| 单词 | Africa |
| 例句 | Since the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, the former number-one jailer, the United States has run neck and neck with Russia in the race to become the world leader in rates of imprisonment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z People in America don’t care about college degrees or careers from Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She had joined African Doctors for Africa, volunteering her time on two-week medical missions, and on her trip to Sudan, she met Kweku, a divorced Ghanaian doctor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Africa’s domesticated animal species can be summarized much more quickly than its plants, because there are so few of them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had journeyed together in a truck expedition across central Africa, looking for Ebola virus, and a lot of tension had built up between the two men by the end of the trip. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All of that human history, for the first 5 or 6 million years after our origins about 7 million years ago, remained confined to Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not so different from the sensation he’d felt once long ago, in that tiny village in Africa, when he’d been a very different man. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Even without acquiring crops, Khoisan peoples who acquired cows and sheep around 2,000 years ago displaced Khoisan hunter-gatherers over much of southern Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We thus have many different phenomena converging on the same conclusion: that food production spread more readily out of Southwest Asia than in the Americas, and possibly also than in sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Its constitution denounced racialism, its presidents had been from different tribal groups, and it preached the goal of Africans as full citizens of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Are you still my own flesh and blood, my last-born, or are you now the flesh of Africa? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if that was a coincidence or not, but it’s funny because colored people in South Africa are known for loving fancy cars. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z South Africa’s Mediterranean climate would have been ideal for them, but the 2,000 miles of tropical conditions between Ethiopia and South Africa posed an insuperable barrier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Know' you that this remedy was first proposed by the inhabitants of Africa?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He then said he had understood that I joined the PAC during my Africa tour. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first set was grown only in North Africa, extending to the highlands of Ethiopia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This was true of all chiefs in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa, for example, cattlemen had long been plagued by the blue tick, from which, on one ranch alone, 600 head of cattle had died in one year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible for a man of my birth and color to fulfill both of those obligations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His momma must have been scared in an Indian massacre in Africa. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Every hour hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of people are being killed in Russia and Africa. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Dillinger wouldn’t have come near you lessen he was going hunting in Africa and shoot you for a hippo.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as we were concerned, this was the minimum acceptable constitutional threshold for a new South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I mentioned the case of Robey Leibbrandt, who set up an underground organization during the Second World War to oppose South Africa’s support for the Allies; he was sentenced to life imprisonment but soon pardoned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing romantic about her Africa, or rather, there was nothing romantic in the sense that I conceived of it. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z At the end of our first day I told Mr. Mwila, “My mother’s name is from Africa.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z In Africa, you go to church on Sunday knowing you’re not going to get out until the sun goes down. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We decided that it was about Mother Africa losing her children like Cecile had lost us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z From there, Islam spread through North Africa along the Mediterranean, across to the Iberian Peninsula, and over to France. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There is something incredibly relaxing about Africa to me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “You know, my mama come from Africa too,” Teenie told her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It subverted the belief held by most whites, and even by many blacks, that the race brought over from Africa in chains could prosper outside of slavery only as laborers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Throughout all the years that I lived in South Africa, people were to call me a fool for refusing to live life the way they did and by doing the things they did. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “The whole of South Africa and the world is looking at you and me,” I told Mr. de Klerk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The only factor that prevented horses from spreading beyond West Africa was trypanosome diseases borne by tsetse flies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The prosecutor was Dr. Percy Yutar, deputy attorney general of the Transvaal, whose ambition was to become attorney general of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His goal was to create a system of power-sharing based on group rights, which would preserve a modified form of minority power in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He meant to save every child, thinking Africa would then learn how to have fewer children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As a boy he taught himself to read parts of the Bible in Hebrew, and before we came to Africa he made us all sit down and study French, for the furtherance of our mission. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His radical politics and left-wing activities in South Africa had made him persona non grata there and he was seeking political asylum in Ghana. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the camera is zooming in on that marble, the blue becoming water, then land, then children in Africa and Texas and China and Spain and sometimes, New York City! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z In the rest of Africa, most African leaders could understand the views of the PAC better than those of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa has a thousand ways of cleansing itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Among Africa’s five groups of people—blacks, whites, Pygmies, Khoisan, and Indonesians—only the Pygmies lack any distinct languages: each band of Pygmies speaks the same language as the neighboring group of black farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I talked about the problems of the human population explosion and deforestation and starvation in Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The first cereal was probably millet—not the millet eaten today, which originated in Africa, but a cousin species, knotweed bristle- grass, which is no longer farmed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Why did the native peoples of southern Africa not domesticate sorghum for themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Following South Africa’s declaration of war against Germany, Hertzog resigned and Smuts became prime minister. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mandela’s mother, Beatrice, wouldn’t allow him to grow his hair long; that wasn’t acceptable for young men in Africa, and she didn’t care what the American boys did. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z For example, did Africa’s abundance of big wild mammals, available to kill by hunting, make it superfluous for Africans to go to the trouble of tending domestic stock? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The more sugar was planted, the more mills were built to grind it, the more docks were hammered into place to ship sugar, the more enslaved people were brought from Africa to work the plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Just sleeping. Though I don’t know why a ghost needs to sleep. She could be sailing the seas. Or flying to Africa.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Just as the sign “Goering Street” in the capital of newly independent Namibia reminded me, Africa’s past has stamped itself deeply on Africa’s present. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He has written that Africa was the only continent that produced no history. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I’m from Africa. Can you help me make this call?” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first course, we discussed the different types of political and economic systems around the world as well as in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Father had already bent his will to Africa by remaking his garden in mounds, the way they do here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel like we are sailing for Africa. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They had been stolen from villages all over Africa and spoke a multitude of tongues. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Back home in Africa, my parents would have considered themselves conservative. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I was excited about going back to Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The above message can be found written on larger-than-life signs staked on every road leading into Alexandra, where I was bom and raised, or for that matter, into any other black ghetto of South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad said it’d be okay, but he sounded like my mother had threatened him, and if he’d been here and not somewhere in Africa he would’ve told me what he really thought. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z We now know they use different objects for different purposes wherever they have been studied in Africa, so we can talk about chimpanzee cultures. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I have never understood why, after hearing as much as I did of these kinds of things, I somehow never thought, then, of the black people in Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His words had imbued millions of South Africans and people around the world with the hope that a new South Africa was about to be born. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There I was, far, far from any human dwellings, out in the wilds of Africa, with animals all around me in the night. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z However, the Mediterranean climate zone of the Fertile Crescent extends westward through much of southern Europe and northwestern Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the end she could only carry one child alive out of Africa and I was that child. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They then called on all responsible and law-abiding blacks to help the government thwart attempts to turn South Africa —a Christian, civilized, peace-loving multinational democracy—into a Russian satellite. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days Nebraska stood on a vast, hot plain very like the Serengeti of Africa today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The lighter your skin was in apartheid South Africa, the better off you were. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I pitied him, myself, my family, the rest of black South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I well knew the authorities would feel threatened by my kaross as so many whites feel threatened by the true culture of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had both rifled the darkest corners of Africa searching for Ebola, and neither of them had found its natural hiding place. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta, Fern, and me: “Hear the reverberation of a stolen black nation forever lost to foreign shores where thieves do not atone and Mother Africa cannot be consoled.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Humans have lived in Africa far longer than anywhere else: our remote ancestors originated there around 7 million years ago, and anatomically modern Homo sapiens may have arisen there since then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I never failed to cite that even Billy Graham, challenged in Africa, had himself made the distinction, “I believe in Christ, not Christianity.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa has parasites so particular and diverse as to occupy every niche of the body: intestines small and large, the skin, the bladder, the male and female reproductive tracts, interstitial fluids, even the cornea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My uncle was right in one respect: in a typical household in the Kenema District of southeastern Sierra Leone, West Africa, my birth would not have been cause for celebration. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Mass action was perilous in South Africa, where it was a criminal offense for an African to strike, and where the rights of free speech and movement were unmercifully curtailed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The arrival of the domestic horse in West Africa transformed warfare there and turned the area into a set of kingdoms dependent on cavalry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Africa, where one of my children remains in the dank red earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We never even dreamed we would ever get one in South Africa; McDonald’s seemed to us like one of those American things that is exclusively American and can’t go anywhere else. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Food production also arose in West Africa and Ethiopia, and by around 2500 B.C. cattle herders had already crossed the modern border from Ethiopia into northern Kenya. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even when she got the spices she liked, the chicken tasted different than it did in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z One subject we hearkened back to again and again was the question of whether there were tigers in Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the colonists traded their sugar for English fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods, or they took their rum directly to Africa to buy slaves—to sell to the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He began practicing law in Natal, a region in what is now South Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z No, the reflections led back to Africa, back to the shanty and the ghetto, back to the fruitless struggles against the mark of blackness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z About ten thousand people were in attendance, and I told the crowd that the Defiance Campaign would be the most powerful action ever undertaken by the oppressed masses in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She said “motherland” and “Yoruba religion” often, glancing at Ifemelu as though for confirmation, and it was a parody of Africa that Ifemelu felt uncomfortable about and then felt bad for feeling so uncomfortable. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A Burger King opened for the first time in South Africa last year, and there was a queue around the block. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If you could for a moment rise up out of your own beloved skin and appraise ant, human, and virus as equally resourceful beings, you might admire the accord they have all struck in Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Trading and marriage relationships were undoubtedly established between those Khoisan and the Bantu farmers, each occupying different adjacent habitats, just as Pygmy hunter-gatherers and Bantu farmers still do today in equatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Blond-haired, well built and as graceful as a cat on the court, Andre was one of South Africa’s rising tennis stars. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa back then, it wasn’t common to find a white person or a colored person who spoke African languages; during apartheid white people were always taught that those languages were beneath them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The rather modern-looking human skulls from Africa around 100,000 years ago have been taken to support the former view, with the leap occurring specifically in Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First, as regards domestic animals, we’ve already seen that those of sub-Saharan Africa came from Eurasia, with the possible exception of a few from North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “She tell me stories about Africa and about her own mother, and she tell me, ‘Long as you remember, ain’t nothin’ really gone.’” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Speak a little funny, but us gitting use to it What your people love best to eat over there in Africa? us ast She sort of blush and say barbecue. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved seeing Africa again, speaking Swahili, not having to think about whether I was using the right words in English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There are still children starving in Africa, right? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The rum was then taken by ship to the west coast of Africa, where, as part of the infamous triangle trade, it was traded for slaves. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I detailed the terrible disparities between black and white life in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Note that the rhyme itself is not from West Africa, but it is the process of aural transmission itself that is one of the main goals of the lesson. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Week after week he had informed her about Monty and the Brits driving Rommel’s tanks out of North Africa and the American troops liberating Algeria and landing in Sicily. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Shortly before the State of Emergency, Oliver left South Africa on the instructions of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones — and South Africa treated its imprisoned African citizens like animals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know,” I said in a whisper, “if Arthur Ashe had been living in South Africa, he would have been immediately arrested for making that statement.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z First it killed people who had received injections, and then it moved through families, killing family members, particularly women, who in Africa prepare the dead for burial. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew that the white leaders of South Africa stood for something very different. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pro-democracy movements all over North Africa and the Middle East have made themselves felt in what has been called by some “the Arab Spring.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Blacks occupied the largest area of Africa even as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The few modern Khoisan speakers survived mainly because of their isolation in areas of southern Africa unsuitable for Bantu farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And after so many years of despair in East Africa, things started to look up there, too. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Because South Africa is below the equator, their seasons are the reverse of ours, so I boarded the plane knowing that I would bypass the winter cold this year. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Quarter is not unlike, I would imagine, Soho and certain sections of North Africa. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Why couldn’t the struggle in South Africa be not one of black against white, but one that pitted those who believed in freedom, justice and equality against those who didn’t? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I have done my duty to my people and to South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I began a tour of Africa, which included many countries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On October 2,1992,1 was on location in southern Africa producing a segment for a documentary film. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Menial tasks in South Africa are invariably performed by Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I thanked the assembled nations for exerting pressure on South Africa, citing in particular Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanganyika, who spearheaded the successful drive to oust South Africa from the British Commonwealth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So I took off my sunglasses and fanned myself with the map of West Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z How did those five divisions of humanity get to be where they are now in Africa? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Africa my papa loved the dusty dry winds of the Harmattan, which blew down from the Sahara Desert every December or January. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Sneakers were a luxury in Africa, and I desperately wanted a pair, though not quite as much as I wanted pink dancing shoes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z "You got the chance to go on out and—" "Okay. Let's say I go to Africa. Then what?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa has smaller areas of tropical rain forest than does Southeast Asia, and no temperate habitats at all beyond latitude 37 degrees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their shirts were knockoffs from South Africa or Mozambique. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The white man of South Africa certainly does not know me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Most Haitians, who trace their ancestry to West Africa, have been exploited for 250 years, no matter what government was in power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As, a man of means from South Africa, Mr. Blore felt that he could enter into any society unchallenged. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z In South Africa, nobody gets involved in other people’s business—unless it’s mob justice, and then everybody wants in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If you’re black in South Africa, speaking English is the one thing that can give you a leg up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was a big, big day when I got my first book and Atak began to introduce me to the world outside East Africa. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been occupied for longer than any other continent except Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s so sad that people live on less than a dollar a day in Africa. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z God had a mission for us when he put us here long before you blacks ever reached here from central Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while in America, I returned abroad—and this time, I spent eighteen weeks in the Middle East and Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa, a man of color who attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My father, back in Africa, arranged for a marriage dowry of cows. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The proximate reasons behind the outcome of Africa’s collision with Europe are clear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As it happened, the Eurasian Higher Command had launched its offensive in South India and left North Africa alone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Her portrait was entitled, “Plate XVII. Pubescent female of the Oyo Country in Africa.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But on the sugar islands, while more than two million people were brought over from Africa, there were only 670,000 at emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z One day at the quarry, we resumed our discussion of whether or not the tiger was native to Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fresh from Africa,” the auctioneer told the crowd. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a competition. The winner gets to go on a photo shoot. You can go to China, Africa, or India.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I'd never imagined traveling to Africa, or even wondered what life must be like there. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Did all those peoples of Africa, the Americas, and Australia, despite their enormous diversity, nonetheless share some cultural obstacles to domestication not shared with Eurasian peoples? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Goods from Africa, Asia, Greece, and Italy arrived by sea and by overland routes. