Southern Africa

Embark on a captivating journey through the heart of Juba, South Sudan, with Entrepreneurship: An Introduction, a book that stitches together the vibrant fabric of African culture with the threads of digital innovation. This is not just a story; it’s a movement, a testament to the power of dreams and the digital tools that can make them a reality. Discover the world of Panyim, a young and passionate entrepreneur whose traditional clothing shop, Nile Threads, becomes a canvas for his dreams. But when the dreams are big, the challenges rise to meet them. Panyim’s struggle with the ...

Journey into the heart of South Sudan’s Nuer tribe with The Individual: The First Societal Unit, a captivating tale that weaves the rich fabric of African culture with the universal quest for identity and belonging. In this evocative narrative, follow Panyim, a young Nuer man standing at the threshold of adulthood, as he navigates the sacred rites and communal responsibilities that will define his place within his tribe. With each line etched on his forehead during the Gär ceremony, Panyim’s personal journey becomes deeply entwined with the collective destiny of his people. Guided by ...

In the previous book, Blended Family, the Nevada family visited California and met everyone. In this installment, Brandon & Brian travel internationally before becoming fathers.

Ellis Park in Johannesburg, 24 June 1995. The Springboks versus The All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup final. Nelson Mandela steps onto the pitch wearing a Springboks shirt and, before a global audience of millions, a new country is born. This book tells the incredible story of Mandela's journey to that moment.

They Came Across South Mountain is a love story of four generations of one family, free people of color surviving the holocaust of slavery and Jim Crow America. The book was written by Elayne Bond Hyman and designed and crafted in collaboration with Sarah Matthews.

Welcome to the journey of a lifetime through the Discovering the Southern Riches eBook! Explore the vibrant and storied history of America's beloved South, from the origins of Southern cuisine to the colorful world of Southern festivals and traditions. This truly comprehensive guide offers a unique perspective on the rich and diverse culture of the Southern United States. With 32 captivating chapters, Discovering the Southern Riches provides a deep dive into the history, traditions, and culture of this unique region. Take a step back in time to Antebellum society and the birth of Southern ...

Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study.

In 1903, the eminent African American civil rights leader and Harvard-trained philosopher, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote, "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Multiculturalism and Non-Racialism are two ways to address racism. They are both systems developed to address the same issue, but with different historical roots and consequently different perspectives. This is an analysis of the two approaches comparing and contrasting them as they address racism. Multiculturalism is the approach developed through United States academic research while Non-Racialism was ...

Six years have passed since the intervention of the Man-Lion, a creature in the likeness of the Sphinx, and the quantum computer, in human affairs. But trouble is brewing once again for Jack Wheeler and the woman he loves from afar—Emma White. Imprisoned in the sunken city of Atlantis for straying from the anointed path, the Man-Lion dispatches the Sphere of Ra to warn Jack about the approaching danger. The object, discovered inside a bolder in the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa by archeologist and rock-painting expert Dr. Kobus van Niekerk, seems to confirm various predictions ...

While every South African has a story to tell, this is one story that represents the millions that created and maintained the legend of Madiba. While the western mind is amazed at Madiba, the indigenous mind simply shrugs and says, he did as we did, what any human being would do under the circumstances.

The year is 2364. Robotics and advanced communication technology is failing inexplicably. As if in concert, hostile militant factions are adapting and attacking faster than which the Collective—the preeminent society of the age—can respond. The epicentre is the Durban Reclamation Zone. After a frightening robot on human attack, husband and wife operator team, Kate and Monty Park, are tasked to investigate. Like all members of the Special Task Force, the Park’s are decorated and retired warfighters with proven track records, and usually only called in when security operations might ...

A poacher vanishes into thin air, defying logic and baffling ace tracker Mia Greenaway. Meanwhile Captain Sannie van Rensburg, still reeling from a personal tragedy, is investigating the disappearance of two young girls who locals fear have been abducted for use in sinister traditional medicine practices. But poachers are also employing witchcraft, paying healers for potions they believe will make them invisible and bulletproof.

A simple introduction to Namibia and its people providing basic facts.

The author looks at the racial and ethnic composition of South Africa constituting a nation known for its diversity and which is still trying to build a truly united society after centuries of racial oppression by the former white minority rulers.

Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city, she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.

Six poems about love, life & relationships.

Ben Adams is not interested in helping Homeland Security with their problems. They have an indictment with his name on it that says that he will. A high revving thrill ride, the third book in the Ben Adams series takes Adams over the ragged edge and undercover in the racing world to stop a Middle Eastern terror group from making an atomic bomb. DeConcini blends fact and fiction as only someone who has worked on the front lines of national security can. Put on your crash helmet and check your brakes because if Adams gets this wrong the world loses.

The year is 1902, and the world is changing with the new century. Twenty-one-year-old Ava Stanley, the daughter of two celebrated Arcane Taxonomists, has much to live up to—however scarce her magical abilities may be. While her parents draw power from spectacular birds and megafauna, Ava’s connection to the natural world is much smaller, stemming from the microscopic. This is useful in her quest to become a doctor, as she studies the burgeoning links between bacteria and disease, but it means Ava’s power itself is also smaller.

South Africa - 1976 to 1994. A time of turbulence as the struggle against apartheid reaches its zenith, pushing South Africa to the brink. But for a one small boy in the leafy northern suburbs of Johannesburg...his beloved housekeeper is serving fish fingers for lunch. This is the tale of Hamish Charles Sutherland Fraser - chorister, horse rider, schoolboy actor and in his dreams, first XV rugby star and young ladies’ delight. A boy who loves climbing trees in the spring and a girl named Reggie. An odd child growing up in a conflicted, scary, beautiful society.

At a time when the world waits anxiously to see what will happen next in Zimbabwe - when there is little food in the country's shops, life expectancy is plunging and Zimbabweans are fleeing repression and unemployment - this book gets to grips with the man at the helm of a corrupt regime; the man behind the monster. Holland's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe the freedom fighter and ends in a searching interview with Zimbabwe's president in December 2007, more than 30 years later.