Contains detailed information on Africa's geography, climate, peoples, history, government, natural resources, economy, culture, religions, and world relations

This comprehensive volume presents information about the civil wars which have taken place in Africa over the years of the independence era since 1945.

The period between the two World Wars were the peak years of the colonial empires, but they were not unchallenged. Individuals and organisations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contributing first to local unrest and protest and then to anticolonial activity not only in Africa but the United States and Europe as well.In this compelling history, Jonathan Derrick recounts the opposition to British and French rule practised both by Africans living on the continent and by European anticolonialists and members of the Black Diaspora. He covers campaigns waged by an early incarnation of the ANC and other groups in South Africa who fought against legal and other aspects of white minority rule. He also analyses the Kikuyu protests against the settler regime in Kenya; Marcus Garvey's African American movement and its role in sparking interest in Africa; the Étoile Nord Africaine, formed mainly by Algerians in France, that called for the independence of French North Africa; protests led by European critics against forced labour in Kenya and French Equatorial Africa; and the activity of small militant groups like the Ligue de Défense de la Race Nègre (LDRN) in France and George Padmore's International African Service Bureau (IASB) in Britain.Derrick also examines the role of the Comintern and Western Communist parties that were opposed to Western colonialism and ready to support militant action against it. He shows that, although colonial rulers greatly feared the spectre of Communism in Africa, actual Communist activity was in fact quite small. The onset of the Second World War pushed colonial issues to the background, but as Derrick argues, in the long term the anti-colonialists of the interwar era helped pave the way for later decolonisation.

Product Description: This book explores from a new perspective the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity, from the Enlightenment to the present day. Focusing on the nation’s Islamic-African legacy, Susan Martin-Márquez disputes received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Muslims and Africans...read more

Product Description: Africa first captivated New York Times journalist Howard W. French more than twenty-five years ago, but his knowledge of and passion for the continent has the depth of a lifetime association. His experiences there awakened him as nothing before to the selfishness and shortsightedness of the rich, the suffering and dignity of the poor and the uses and abuses of power...read more

Product Description: This work provides insights into important moments in the European colonization project in Africa, and into structural intersections between the active agents of colonialism and the different layers of Africa's socio-political structures...read more

Examines the Dogon people of Mali, Kushite temples at Jebel Barkal, the ancient city of Jenne-jeno and more through an examination of artifacts and computer re-creations of historical places, complete with time line, glossary, and index.

Product Description: Like all the veterans of the war, K has blood on his hands. Driven by K's memories, Fuller and K decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way, by travelling from Zambia through Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans...read more

A stirring, disturbing document of the war in Sierra Leone follows several people through this modern-day hell-on-earth, including a family of American missionaries, a mercenary soldier, a child soldier who sometimes resorts to cannibalism, and a father who lost his hands while defending his daughter against rape. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Describes the disappearance of explorer Dr. David Livingstone while searching for the source of the Nile River, journalist Henry Morton Stanley's search for him, and the individual journeys of the two men through uncharted Africa.

A stirring, disturbing document of the war in Sierra Leone follows several people through this modern-day hell-on-earth, including a family of American missionaries, a mercenary soldier, a child soldier who sometimes resorts to cannibalism, and a father who lost his hands while defending his daughter against rape. 15,000 first printing.

The Portuguese journalist tells the story of his 1997 journey from Angola to Mozambique, describing the war-torn landscape and people of the shattered country of Angola, where land mines outnumber people and misery is the norm.

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Product Description: The Heart of Darkness, this is the image that most in the West hold of pre-colonial Africa. Joseph Conrad's description of a continent lacking in civilization, commerce, and Christianity is familiar to many readers. Historians have been working to dispel this notion before since the institution of African independence after World War II...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: African (IGBO) Scholarship collates studies conducted by African American scholars at universities in America, Canada, Australia and Europe, between 1945 and 1999. This book is the first volume of an ongoing bibliography of African related Doctoral and Masters work...read more

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Product Description: This book uncovers the problems that Western education poses for people of African descent. It re-establishes the importance of African scholarship, defines the nature of the present war on African Studies programs in academia, and identifies the champions of African civilization...read more