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Even greater was the impact in Africa, where maize was transforming agriculture by the end of the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Rachel I could only despise more if I knew for sure which way to direct my ire, presumably South Africa, where I guess she’s finally hit paydirt with her exceeding whiteness and mercenary husband. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The film showed missionaries in Africa and India. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the head of South Africa’s equivalent of the CIA, and was also involved with military intelligence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an island off the coast of Africa,” I reply. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Protest meetings and demonstrations were being held throughout South Africa; people carried signs declaring “We Stand by Our Leaders.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As we strolled along the beach, Mama pointed across the water and said, “I first met you there, on the other side of the ocean, in Africa.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the Mediterranean zones of southwestern Australia and, to a lesser degree, of South Africa and western Europe offer a narrower range of altitudes, habitats, and topographies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ancient Kongo used to stretch across all of central Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I call on you false gods of Africa!” shouted Baba Joseph, shaking his staff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a running argument since the formation of MK as to whether the countryside of South Africa could support a guerrilla army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all surprised to see me, and we immediately plunged into discussions concerning South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Biafra is born! We will lead Black Africa! We will live in security! Nobody will ever again attack us! Never again!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The international press was simply saturated with stories of violence from Africa, and this one was particularly bland and pedantic, the deputy editor wrote, but perhaps Richard could do a piece on the human angle? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Where Africa be?” the boy wanted to know. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt far from my home streets of Johannesburg; I was in the Africa of myth and legend for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he went on a safari in Africa with his son Kermit. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The walls were covered with Black Power posters, pictures of Malcolm X, and green, red, and black maps of Africa. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z After a minute, he stopped walking, faced us, and, newly energized, exclaimed that this incident — the assegai striking the wire — symbolized the clash between the culture of Africa and that of Europe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to slow way down for a stop sign because the drivers in West Africa were turning out to be as bad as the ones in Brazzaville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Andes, West Africa’s kingdoms, and the mouth of the Mississippi River lay only about 1,200, 1,500, and 700 miles, respectively, from societies with writing in Mexico, North Africa, and Mexico, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Equatorial Africa’s tsetse flies, carrying trypanosomes to which native African wild mammals are resistant, proved devastating to introduced Eurasian and North African species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Recent evidence suggests that cattle may have been domesticated independently in North Africa, Southwest Asia, and India, and that all three of those stocks have contributed to modern African cattle breeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Gandhi’s years in South Africa became a laboratory, as he experimented with how to be a truthful, free person. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Forgive me, Africa, according to the multitudes of thy mercies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no poker-faced sitcom martians in his part of Africa, no oil-rich hillbillies or aproned brides trying to wean themselves from the practice of witchcraft. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Today, while events in neighboring South Africa command more of the world’s attention, Namibia as well is struggling to deal with its colonial past and establish a multiracial society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The defendants should receive clemency, he said, otherwise the future of South Africa would be bleak. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I can remember hearing of “Adam driven out of the garden into the caves of Europe,” “Africa for the Africans,” “Ethiopians, Awake!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z By playing in white tennis tournaments I got to meet Keith Breb- nor, coach of one of South Africa’s crack junior tennis squads. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the 176 other subfamilies are crammed into West Africa, a small fraction of the entire Niger-Congo range. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Among all of Africa’s mysteries, here were the few that revealed themselves in no time flat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fort Hare was more than that: it was a beacon for African scholars from all over Southern Central and Eastern Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hillbrow at the time was the Greenwich Village of South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For example, a previously unknown fever termed O’nyong-nyong fever appeared in East Africa in 1959 and proceeded to infect several million Africans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nathan felt it had been a mistake to bend his will, in any way, to Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Greenberg recognized that all Niger-Congo languages of subequatorial Africa belong to a single language subgroup termed Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some argued that although it was popularly assumed that tigers lived in Africa, this was a myth and they were native to Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard monkeys lived in the trees in Africa and asked him if that was true. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z On the other hand, trying to sail around to the other side put them at risk of being swept past the island and into the Atlantic with no landfall before Africa. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In many ways, we had miscalculated; we had thought that by the 1970s we would be living in a democratic, nonracial South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A third factor is that Africa’s area is only about half that of Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This already gives us a hint why speakers of Niger-Congo languages, stemming from north of the equator, were able to displace Africa’s equatorial Pygmies and subequatorial Khoisan people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I then related my own experience: I have just come out of South Africa, having for the last ten months lived in my own country as an oudaw, away from family and friends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "You only get them in big countries, like Africa, or India." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In Africa she and I had thought that this large object was a toy, because Mama had written on the photo, “Teddy, playing the piano.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta, Fern, and me: “Hear the reverberation of a stolen black nation forever lost to foreign shores where thieves do not atone and Mother Africa cannot be consoled.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just becoming aware of the history of racial oppression in my own country, and saw the struggle in South Africa as purely racial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Why Eurasia’s pigs, but not American peccaries or Africa’s three species of true wild pigs? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Congress for its antiapartheid legislation and said the new South Africa hoped to live up to the values that created the two chambers before which I spoke. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z About 2 million years ago, some of these archaic men and women left their homeland to journey through and settle vast areas of North Africa, Europe and Asia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the kids would ask if I believed in God, and they seemed dubious when I said yes, as if there were no religions in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If you lived in West Africa you ate cassava, yams, beans, and millet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z However, pottery did not reach the southern tip of Africa until around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I shall tell all the world the lessons I learned in Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z About her grandmother Ajarry who’d been kidnapped from her family in Africa and tilled a small corner of land, the only thing to call her own. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was not merely a question of losing Central Africa; for the first time in the whole war, the territory of Oceania itself was menaced. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z So, for many young men in South Africa’s townships, freedom looks like this: Every morning they wake up, maybe their parents go to work or maybe not. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That morning, there had been radio reports during rush hour, as the women were coming to work, that Ebola virus had killed hundreds of thousands of people in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was off to East Africa where I would walk about in khaki shorts every day and wear a topi on my head! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z That terrible day in Africa, just one week after his wife had died, he hadn’t known. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Why were Eurasia’s horses domesticated, but not Africa’s zebras? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The court system, however, was perhaps the only place in South Africa where an African could possibly receive a fair hearing and where the rule of law might still apply. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They had brown sugar in the heart of Africa?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Scott’s shantytown for the homeless was built near a rocky knoll and the residents christened it Tobruk, after the battle in the North Africa campaign of the war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our van eventually exited the expressway at Langa, the oldest township in South Africa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Thus, among the thousands of culturally diverse native peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Africa, no universal cultural taboo stood in the way of animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I whispered to him, “I am the representative of Chief Luthuli of South Africa.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail had petered out in the forests and savannas of central Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What if the Americans, and the Belgians before them, hadn’t tasted blood and money in Africa? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1844, while Charles Darwin was writing his first essay on evolution, Galton left England to travel to Egypt and Sudan—the first of many trips he would take to Africa. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We struck out for Africa carrying all our excess baggage on our bodies, under our clothes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I said that there was no organization in the history of South Africa to compare with the ANC in terms of trying to unite all the people and races of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a pilot, and years later helped fly ANC people out of South Africa during the worst periods of repression. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, the bench posed the question as to whether or not I thought a one- party state was a viable option for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was then one of a handful of African lawyers in all of South Africa and was the legal partner of the venerable Dr. Pixley ka Seme, one of the founders of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why do you say Africa instead of just saying the country you mean?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That contrasts sharply with the situation in Australia, the Americas, and South Africa, where European settlement was numerous and lasting and replaced the original native population over large areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in this world—in China or India or a remote section of Africa—there was probably a bigger dork than me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Many of the people in Africa who came down with Ebola had handled Ebola-infected cadavers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. Comparative politics. You can't do just Africa in political science graduate programs in this country. You can compare Africa to Poland or Israel but focusing on Africa itself? They don't let you do that.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They supported Chief Buthelezi’s desire to retain Zulu power and identity in a new South Africa by preaching to him the doctrine of group rights and federalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once every few years, even now, I catch the scent of Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But if you feel you want to go to Africa to find your roots I won’t stop you. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Starvation made Zambia and Tanzania and Ivory Coast and Gabon recognize Biafra, starvation brought Africa into Nixon's American campaign and made parents all over the world tell their children to eat up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She did not think the novel was about Africa at all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For Africans, he asserted, the engine of change was the African National Congress; its policies were the best way to pursue power in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You’ve played some trick on the dividing of my cells so my body can never be free of the small parts of Africa it consumed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were wondering why you couldn’t requisition some of the replacement crews that are waiting in Africa to take their places and then let them go home.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Speaking in the Ibadan University’s Trenchard Hall, I urged that Africa’s independent nations needed to see the necessity of helping to bring the Afro-American’s case before the United Nations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “She know many Igbo people in Africa. She sell cloth.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The slave trade once flourished in Africa, the Praise Singer said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Hitler, although an unusual name, is not unheard-of in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If Mama wanted us, I was pretty sure we’d be able to hear her yelling if we were in the bottom of a pyramid way out in Africa. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Julia says the police in South Africa don't always bother with prisons, and that often they throw you off a tall building and say you tried to escape. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Groups prone to primary liver cancer, as for example the Bantu tribes of Africa, are typically subject to malnutrition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Indians first came to South Africa in 1860, as indentured servants, to work the sugarcane fields of Natal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a time to heal the old wounds and build a new South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not that the Cape of Good Hope itself is too dry for agriculture: it is, after all, the breadbasket of modern South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is darkest Africa, where life roars by you like a flood and you grab whatever looks like it will hold you up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The uproar among the gallery made me forget for a moment that I would be going to prison to serve what was then the stiffest sentence yet imposed in South Africa for a political offense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he was only in second grade, he was technically free to backpack through Europe, or go on safari in Africa, and breeze through customs upon his return. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The University of the Witwatersrand, known to all as “Wits,” is located in Braamfontein in north-central Johannesburg, and is considered by many to be the premier English-speaking university in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My knowledge of Africa consisted of what I had seen in the National Geographic magazines my mother subscribed to for our family. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z First Africa rebelled, then the Senate with the entire populace of Rome, and finally all of Italy conspired against him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He had recently been assigned to Michigan as a state epidemiologist, and suddenly he had been called to Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a surge of pride as I read my first adult book—and a book about Africa written by an African. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The other crew members hailed from everywhere—South Africa, Turkey, Nigeria—and welcomed him warmly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “And in Africa your scarring would be highly prized.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Inkatha refused to sign on the grounds that the phrase an “undivided” South Africa implied that a federal system was off-limits. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe William’s mother must have come from Northern Africa, for her son looks like the people of that land—he has their hair, their coloring. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In Europe, and in the capitals of Asia and Africa, people devoured the particulars of the Little Rock crisis. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To put that in perspective, there are maids in South Africa who still earn less than that today. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I push it into Africa’s coast and angle the thread to New York. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z It was the levanter, the wind that came from Africa. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sanctions against South Africa remained in force and even increased. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And there are some traditions in Africa that use six or eight notes within an octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This was intriguing to me, but did not seem particularly relevant to present-day South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z South Africa was also banned from Olympic competition, international track and field, swimming, World Cup soccer, cricket, rugby and a dozen or so other sports. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The homelands were, ostensibly, the original homes of South Africa’s tribes, sovereign and semi-sovereign “nations” where black people would be “free.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Enough to buy himself a hundred and twenty sheep, a return ticket, and a license to import products from Africa into his own country. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The national flags of Nepal and South Africa, along with banners from Kodak, Apple Computer, and other sponsors, flew from a pair of tall aluminum flagpoles. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I believe that the black brothers whom I had just recently left in Africa would have felt that I did the subject justice. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I would be sitting in the lunchroom and someone would ask, “What did you wear in Africa?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z To resupply themselves with labor, the Spaniards began importing slaves from Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Check your local library's recording section for music from Africa or Asia, or for the music of native Americans or Australians. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Astonishingly, it also swept westward across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa, resulting in the colonization of the island of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What happened with education in South Africa, with the mission schools and the Bantu schools, offers a neat comparison of the two groups of whites who oppressed us, the British and the Afrikaners. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z "You were talking before about doing things in this country instead of Africa. Like what?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa, kids play with kids and adults talk to adults. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At the time, the world paid little attention to the war and its victims because East Africa is so isolated and so seldom featured in the world’s news. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Ports of call in Africa and Southeast Asia were already forging his beliefs about racial IQ levels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “In Africa, when you tell your kid something and he doesn’t want to listen, you will beat him—take the rod to him,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I spoke of my concern that the white minority feel a sense of security in any new South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end she had not gone to Africa, Africa had come to her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z McCormick would not budge on his decision: he had been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa and he hadn’t gotten sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The commuter flights that drone across Africa are often jammed with people, and this flight was probably full. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time everyone had chosen, I realized that I was the only person who had picked a country in Africa. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Africa’s long occupation before the colonization of Eurasia a million years ago might have counted for nothing anyway, because protohumans were at such a primitive stage then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The way I see Africa, you don’t have to like it but you sure have to admit it’s out there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One of our teachers told us that in Africa “the gap” was considered a rare and enviable beauty mark. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Though I knew nothing about animals, she said that when I grew up I would go to Africa and study them. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The way the system works in South Africa is that you’re arrested and held in a cell at the police station until your bail hearing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This sort of action angered me like no other, and I told the press that every white policeman in South Africa regarded every black person as a military target. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, we regard Africa as the continent of big mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, I put on my new hat and sat down and started reading that book Out of Africa. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z This onset too probably involved replacement of old Greeks and Germans by new Greeks and Germans, just as old gave way to new in the Philippines, Indonesia, and subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He is one of about two dozen professional hunters who are left in East Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was still looking when Arthur Ashe came to South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They set sail, probably in frail open boats, from the Red Sea, turned down the east coast of Africa up into the Atlantic, returning through the Mediterranean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he returned from his first voyage to Africa, his parents had died. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z From the first, I tried to read books about South Africa or by South African writers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “He misses our father very much. He was s-l-a-i-n in North Africa.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z South Africa will soon be free, I vowed, and I will help set her free. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Let us now return to our questions: Why did agriculture never arise independently in some fertile and highly suitable areas, such as California, Europe, temperate Australia, and subequatorial Africa? