Historical African Biographies
epub |eng | | Author:Christo Brand

CHAPTER NINE For the first time in 21 years, Mandela found himself completely alone. He missed the companionship of others, he missed his all-important garden and he missed the sunny ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-05 | Author:Evelyn Amony

A Chance to Escape I gave birth to Winnie in 2000. I spent most of my pregnancy in Juba Hospital. The doctors said the baby was big and that I ...
( Category: African August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jamal Mahjoub

Islam’s arrival in the country, late and by a somewhat eccentric route, via travellers, mystics and Sufi wanderers, came in a very particular form. Syncretism was key; the religion embedded ...
( Category: Authors July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 1978-03-14 | Author:Steve Biko [Biko, Steve]

16 “The Righteousness of our Strength” If, as has been indicated in the introduction to chapter 13, the Black Consciousness Movement is implacably against the Afrikaner’s “Divide and Rule” policy ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Gevisser, Mark

The Ballad of Phil and Edgar Although C never takes his wedding ring off his finger, mine sits in a bowl on my desk amid the flotsam of a work-at-home ...
( Category: Historical African Biographies March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 1996-03-09 | Author:Peter Godwin

Book Two Twelve The training camp for white police officers, Morris Depot, was in the Avenues, round the corner from the president’s residence, not far from St George’s. I’d been ...
( Category: Journalists March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Alexandra Fuller [Fuller, Alexandra]

IT WAS ONLY AFTER we had crossed the border from Zambia into Zimbabwe that K remembered that he still had his revolver with him. "Shit," he laughed, rooting around in ...
( Category: Memoirs June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Black Hawk Down [Down, Black Hawk]

THE MEN IN THE LOST convoy had braced themselves for another vicious fight at K-4. But as they limped through the flaming barricades on Via Lenin, they saw instead, to ...
( Category: Military Strategy History March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

IT WAS ONLY AFTER we had crossed the border from Zambia into Zimbabwe that K remembered that he still had his revolver with him. “Shit,” he laughed, rooting around in ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2002-01-03 | Author:Mark Bowden

THE MEN IN THE LOST convoy had braced themselves for another vicious fight at K-4. But as they limped through the flaming barricades on Via Lenin, they saw instead, to ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-12-03 | Author:Bill Bryson

An Excerpt from Bill Bryson’s At Home THE DRAWING ROOM I If you had to summarize it in a sentence, you could say that the history of private life is ...
( Category: Travel Writing Reference March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-12-14 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

The Fullers—Devuli DEVULI On a recent map entitled “Comfort-Discomfort Belts,” Devuli Ranch is shown in the area of Zimbabwe that is shaded with tight red lines. This means that it ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )