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From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the ‘40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the ‘00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa’s popular music history. There are moments in time where music can be a mighty weapon in the fight for freedom. Disguised in a danceable hook or shouted for the world to hear, artists have used songs to deliver important truths and bring listeners together in the face of a segregated reality.

What if the story of African-Americans — and their global diaspora — was more than just slavery and survival? What if it was prophecy? From Slavery to Self is a powerful, eye-opening journey tracing the scattered descendants of Israel through history, scripture, and suppressed memory. From the transatlantic slave trade to modern identity movements, this book unveils how a people once called Hebrews were reclassified, renamed, and erased — yet never forgotten by their Creator. This work explores: Biblical prophecies of scattering and return Historical maps and records, including “...

With this book, you can explore some of Africa’s most mysterious and powerful ancient kingdoms - from the Land of Punt to the Kingdom of Kush - unlocking their secrets. This book delves deep into each kingdom's culture, society, and leadership. You'll uncover the stories behind their rise to power and learn how they influenced history long after they fell from grace. Plus, you'll gain valuable insight into why these ancient civilizations are still so important today.

“A compact, well-written and well-researched book. I am sure it will be welcomed as a valuable contribution to the history of contemporary Morocco and the remarkable process of transition it is undergoing as we speak.” (Prof. Karim Bejjit, University Abdelmalek Essadi, Tetouan, Morocco)

Africa is a vast continent whose waters, fertile lands, minerals, and diverse wildlife nurtured humankind since ancient times until European colonization and exploitation caused immeasurable suffering and loss. To understand how Africa developed, thrived, suffered, and emerged into the rich tapestry of peoples that it is today, take a trip back to the ancient River Nile and the East African coast.

Why are the pyramids often explained through speculation, while Greek temples are widely credited to their builders? The answer highlights one of the most enduring misconceptions in human history. For centuries, the contributions of African civilizations have been overlooked, minimized, or misattributed in mainstream historical narratives. Monuments have been altered, records lost or ignored, and African achievements frequently credited to outsiders rather than to the cultures that created them. Hidden Origins examines this long-standing imbalance and presents research that places Africa at...

This book is about the history behind the slave trade. The origin of the slave trade and where it started, evolved, ended, and also a little bit of what's happening now in our generation.

Through the years, since Apartheid ended officially in 1994, a lot was written about the South African Police Force (SAP), the country’s National Police Force. Not all of the books were true to facts and many with a clear left-wing liberal political motive behind them. Many “anti” books were published, especially by the mainstream publishing houses and although they have a function and fulfilled a financial need, the Mean Streets Series is not like that. This is a story of a man, a junior officer that grew up in Apartheid South Africa and joined the Police at age 18 with the specific ...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war.

On the morning of April 15, 2004, the world woke up to the extraordinary news of the kidnap in a little known hamlet of Nigeria of some 276, primarily Christian schoolgirls, by the radical militant Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram.

Dramatic alterations in political power have corrected the once prevalent vision of a European-centered world. While the centers of European culture flourished, decayed and sprouted in turn, empires in Africa rose, ruled, resisted, and succumbed. Much of Africa's past has now been excavated from ignorance and error, revealing a rich and previously little-known human heritage.

When Ugandan President Idi Amin expelled the country's entire Asian population in 1972, more than 28,000 people from Britain's former colony arrived on airstrips around the country and began building new lives - but their incredible stories remained largely hidden. Fifty years later, first and...

What if the richest man in history didn’t hoard his fortune—but gave it away? In the 14th century, a West African emperor named Mansa Musa shook the world with a single journey. His legendary pilgrimage to Mecca, accompanied by tens of thousands and rivers of gold, turned the Mali Empire into a symbol of wealth and wonder. But Mansa Musa was more than a man of riches—he was a visionary who believed that true power comes from faith, knowledge, and generosity.

This book is essential listening to bring forward the lessons from our past. A bold and unique collaboration between legal experts Michelle le Roux and Dennis Davis, it explores a series of landmark cases that came to define South Africa’s legal and political landscape. It examines how the law has been used and abused. Defining cases litigated in the apartheid past, in the constitutional era and right up to the recent days of state capture are examined.

Nelson Mandela is a figure who has been revered throughout the world. Even his enemies eventually had to admit that there was something extraordinary about Nelson Mandela; he was the kind of bold yet gracious leader who only comes once in a lifetime. Mandela led his people to freedom, became the first president of his nation, and then — like some South African George Washington — humbly stepped down from power so that he could pass the torch of democracy to others.

This is an epic poem that takes you on a sweeping, immersive trip into Africa's vast and untamed environment. It celebrates FitzPatrick's ageless bond with his loyal friend, Jock, using rich, poetic language and evocative imagery. Its length allows the plot to unfold with deliberate depth and grandeur, capturing both peaceful beauty and intense, heart-pounding action. Therefore,readers are invited to linger in the rhythms of the wild, where each stanza builds on the previous one, creating a tapestry of courage, adventure, and enduring friendship. This is a poetry to be savored slowly, a ...

Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. Conversations With...

Knowing our African history repairs our mind for success and we cannot play with the importance of African history. It instills confidence, dignity, and completeness in the Africans, in a world that sees Africa as poor, underdeveloped, and unaccomplished. African history gives us a strong African identity and self-confidence. One of the ways to get many of our people to believe in our continent is to teach many of our people our history. The desire for dignity and personality development comes from the history that we know about us that makes us confident. The knowledge of our history makes...

Francis Hall's letters are among the earliest colonial record of daily life in British East Africa, now modern day Kenya. In 1892 Hall was posted to Fort Smith with orders to build 150 miles of road, to re-supply caravans between the coast and Uganda and to keep the peace between the Kikuyu and the Maasai. His was a hard life in difficult, dangerous conditions and every day was an adventure. He was gored by a rhino and mauled by a leopard, which he strangled with his rifle, and survived bush surgery and frequent bouts of malaria. While on leave in England he married Bee Russell, a ...

Paul Biya, l’octogénaire et deuxième président du Cameroun, a été au pouvoir depuis quarante-six ans (dix ans au poste de Premier Ministre — qui est la deuxième fonction en importance du pays, et trente-six ans en tant que Président — la plus haute fonction du pays), faisant de lui le chef d'État le plus ancien d'Afrique et du monde, qui n'est pas royal. Il est le gardien d'un système mis en place par la France il y a six décennies avant de permettre au Cameroun de devenir membre de l'Organisation des Nations Unies le 1er janvier 1960en lui accordant sa soi-disant ...