by bookadmin | Nov 29, 2017 | Africa, Author, Awards, Featured, News, USA
LOUISVILLE, Ky., November 2017 – Political science professor and author Scott Straus has won the 2018 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for his 2015 book, “Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide...
by bookadmin | Apr 25, 2012 | Africa, Biography, Featured, News, South Africa
The If Man: Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the Inspiration for Kipling’s Masterpiece Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the inspiration for Kipling’s masterpiece A rollicking biography of Dr Leander Starr Jameson—hero, rogue and rascal of Empire and the man who inspired...
by bookadmin | Apr 20, 2012 | Africa, Education, Featured, News
The Maasai of East Africa is a strange and mysterious tribe. Mostly known for their brightly colored clothes, shaved heads and houses made of animal dung, they are a semi-nomadic people whose very existence helps sustain the wildlife of East Africa. Michael Leaf...
by bookadmin | Nov 12, 2011 | Africa, Featured, News
What makes an African person? Do they have to have black skin, to have been born there, or to have had African parents? None of which incidentally apply to Moira Cooke, author of ‘A Heart for Africa’. Being an African person means being tough when faced with...
