History - Africa - Central

King Leopold II: Beneath the Congo SkyWhat if one man's ambition turned an entire nation into a killing field-while the world looked away?King Leopold II: Beneath the Congo Sky is a haunting, deeply researched narrative that pulls readers into one of the most devastating...

The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831--a phase marked by massive petition campaigns, the extraordinary mobilization of female activists, and the creation of organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society. While the period...

The underlying assumption and perhaps bias of this paper is that the innocence of childhood is worthy of preservation and protection regardless of cultural or socio-economic conditions. The framework of international and national legal statutes and conventions entrenches this assertion and defines the status...

""A White Woman In Central Africa"" is a memoir written by Helen Caddick and published in 1900. The book tells the story of Caddick's experiences as a missionary in what is now Zimbabwe during the late 19th century. Caddick's account offers a unique perspective...

This book recounts a harrowing episode in the history of African exploration. In 1887, Henry Morton Stanley led an expedition to the Congo to rescue Emin Pasha, the governor of Equatoria, who was besieged by hostile forces. This volume focuses on the rear-guard unit...

"On the Trail of the Bushongo" is a landmark ethnographic account documenting the life, culture, and history of the people of the Kasai region in the Congo. Written by the renowned ethnographer E. Torday, this work provides an invaluable first-hand perspective on the sophisticated...

"Christian Conquests in the Congo" is a compelling firsthand account of the expansion of Methodist missions in Central Africa during the early twentieth century. Written by John McKendree Springer, a dedicated missionary and later bishop, the work documents the spiritual and social efforts to...

"Blame Her Not" is a poignant narrative set in Rwanda, delving into the intertwined lives of DEBORAH and RWAKA amidst the backdrop of societal challenges and personal struggles. Born and raised in the countryside, they form a deep bond despite the hardships they face,...

Après la version trilingue (Français-Swahili-Lingala), l'histoire extraordinaire et encyclopédique du Congo en courts récits clairs et pleins de révélations se décline en Français et en Anglais.Here available in English and French is the encyclopedic and extraordinary History of Congo with short easy to read...

The story of the Congo is one of the most dramatic, tragic, and misunderstood chapters in modern history. For many, the name alone conjures fragmented images: the brutal reign of King Leopold II, the dense rainforests of the Congo River basin, the chaos of...

This collection gathers the letters of Buena Rose Stober (1897-1972), a Disciples of Christ missionary nurse who served in the Belgian Congo from 1923 to 1960, mostly at the remote station in Mondombe. Written to family, friends, and church supporters back home, Stober's letters...

"Chains of the Desert: The Arab Slave Trade Unveiled" by Matt Morissen (2026) offers a comprehensive exploration of the millennium-long history of the Arab slave trade. It aims to illuminate a historical chapter often overshadowed by the transatlantic trade, focusing on its immense scale,...

On the day they tried to kill him three times, Jean Pierre Ndengeyingoma closed his eyes and prayed.In April 1994, as the genocide against the Tutsi tore Rwanda apart, Jean Pierre found himself on the death list of the Interahamwe militia. Hunted through the...

Why kill the Congolese people for their resources when they have never opposed sharing them?They had offered their resources, their labor, and their very lives under the brutal duress of the colonial regime. Their resistance was not against sharing but against the barbarity of...

The book Betrayal is a bold exploration of the socioeconomic and political crises that have characterized the microstates of Africa since their independence. With Sierra Leone as a focal point, the book highlights how African leadership, both past and present, has been complicit in...

Uncover the haunting echoes of history with "What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?" a gripping narrative that transports you to the heart of a pivotal moment in American history. This powerful account, penned by the enigmatic Q. K. Philander Doesticks, captures...

Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation...

In The Heart Of Africa is a memoir written by Samuel White Baker, an English explorer and adventurer who traveled extensively throughout Africa in the mid-19th century. The book recounts Baker's experiences during his various expeditions, including his discovery of Lake Albert and his...

First published in 1982, A History of the Highland Clearances looks at the forcible clearance of tenants from land they had farmed for centuries by landlords in the Highlands of Scotland in the early nineteenth century. Author: Eric RichardsISBN-10: 0367514508ISBN-13: 9780367514501Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2023Pages:...

An illumination of the life of diplomat Roger Casement. At the time of his execution for treason in 1916, few were aware who Roger Casement was or what he represented. Since then, he has been lauded for his investigations into Belgian brutality in the...

Of Alien Kings and Perpetual Kin presents a detailed understanding and analysis of the ideology of kingship among the Aruwund (Lunda) of southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. In doing so the text is drawn into addressing a range of important regional themes: the...

Since its publication in 1967, Burden of Empire has been widely praised and criticized for its controversial approach to the problem of colonialism in Africa. The authors have challenged the new "orthodoxy" about Africa--the belief that little but evil and exploitation has resulted from...