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because modern-day hunter-gatherers in Africa live in egalitarian bands that constantly move from place to place, archaeologists assumed that Native American hunter-gatherers must also have done so. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were unfamiliar with present-day South Africa; it was a new-found land for them as well as me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the loss, Ashe’s trip to South Africa was not in vain. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Smuts, then deputy prime minister, was campaigning around the country for South Africa to declare war on Germany while the prime minister, J. B. Hertzog, advocated neutrality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The - Nile - is - the - longest - river - in - Africa - and - second ...” “Then which river is the longest, Tommy?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as if he were staking me to a public challenge, he added, “It is therefore not the South Africa government which now stands in the way of Mr. Mandela’s freedom. It is he himself.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not like you’re in a burka and living in North Africa or, you know, severely oppressed.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The son of an Italian trader, he traveled to northern Africa. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Few people in South Africa speak Tsonga, but since my stepfather was Tsonga I had picked it up along the way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In many of the countries of West and Central Africa, the people love “bushmeat. ” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he’d end up working in Africa or an American inner city, he said, but Ophelia was betting it would be Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As I approached the blackboard, I could not help but think, Africa is way cooler than Europe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Soon maps of prehistoric seas were almost solid with hypothesized land bridges–from North America to Europe, from Brazil to Africa, from Southeast Asia to Australia, from Australia to Antarctica. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So while his words take us from Africa to the sugar islands, even his memoir does not take us to the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When, for example, he posed the rhetorical question, “Is survival possible when civilization reverts to the law of the jungle?” his devoted listeners recognized the reference to Africa and African Americans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z South Africa is a mix of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern, and South African Christianity is a perfect example of this. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So, too, has much of southern Africa; a portion of it a thousand miles across has risen nearly a mile in 100 million years without any known associated tectonic activity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z According to the latest annual report on violence, Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time is not the world’s most violent region. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Another bonanza was the development of world trade routes, which by Roman times effectively joined the populations of Europe, Asia, and North Africa into one giant breeding ground for microbes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Speak a little funny, but us gitting use to it What your people love best to eat over there in Africa? The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, as she and her friends were sitting on the grass, they were invited to join a student coalition from the university, a coalition protesting apartheid in South Africa. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the first of many occasions when I learned of the PAC’s appeal in the rest of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see any other people from Africa, except for the people in our own group. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Today, Graziella is caring for forty-eight orphans in the Congo Republic in Central Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “And they didn’t even spell the word right. Niger—with one g—is a country in Africa.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She was kidnapped in Africa, sold in Boston, and wrote fancy poetry that smart people liked. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man now is in Africa digging and searching. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In a relentless cross-examination by Maisels, Murray admitted that the charter was in fact a humanitarian document that might well represent the natural reaction and aspirations of nonwhites to the harsh conditions in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The remaining surprise is that all of Africa’s indigenous crops—those of the Sahel, Ethiopia, and West Africa—originated north of the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ending her day in Scenes from Darkest Africa never failed to cast her into a river of calm, the simple theater becoming more than theater, a genuine refuge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As a result, European conquest did not create widespread or lasting European settlement of sub-Saharan Africa, except in the far south. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She says that her skin is not black and never will be and that she doesn’t know anyone from Africa; why should she change what has worked perfectly well all of her life? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I told them that some slaves brought from Africa spoke Arabic, and were Islamic in their religion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In modern times, European farmers thereby replaced western North American Indian hunters, Aboriginal Australians, and the San people of South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In my own opening remarks, I said that with the dawn of CO-DESA, progress in South Africa had at last become irreversible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An American white ambassador in one African country was Africa’s most respected American ambassador: I’m glad to say that this was told to me by one ranking African leader. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that he worked as a chef in Montreal and New York for a while before moving to South Africa in the late 1970s. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I see you, Mutumbo. Found the fountain of youth out there in Africa, didn’t you, boy?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It was a couple hours past dark, a scorcher of an August evening in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In South Africa, faith in the Holy Trinity exists quite comfortably alongside belief in witchcraft, in casting spells and putting curses on one’s enemies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Catholicism, the genesis of Christianity as we know it to be presently constituted, with its hierarchy, was conceived in Africa—by those whom the Christian church calls “The Desert Fathers.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And if Africa ever made the evening news, it was because of a disease outbreak. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Before the British Empire there were no railroads or postal services in India, and Africa was full of tribal warfare, with spears, and had no proper clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A small number of blacks who had grown up in either Africa or the West Indies had had the disease as children and survived. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I grew up in South Africa during apartheid, which was awkward because I was raised in a mixed family, with me being the mixed one in the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They were somewhere on the northern coast of Africa. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That was not the case with the Afrikaners in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British were in Africa, along with the Germans and French. The Dutch were in Asia, and nobody was in South America,” because most of its nations were independent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The sun was a blood-red ball hovering outside his window, inflaming his eyes as he kept up a lookout for Africa on the horizon. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose it’s not so surprising that the kids thought people from Africa were from Mars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The journey took over a full day, as the family flew from South Africa to New York and then to Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The events of that day reverberated in every town and township of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a knob in the backbone of central Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The history of colored people in South Africa is, in this respect, worse than the history of black people in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Black life in South Africa had never been so cheap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My name had been put forward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu from South Africa, one of my father’s greatest heroes because of his fight against apartheid. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Around that date Sapiens bands left Africa for a second time. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She took the pins out and said to him, “Well, here in Africa that temple has to do a hateful lot of work in a day.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly slow in spreading down Africa’s north-south axis was human technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased from nearby Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z For starters, despite the fact that black people made up over 80 percent of South Africa’s population, the territory allocated for the homelands was about 13 percent of the country’s land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As in Africa, in the Americas the spread of native crops and domestic animals was slowed by constricted skies and environmental barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is a great inlaid map, dating from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries, reaching from West Africa to the Pacific Ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler was going to compete with their best dancer, Hector, who was one of the best dancers in South Africa at the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Over the course of those few days in South Africa, I felt myself floating. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was like when she told me the Africans would kill me if I ever went to Africa. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I shuddered to think what life in Alexandra, in Johannesburg, in South Africa, in apartheid country, in the land of slavery, held for them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The first room was Scenes from Darkest Africa. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Trub nods and says, “I expect so. Africa’s called the cradle of civilization. Know why?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Jack’s a true redbone, fair enough that you know at least a few of his people come from Europe, not Africa. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The failure of the Khoisan and Pygmies to develop agriculture was due not to any inadequacy of theirs as farmers but merely to the accident that southern Africa’s wild plants were mostly unsuitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And not from Kojo. His grandfather came to America from Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa that’s bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Mozambique.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Africa’s north-south axis posed a further obstacle to the diffusion of technology, both between Eurasia and sub-Saharan Africa and within the sub-Saharan region itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After my last stop in Africa, I flew to Stockholm to visit Oliver. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in an old stick shift in South Africa. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “We’ll see who wins, your dead man on a stick or the living spirits of Africa!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Various members of the group had concerns about my political ideology and what a South Africa under ANC leadership might look like. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As this tumult was beginning, I flew to South Africa for a goodwill visit that had been planned months in advance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z All existing Khoisan languages are confined to southern Africa, with two exceptions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After all, his ancestors are from Africa, like those of the son-in-law she used to resent so much. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z About two hundred thousand years ago, the people began migrating out from Africa and around the globe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z During the trial the prosecutor called more than one hundred witnesses from all over the country, including the Transkei and South West Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With very few exceptions, Africans at the time did not enjoy private tide to land in South Africa but were tenants paying rent annually to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By African standards, Winnie was from a well-to-do family and had been shielded from some of the more unpleasant realities of life in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They think I have a disease from foreign parts because my father used to be in Africa. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I don’t remember any of them, except for the one with the gel in his hair and the Clark Gable mustache, the one with the Africa stain on his cap. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I know she’s excited, and we don’t even need to go to Africa. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z As the British Empire fell, the Afrikaner rose up to claim South Africa as his rightful inheritance. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I had not been back to Africa since I was twelve years old, but when you have encountered Africa in childhood, it becomes a section of your mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The unemployment rate, technically speaking, was “lower” in South Africa during apartheid, which makes sense. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Fine. I’m old school. Don’t care nothin’ about folks who dishonor traditions as old as Africa. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z A leading historian of Africa characterized Africans as inward looking and lacking Europeans’ drive for expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the biggest reasons for that, as we know in South Africa, is that only witches have cats, and all cats are witches. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In addition, Xhosa and a few other Niger-Congo languages of southern Africa are full of clicks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Carjackings were common in South Africa at the time, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z These extinctions were much more severe in Australia and the Americas than in Eurasia or Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Whites, ranging from Egyptians and Libyans to Moroccans, occupied Africa’s north coastal zone and the northern Sahara. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These were issues I never had to deal with in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Many whites in South Africa would rather go to war or die than have a black for a neighbour. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Methuselah, like me, is a cripple: the Wreck of Wild Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was so tanned from their time on the coast of Africa that the scar on his lip looked like a chalk mark. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My new teacher is Mr. Mwila from Zambia in southern Africa. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The number includes very dangerous malaria vectors in West Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Indonesia, and the eastern European region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That August, a few weeks before he died, he had gone to Africa to visit his parents and his older sister. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. de Roo was born in South Africa but one day she was told by the government to leave the country in twenty-four hours or she'd be thrown into prison. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z About a year ago Francis repeated to me a rumor—which we subsequently found was complete romance—that Julian had been appointed royal tutor to the little crown prince of Suaoriland, somewhere in East Africa. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I was staring at the most notorious, most violent prison gang in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “But we don’t know where Sirius is ... he could be in Africa or somewhere, couldn’t he?” said Hermione reasonably. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps the Austronesian colonists of Madagascar reached India from Indonesia by that eastern trade route and then fell in with the westward trade route to East Africa, where they joined with Africans and discovered Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For decades, this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colors and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic, nonracial government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a curious thing to realize, the in-betweenness one feels being African American in Africa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z South Africa was now deprived of one of its greatest sons, a man who would have been invaluable in transforming the country into a new nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not well versed in American history, but I had learned the basics in school in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I had no luck while I was in Africa. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Gene Johnson had brought a special injector back from Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “His father is from Swaziland,” my mother said, referring to the tiny, landlocked kingdom in the west of South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It had been spreading quietly along the Kinshasa Highway, a transcontinental road that wanders across Africa from east to west and passes along the shores of Lake Victoria within sight of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she moved on to how the Portuguese and Belgians and Americans have wrecked poor Africa top to bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The demonstrations throughout South Africa and the international pressure undoubtedly weighed on his mind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Portuguese navigators explored the coast of Africa they charted and named it, often borrowing names from the local peoples, or using the names of saints. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The All-in Conference called for a national convention of elected representatives of all adult men and women on an equal basis to determine a new nonracial democratic constitution for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have anything invested in Africa yet but a little old apartment boudoir decorated to the best of my abilities in blush pink. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time since her capture in Africa, Amari relaxed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He was to take the Henry on a voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to the Isle of Bourbon, off the east coast of Africa. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, with your light skin and that long braid you got hangin’ down your back...If you ever went to Africa, they'd kill you. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Of more lasting significance was a large-scale population shift within Africa itself, the Bantu expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Cancer of the male breast is also prevalent in parts of Africa, associated with liver disease and malnutrition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I assumed Martin was black, because I thought everyone in Africa was black. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I knew that the State Department’s G. Mermen Williams was officially visiting in Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In all my searching for new earrings, I had never seen a pair from Africa. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In South Africa, to be poor and black was normal, to be poor and white was a tragedy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The housemaster was the delightful Reverend S. S. Mokitimi, who later became the first African president of the Methodist Church of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They include, notably, sorghum and pearl millet, which became the staple cereals of much of sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On September 11, 1906, the Empire Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa, was crowded with Indian delegates, waiting to hear word about the Black Act. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Hence it may have been Africa that gave birth to the languages spoken by the authors of the Old and New Testaments and the Koran, the moral pillars of Western civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, this evidence suggested that Pygmies had once been widespread in the rain forest of Central Africa, while Khoisan peoples had been widespread in drier parts of subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His hairline was receding rapidly; his face was beginning to resemble an ancient topographical map of Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z North Africa enjoys a Mediterranean climate, characterized by rainfall concentrated in the winter months. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Do you know what it feels like, reviewing North Africa’s geography, which you still haven’t read about, while waiting to go to the principal’s office, which you’d better not try getting out of? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Now surely, since Africa harbors 1,500 languages today, it is big enough to have harbored more than four ancestral languages thousands of years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, katoblepones have poison breath and a poison gaze. I thought they only lived in Africa.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The knowledge and contacts I had recently made in Africa were going to be locked away rather than used in the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were springing up all over South Africa because we were supposed to be learning about and embracing one another in this post-apartheid era. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They came from France, Germany, England, Africa, and Australia, from people all around the world, mostly congratulating me for going to Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Africa, Gene had felt that C. J. was trying to run the show, and it irritated Gene to no end. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My major in international relations with a focus on North Africa was no longer an abstract area of study, it was what I was living, eating, and breathing every day for three months. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Africa has slipped the floor out from under my righteous house, my Adah moral code. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This was during the war, when you couldn’t turn on the radio and not hear about Guadalcanal or North Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a natural reluctance among many African states to support violent struggles elsewhere; but the speech convinced people that freedom fighters in South Africa had no alternative but to take up arms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So the C.D.C. doctors organized their equipment and packed more boxes, getting ready to go to the Geneva airport, from where they would fly to Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Roast Missionary, à la Dahomey, west coast of Africa. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The game plan was for Adah to ride over on the boat to Spain with the Land Rover, and drive to West Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By popular demand, the cinemas throughout Africa and Asia had shown his fight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Such forms of protest, he said, would eventually take place in South Africa, but at the moment such a step would be fatal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a grisly spectacle that made South Africa appear as if it was on the brink of internal war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That was unheard of in many parts of South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In Europe, Asia, and Africa smallpox became a constant, terrible presence, infecting almost every child, killing many and leaving others with the disfiguring pockmarks that are its telltale sign. