Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it.

    Cheikh Anta Diop, who was born in Diourbel, Senegal on December 29, 1923, and died in Dakar on February 7, 1986. No figure in the field of African civilization studies has been more highly regarded in the French and English-speaking world than Diop. In 1966 the First World Festival of Arts and Culture attributed jointly to the late W.E.B. DuBois and Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop its "Award of the Scholar who had exerted the greatest influence on Negro thought in the 20th century." The book has nearly a hundred illustrations. "Great African Thinkers--Vol. 1., Chiekh Anta Diop" features impressions of the man--"Conversations with Diop and Tsegaye" by Jan Carey; critiques of his major works "The Cultural Unity of Africa: the Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity" by Asa Hillard III, "The Changing Perception of Cheikh Anta Diop and his work" by James G. Spady, "Cheikh Anta Diop and the New concept of African History" by John Henrik Clarke; "The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality"--Review by A.J. Williams-Meyers; "Civilization or Barbarianism: the Legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop" by Leonard Jeffried, Jr. and "Diop on Asia: Highlights and Insights" by Runoko Rashidi; interviews "Africa's Political Unity," "Emancipation and Unity," "Negritude and the African personality" and "Ethnicity and National Consciousness" by Carlos Moore; "Dr. Chiekh Anta Diop" by Shawna Moore, "Meeting the Pharaoh" and "Further Conversation with the Pharaoh" by Charles S. Finch; the first authorized English translation of the introduction and two opening chapters from his last major work "Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology" by Edward G. Taylor; a selection of essays by Diop--"Origin of the Ancient Egyptians;" "Iron Metallurgy in the Ancient Egyptian Empire" a translation by Darryl Prevost; "Africa's contribution to the Exact Sciences" and a selection of lectures made during his first and only visit to the United States.

    Now George tells the rest of the story.

    The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World.Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africaan account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose.

    History buffs, especially military, will savor every episode on every page

    The author shares his experiences hunting elephant, rhino, buffalo, hippo, lion, and antelope, discusses rifles and hunting techniques, and includes anecdotes about unusual individuals and events.

    Having spent six years in Africa with her English missionary husband, she knows that the desert is not as empty of water as most suppose, if one knows where to look. Thus she leads her party on an epic two hundred mile walk to gain the fertile grassland to the south. To achieve this, she must drive them ever onwards, quell two mutinies and watch some of her party die. Their lives are saved when they reach an oasis, but to gain true safety they must now face Arab slaver traders, bloodthirsty Ashanti warriors, and the all-consuming forest. Victoria's walk has hardly begun. Set at the turn of the 20th Century, when the British Empire was approaching its zenith, with a handful of administrators and soldiers endeavoring to rule vast areas and dominate peoples they did not understand, VICTORIA'S WALK is a tale of the human spirit at its highest and lowest, its most courageous and its most bestial, of one woman's unceasing fortitude, of the men who loved her, and the women who hated her.

    A story of the life in District Six and the breaking of this by forced removal to the bleak Cape Flats when the area was declared for white occupation in terms of the Group Areas Act.

    

    This new edition of Topics in West African History has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the requirements of senior secondary and first year university students.

    The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industrial, artisanal, and artistic. When it was first formulated, the aim of my project was to describe what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use.

    He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foa succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. his account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge. Frederick lee's able translation boosted this entertaining book to U.S. prominence (and two printings) in 1899.

    With their complex geometrical patterning and bold colours, these works of art were used in a variety of ways by the Shoowas, as status symbols, dowries, shrouds, religious vestments or as a type of currency. Genuine production ceased around 1905, with the result that they have become collectors' items.

    

    . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and Céline to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world."—James Olney, Louisiana State University

    It was then republished as part of the Peter Capstick Hunting and Adventure Library by Peter Hathaway Capstick and Saint Martins Press in 1986. This book is considered to be a fine example of Africana, with detailed descriptions of Bror Blixen's travels and hunts. It is also a good travel companion for anyone that is visiting the African veldt or desert. There is an introductory chapter written by the editor, explaining how times have changed, and why the book needs to be viewed through the lens of time. Most of the book talks about hunting, visiting remote locales, Bror's fr'iends, and the animals he sees/shoots, and so on. However, this book has an entire chapter devoted to Bror Blixen's trek across the Sahara Desert in his International truck. Originally brought to Africa by one of the Vice Presidents of IHC, the truck was sold to Blix and his English companion Sir Charles Markham, who also kept a diary of the trip. They drove the truck, a 1928 3/4-ton open-sided 2WD canopy express model, 1,880 miles from Kano to Reggan without a road. This was the first crossing of the Sahara in a vehicle that was not specially-built for the trip. After reading the story, they were lucky to have made it. It is exciting reading.

    

    A textbook presenting the history of Botswana from the origins of mankind to the present day.

    The fight to regain access to the land is key to forging an alliance of exploited producers that can successfully carry through to completion the national, democratic revolution in South Africa.

    Woods has laid his life on the line for what he believes——without a trace of self-righteousness."——Nadine GordimerDonald Woods had been the editor of the Daily Dispatch in South Africa and author of its most widely syndicated newspaper column when he was arrested and banned from accusing the South African government of responsibility for the death of his friend, the black leader Steve Biko. This selection of his columns from 1975 until his arrest and subsequent banning in late 1977 reflects the political atmosphere in the country at that time from the point of view of a white journalist whose criticisms of the apartheid policy grew markedly more severe up to the time of Biko's death.Each of the pieces in this collection was written to stay within the publication laws and regulations operative in South Africa at that time, because in spire of attempts to charge the write with having contravened these regulation, the South African authorities were unable to secure a conviction in any court of law. Ultimately they resorted to extralegal methods to silence him, imposing a ban by cabinet decree that could not be challenged in court."This collation is a fine dish, bits of the prophet Amos served up with Rabelaisian sauce, with a strong taste of John Stuart Mill, and in the far background, old Socrates himself...."It is, in short, a book in praise of freedom and in defense of freedom. It is in praise of that kind of freedom which is the right of every human being who is born upon this earth, a 'freedom to do what he likes within reasonable laws.'"——from the Foreword by Alan Paton[from the dust jacket]