Pakenham, Thomas
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.3 PAKMeredith, Martin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.04 MERFrench, Howard W.
Summary: "Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.22 FREBildner, Phil.
Summary: Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BILAyo, Yvonne.
Summary: Discover the traditional lifestyles, beliefs, skills, and crafts of the peoples of this ancient continent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 960 AYOSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLFairbanks, Eve
Summary: "A decade in the making, The Inheritors tracks three ordinary South Africans over fifty years in a sweeping, exquisitely written look at what really happens after a country resolves to end white supremacy. Dipuo grew up on the south side of the mine dump that separated Johannesburg's Black townships from the white-only city. Some nights she hiked to the top. On the other side were glittering...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0968 FAIWright, Adrienne
Summary: On June 16, 1976, Hector Pieterson, an ordinary boy, lost his life after getting caught up in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Black South African students were marching against a new law requiring that they be taught half of their subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the White government. The story's events unfold from the perspectives of Hector, his sister, and the photographer...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PIECleveland, Todd
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio Univ Pr 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 CLEMarais, Bianca
Summary: "Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy. Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarais, Bianca
Summary: "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARGordimer, Nadine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 GORKrummeck, Judith
Summary: Old New Worlds intertwines the immigrant stories of the author and her great-great grandmother. Sarah Barker and her new husband sail from England in 1815 to minister to the indigenous Khoihoi in South Africa's Eastern Cape. In the midst of conflict, illness, and natural disasters, Sarah bears sixteen children. Two hundred years later, Judith leaves post apartheid South Africa with her new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld KrummeckBlyden, Nemata Amelia
Summary: Bringing together accounts of the most significant ideas and milestones in Black history and culture, this important and thought-provoking book offers a bold and accessible overview of the history of the African continent and its peoples.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 BLYO'Malley, Padraig.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.0609 OMACoppard, Kit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PRC Pub. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 591.96 COPSummary: During its campaign of terror in northern Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army has abducted thousands of children of the Acholi tribe and forced them to kill among their own people. This powerful, award-winning documentary examines the tragic aftermath of a brutal practice by following the lives of two boys and two girls between the ages of 8 and 14 who escape their captors. Their plight is seen...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: "A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the first book for non-specialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of African history and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 GRESummary: Against the backdrop of another busy day for Nelson Mandela, this program traces his biography up to the point when he was convicted of treason and began serving a life sentence in a South African jail. Among many exclusive interviews are Walter Sisulu, the colleague and African National Congress leader who spotted Mandela's tremendous potential; George Bizos, Mandela's defense lawyer and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Who would have believed that Nelson Mandela would one day gain not only his own freedom, but the freedom of a nation? This program continues the powerful story of Mandela, from his 27 years in prison to his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize and rise to the South African presidency. Along with archival footage and interviews with family, friends, and fellow leaders, the program presents Mandela...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Were it not for the elemental forces of the Nile River, the great architecture of ancient Egypt and Ethiopia might never have been built. But in today's water-starved world, the river could lead both countries down a destructive path. This program examines lives and livelihoods that depend on the Nile, from the humble to the hugely ambitious. In Egypt, viewers encounter a struggling Cairo...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
View online at AVOD
Ehret, Christopher
Summary: In providing a deep history of Africa, from 70,000 BCE to 300 CE, Ehret traces how the continent played an important role in the technological, agricultural, and economic transitions of world civilization. A framing chapter introduces the historical goals and issues of the book, recounting the terrible histories of recent centuries that led to Africa being wrongly treated as a peripheral other...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 EHRGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: "From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURSummary: When did we begin to create images and, more importantly, find tangible meaning in them? How did this conceptual leap lay the groundwork for our modern, visually oriented culture? This program investigates when and why humanity underwent what archaeologists call the "creative explosion" and invented pictorial art. Beginning with the Altamira cave paintings in Spain, the film addresses questions...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009