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We discussed, for example, how blacks in South Africa were oppressed both as a race and an economic class. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The charter was in fact a revolutionary document precisely because the changes it envisioned could not be achieved without radically altering the economic and political structure of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as she was concerned, they should all get shipped back to Africa or wherever it was they came from. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was young, as I have said, I knew that, somehow, I would go to Africa and live with animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I had a totally different kind of talk with another white man I met in Africa—who, to me, personified exactly what the ambassador and I had discussed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Essentially the same line of reasoning tells us that the nearly 200 million Bantu people, now flung over much of the map of Africa, arose from Cameroon and Nigeria. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He seemed actually to see the Eurasian army swarming across the never-broken frontier and pouring down into the tip of Africa like a column of ants. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, Our Father had been influenced by Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z With the instinct for ordeal that characterized the age, scientists set off for more than a hundred locations around the globe–to Siberia, China, South Africa, Indonesia, and the woods of Wisconsin, among many others. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “In Africa, Mom,” I said, and rolled my eyes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Similarly, the people who first domesticated wet-country crops of West Africa spoke languages ancestral to the modern Niger-Congo languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I told Leah that means the new soul of Africa, and he’s gone to jail and Jesus is real mad about it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The warm welcomes and instant paternal relationships became an essential component of his cleansing and rebirth as he traveled throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, culminating in his great pilgrimage to Mecca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “That must be Africa. We're at the mouth of the Mediterranean.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I was awed by the immense beauty of South Africa, seen from high up in the clouds: rolling hills and plains, meandering rivers and mountain ranges, thick forests, magnificent coastlines, luscious farmland. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Cato replied seriously, “No, little one. Don’t nobody go back to Africa. When they put you in the rice fields, you’ll be dead in five years, so don’t matter no how.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing him convinced me that the white man of South Africa could change his ways of oppression if he wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We ignore equally big differences when we lump Africa’s Egyptians and Berbers with each other and with Europe’s Swedes under the single heading of “whites.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘The color of my skin is beautiful,” he said, “like the black soil of Mother Africa.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the archbishop of the church in South Africa, anxious to keep children out of the streets, handed over the rest of the schools to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And Miz Africa, learn what words you can, but learn to keep your mouf shut, ’cause Clay, that hellhound, got less patience than his daddy!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, national publicity was in the offing for the Nation of Islam when Mr. Muhammad sent me on a three-week trip to Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z While some progress has been made in identifying those ultimate causes in the case of Europe’s conquest of the New World, Africa remains a big puzzle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the Mediterranean zone of Chile offered only two of those species, California and southern Africa just one each, and southwestern Australia none at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like Dr. Xuma, he was a doctor, and one of the wealthiest black men in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Original Man was black, in the continent called Africa where the human race had emerged on the planet Earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Methuselah was a sly little representative of Africa itself, living openly in our household. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Australia, the smallest and most isolated continent, has always had far fewer species of big wild mammals than has Eurasia, Africa, or the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I emphasized that unity among the black people — Africans, Coloureds, and Indians — in South Africa had at last become a reality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, speakers of ancestral Afroasiatic languages may have been involved in domesticating the crops native to Ethiopia, and they certainly introduced Fertile Crescent crops to North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Or else across the rough Atlantic to Africa and Europe. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Given its long miscegenation history—begun when Jan Van Riebeeck and his men, the first whites to settle South Africa, arrived in 1652 without wives—the city was purported to be a most liberal place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Egyptians were an ancient race of Caucasians residing in one of the northern sections of Africa. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Toward the end of Arthur Ashe’s first week in South Africa, a story appeared in the World that he would be conducting a tennis clinic in Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Those Fertile Crescent crops spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of North Africa and laid the foundations for the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If it was as easy as they thought it was going to be, why, they’d be done by now, and Africa would look just like America with more palm trees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I also tell her I feel guilty driving the Cadillac what with all those poor starving babies in Africa and I’ve decided to take the old truck today. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z —Actually, I like colorin’ Africa pictures better than this kind of pictures—with no people in it. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been a long, long trip away from the Africa we had known all of our lives and to a new set of foster parents in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But Africa also differed from the Americas in all these factors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Marsupial mammals were almost unknown in Africa and Asia, but in Australia they reigned supreme. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And will they take any of that money and send it to the little black babies in Africa? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In America, the images of Africa make it seem as if it is a place where only bad things happen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They pass through forest and valley in columns a hundred meters across and many miles long, eating their way across Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got to see that. I don’t believe it. Where they going—Africa?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “So why would you come all the way to Africa if you hate black people? If you hate black people so much, why did you move into their house?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “How long has he been in South Africa?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As a former trading colony, South Africa has always had a large expatriate community. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Both were the children of Jewish immigrants to South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In particular, Bantu farmers who acquired cows and sheep spread out of their homeland in West Africa and within a short time overran the former hunter-gatherers in most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How exciting—I now had enough money, along with the small amount I had saved while in London, for a round-trip fare to Africa! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z By soon after 1000 B.C. the Bantu had emerged from the eastern side of the forest into the more open country of East Africa’s Rift Valley and Great Lakes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Second, Third and Fourth avenues were inhabited mostly by Coloureds, the mulatto race which came into being nine months after white settlers arrived in South Africa in 1652—without women. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Sudan is the largest country in Africa, and there are hundreds of groups, or tribes, and many languages spoken throughout it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z To these advantages of Africa’s enormous head start were added those of highly diverse climates and habitats and of the world’s highest human diversity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “This knowledge was passed down from distant ancestors, from their days as kings and queens and healers in the heart of Africa. So listen carefully and—shhh—don’t tell anyone.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt sad that I was growing up in South Africa, where I would probably never get the chance to realise my fullest potential in the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z If they could get control of the whole of Africa, if they had airfields and submarine bases at the Cape, it would cut Oceania in two. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sierra had a vague memory of Gordo going on in music class about how, in certain parts of Africa, they used to throw big parties and parade through the streets when someone died. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z That he felt South Africa was not such a bad place after all, and he was thinking of someday building a vacation home here. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One rumor maintained that he was a Palestinian Arab who had fomented racial unrest in India, South Africa, and London before moving to Detroit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I spoke to a great crowd at Yankee Stadium, telling them that an unbreakable umbilical cord connected black South Africans and black Americans, for we were together children of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Quantitative data should also be assembled to test my preliminary calculations suggesting differing rates of diffusion along the major axes of Eurasia, the Americas, and Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Were hands chopped off in Africa as well? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dealers in Africa, Asia, and Europe must be clamoring for their supplies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Namibia illustrated for me how inseparable Africa’s past is from its present. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The northern distribution of Africa’s whites is unsurprising, because physically similar peoples live in adjacent areas of the Near East and Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It lacks the severe ecological barriers transecting the major axes of the Americas and Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But who is the enemy? Just tell me that much, Thérèse. Which side are you trying not to hate, white men or Africa?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And the American kids knew nothing of my history in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “There are simply no doctors and nurses left on that continent. It’s an absolute tragedy! African doctors should stay in Africa.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Al-though he could have been a prime minister of South Africa, he became one of the bravest and staunchest friends of the freedom struggle that I have ever known. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States and other Western nations demanded the abolishing of South Africa’s Draconian security laws, which allowed for detention without trial. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman got up and said, “We don’t care if he’s been to Africa. We want to know if we’re going to get sick!” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Traders in Africa paid for slaves with corn and then fed slaves corn when they were brought here. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z About how, long ago, the New World was attached to Europe and Africa? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when European settlers arrived by sea in 1652, bringing with them their Fertile Crescent crop package, could agriculture thrive in South Africa’s Mediterranean zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The merchant describes an already thriving sea trade connecting India and Egypt with the coast of East Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To that end, I was studying at night with UNISA, short for the University of South Africa, a respected educational institution that offered credits and degrees by correspondence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a nineteenth-century memoir on an expedition in Africa, there is a story by David Livingston about his own experience of near-death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At that stage, I did not witness nor even suspect the violent tribal rivalries that would subsequently be promoted by the white rulers of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus bananas and coffee, two African crops, become the principal agricultural exports of Central America; maize and manioc, domesticated in Mesoamerica and Amazonia respectively, return the favor by becoming staples in tropical Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He spent the next six months under house arrest in South Africa before slipping out of the country and going first to Lusaka to see Oliver, and then to London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z More than four hundred scientists migrated to Philadelphia from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Kaunda, who had once been a member of the ANC, told us he was concerned about our alliance with white Communists and indicated that this reflected poorly on us in Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar scenes were played out along the coasts of western Europe and northern Africa, with Galway City’s walls partially swept away and a tidal wave reaching as far west as Barbados. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z To be a black man in South Africa meant not to trust anything, which was not unlike living underground for one’s entire life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea that the value of goods was based on the amount of labor that went into them seemed particularly appropriate for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I brought it back from Africa. Shot it myself.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Textbooks talk about the Triangle Trade: Ships set out from Europe carrying fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods to Africa, where they sold their cargoes and bought people. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In South Africa there’s a saying that to be black is to be at the end of the line when anything of significance is to be had. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we trace Khoisan survival beyond the Bantu tide, let’s see what archaeology tells us about Africa’s other great prehistoric population movement—the Austronesian colonization of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Look at what Ebola had done in hospitals in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed that the ANC was the means to effect change in South Africa, the repository of black hopes and aspirations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father, Frank Andalee, had relatives from North Africa and northern Europe, and her mother, Norma Andalee, was from the Middle East. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Yet as we entered the new decade my hopes for that South Africa rose once again. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard from old friends and relatives in Africa on Facebook. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But very different peoples may have occupied much of modern black Africa until as recently as a few thousand years ago, and so-called African blacks themselves are heterogeneous. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the part of Africa where he had lived all his life, the temperature rarely dropped below seventy degrees. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My desperate desire to leave South Africa led me to start taking risks, to allow people to use me to my advantage. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Epidemics of yellow fever also struck numerous cities in South America, Europe, Russia, and West Africa. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Arthur Ashe left an enduring monument in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z What if my letter didn't make it all the way to Africa? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Among some, accustomed to this practice by long usage in Africa, there is stoical assent; but the most are struck with horror. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It’s not a big mall, but it has everything—an arcade, a cinema, restaurants, South Africa’s version of Target, South Africa’s version of the Gap. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps Ebola came out of Africa and landed in Asia a few years back. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A quest for a life whose ultimate goal, I hoped, would be the betterment of my life, my family’s and that of the black people of South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When I saw Africa again, Africa came back whole, alive, shining with remembered enigma. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he’s been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Some will ask you annoying questions about Africa, but others will connect with you. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Thus, the evidence derived from plant names in modern African languages permits us to glimpse the existence of three languages being spoken in Africa thousands of years ago: ancestral Nilo-Saharan, ancestral Niger-Congo, and ancestral Afroasiatic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Englishman said again, “Bottled up in Africa! No more trouble with Napoleon...I hope.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In Africa as elsewhere in the world, some peoples were much “luckier” than others, in the suites of domesticable wild plant and animal species that they inherited from their environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His amber eyes were steady but sad, as if he knew he’d never see the plains of Africa again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Consider this: Chinese people were classified as black in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As a result, domestic animals did not reach sub-Saharan Africa until thousands of years after they began to be utilized by emerging Eurasian civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That day, I felt myself to be the embodiment of African nationalism, the inheritor of Africa’s difficult but noble past and her uncertain future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They came over to Africa for the fight and then crossed the river and toured around in French Congo, since the roads and everything are so much nicer in general over here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I referred them to the preamble of the Freedom Charter: “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cherrie and the others especially enjoyed Roosevelt’s ability to tell a good story, keeping everyone entertained with tales of his adventures in the Wild West, in Africa, and as president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Not even the best of tribal schools in Alexandra—in the whole of South Africa—came close to having such magnificent facilities. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Pick up a pebble from a Massachusetts beach, and its nearest kin will now be in Africa. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The walls of the exhibition hall were covered with paintings and drawings, all with animal or environmental messages, made by Roots & Shoots members from different parts of Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The progression from Plantation to Slave Ship to Darkest Africa generated a soothing logic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Ptolemys devoted much of their enormous wealth to the acquisition of every Greek book, as well as works from Africa, Persia, India, Israel and other parts of the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence historians often assume that knowledge of metallurgy reached sub-Saharan Africa from the north. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Leah and I tried to explain to her how in Africa the roads are here today, gone tomorrow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Far from being modern breadbaskets, they include areas ranking today as somewhat dry or ecologically degraded: Iraq and Iran, Mexico, the Andes, parts of China, and Africa’s Sahel zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The way he describes this place makes it sound like the great bazaars of northern Africa I’ve read about in books. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The doctor told my mother that if I had remained in Africa another day or two, the infection would have spread through my body, causing sepsis. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I resumed my old underground ways in London, not wanting word to leak back to South Africa that I was there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Oliver Tambo and the ANC had called for the people of South Africa to render the country ungovernable, and the people were obliging. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The tennis ranch in Halfway House was called Barretts, after the construction company that was one of the major builders of tennis courts in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The slow passage or complete halt of crops and livestock along Africa’s north-south axis had important consequences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the samples of the Cardinal boy had arrived from Africa, Geisbert had spent days gazing at them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At its peak, some 20,000 to 30,000 people lived in Palmares, following laws and customs in which beliefs brought over directly from Africa mixed with Native American and European practices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Mackay told us that the Children’s Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one knows when the hour of Africa’s redemption cometh. It is in the wind. It is coming. One day, like a storm, it will be here.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But then as she looked more, seeing us in random places we had never been, like Africa, she laughed and thought it was pretty cute. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z We raised some money from our performances and sent it back to the kids from our tribe in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The market was encircled with idling buses and long lines of people waiting to go to Harare or Bulawayo, or to other countries like Mozambique, Botswana, or South Africa. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Earning a high school diploma in East Africa marks a man as smart and successful. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar questions arise for the decimation of many other native peoples by Eurasian germs, as well as for the decimation of would-be European conquistadores in the tropics of Africa and Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Four hundred years before Eratosthenes, Africa had been circumnavigated by a Phoenician fleet in the employ of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the total population of Africa is less than 700 million, compared with 4 billion for Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In those days it was not thought at all safe for a young, single girl to go into the wilds of Africa and study animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In parts of Africa little boys were still stolen away by adult slave traders and sold for money to men who disemboweled them and ate them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I told the crowd that we one day would occupy these buildings as the first democratically elected government of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the introduction of different, more powerful drugs, the new kind of malaria spread across Asia, then to Africa, and eventually to South America. