SAFARI GUIDE is a how-to, where-to and when-to for everyone interested in African safaris. Richly illustrated with photographs by accomplished wildlife photographers and numerous maps, it also contains useful information about the animals that a visitors to any of Africa;s premier safari destinations is likely to encounter. Both a preplanner and a travel companion. Also intended for travel agents and experienced safarists.
Recommended by American Library Association's Choice magazine to "undergraduate and graduate schools, as well as large public libraries and African studies programs" as an "excellent, inexpensive reference work." Covers all aspects of Africa and its 53 independent nations. Also recomemended by top executives and magazines for use by business community interested in Africa.
This yearbook, acclaimed by the American Library Association and CNBC and several universities and corporations, contains up to date data and descriptions about all aspects of Africa and its 53 nations. The American Library Association's Choice magazine recomemended it as an "excellent, inexpensive reference" for all libraries and students of Africa.
Described by American Librray Associations CHOICE magazine as "an excellent, inexpensive reference work, recommended for all undergraduates and graduate schools, as well as large public libraries and African studies programs." BUSINESS IN AFRICA describes it as "a roadmap to opening up the continent" for executives interested in doing business with Africa.
Imagine a history of the United States written from the perspective of the African-American community. Imagine that the story of this community is told not only from the viewpoint of its leaders--the middle-class elites--but also from the viewpoint of sharecroppers, industrial workers and others living on the margins of American culture. And finally, imagine that this is not only about political and economic relations but also about "race," class, gender, and religious relations, about the lived experiences of one community that both reflect and represent fundamental issues of power and resistance in an entire society. This is what Les Switzer has tried to do with his book Power and Resistance in an African Society. Scholars who have read it suggest that this is the first attempt to write a history of South Africa from the perspective of one subordinate community in South Africa. The reult is a transformed history "from below." The names, dates, events, and issues of conventional textbook history lose their meaning in the process of reconstructing a history that seeks to free the African from the domain of South Africa's ruling culture. The book also offers a unique contribution to African studies in sub-Saharan Africa, because it explores the material and symbolic manifestations of power and resistance in a pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial setting. The Ciskei region in the eastern Cape was selected as the case study. This was the historic zone of conflict between European and Bantu-speaking African in southern Africa--the Cape-Xhosa wars in this region lasting a century. The contemporary African nationalist movement in South Africa first emerged in a variety of organizational forms in the Ciskei during the 1870s and 1880s. The strategy of petitionary protest probably persisted longer here than anywhere else in South Africa in the post-colonial period, but popular resistance found a variety of windows outside organized African politics. The Ciskei, for example, was a focal point of rural resistance in the 1920s and early 1930s and again between the early 1940s and early 1960s. The gap between rural and urban dissidents in South Africa, moreover, was first bridged in the Ciskei and its environs during the 1952 Defiance Campaign. Finally, the Ciskei's segregated African reserve, where economic conditions were judged to be most serious, emerged as a primary site of struggle on South Africa's periphery during the 1970s and 1980s. The focus of this study is on the Xhosa-speaking peoples who lived in the Ciskei region in the first century after conquest. To highlight the linkages between regional and national issues, the Xhosa in the Ciskei are examined in the context of unfolding events in the Cape Colony and in the unified settler state of South Africa after 1910. A distinct plurality of voices would be formed in the complex interplay between color, consciousness, and class, as this community sought space for itself within the domain of South Africa's ruling culture.
Recommended to "undergraduate and graduate schools, as well as large public libraries and African studies propgrams" by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine as "an excellent, inexpensive reference work," it covers all aspects of the African continent and its 53 nations. Extensive maps, graphs and statistical tables augment comprehensive text and other illustrations. Also recommended as a handbook for business executives and individuals interested in Africa.
A publication of the Corporate Council on Africa and Business Books international./"Guide to Africa and its 53 nations for libraries, businesses, colleges, schools and individuals."--Cover
Described by American Librray Associations CHOICE magazine as "an excellent, inexpensive reference work, recommended for all undergraduates and graduate schools, as well as large public libraries and African studies programs." BUSINESS IN AFRICA describes it as "a roadmap to opening up the continent" for executives interested in doing business with Africa.
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