Titres dans Afrique

First published in 1907, The Defense of Duffer's Drift is a classic essay on small unit tactics based on author Ernest Dunlop Swinton's experiences in the Boer War in South Africa.

Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen: Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought...

History for busy people. Black History, or African-American History, looks at the story and culture of black Americans from the seventeenth century to the present day.Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject.This audio download is a superb introduction to the long and varied history of African Americans.

During his years of reporting from the world's most savage and turbulent regions, Fergal Keane has witnessed the violence of the South African townships and the terror in Rwanda, the most extreme kinds of human behaviour, the horror of genocide, and the bravery of peacekeepers faced with overwhelming odds. As one of the BBC's leading correspondents, he recounts extraordinary encounters on the front lines.

In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows the trail of discoveries about human origins made by scientists over the last hundred years, recounting their intense rivalry, personal feuds, and fierce controversies, as well as their feats of skill and endurance. The results have been momentous. Scientists have identified more than 20 species of extinct humans. They have firmly established Africa as the birthplace not only of humankind but also of modern humans.

I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me. The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living...

South Africa is a nation that has been ravaged by oppression and racial inequality. After years of concentrated violence and apartheid, Nelson Mandela led the country to unite ‘for the freedom of us all’ as the country’s first black president. South Africa: History in an Hour gives a lively account of the formation of modern South Africa, from the first contact with 17th-century European sailors, through the colonial era, the Boer Wars, apartheid, and the establishment of a tolerant democracy in the late 20th century.

Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name. If you were told that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if it weren't only one, but thousands? Could there be a common roadmap to reconciliation? Could there be a shared future after unthinkable...

We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other Christians, often in the same churches where they...

Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country.

Peter Firstbrook spent many months in Kenya researching the history of Barack Obama's family. Peter is the only person to have traced Obama's roots from the present back through more than 20 generations, thanks to the Luo tribe's remarkable oral tradition.

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb...

The Devil Came on Horseback is an intense, vivid autobiographical report from the heart of violent Darfur and a call to action by a former American Marine who became a military observer for the African Union. The first extensive on-the-ground account of the genocide in Sudan, it leads us through the tragic impact of an Arab government bent on destroying its black African citizens and the frustrating complexity of international inaction.

In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by a friend and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. "They're not sleeping," his friend told him. "They're in malarial comas. A few days later, they were all dead." This moment sparked Chambers' determination to coordinate an unprecedented, worldwide effort to eradicate a disease that has haunted humanity since before the advent of medicine.

La crisi libica raccontata in cinque articoli di Repubblica: Libia, i video delle torture e quei profughi martiri, di Francesco Merlo; Asilo negato ai migranti, in tre mesi oltre 12mila clandestini in più, di Alessandra Ziniti; Libia, la posta in gioco per le milizie e il dramma migranti, di Vincenzo Nigro; Accordo tra i signori della guerra in Libia: è il momento della tregua, di Vincenzo Nigro; Nella Tripoli-fantasma tra bunker e checkpoint la tregua è solo illusione, di Vincenzo Nigro.

La guerra di Tripoli in sei articoli di Repubblica: Libia, nel bunker di Tripoli, di Vincenzo Nigro; La guerra di Tripoli, di Vincenzo Nigro; Tripoli, guerra alle porte, di Vincenzo Nigro; Italia-Libia la trattativa, di Gianluca Di Feo; Gli emissari di Haftar sono andati a Parigi, di Gianluca Di Feo e Anais Ginori; Libia, Conte cerca una sponda per fermare il conflitto, di Tommaso Ciriaco e Carmelo Lopapa.

Nell'aprile-luglio 1994 il mondo assistette passivamente a una delle più grandi tragedie della storia contemporanea. Circa un milione di Tutsi ruandesi furono sterminati dalle milizie Hutu e dall'esercito governativo. La profezia di Primo Levi si avverava: "È accaduto, quindi può accadere di nuovo". Come aveva potuto il tradizionale dualismo della società ruandese - gli Hutu agricoltori, i Tutsi allevatori - trasformarsi in una macchina di odio e di annientamento, in una guerra civile e poi in genocidio?

Un extraordinario reportaje, ganador de numerosos premios internacionales, sobre el genocidio ruandés. El 6 de abril de 1994, el avión del presidente de Ruanda fue abatido por un misil. Al día siguiente el gobierno animaba a la mayoría hutu a asesinar a sus vecinos tutsis junto con aquellos hutus que intentasen protegerlos. De este modo daba comienzo el mayor genocidio de las últimas décadas.

Autor jedzie do sparaliżowanej przez ebolę Afryki i śledzi losy ludzi w czasach zarazy. Uczestniczy w krwawej ofierze, przedziera się przez lasy namorzynowe i dżunglę, spotyka Polaka z kopalni diamentów, zostaje przemytnikiem, słucha opowieści o zabijaniu dzieci, a w głębi dżungli o czarach, duchach i zombie. W prezencie otrzymuje żonę wodza, częstują go pieczenią z małpy i nietoperza. Widzi męczarnie konających, rozpacz i obojętność wobec śmierci.

A millioner and a self-made businessman, Marek Zmysłowski, built African Amazon and became one of the most famous people in IT in Africa. One day it turned out that he's also a fugitive wanted by the Interpol. How did this happen? In his autobiography, Zmysłowski doesn't take himself too seriously and with humor shows the backstage of doing business, which was sometimes dangerous. With his journalistic verve, he draws a colorful picture of Africa, which became his favorite continent.