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Our children here have some of the same symptoms that you see if you look at children who live in war zones in Africa. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For him, our life was as simple as paying in cash and sticking the receipt in your breast pocket: we had the Lord’s protection, he said, because we came to Africa in His service. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In class, she says that the Caribbean is almost as bad as Africa itself. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I went to Africa once,” Toby finished at last. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z God made the races . . . nobody knows why but He intended for ’em to stay apart... if He hadn’t He’d’ve made us all one color . . . back to Africa . Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Lily had stopped to take out her compact and reapply her orange ice lipstick as if she’d already heard all about West Africa and Ghana and people from Ghana. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z In the age of the telegraph, news of his words moved swiftly back to South Africa, enraging its white inhabitants. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z South Africa's summer is our winter so their February is lovely and hot. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It envisions an initial landing of small guerrilla forces in four different areas of South Africa and the attacking of preselected targets. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew about Nigerians, he told her, he was an assistant professor at Yale, and although his interest was mostly in southern Africa, how could he not know about Nigerians when they were everywhere? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z All in preparation for the work they feel they were bom for, missionary work in Africa. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t living here in South Africa that I mind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells us we’re a disgrace to Ireland and her long sad history, that we’d be better off in Africa praying to bush or tree. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Communism was suspect not only in the West but in Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although they defined “group rights” as a way of protecting the freedom of minorities in a new South Africa, in fact their proposal was a means of preserving white domination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bananas, Asian yams, and taro were already widespread in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1400s, and Asian rice was established on the coast of East Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Oh, I got the picture, right there, our first night in Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a bad idea, at least for Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Africa is full of black people,” he would say. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He grabbed the long, wooden pointer from the chalk ledge and aimed it at an area that looked like a bitten-into golden pear, near the middle, southern part of Africa. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She taught us all the different nations of Africa and the periods of African history. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The African Americans who come to our meetings are the ones who write poems about Mother Africa and think every African is a Nubian queen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Africa is the continent where protohumans evolved for the longest time, where anatomically modern humans may also have arisen, and where native diseases like malaria and yellow fever killed European explorers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of the limited variety of wild starting material suitable for plant domestication, even Africa’s earliest agriculture may have begun several thousand years later than that of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had reported almost every war of the twentieth century, like the Spanish Civil War, and the genocide in East Timor, and bad stuff that happened in Africa. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Africa had leopards in abundance, but no tigers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After his trip to Africa, Roosevelt decided he wanted to run for president in the 1912 election. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Madu told me today that the army has nothing, absolutely nothing. They thought Ojukwu had arms piled up somewhere, given the way he’s been talking, ‘No power in Black Africa can defeat us!’ Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Some in the West saw the charter as empty promises, but not those of us in Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The subsequent failure of the American Colonization Society and the combination of logistical and economic difficulties in the colony of Liberia exposed the impracticality of any mass migration back to Africa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “They were financed by a multimillionaire and backed by many influential politicians. It was a compelling idea, to return to the past. It also appealed to a desire to preserve the spirit of Africa.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Back to Africa. Tell Guitar he went back to Africa.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And Leah’s decided to pay for it by becoming the Bride of Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But my father always did speak of Africa as a place to be proud of, a place he dream about. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z If that is the case, the lineages of all contemporary humans can be traced back, exclusively, to East Africa, 70,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually I became aware that I could never be like him for as long as I remained in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred sixty million years ago, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwana, which also included South America, Africa, and Australia. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z What can archaeology can tell us about actual dates and places for the rise of farming and herding in Africa? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They disavowed communism in ail its forms and considered whites and Indians “foreign minority groups” or “aliens” who had no natural place in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Asked whether he thought there should be equality between black and white in South Africa, Dr. Moroka replied that there would never be such a thing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hillbrow police station looks exactly like every other police station in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z All told, the Greeks knew the Mediterranean Sea from Gibraltar to Syria; they knew that the European continent stretched north into an icy waste, and that Africa stretched south into a trackless, infernal desert. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z This insect infests about a third of Africa, posing a menace to human health and preventing the keeping of livestock in an area of some 4% million square miles of wooded grasslands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The one group I met during those exploring days whose lives enthralled me was the Garveyites, an organization of black men and women who were forlornly seeking to return to Africa. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One did his bit with Montgomery in Africa and the other is over in Burma or some other bloody place, excuse the language. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mom put the loaded bag on her head, the way women in Africa do, and tried to get us to do the same. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After all, Egypt by 3000 B.C. was undoubtedly the site of Africa’s most complex society, and one of the world’s earliest centers of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While these humans were evolving in Europe and Asia, evolution in East Africa did not stop. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me think that the South Africa I was returning to was far different from the one I had left. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked about the beauty and wealth of Africa. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of them flew back to Africa. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She said “Africa” wistfully, like an admiring foreigner, loading the word with exotic excitement. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “This be my little piece of my mother, my little breath of Africa. It’s all I got.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I had actually gotten to the Africa of my dreams—the Africa of Doctor Doolittle and Tarzan. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Music pedagogy of West Africa compared to the U.S. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were divided among small states or chiefdoms with iron tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A prominent leader of this elite black middle class was even quoted in a Johannesburg daily as saying that he didn’t believe many blacks wanted one person, one vote in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z While American blacks of African descent originated mainly from Africa’s west coastal zone, similar peoples traditionally occupied East Africa as well, north to the Sudan and south to the southeast coast of South Africa itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of Africa’s blacks and whites depended on farming or herding, or both, for their living. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They would peddle their wares in Europe, Asia, and Africa instead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We summarized the situation in South Africa and made our request for military training and money. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How can we ever hope to wrest the answers to those questions from Africa’s preliterate past, lacking the written evidence that teaches us about the spread of the Roman Empire? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My soft cloth dolls back home in Africa had no faces; we used our imagination to dream up their facial features and personalities. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Equally puzzling is the failure of people to domesticate flax in its wild range in western Europe and North Africa, or einkorn wheat in its wild range in the southern Balkans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Countries in Africa change all the time,” she said in a matter-of-fact way. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They were obliged to make peace with him and to be content with dominion over Africa, leaving Sicily to Agathocles. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z A smallpox epidemic in 1713 was the biggest single step in the destruction of South Africa’s native San people by European settlers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, in Africa, the images of America make it seem like it is a land so divine, only good things happen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I considered that probably nothing would happen to Arnold, that he might not get leprosy, move to Africa and die. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union sent technicians and planes to Nigeria, thrilled at the chance to influence Africa without offending America or Britain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Uhura, a black woman and proud citizen of the United States of Africa, served as the Enterprise’s communications officer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He spent years traveling across central Africa in search of the reservoirs of Ebola and Marburg viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a whole year from the time when I left Africa to the time when I actually arrived among the chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Her mother, Jeer, had been born in Africa and loved to tell her daughter and her friends stories of her childhood in a small village by a river and all the animals who lived nearby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I was excited to see Africa again, and to see my grandparents for the first time since I was a baby. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I wasn’t born with a hyphen linking me to Africa, any more than I was born with a desire to dribble a basketball or to write. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It was a tremendous thing in those days for a young man to be going off to Africa to work. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout most of human history it was far more accessible to Eurasia than were the Americas, but the Saharan desert is still a major ecological barrier separating sub-Saharan Africa from Eurasia plus North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If Ah never see you no mo’ on earth, Ah’ll meet you in Africa.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I hear mandolins, guitars, Spanish bagpipes, the drums of Africa, boatmen wailing on the Nile. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And today the white man is faced head on with what is happening on the Black Continent, Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z No, it turned out that the street instead commemorated Hermann’s father, Heinrich Goering, founding Reichskommissar of the former German colony of South-West Africa, which became Namibia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The isles were last seen just off the coast of Africa, but that was days ago. They could be anywhere in the world by now.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Indeed, historians have discovered that some 35 percent of the cargo typically taken from Europe to Africa originally came from India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It seemed to vanish off the face of the earth, but viruses never go away, they only hide, and Marburg continued to cycle in some reservoir of animals or insects in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He told Dad and the other guides that he’d inherited some money from a rich uncle who’d died in an elephant stampede in Africa. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “What people fail to see is this: If Europe had cared more about Africa, the Jewish Holocaust would not have happened,” Odenigbo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In February, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan visited South Africa and gave a speech before Parliament in which he talked of “winds of change” sweeping Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The boxing match pitted Bob Foster, a black American and the light heavyweight champion of the world, against a white challenger from South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa is the only continent to extend from the northern to the southern temperate zone, while also encompassing some of the world’s driest deserts, largest tropical rain forests, and highest equatorial mountains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If only we had had the right kind of research station in central Africa during the nineteen-seventies ... we might have seen it hatching from the forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We really should plan a trip to visit. It’s an orphanage. WeVe never been to Africa. I would love to do something with my charity in Africa.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The next-to-last set of African crops arose from wild ancestors in the wet climate of West Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Much of Europe, Asia, and North Africa was the site of metal-equipped states or empires, some of them on the threshold of industrialization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, some mystery remains about Africa’s most surprising fact of human geography. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Africa’s four species of zebras are even worse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I found it, an article called “Will Africa Go Communist?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Rabat in Morocco, our next stop, with its ancient and mysterious walls, its fashionable shops, and its medieval mosques, seemed a charming mixture of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khoisan area of southern Africa is surprisingly small for a people so distinct in anatomy and language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In those days, before telegraph and fast ships, it would take months to reach him in South Africa. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Besides, it’s about time Our Lady came to Africa. Don’t you wonder how come she always appears in Europe? She was from the Middle East, after all.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Based on the changes he had made in South Africa, he asked me to mute the call for the continuation of international sanctions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm going to write a book about all the different kinds of ice cream, and then share my reviews with people who are wondering what ice cream in South Africa tastes like. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Coloureds, too, were oppressed, but unlike the Indians had no mother country except Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While settling in Cape Town and the surrounding frontier, the white colonists had their way with the Khoisan women, and the first mixed people of South Africa were born. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Faced with a labor shortage, the Europeans turned their eyes to Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I knew there were elephants and giraffes in Africa. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I had often wished that Winnie could share with me the wonders of Africa, but the best I could do was to tell her what I had seen and done. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the film prompted many viewers to give money to help the Lost Boys still in Africa. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My hotel’s dining room, when I went to breakfast, was full of more of those whites—discussihg Africa’s untapped wealth as though the African waiters had no ears. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1400s, Spain and Portugal were competing to explore down the coast of Africa and find a sea route to Asia. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "Make one trip of it. Allow me to introduce myself. Name's Davis. Natal, South Africa's my natal spot, ha, ha!" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Practically every week, we read about some great new find from Africa’s lost civilizations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a breathtaking moment, for in one sweeping action he had virtually normalized the situation in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did agricultural revolutions erupt in the Middle East, China and Central America but not in Australia, Alaska or South Africa? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember the Algerian cab driver, speaking openly of his hatred of Paris, then looking at your mother and me and insisting that we were all united under Africa. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Before Mount Elgon was eroded down, it may have been the highest mountain in Africa, higher than Kilimanjaro is today. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z South Africa was for Africans, and no one else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the last 6,000 years it has been easiest from Eurasia to sub-Saharan Africa, supplying most of Africa’s species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their presence in Africa would astonish us, if the presence of Indonesian people on Madagascar had not already alerted us to Africa’s prehistoric Asian connection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Back then, almost no one in South Africa had Timberlands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They called me “Kimbo,” which is the name of a brand of cooking oil sold in East Africa. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “She said if I went to Africa, they'd kill me for being light skinned.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I tried to explain that the whites I associated with were sympathetic to the black man’s struggle, but was told that there was no such white man in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a regular at the Hillbrow Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Africa at that time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Tuma had kids back in Africa, and he probably saw them more than my own father saw me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The Dutch Reformed Church, born in the Netherlands during the Reformation, had spread throughout Europe and around the world, and even eventually became the official religion of apartheid South Africa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Presumably Arthur Ashe knew that the success of his mission to South Africa would be measured not by the amount of his criticism of apartheid, but by how well he did in the tournament. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy had been one of them and he was arrested in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Within two years, there was no Soviet Empire to hide behind anymore or to prop up autocratic regimes in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The Americans recognized the ANC as an indispensable element of any solution in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “So is southern Africa your discipline?” she asked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Some claimed to have seen with their own eyes this most powerful and beautiful of cats in the jungles of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was a student at Syracuse University, I set up a foundation to help improve the lives of Sudanese refugees still in Africa, as well as Lost Boys who had moved to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The images of Africa on American TV were all the same: There were the ads for charity groups showing a white lady holding a starving black child, flies landing all over the kid. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The only decoration on the pure white walls was a big map of Central Africa. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It had come over from Africa, of course. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was ironic that I, an African, was seeing the Africa of storybooks and legend for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "People in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have a two-sided heritage from Europe. We have a heritage of oppression from the years they colonized us, but we also have a heritage of freedom." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With everyone in the neighborhood taking on African names and trying to go back to Africa, I was anxious to learn more about the place of our ancestors. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Most went to the Caribbean, but a few ended up as far away as North Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It simply didn’t happen that way for black children in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Masondo could be a volatile fellow, and he was vehement in his assertions that no tigers had ever been found in Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So I hustled enough heroin to knock out all the elephants in Africa. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “He was going to East Africa, sir, and did not require my services any longer. But I am sure he will speak for me, sir. I was with him some years.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Where South Africa’s white countryside was lush and irrigated and green, the black lands were overpopulated and overgrazed, the soil depleted and eroding. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Not the greatest specimen,” Mack says, “but I got her cheap from this bankrupt circus out west. They had her shipped over from Africa. Only had her a month before they went bust.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z That time has now come to South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists also agree that about 70,000 years ago, Sapiens from East Africa spread into the Arabian peninsula, and from there they quickly overran the entire Eurasian landmass. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Portuguese, hoping to undercut the Venetians, sought a route to the spice islands by sailing around Africa, and in the end they succeeded. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As far as I’m concerned, they can send him back to Africa. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In Africa women stick together, and men generally go about their own business. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I was quickly learning that I was not considered African American, even though I was from Africa and I was living in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He emphasized the historical achievements of Africa and Africans, and noted how foolish it was for whites to see themselves as a chosen people and an intrinsically superior race. