Tag: Africa

Free Download Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, "The Contested Idea of South Africa: Mzansi Africa "
English | ISBN: 0367353598 | 2021 | 326 pages | EPUB | 1203 KB
This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

Free Download Birgit Englert, "Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean "
English | ISBN: 0367708310 | 2021 | 226 pages | EPUB | 1474 KB
This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world.

Free Download Ute Röschenthaler, "Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa "
English | ISBN: 036787069X | 2019 | 318 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book seeks to widen perspectives on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the diverse and partly new forms of entrepreneurial practice in Africa since the 1990s. Contrary to widespread assertions, figures of success have been regularly observed in Africa since pre-colonial times. The contributions account for these historical continuities in entrepreneurship, and identify the specifically new political and economic context within which individuals currently probe and invent novel forms of enterprise. Based on ethnographically contextualized life stories and case studies of female and male entrepreneurs, the volume offers a vivid and multi-perspectival account of their strategies, visions and ventures in domains as varied as religious proselytism, politics, tourism, media, music, prostitution, funeral organization, and education. African cultural entrepreneurs have a significant economic impact, attract the attention of large groups of people, serve as role models for many youths, and contribute to the formation of new popular cultures.

Free Download Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950 edited by Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein
English | July 5, 2022 | ISBN: 1503611515, 1503631990 | True EPUB/PDF | 384 pages | 12.7/11.9 MB
This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved-Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentation and political outrage. At others, they are humble, yearning for medicine, a cigarette, or a pair of shoes.

Free Download Social Media and Africa’s Public Sector: Perspectives on Contemporary Issues
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031226410 | 197 Pages | EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book focuses on developing a systematic approach to understanding the transformations in Africa’s public sector social media landscape. Looking at the use of social media from the African public sector perspective, the authors present a comprehensive understanding of social media practices and how these could be integrated into African public sector institutions’ operational activities in order to deliver greater value for African citizens and consumers of public goods and services. Chapters explore how social media in Africa differs from traditional media use, their application in the public sector, objectives for government using social media, and how social media plays an interactive role in e-government services.

Free Download Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811973423 | 293 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.3 MB
The book discusses the failure of many African governments in providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources. Unfortunately, in many African States, mineral resources are owned, explored and marketed by the machinery of the state. The problem arises when the masses begin to challenge state access and ownership of resources that are domiciled within their ancestral land, communities, and constituencies. Often the challenge and resistance to state ownership of resources is generated by communal or group sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty in the face of high resource endowment and waste by the government officials.

Free Download Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa By Akin Odebunmi, Joyce T. Mathangwane
2015 | 555 Pages | ISBN: 1443878294 | PDF | 5 MB
Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa explores language choice questions, together with domain-driven lingua-communicative and literary resources situated within the discourses of law, culture, medicine, visual art, politics, the media, music and literature in Africa. It identifies the distinctive African paraphernalia of these discourses, and foregrounds their real-world and mediated cultural and societal values, and highlights the Western presence through the inclusion of aspects of Shakespearean perspectives which bear universal tidings and speak to the African gender tradition. The chapters attention to verbal and visual artistic communicative mechanisms underlines such engagements as multilingualism policies, socio-political declension, social dynamism and cultural interventions that characterise the African setting. These realities are discussed in impressive detail, authoritative scholastic depth and effective stylistic tones that reflect the authors familiarity with the facets of African societies deducible from language, communication and literature.

Free Download Africa’s Quest for Modernity: Lessons from Japan and China
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303123653X | 482 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
This monograph addresses the complexity of China-Africa and Japan-Africa relations from a comparative perspective. The volume is divided into five sections. Section I focuses on the divergent perspectives that are reflected in the discourse on China-Africa relations. Section II discusses Japan’s economic modernization and its potential lessons for Africa. Section III compares the foreign policies of Japan and China in Africa and analyzes their supposed rivalries on the continent. Section IV explores the relationship between Southeast Asia and China and its relevance to Africa-China relations. Section V provides an in-depth case study of Ethiopia-China relations over the last century.

Free Download You South Africa – 13 April 2023
English | 117 pages | True PDF | 100.9 MB

Free Download The Economist Middle East and Africa Edition – 08 April 2023
English | 92 pages | True PDF | 43.7 MB