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Books For Africa is the largest shipper of donated text and library books to the region, shipping over 50 million books and serving all countries in Africa since 1988. In the fiscal year of 2020, BFA shipped 3.7 million books valued at over $38 million, 167 computers and e-readers containing nearly 300,000 digital books, and six law and human ...
The first book to be banned by the Irish Free State for alleged "indecency". Republished in 2013. [143] A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway: 1929 Novel Suppressed in the Irish Free State. [141] Marriage and Morals: Bertrand Russell: 1929 Non-fiction Suppressed in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education, birth control and open ...
ASA Best Book Prize. The ASA Best Book Prize, formerly known as the Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Prize), is an annual prize given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States.
DT433.54 .D56 1992. Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who ...
Pages in category "Books about Africa" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
African literature is literature from Africa, either oral (" orature ") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African literature can be traced back to at least the fourth century AD. The best-known is the Kebra Negast, or "Book of Kings" from the 14th century AD. [1] Another well-known book is the Garima ...
Guide to African cinema. Reference guides to the world's cinema. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313296219. Pfaff, Françoise (2004). Focus on African films. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253216687.
Archaic humans emerged out of Africa between 0.5 and 1.8 million years ago. This was followed by the emergence of modern humans ( Homo sapiens) in East Africa around 300,000–250,000 years ago. In the 4th millenium BC written history arose in Ancient Egypt, [ 1] and later in Nubia ’s Kush, the Horn of Africa ’s Dʿmt, and the Maghreb and ...