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the widest cross section of political groups ever gathered in one place in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z More slaves from Africa had been shipped by the British than by any other nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His return from Africa was even more auspicious than when he had returned from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He challenged the idea of a unitary state of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided to seek membership at the Wanderers Club—one of the finest, most prestigious and most exclusive of clubs in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember taking a survey class focusing on Central Africa. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If a long head start counts for anything, why didn’t guns and steel arise first in Africa, permitting Africans and their germs to conquer Europe? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Africa, you’ll see birds like egrets perched on the nose of a rhinoceros. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly the young people of South Africa were fired with the spirit of protest and rebellion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the map of Africa behind his eyelids. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Rhodesia,” she said, pointing to a teakettle-shaped country in the southern part of Africa above a place called Botswana and next to one called Mozambique. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And South Africa has a marvellous record of going it alone. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I simply told them that they must tell their people that there can be no peace and no solution to the situation in South Africa without sitting down with the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Three years is a long time and Africa was far away. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, much of Africa is still struggling with its legacies from recent colonialism. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z North America, Australia, and sub-Saharan Africa had none at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nana used to tell me stories about how, over in Africa, before the horrors of slavery, people used to fly all the time. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z To be an African in South Africa means that one is politicized from the moment of one’s birth, whether one acknowledges it or not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had loved Africa and was longing to go back. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Sub-Saharan Africa has fewer candidates, 51 species, just as it has fewer species in most other plant and animal groups—because it’s smaller and ecologically less diverse than Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Although the press in South Africa and around the world had been speculating for weeks that my release was imminent, Mr. de Klerk’s announcement nevertheless came as a surprise to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The five major human groups to which Africa was already home by A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After half a million years ago, the human populations of Africa and western Eurasia proceeded to diverge from each other and from East Asian populations in skeletal details. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said after careful consideration, “when you knock on somebody’s door in Africa—they don’t give you candy.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I learn that they are also called Igbos, and that they believed that after their death, the gods would return their souls to Africa. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The other side argued that tigers were native to Africa and some still lived there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Ma cooked the food in the food groups and said, “Kids are starving in Africa, India, and China, so eat every bit.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Louis never minded—he said that people in Africa should always be prepared for anything to happen! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She would have the small television on the kitchen counter on and be watching die news and talking about how awful it was in South Africa or how cute the baby in the commercial looked. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather, who’d worked throughout Africa as a missionary, would often share the truth with me about the tremendous cultural diversity that lies within the continent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z All of those past interactions continue to have heavy consequences, because the details of who arrived where before whom are shaping Africa today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You and I know that the government would rather have South Africa isolated from the rest of the world in all sports than see integrated sports overnight, if at all. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was time to pick my name, she chose Trevor, a name with no meaning whatsoever in South Africa, no precedent in my family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I was Alexandra, I was South Africa, I was part of what Alan Paton described as “a tragically beautiful land.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She said it was hard to tell at this point, but someday, if I didn’t go to Africa to study animals, I might be a beautiful genius tennis player. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was also determined to boost our reputation in the rest of Africa where we were still relatively unknown. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The two attacks on US embassies in Africa were terrible. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Miranda turned to a page in the Africa section and went down the list. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The proceeds will go to the Poor Starving Children of Africa. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But Africa shifts under my hands, refusing to be party to failed relations. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A newscaster was standing in front of the monkey house, and he was talking about people dying in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In West Africa, rhythm is complex and highly valued, and involves communal/group participation, improvisation, and movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Americans were then a novelty in South Africa, and I was curious to meet a representative of so august a legal organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These were South Africa’s “projects,” areas where despair and hopelessness were not accidental products of the environment but rather the whole point. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The north coast of Africa was where they finally beached their ships. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a communication from Henry Fazzie, one of the MK cadres who had undergone military training in Ethiopia and been arrested while attempting to return to South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our closest animal relatives, the gorillas and chimpanzees and bonobos of Africa, also live in bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then apartheid fell, Mandela walked free, and black South Africa went to war with itself. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Mother keeps her head turned the whole time toward Africa, with her eye on the ocean, as if she expects it might suddenly drain away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The horse never became established farther south than West Africa’s kingdoms north of the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s third largest landmass, considerably smaller than the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We got the message and stopped softly accusing the world of kidnapping Mother Africa’s children. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Had Africa’s rhinos and hippos been domesticated and ridden, they would not only have fed armies but also have provided an unstoppable cavalry to cut through the ranks of European horsemen. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Allies had forced the German troops from North Africa earlier that year, but in China there was an ongoing battle to drive out the invading Japanese. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I read about Queen Nzinga, who ruled in Central Africa in the sixteenth century, resisting the Portuguese. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My parents, meanwhile, were looking for a Christian church, specifically a Free Methodist church like the one we had attended in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z From there, he could see Africa in the distance. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We went to school together at the University of Cape Town and studied culture and reconciliation—a subject for which post-apartheid South Africa had become a living laboratory. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I had to leave South Africa somehow, somehow I had to get to America, the Promised Land, where I hoped to find the freedom to use whatever talents I had. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Paintings—all of them with images of places and people and animals of Africa—hang on every wall. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Africa will push northward into Europe, squeezing the Mediterranean out of existence and thrusting up a chain of mountains of Himalayan majesty running from Paris to Calcutta. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Some African tribes in West and Central Africa love to eat chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Blacks were formerly confined to Africa, Pygmies and Khoisan still live only there, while many more whites and Asians live outside Africa than in it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Mellon family had financed a hospital called Hospital Albert Schweitzer, named for the famous German theologian and physician who had worked as a doctor in West Africa. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In East Africa they still had to compete against numerous Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic Iron Age farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Khoisan peoples of southern Africa had already acquired sheep and cattle a few centuries ahead of the Bantu advance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The Reconquista. Christians taking back Spain from the Muslims. Trying to push them all the way back to Africa.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But the captives on this ship, as she found out later on the journey, came from all over Africa and by many different ways. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease, from which I have not managed a full recovery. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell him he’s black, he tells me I’m black, and a woman in a shop tells us get away from that door, ’tis Christmas Day and she doesn’t want to be looking at Africa. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It came all the way from Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope,” Hannah told her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Communism and Christianity, at least in Africa, were not mutually exclusive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re branches grafted on this good tree, Mrs. Price. The great root of Africa sustains us. I wish you wisdom and God’s mercy.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Someday perhaps I shall demonstrate to all of Africa how to grow crops! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa, everyone knows that colored gangsters are the most ruthless, the most savage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Hence the Andes, West Africa, and the Mississippi Valley were effectively rather isolated from societies with writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He just never understood how white people could be racist in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It means that we be straight from Africa. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s ridiculous that Africans don’t value our natural hair in Africa,” Yagazie said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They also acquired iron, which had just begun to be smelted in Africa’s Sahel zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet deep within me I knew that I could never really leave South Africa or Alexandra. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I have always felt that people in other countries just don’t have any idea that Africa could be this normal. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I told the crowd in no uncertain terms that apartheid had no future in South Africa, and that the people must not let up their campaign of mass action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, Africa has many problems, but there is so much beauty, so much goodness too. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Similarly, the spread southward of Fertile Crescent domestic animals through Africa was stopped or slowed by climate and disease, especially by trypanosome diseases carried by tsetse flies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We then switched to the black tennis situation in South Africa and, in particular, the conspicuous lack of champions of Arthur Ashe’s calibre. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was another example of both the lack of knowledge about South Africa in the rest of Africa and the extraordinary lengths the PAC would go to besmirch the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whites, I said, often claim that Africans in South Africa were better off than Africans in the rest of the continent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She named them how they reminded her—‘Africa’ and ‘A Big Fight’ and ‘The Snowstorm.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It had been emerging in microbreaks here and there in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The PAC echoed the axioms and slogans of that time: Africa for the Africans and a United States of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She would drag me out of Africa if it was her last living act as a mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while now she had been examining the archives documenting the lives of French slave masters and their commerce in West Africa. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The colonial powers carved up Africa, put the black man to work, and did not properly educate him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I was happy to have this ballet movie, especially because we had lost a piece of luggage on our return trip from Africa. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It is necessary to write scientific papers for the benefit of other scientists doing field research in different parts of Africa or working with captive chimps. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z A group of experts at the U.N. urged a national convention for South Africa that would lead to a truly representative parliament, and recommended an amnesty for all op-ponents of apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the lion in Africa, the jaguar is the king of the South American jungle, and the American Museum of Natural History wanted one for its collection. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Back in Africa, I didn’t tell my mom every time I went somewhere. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Kitum Cave expedition set up headquarters in the Mount Elgon Lodge, a decayed resort dating from the nineteen twenties, when the English had ruled East Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her house was decorated in a sort of European way—I especially remember all the nude wood statues from Africa she had placed in almost every room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I read as many books as I could find about all sorts of animals, not only about those in Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z As a student, I had been taught that South Africa was a place where the rule of law was paramount and applied to all persons, regardless of their social status or official position. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once we even—I went to Africa to . . .” To get married. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Throughout recorded history, people have been moving back and forth between Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He, a black man, had repeatedly impugned the government of South Africa and its policies of apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was well enough to get out of bed, he carried The Illustrated Natural History by J. G. Wood under one arm, and a book about Africa under the other. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z While living in Africa, Hugh and his family took frequent vacations, often in the company of their monkey. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z At that time, however, it was more important to us that Egypt was the only African state with an army, navy, and air force that could in any way compare with those of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I say, ‘Is that a way we can dress in Africa?’ Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He vaunts aloud that “his blacks” in South Africa are well fed and materially better off under the chains of apartheid than their liberated brothers and sisters in the rest of Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This suggests that Afroasiatic languages arose in Africa, and that only one branch of them spread to the Near East. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a small building there, with a window at which people bought tickets to Africa. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was also paying fees to the University of South Africa in order to complete my degree by correspondence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Chiefdoms have arisen pristinely even more often, in all of the same regions and in North America’s Southeast and Pacific Northwest, the Amazon, Polynesia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the African buffalo is considered the most dangerous and unpredictable large mammal of Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was a professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When they reached the last of the countries in Africa, Rohin said he wanted to watch cartoons, telling Miranda to watch them with him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They began screening Lost Boys to see whether they had living relatives in Africa, and whether they had fought in the war. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The word “independence” in Africa and the word “integration” here are almost equally meaningless; that is, Europe has not yet left Africa, and black men here are not yet free. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In any township in South Africa, if you had a bit of money, people would say, “Oh, you’re a cheese boy.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Although we may find it hard to imagine, many cultures, such as those found in the countries of Africa or among some indigenous groups, don’t have a word for music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I was impressed by the natural beauty, but I knew that Africa wasn’t just a giant safari. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Okay, well, I’m English and German, and Abby’s, you know…” Oh God, I don’t know anything about Africa, and I don’t know if that makes me racist. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Because of that, many black people in South Africa don’t really know who Hitler was. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Those crops prove to be ones like West African yams, oil palm, and kola nut—plants that were already believed on botanical and other evidence to be native to West Africa and first domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The British were everywhere: they were fighting the Japanese in Burma, and they were fighting the Germans in North Africa. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For instance, consider all the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa living within the range of wild zebras and buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was because he had never simply wanted to go abroad, as many others did; some people were now going to South Africa, which amused him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z These tales of Africa I remember best, because of their strangeness; but most of our Regiment have never seen the country, and remember it only as a place of legend. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The Sahel, Ethiopia, and West Africa did yield indigenous crops, but many fewer varieties than grew in Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That was flown by the Ninety-ninth Pursuit Squadron all over Italy and North Africa.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The entry of America into the European war, with its stupendous resources, made an Allied victory seem almost inevitable by mid-1943, notwithstanding earlier tactical setbacks in North Africa and the Balkans. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If the government failed to call such a convention, we would call a countrywide three-day stay-away beginning on May 29 to coincide with the declaration of South Africa as a republic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” he said, remembering that horrible day in Africa. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Also, probably no one in Africa knows, and that’s a lot of people. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Just for a week. Then I have to go to summer school because my grades aren’t so good. I’m going to go to Africa and study animals when I get big.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion made by the state in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or Communists is wholly incorrect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But at the same time, we would be leaving behind our life in Africa, everything we had ever known. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was no magisterial district in all of South Africa where whites constituted a majority of residents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Essentially the same processes accounted for the replacement of Aboriginal Australian languages by English, and of subequatorial Africa’s original Pygmy and Khoisan languages by Bantu languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to stop child labor in Africa. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She’s well known for just as soon firing her maids as looking at them, and as far as she is concerned, everything that lies outside the civilized boundaries of Johannesburg is Darkest Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa, the atrocities of apartheid have never been taught that way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At a meeting of the British Commonwealth in Nassau in October 1985, the leaders could not reach agreement on whether to participate in international sanctions against South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Van Niekerk said that he would prove to the court that the accused, with help from other countries, were plotting to overthrow the existing government by violence and impose a Communist government on South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ironically, this fearlessness scared his father, and it was a constant source of worry for him, especially when they were hunting lions, elephants, and rhinoceroses in Africa together. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Mayor Schmoke knew that, weeks after I completed the internship with him, I would be heading to South Africa for a semester abroad. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, my parents still had no idea that I was sending money in the mail to Africa. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The External Mission not only had to create an organization in exile, but had the even more formidable task of trying to revitalize the underground ANC inside South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you know? South Africa is really far away.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I didn't think my pen pal would dress like that, but I had no idea what kids in Africa wore. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Mother ate her breakfast early in the dining room, then moved to the relaxing room to do needlepoint or write letters to missionaries in Africa. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Most did, but there were always a jew running around saying “Nubian this” and ‘Nubian that” and always talking about Africa and all this. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The look on my face must have told her as much, because she said, “It’s in southern Africa. The climate is really similar to Miami, except Zimbabwe is landlocked.