as well as his courage’ Max Hastings
Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294383493
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Henry M. Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151907123X
In 1874, Henry Morton Stanley set out on an expedition into the heart of Africa. For the next three years, he penetrated more deeply into the continent than any of his daring predecessors and aimed to set at rest certain problems which had long confused geographers about the African interior. In this remarkable journey Stanley along with his team travelled through regions hitherto unexplored by Europeans, found friendship and conflict with African kings, survived through some of the most inhospitable climates and withstood vicious diseases. It is a remarkable account of late nineteenth century exploration, undertaken shortly before the advent of the 'Scramble for Africa.' Beginning in Zanzibar, Stanley explored and mapped the vast landscape of Central Africa, locating the source of the Nile, circumnavigated Lake Victoria and travelled down the Congo river, meeting many fascinating and wealthy kings. The Spectator stated that readers should particularly enjoy "his glowing descriptions of the scenery and vegetation of some parts of his route, and especially of the grand country round the Great Lake; his portrait of the kopi, of Uganda, who is a remarkable study, and his account of the beautifully constructed dwellings and implements of the people." Through the Dark Continent is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century Africa and the European explorers who travelled through it. Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American nineteenth century explorer and writer. He famously found David Livingstone in the heart of Africa and stated, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" He was knighted in 1899 and died five years later. This book was published in 1878.
Author : Dayo Olopade
Publisher : HMH
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780547678337
“For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters). Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs driven by kanju—creativity born of African difficulty. It’s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief. A shining counterpoint to conventional wisdom, The Bright Continent rewrites Africa’s challenges as opportunities to innovate, and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world. “[An] upbeat study of development in Africa . . . The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension.” —The New Yorker “A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author : E. Frances White
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439905449
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