This book is suitable for ages 9-12. Africa is brought to life in this imaginative look at the plants animals & people that make it such a fascinating continent. Studies of both traditional tribes & modern African cities showcase Africa's diversity & authentic activities allow kids to dive into the rich culture by making a Maasai bivouac shelter writing a fable in the African style working as a field biologist making a ritual elephant mask & learning to tie an African Kanga dress. This cross-cultural study also shows kids what challenges Africa faces today while giving them a look at what it is like to live on this interesting continent. ...

Christina Lamb's The Africa House is the bestselling account of an English gentleman & his African dream. In the last decades of the British Empire Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England complete with uniformed servants daily muster parades & rose gardens. He wanted to share it with the love of his life the beautiful unconventional Ethel Locke King one of the first women to drive & fly. She however was nearly twenty years his senior married & his aunt. Lorna the only other woman he had ever cared for had married another many years earlier. Then he met Lorna's orphaned daughter so like her mother that he thought he had seen a ghost. It seemed he had found companionship & maybe love
- but the Africa house was his dream & it would be a hard one to share. From a world of British colonials in Africa with their arrogance & vision to the final sad denouement. Leaving the once majestic house abandoned & a forgotten ruin of a bygone age Christina Lamb evokes a story full of passion adventure & final betrayal. The story she tells is in equal measure absorbing affecting & bizarre". (Sunday Telegraph). " An amazing story of high hopes lost love & ruined lives". (Sunday Times). Christina Lamb is an award-winning journalist. Currently roving Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times she has been a foreign correspondent for almost 20 years living in Pakistan Brazil & South Africa first for the Financial Times then the Sunday Times. She is the author of the best-selling book The Africa House as well as House of Stone Waiting For Allah & Small Wars Permitting: Despatches from Foreign Lands."
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Africa is iconic wildlife stunning geography wondrous architecture & bustling cities
- & well over an estimated 1000 languages.
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Football inspires competition & inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Travelling across thirteen countries from Cairo to the Cape journalist Steve Bloomfield meets players & fans politicians & rebel leaders & discovers the role that football has played in shaping the continent. He recounts how football has helped to prop up an authoritarian regime in Egypt end a conflict in Cote d Ivoire & provide a tiny ray of light in war-torn Somalia. Africa United is a superb modern-day portrait of Africa told through the game that unites it. ...

One of the world's leading strategists on global oil exploration puts forward a unique reformulation of Africa's economic past present & future. Many seek to fix" Africa
- economists experts politicians gurus cognoscenti & glitterati. But the continent conceals multiple secrets including the Holy Grail: explanations of its saga over the previous centuries. " Africa's Future" tells the tale of Africa's economic evolution revealing unique prisms for understanding the continent's panoramic story one of triumph over the lasting influences of nature & multiple political tragedies. Modern Africa developed diverse economic pathways to betterment
- yet survivalist economies litter the landscape. Its paradox of "subsistence with many faces" coexists amidst the tiny middle class growing rich & many more poor expected in the future. Clarke provides fresh & challenging insights into Africa's economies & future offering seasoned views on a continent of unlocked potential which has witnessed many false dawns. Not "poor" but poorly managed Africa holds greater promise its destiny revealed by its history."

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A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade. An African Love Story" is the incredible memoir of her life. It tells two stories. The first is the Tsavo years & the extraordinary love story which blossomed when the young Daphne moved to Tsavo with her first husband & fell head over heels with both the park & its famous warden David Sheldrick. The second is the love story of how Daphne & David who devoted their lives to saving elephant orphans at first losing every infant under the age of two until Daphne at last managed to devise the first-ever milk formula which would keep them alive." ...

Daphne Sheldrick's best-selling love story of romance life & elephants An African Love Story: Love Life & Elephants" is an incredible story from Africa's greatest living conservationist. A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade. An " African Love Story" is the incredible memoir of her life. It tells two stories
- one is the extraordinary love story which blossomed when Daphne fell head over heels with Tsavo Game Park & its famous warden David Sheldrick. The second is the love story of how Daphne & David who devoted their lives to saving elephant orphans at first losing every infant under the age of two until Daphne at last managed to devise the first-ever milk formula which would keep them alive. " Compulsively readable". (" Mail on Sunday"). " An enchanting memoir." (" Telegraph"). Daphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. For over 25 years she & her husband David the famous founder of the the giant Tsavo National Park raised & rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species. These included elephants rhinos buffaloes zebra eland kudu impala warthogs & many other smaller animals. In 2006 she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen."
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Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English the writer who opened the magic casements of African fiction for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking Things Fall Apart" Everyman republish Achebes first & most famous novel alongside " No Longer at Ease" & " Arrow of God" under the collective title " The African Trilogy". In " Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo strong man & tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the impact of Christianity & colonialism. In " No Longer at Ease" Okonkwos grandson Obi educated in England returns to a civil-service job in colonial Lagos only to clash with the ruling elite to which he now believes he belongs. Arrow of God is set in the 1920s & explores the conflict from the two points of view
- often but not always opposing
- of Ezuelu an Igbo priest & Captain Winterbottom a British district officer. In spare & lucid prose Achebe tellsa universal tale of personal & moral struggle in a changing world which continues to resonate in Africa today & has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere."

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The African violet (Saintpaulia) continues to increase in popularity having developed over the last fifty years from its few hundred varieties to the thousands that exist today in an ever-increasing range of colour & type. This guide

Includes:: chapters on the plant's history development & classification & provides practical information & advice on propagation general care hybridization & the prevention & treatment of pests & diseases. Written in a non-technical style it seeks to explode the myth that African violets are difficult to grow.

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In The African Wars Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers & the native peoples of tropical & sub-tropical Africa in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries. His pioneering & authoritative study describes in vivid detail the organization & training of African warriors their weapons their fighting methods & traditions & their tactics. He concentrates on the campaigns mounted by the most successful African armies as they struggled to defend themselves against the European scramble for Africa. Resistance was inconsistent but some warlike peoples fought long & hard
- the Zulu victory over the British at Isandhlwana is the best known but by no means the only occasion when the Africans humiliated the colonial invaders. Chris Peers is a leading expert on the history of the armies of nineteenth-century Africa & has written widely on the subject. He has also compiled a series of books on the armies of China. He has contributed many articles to military history wargaming & family history magazines & his major publications include Warlords of China 700BC-AD1662 Warrior Peoples of East Africa & Soldiers of the Dragon.
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