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And she, having never been to South Africa, was excited to hear my detailed descriptions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They came from just about every tribe in South Africa, all of them on the run from the law because something was wrong with their passbooks or permits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In no time Africa was a hazy line on the horizon behind them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And, given the significant overlap between race and class in South Africa, whites, coloreds, and blacks all still made their homes in different locations. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But now when summer comes our family gets on a plane, flies to Africa Hawaii Chicago. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z This was the type of case, not at all untypical in South Africa, that offered a moral jigsaw puzzle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas in England even abolitionists portrayed humble slaves on their knees pleading for freedom, in this coin designed for use in Africa, the English and the African are shown as nearly equal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But around this time, a great chaos erupted in the Zulu kingdom of South Africa. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The United States was in the midst of the Civil War; slaves from Africa were not an option. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Oliver had lived to see the prisoners released and the exiles return, but he had not lived to cast his vote in a free and democratic South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Africa, you’re generally home with your family, telling stories, making fun of one another, laughing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If that counted for anything, then Africa enjoyed an enormous advantage: at least 5 million more years of separate protohuman existence than on any other continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One general theory for the origin of aids goes at, during the late nineteen-sixties, a new and crative business grew up in Africa, the export of primates to industrialized countries for use in medical research. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the problems of modern South Africa stem at least in part from a geographic accident. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within a few centuries, in one of the swiftest colonizing advances of recent prehistory, Bantu farmers had swept all the way to Natal, on the east coast of what is now South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My first journey to Africa was by sea on a passenger liner, the Kenya Castle. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maize swept into Africa as introduced disease was leveling Indian societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He told me he was from a small town in Germany, but had been in South Africa a couple months, working for a German company. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a great hero among the youth of South Africa; a man who spoke their language and to whom they listened. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A strain of simian aids virus was recently isolated from a chimpanzee in Gabon, in West Africa, which is, so far, the closest thing to hiv-i that anyone has yet found in the animal kingdom. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Native states in contact with European states have arisen from chiefdoms repeatedly in the last three centuries in Madagascar, Hawaii, Tahiti, and many parts of Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When Dutch colonists landed at the southern tip of Africa over three hundred years ago, they encountered an indigenous people known as the Khoisan. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z One possibility is that the Reston strain originated in Africa and flew to the Philippines on an airplane not long ago. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A few weeks before I was set to leave South Africa and return to the States, I was walking with Zinzi and Simo from the kumbi, or bus station, back to the house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z You might as well complain about the sun in Africa. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Heading into Africa from my harborside hotel, I entered a warren of narrow streets throbbing with activity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z But through negotiations over the past months, the ANC and government teams had put together a tentative agreement involving a two-stage transitional period to a fully democratic South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As with so many expatriates who end up in Africa, it is not clear what brought him there. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The southernmost Bantu people, the Xhosa, stopped at the Fish River on South Africa’s south coast, 500 miles east of Cape Town. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “They wanted to know what part of Africa my parents hailed from,” Caesar said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She knew how these desolate homeless men felt, for she herself had come to Africa with a few friends fleeing from her brother who wanted to murder her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the wake of the Soweto uprising, the authorities had decided that the island would become the exclusive home of South Africa’s “security prisoners.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While Smuts had enlisted South Africa on the side of the Allies in World War II, the National Party refused to support Great Britain and publicly sympathized with Nazi Germany. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Geoffrey, Gilbert, and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He then discussed Africa and separated the continent into different nations, giving specific constellations to different tribes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the negotiations preceding new dispensations in African states like Zimbabwe and Angola, which required outside mediators, we in South Africa were settling our differences among ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But we’ve all ended up giving up body and soul to Africa, one way or another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For thirty years, the ANC had functioned clandestinely in South Africa; those habits and techniques were deeply ingrained. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, Nigeria very corrupt. Worst corrupt country in Africa. Me, I watch the film but no, I don’t go to Nigeria!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A well-documented example is the origin of the Zulu state, in southeastern Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There she sat, in her robes, smiling, an extremely proud and handsome woman, with Africa, Europe, and the America of the American Indian blended in her face. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Africa has a thousand ways to get under your skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was surrounded by men and women who’d been born in Africa, or born in chains, who had freed themselves or escaped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One-quarter of the world’s languages are spoken only in Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our childhood in Africa had been different from that of most American kids, so it took Mia and me a while to get used to playing with them. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z To work the colonists’ farms, slaves were soon imported from different corners of the Dutch empire, from West Africa, Madagascar, and the East Indies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The English-speaking universities of South Africa were great incubators of liberal values. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Less well known are Africa’s combination of sorghum, African rice, and pearl millet with cowpeas and groundnuts, and the Andes’ combination of the noncereal grain quinoa with several bean species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t Chinese ships proceed around Africa’s southern cape westward and colonize Europe, before Vasco da Gama’s own three puny ships rounded the Cape of Good Hope eastward and launched Europe’s colonization of East Asia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Africa has a million souls” is what Father told him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa’s diverse peoples resulted from its diverse geography and its long prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “She told us about this slave ship full of people from West Africa. They called themselves ‘Ibos.’” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I was already on my way to being drawn into the black elite that Britain sought to create in Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She loved Africa, as I had known she would. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The attitude of the Carter administration toward South Africa yielded results. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In the service of saving Africa’s babies and extracting its mineral soul, the West has built a path to its own door and thrown it wide for the plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The news switched to a story about South Africa—blacks rioting there and dying wholesale in battles with police over the policies of the white supremacist government. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In the Cape of South Africa the arriving Europeans found not only Khoi hunter-gatherers but also Khoi herders who already possessed only domestic animals, not crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She had traveled the world and collected art from France and Africa. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z All in preparation for the work they feel they were born for, missionary work in Africa. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, because it came not from Africa, but from some far Eastern land, it was the rarest, and most terrible, somehow. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Another wasted chance running like poisoned water under Africa, curling our souls into fists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Their confinement to Africa, along with abundant fossil evidence, indicates that the earliest stages of human evolution were also played out in Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the party saw South Africa’s problems through the lens of the class struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted South Africa to see that I loved even my enemies while I hated the system that turned us against one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My next stop was the United States, but I would be returning to England on my way back to South Africa, which is when I was scheduled to meet with Mrs. Thatcher. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This utterly poisoned the talks, and the Eminent Persons Group immediately left South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa, to merely achieve fairness, one had to destroy apartheid itself, for it was the very embodiment of injustice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That it was not the other way around is especially surprising, because Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution for millions of years, as well as perhaps the homeland of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1939, South Africa, a member of the British Commonwealth, had declared war on Nazi Germany. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had applied for and received a grant to go to South Africa through the School for International Training, a Vermont-based program that offers the chance to live overseas for a semester or more. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The roots of the cassava, a plant in Africa, contain the poison cyanide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My image of Africa, at that time, was of naked savages, cannibals, monkeys and tigers and steaming jungles. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind was feverishly trying to compare American society, the way Andre depicted it, with that of South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to look on the bright side, to remind myself that, orphaned or not, I was still better off than most of the kids in Africa. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Africa and the Americas are thus the two largest landmasses with a predominantly north-south axis and resulting slow diffusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to their wet-climate crops inherited from their West African homeland, the Bantu were able to farm in wet areas of East Africa unsuitable for all those previous occupants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I saw Poppa, but no, not truly him; another son of Africa, brow furrowed, his voice deep and strong as a church bell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I do sometimes picture myself with children, for why else am I keeping my notebook, with all the lessons of my childhood in Africa? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the skeletal differences between the earlier hunter-gatherers and the farmers who replaced them are less marked in Europe than in the Philippines, Indonesia, and subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Moore traveled to Africa, where he lived for several years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They reflect, instead, the orientation of Eurasia’s axis compared with that of the Americas or Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Plus we didn’t want the white minority to feel ostracized in the new South Africa, or else they’d take all their money and leave. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In addition to Portuguese, he also knew Greek, French, and even Swahili, which he learned during their hunting trip to Africa. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Hence, crops and animals domesticated or acquired in one part of Africa had great difficulty in moving to other parts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Tangier is not like the rest of Africa. This is a port, and every port has its thieves.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There are about 40 other species of olives in tropical and southern Africa, southern Asia, and eastern Australia, some of them closely related to Olea europea, but none of them was ever domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If you want to go back to Africa, James, well, you can go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve always been a loner and I’ve always wanted to see Africa, so I took leave from my humble newspaper job and a generous loan from my aunt and here I am.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Africans want a just share in the whole of South Africa; they want security and a stake in society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nation of France, especially, has gotten all high-and-mighty about threatening to remove their associations from South Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the fulfillment of God’s promise, and the justification for their view that South Africa should be a white man’s country forever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She smelled his rotting leg in Africa, where it would be blown off his body on a moonless savanna night. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A second factor is a corresponding, though less extreme, disparity between sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia in domesticable plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Khoi herders west of the Fish River of South Africa traded with Bantu farmers east of the Fish River, and continued to dispense with farming themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Such white people are the only hope for South Africa; the more their numbers increase, the better the chances for peaceful change. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Many blacks in South Africa believed that any effort by the black man to challenge the white man was foolhardy and doomed to failure; the white man was too smart and too strong. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Andre Scheffler was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Africa, a sister church of the Dutch Reformed Church, the faith of nearly all the Afrikaner people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke to me in French, as kids from Africa generally know some French. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I’ve read some myself out of pure curiosity and you can see why those officers are glad to be in Ireland after all they put up with in India and Africa and other desperate places. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In geography, I didn’t draw the Chapter Review Map of Northern Africa, because I didn’t read the chapter on Northern Africa. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Yes, the Bible was not written in English, but the Bible came to South Africa in English so to us it’s in English. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As apartheid was coming to an end, South Africa’s elite private schools started accepting children of all colors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I trod on Africa without a thought, straight from our family’s divinely inspired beginning to our terrible end. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A full 60 percent of Africa’s population at the time was under the age of twenty-five. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We saw from the twin evidence of modern peoples and their languages that sub-Saharan Africa was not always a black continent, as we think of it today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some fellow thinks he’s going to be the master of Africa and winds up with his nice European-tailored suit rumpled in a corner and his wits half cracked from the filaires itching under his skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hell, look at Africa. They’ve been here a lot longer than North America and they could be civilized and they’re the same way they were three or four hundred years ago.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I made my remarks brief—but I made them strong: “How can you condemn Portugal and South Africa while our black people in America are being bitten by dogs and beaten with clubs?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the starkest of these divisions was between South Africa’s two dominant groups, the Zulu and the Xhosa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “This place is like darkest Africa. Like the Amazon jungle. Like were learning to live among the natives here.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so alone—all his family was dead, save one aunt living in Africa. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Seeking out common ancestors for similar types of instruments is in many cases complicated by the abundant exchange of commodities via trading routes that ran between Europe, North Africa and Asia. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The principal advocate of those who argued that the tiger was not native to Africa was Andrew Masondo, an ANC leader from the Cape who had also been a lecturer at Fort Hare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When my dad is in Africa, he looks peaceful, restored. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “South Africa belongs to us once more,” Malan proclaimed in his victory speech. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I no longer had the picture of the ballerina, which had been such an important part of my life in Africa. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a colored boy in South Africa, taught how to hate and how to hate himself. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Instead of importing English-speaking slaves from the West Indies, who were more likely to be familiar with European language and culture, many more slaves were shipped directly from Africa. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For a moment I had an uneasy feeling, meeting the queen of the country that had once colonized my own country in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Segal had been one of South Africa’s premier singles and doubles players during the fifties. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a pied crow, a black-and-white bird that people in Africa sometimes make into a pet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She had lived over eighty years—had come over from Africa, people said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Ferrets were domesticated in Europe to hunt rabbits, and cats were domesticated in North Africa and Southwest Asia to hunt rodent pests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We blacks in South Africa looked up to, and worshipped, people like Ashe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He, too, wanted a free South Africa but he thought that goal could be achieved faster and more peacefully through the government’s policy of separate development. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cops in South Africa don’t give you a reason when they pull you over. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I could see myself remaining in South Africa, an outcast, rejected by the Black Tennis Association and not accepted by the white tennis association because of apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We decided instead to offer them a vision of the South Africa we hoped to create. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He has been around the block, let me tell you, being born in South Africa and spending his youth here and there, partly even in Texas, from what I gather. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Such diseases are especially prevalent in parts of Asia and Africa. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But at the same time, South Africa and the African continent were part of the larger world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he had begun to talk a great deal with various people from the Middle East or Africa who were in New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu moved closer to the door to listen; he was fascinated by Rhodesia, by what was happening in the south of Africa. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Now let’s turn to the remaining question in our puzzle of African prehistory: why Europeans were the ones to colonize sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And only now, after working this same land for ten years, am I coming to understand the length and breadth of outsiders’ failure to impose themselves on Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since she saw a woodcut of a missionary surrounded by jungle natives, Ethel thought it would be spiritually fulfilling to serve the Lord in dark Africa, delivering savages to the light. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The lack of domestic mammals indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa is especially astonishing, since a main reason why tourists visit Africa today is to see its abundant and diverse wild mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z PAFMECSA, which later became the Organization of African Unity, aimed to draw together the independent states of Africa and promote the liberation movements on the continent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Overpopulation has deforested three-quarters of Africa, yielding drought, famine, and the probable extinction of all animals most beloved by children and zoos. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I was candid about how both the PAC and the ANC were perceived in the rest of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In i960, seventeen former colonies in Africa were scheduled to become independent states. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was your age I was before the mast on a square rigged ship that ran to Africa and I have seen lions on the beaches in the evening.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Slaves carried the practice over with them from Africa as a way to capture and dispose of any haints wandering around.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It would appear, he went on, "that South America might be fitted together with Africa, and so on…. It is even claimed that rock formations on opposite sides of the Atlantic match." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They lead me to wonder what Bible my father wrote in Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat together on her bony couch with my photographs of Africa, picking through and laying them out, making a tidepool of shiny color among the seashells on her coffee table. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We in South Africa had never been called slaves, though, all along, day in and day out, we had been treated worse than slaves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It had taken no time at all for us to get swept up in South Africa’s energy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict, this same general had been discreetly retired, and he had then entered business, dealing in shipments from Southern Africa. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Discovery started as a local concept, symbolized at first by the erecting of new ‘pillars of Hercules’ by Portuguese explorers advancing along the coasts of Africa. