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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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An elephant hunter's chronicle of his safari into the interior of South Africa to search for a fabled diamond mine and to rescue the brother of the English gentleman who accompanies him across the deserts and mountains.
3) Prester John
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English
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South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot - all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John. Written as a boys' adventure story and set mostly in South Africa (where Buchan had worked), "Prester John" was published in...
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English
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Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the ivory traders' cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, a man who has used savagery to obtain semi-divine power over the natives. While Marlow tries to get Kurtz back down the river, Kurtz tries to justify his actions and motions,...
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English
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The Story of an African Farm (1883) is a novel by South African political activist and writer Olive Schreiner. Her first published novel, The Story of an African Farm was a bestseller upon its release despite being criticized for its portrayal of controversial social, religious, and political themes. Part Bildungsroman, part philosophical fiction, the novel is recognized as a groundbreaking work for its exploration of feminism, atheism, and the influence...
6) The sea-hawk
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English
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The Sea-Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set over the years 1588—1593 and concerns a retired Cornish seafaring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous half-brother. After being forced to serve as a slave on a galley, Sir Oliver is liberated by Barbary pirates. He joins the pirates, gaining the name "Sakr-el-Bahr" (the hawk of the sea), and swears vengeance against...
7) African National Congress: A Documentary History of the Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa
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Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (334 p.)
Language
English
Description
"A collection of historical documents from the African National Congress. The ANC, led by Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and Oliver Tambo, was, in partnership with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the core of the movement against the white supremacist Apartheid regime in South Africa."--
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Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (324 p.)
Language
English
Description
"For 30 years, the African National Congress, led by Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, was the core of opposition to the white supremacist apartheid regime in South Africa. After organizing strikes and founding the armed military wing of the ANC, Mandela spent 27 years in jail before emerging as a worldwide symbol of human freedom."--
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Publisher
Wits University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (576 pages)
Language
English
Description
In the 1980s there was a surge of trade union power on a scale not previously experienced in South Africa. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) was a highly prominent and innovative union in this assertion of muscle and one of Cosatu's most radical affiliates, and its story is one of astonishing achievements as its activities built workers' rights and deeply eroded the apartheid state. Metal that will not bend-a translation of...
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AltaMira Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora continue to elude scholars, politicians, and community leaders. Charles Green brings a decade of research and original fieldwork in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States to investigate the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization....
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource.
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English
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This book is a collection of short stories (the same characters appear in the stories) mostly set in the East Africa in the 1960's. It is, so to speak, a record of a bygone era, a world that does not exist except in people's memories. Tales depict forbidden love, loss, desperation, betrayal, inhumanity and courage. A stunning array of characters displays resilience in the face of untold suffering. --Provided by publisher.
12) Swing time
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North-West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancersbut only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never...
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Jacana Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (260 pages)
Language
English
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Who are the heroes and villains of the Skills Revolution? How have political parties and trade unions benefitted from their association with the Services Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA)? Is a democratic and peaceful transformation possible in the South African and African context? Telling the story of Ivor Blumenthal's experiences as the CEO of the Services SETA, this book seeks to provide the answers to these and other questions. Blumenthal...
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Pambazuka Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (350 pages)
Language
English
Description
"With great clarity, this updated edition explains the complex changes of the late-20th and early-21st centuries, including the transformations in Eastern Europe and in the world economy, the growth of capitalism in China and-despite the West riding on the crest of new technologies-its materialist goals being increasingly questioned by new social movements including the Greens. Written by a well-known political economist, this analysis addresses problems...
17) Islam in Africa
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Mason Crest
Pub. Date
2013
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1 online resource (112 p.)
Language
English
19) Africa
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ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.)
Language
English
Description
"A very brief introduction to the geography, various regions, and wildlife of Africa."--
Author
Publisher
Wits University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (544 pages)
Language
English
Description
The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa, Malvern van Wyk Smith consulted a wide range of sources: from rock art to classical travel writing; from the pre-dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilizations...
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