A Voice from the Congo is British adventurer Herbert Ward's equally sensational follow-up to his earlier Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. It is a more complete account of his experiences in the Congo in the late nineteenth century, and was published in response...

History remembers his monuments. It tried to forget his victims. What you are about to discover will change how you see power, ambition, and the price paid when one man chases greatness at any cost. This is the untold story behind one of the...

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's films offer a stark, lyrical meditation on survival, dignity, and moral complexity in postcolonial Chad. Through stories of war, exile, secrecy, and resilience, Haroun crafts a cinema that resists spectacle and embraces silence, intimacy, and ethical depth. His characters, mothers, fugitives, dancers,...

The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social, economic, and political drivers of slavery and human trafficking within the Horn of Africa in order to show how different development policies could lead to longer-term solutions. In so doing, it addresses a matter is...

The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the...

A history of the Bena Kabende and Batwa people of Zambia, narrated by elders, chiefs, headwomen and headmen in the Bemba language.Author: Bernhard UdelhovenISBN-10: 1515313948ISBN-13: 9781515313946Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2015Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil's emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated,...

Author: Douglas L. Wheeler,Rene Pelissier,UnknownISBN-10: 0313200114ISBN-13: 9780313200113Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/1978Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the life of a pivotal figure in global exploration with "The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B." Penned by Henry M. Stanley himself, this authoritative personal account offers a comprehensive look at the remarkable trajectory of the...

The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa)...

On May 30, 1967, Biafra declared its independence from Nigeria. On July 6th Nigeria's military attacked Biafra, touching off over two years of a vicious civil war in which over 2 million people died. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Ahiara Declaration of...

Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896...

In the late 1950s, Communists decided that Zanzibar offered them a particular favorable opportunity for expanding their influence.Author: Helen-Louise HunterISBN-10: 0313361959ISBN-13: 9780313361951Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2009Pages: 132Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Step into the heart of Central Africa and discover one of the continent's most fascinating and least-known countries, Gabon. This in-depth guide, "Gabon: Everything You Need to Know", invites readers on a captivating journey through a land where dense rainforests meet the Atlantic coast,...

"Cameroon: Everything You Need to Know" is an immersive journey through one of Africa's most captivating and diverse nations. This comprehensive text-only guide offers a deep and engaging look into the heart of Cameroon, its landscapes, history, people, and cultureFrom the mist-covered slopes of...

In Chains for My Country is an account of the struggle of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), a nonviolent liberation movement, to wrestle British Southern Cameroons from the colonial claws of la République du Cameroun. It is an epic and thrilling account of...

This book contributes to discussions on the topical issue of "Fifty Years after the independence of the Southern Cameroons", by taking a critical look at the process that lead up to Southern Cameroons' 'reunification' with la République du Cameroun. This was the period spanning...

This book argues that Southern Cameroons up to the late 1960s had extensively developed an evolved mature, political culture. It was amazingly led by a range of: simple, visionary, austere, honest, peace-loving and realistic leaders, almost without exception; vintage products of their epoch. Distinguished...

Urgency of a New Dawn is the cry of most Southern Cameroonians against those who they experience to be an oppressive, Machiavellian, hostile, parasitising, captor-like, secessionist, assimilationist, discriminatory, and dehumanising la République du Cameroun, to which they were annexed through misleading UN and UK...

It always comes as a surprise to many that the British-administered UN Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons was not granted independence like other colonial territories but was allowed to fall prey to the territorial expansionism of the contiguous state of Cameroun Republic, a...

This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990s - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in...

This collection consists of 49 insightful essays by leading Cameroonian blogger Dibussi Tande, which originally appeared on his award-winning blog Scribbles from the Den. These essays tackle some of the most pressing and complex issues facing Cameroon today such as the stalled democratization process,...

Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain,...

This study is essentially about culture and culture change in Bakundu society. Culture and culture change have assumed a new importance in recent years with the coming of globalisation, giving currency to phrases like "culture wars" and most famously, Huntington's "clash of civilisations", the...

Both colonial and early nationalist writers of African history tried to minimize the importance of the slave trade in the study of Africa's past and present. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the significance of the institution for properly understanding African history, both within the...

The Gulistan brings the Rose Garden of Shaikh Sa'di is a book written by Edwin Arnold in 1899. It is a translation of a Persian literary work called Gulistan, which was written by the renowned poet and philosopher Shaikh Sa'di. The book is a...

The main objective of the present research is to explore through skull morphology some potential sources of biological diversity within sub-Saharan Africa, such as: geography and especially history, in relation to large-scale population movements (expansion of Bantu-speakers). Therefore, through various statistical analyses, morphological variation...