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I told the people that they would make history and focus the attention of the world on the racist policies of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the monkey trade was established throughout central Africa, the native workers in the system, the monkey trappers and handlers, were exposed to large numbers of wild monkeys, some of which were carrying unusual viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The legacy of apartheid was glaringly obvious in South Africa’s cities. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He had come intending to stay in South Africa, but now had second thoughts, because he had now seen the truth about apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the most important documents remained right on the table: Operation Mayibuye, a plan for guerrilla warfare in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And he knew that Egypt was in Africa. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Many herding peoples of Africa and Asia shift camp along regular seasonal routes to take advantage of predictable seasonal changes in pasturage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But from colonial times through the days of apartheid, black people in South Africa were required to have an English or European name as well—a name that white people could pronounce, basically. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z First, when Eurasia’s Major Five domestic mammals reached sub-Saharan Africa, they were adopted by the most diverse African peoples wherever conditions permitted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If anyone at the time had suggested that this unknown disease in gay men in southern California came from wild chimpanzees in Africa, the medical community would have collectively burst out laughing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of sympathy for the Devil and Africa, I left the healing profession. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pedro Cabral was trying to sail around Africa to Asia to buy spices for his native Portugal, and the ocean current took him to Brazil instead. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z To him this chance to see South Africa less than a decade after the end of apartheid was the perfect preparation for a real understanding of the Rhodes experience and legacy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Some saw this as a positive development: that Botha wanted to be “above party politics” in order to bring about true change in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her parents brought her to Africa from England when she was a girl. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Much of Africa was being overlaid by European customs. It seemed—then—that our culture would be destroyed by the outside world. And so Resthaven was created.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I remember an old Arab in North Africa, a man whose hands had never felt water. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody can take Hegel seriously. Have you read him closely? He’s funny, very funny. But Hume and Voltaire and Locke felt the same way about Africa,” Odenigbo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Statements like: he was in South Africa only to fight, and not to engage in politics; therefore the press should stop hounding him for comments on apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As inmates are overwhelmingly minority, the racial hierarchy at most facilities resembles that of South Africa under apartheid. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jews in South Africa are just white people. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we shall see, there were few or no wild mammal species suitable for domestication in the other Mediterranean zones of California, Chile, southwestern Australia, and South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The charter then lays out the requirements for a free and democratic South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps those cycles of colonization, adaptation, and population explosion were what selected for the Great Leap Forward, which then diffused back westward to Eurasia and Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The origins of ironworking in sub-Saharan Africa soon after 1000 B.C. are still unclear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to learn about somewhere radically different, and having a pen pal in Africa seemed like a great way to do that. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In apartheid South Africa, the penalties for these “crimes” could be as much as ten years in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An examination of the candidates that were never domesticated, such as Africa’s big herd-forming mammals, reveals particular reasons that disqualified each of them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were on the north side of town anyway, Little Africa, where blacks, Mexicans, and Indians lived; and the only white people over there were Slav storekeepers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The document stated, “We may borrow . . . from foreign ideologies, but we reject the wholesale importation of foreign ideologies into Africa.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, as far as plant and animal domestication was concerned, the head start and high diversity lay with Eurasia, not with Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Although they represented scarcely i% of the Bantu population they took it upon themselves to tell the world that the Africans in South Africa are suppressed, oppressed and depressed.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise, all the remainder of Africa’s domestic mammals must have been domesticated elsewhere and introduced as domesticates to Africa, because their wild ancestors occur only in Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People I meet now assume that my childhood years in Africa were dark and deprived. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There were mixed kids in South Africa nine months after the first Dutch boats hit the beach in Table Bay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Michael gets a notion in his head that this is Africa and keeps asking, Where’s Tarzan? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In South Africa, it is hard for a man to ignore the needs of the people, even at the expense of his own family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It welcomes all who embrace freedom to participate in the making of a democratic, nonracial South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pass laws regulate the movement of blacks in so-called white South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She squishes up her face and says, “Boy, what you know ’bout Africa?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z My parents thought it might cheer me up if I could escape from our hovel and visit a cousin who lived a few hours away in East Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Obiora looked up at him and intoned, “From darkest Africa now come missionaries who will reconvert the West.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Cape Town was known as the home of the Coloureds and was one of the few places in South Africa where blacks were a minority. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the foresight to understand and accept that all the people of South Africa must, through negotiations and as equal participants in the process, together determine what they want to make of their future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, I have been around: the racial rioting in South Africa, hosting embassy parties in Brazzaville, shopping in Paris and Brussels, the game animals in Kenya, I have seen it all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z What was it about the Americas and Africa that made the spread of food production more difficult there than in Eurasia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One thing I appreciate about South Africa is that we have not yet refined the system to the point where we feel the need to lie. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She went to Africa to help protect gorillas. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He attacked Africa under the same cloak of religion. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z And yet Mr. George F. Kennan, the retired diplomat, allowed that he felt “not the faintest moral responsibility for Africa.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most Indigenous peoples of the Americas, unlike the people of Europe, Africa, and Asia, did not domesticate animals for a ready supply of hides and meat. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The African in me refused to be told Africa was not my home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And we know just where and when the end finally came: in South Africa, where an Indian lawyer was making a name for himself. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z All day, with little spurts of excitement, the thought of a smashing defeat in Africa had been in and out of his mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Polly wondered if Negroes from Africa had feelings and intelligent thoughts or if that gibberish they spoke was more like the screaming of monkeys or the barking of dogs. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was so much to know—so much geography to cover—Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, the United States. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “It bothers me to even look at it. It can’t support ten million people, and there they are. There they are, kidnapped from West Africa.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But in talking with these bright young people, I learned that they had watched my release on television and were familiar with events in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other half got to North Africa where they were sold. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Owen therefore instructed Vernon and Shorey to return to South Africa, and the newspaper published a statement declaring that it had rescinded its sponsorship of the expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He had virtually ransacked Africa looking for these life forms, but despite his searches he had never found them in their natural hiding places. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The author encouraging young people to plant trees in Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, though, possibly the earliest archaeological evidence for food production in Africa comes instead from the Sahara. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was such a pipe that made South Africa the most productive diamond mining country in the world, but there may be others even bigger that we don’t know about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Here are the other white people we had in Africa so far: Mister Axelroot that flies the plane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew strength from the older man’s steadfast support and intellectual nourishment from his commanding intelligence, which grappled with a wide range of issues, from anticolonial movements in Africa to presidential politics here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He has the largest private medical practice in East Africa, and it has made him a famous figure in Nairobi. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The air in the room was full of the sweet, cloying smell of whiskey, and every corner was heaped with mementos of trips to England and South Africa. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ships came into port from all over the world. I heard many foreign languages. I saw sailors who wore turbans, and black sailors from Africa. This was just part of my daily life.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I briefed them on my trip to Africa, about the support we had received and the offers of training. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well now, which is the longest river in Africa?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Other early reports concerned the victories of Ian Smith’s troops in Rhodesia and detentions of government opponents in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Already I was determined, I guess, to give Africa a fair shake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point South Africa was opening more McDonald’s than any other country in the world. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The British have finally scored a few successes in Africa and Stalingrad hasn’t fallen yet, so the men are happy and we had coffee and tea this morning. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He treats all the important people in East Africa: the corrupt politicians, the actors and actresses who get sick on safari, the decayed English-African nobility. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The important cereal sorghum was domesticated in Africa’s Sahel zone, just south of the Sahara. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s initially surprising, because we think of Africa as the continent of big wild mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But I was determined right off the bat to make the best of my situation here in my new home of Johannesburg, South Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what I was expecting for my introduction to Africa, but it sure wasn’t Zed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z We would all have to escape Africa by a different route. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The long interactions between Africa’s many peoples generated its fascinating prehistory, including two of the most dramatic population movements of the past 5,000 years—the Bantu expansion and the Indonesian colonization of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Africa was only a few hours from Tarifa; one had only to cross the narrow straits by boat. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those are some of my latest pictures from my last trip to Africa and Asia,” said Clive, pointing to a large album. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The traders waited for favorable winds to let them cross the Indian Ocean directly between East Africa and India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Back home in Africa, the grandparents of her fiance arranged to give our grandparents sixteen cows in exchange for Adele's hand in marriage, per tradition. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In some ways, this is not much of an adaptation for a black man in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was what I had been so long waiting for, the kind of thing I had come to Africa hoping to do. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I should like to stand up in Sunday school now and ask: May Africa talk back? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried a country mark on his face, three straight lines that had been cut into his right cheek when he became a man in Africa. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z America seemed a society moving rapidly toward a greater accommodation of its diverse population; South Africa on the other hand was moving with equal speed, if not more, toward a total separation of all races. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She should be telling me about signs, about how black crows are freedom birds, symbols for slaves flying back to Africa. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Had I ever questioned Princeton's investments in South Africa or whether more could be done to recruit minority students? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If you take a bunch of practically grown, red-blooded daughters to Africa, don’t you think at least some of them are going to marry or what have you, and end up staying? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Bananas and other tropical Asian crops for which Africa’s climate is eminently suitable, and which today are among the most productive staples of tropical African agriculture, were unable to reach Africa by land routes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, most big mammals of Africa and Eurasia survived into modern times, because they had coevolved with protohumans for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we’ll see, that reality was as fraught with consequences for African history as was the absence of native domestic plants in subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z West Africa eventually did receive Fertile Crescent domestic animals across the Sahara, and later accepted Islamic influence, including Arabic writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The slaves and the Khoisan intermarried, and the white colonists continued to dip in and take their liberties, and over time the Khoisan all but disappeared from South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In Africa, we didn’t casually date the way teenagers do in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z On that day, the country was rocked by an occurrence of such magnitude that when Chief Luthuli returned to testify a month later, die courtroom — and all of South Africa — was a different place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Africa’s full of ugly black people and mosquitoes.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle to late 1960s, armed struggles were being fought throughout southern Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways, as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This quick tour through Africa’s food staples suffices to show that some of them traveled a long way from their points of origin, both inside and outside Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She explained to me the color dynamic in South Africa, how there I would be considered colored because I was not dark enough to be considered black. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The road was once a dirt track that wandered through the heart of Africa, almost impossible to traverse along its complete length. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their existence was similar to the life in rural South Africa; poor people everywhere are more alike than they are different. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, the Fertile Crescent package penetrated Africa southward to Ethiopia at some still-uncertain date. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Before the kids’ bedtime, she read them novels such as Cry, the Beloved Country—about racial injustice in South Africa. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Lembede said that Africa was a black man’s continent, and it was up to Africans to reassert themselves and reclaim what was rightfully theirs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their inventors, two scientists from South Africa, are awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The Congress of the People was to create a set of principles for the foundation of a new South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the population, some 170,000 people, were enslaved workers, many of whom had been born in Africa and only recently sold into slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “And kids from northern Africa would look down on kids from other parts of Africa. There was a lot of underlying racism and a lot of baggage they brought with them.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Framed photos from our time in America lined the living room, since the photos from our past in Africa had burned in the camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Africa swallowed the conqueror’s music and sang a new song of her own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as in their encounter with Native Americans, Europeans entering Africa enjoyed the triple advantage of guns and other technology, widespread literacy, and the political organization necessary to sustain expensive programs of exploration and conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That semester, fourteen of us left our respective corners of the United States and traveled to South Africa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the Americas, European colonizers used strategies they had used in Ireland, Africa, and Asia. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In comparison, the sorts of sights offered in such places as Africa and America, though undoubtedly very exciting, would, I am sure, strike the objective viewer as inferior on account of their unseemly demonstrativeness. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z An assemblage of agricultural tribes from the area of East Africa now comprising Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique, the Somali Bantu had been persecuted for more than three hundred years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z These were the crowns of podocarpus trees, or podos, the largest trees in Africa, nearly as large as California sequoias. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to his surprise, he discovered that overall Indians have fewer HLA types than populations from Europe, Asia, and Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He wants to study government and be a Minister of Justice in a very different Africa from this one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother was going to drag me out of Africa if it was her last living act, and it very nearly was. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If she were in Africa, Beatrice said, she would set Mandela straight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z At the end of each summer the storks would leave and fly to Africa, where they’d live in warmth along the Nile for the winter. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “What do you think accounts for the success of the white man’s mission in Africa, Richard?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Since I was the only one who could speak to war in Africa, I shared a little of my story with the students for the first time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Some milpa areas have been farmed for thousands of years— time in which farmers in Mesopotamia and North Africa and parts of India ruined their land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I told the president that the current conflict was draining South Africa’s lifeblood and talks were the only solution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The son of a cobbler from South Africa, Brenner had come to England to study biology on a scholarship; like Watson and Crick, he too had become entranced by Watson’s “religion of genes” and DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We argued that the king should be above politics, and that if he were included then every tribe in South Africa should be able to send their paramount chief. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The announcement that I would return to South Africa was met with loud cheers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Using the Willow Creek ticket as a starting point, Kalitka launched an extremely thorough search, chasing down leads that led as far afield as Europe and South Africa. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Did you ever think about going to British East Africa to shoot?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The same is also true, though to a less extreme degree, for Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our brains and nervous systems are the same because, according to recent theory, we are all descended from one woman in Africa a quarter-million years ago. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And that an uncle had been told by some man to go back to Africa. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In January 1996, Fischer led a high-profile fund-raising ascent of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, that netted half a million dollars for the charity CARE. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Passage to Africa during the fair-sailing season—roughly, May to October—would have put the seasonal winds behind the ship’s sails. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I think that was when I first decided I must go to Africa someday. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I said, “Take my word for it—you be suspicious of all these American officials who come to Africa grinning in your faces when they don’t grin in ours back home. ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The inscription reads, “In confidence we lay our cause before the whole world. Whether we win or whether we die, freedom will rise in Africa like the sun from the morning clouds.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the University of Ghana’s Great Hall, I addressed the largest audience that I would in Africa—mostly Africans, but also numerous whites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He and all the profiteers who’ve since walked out on Africa as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z God worried over the problem for days and nights, until one day he stumbled across the solution: He would send to Africa his other children in Europe, who already knew the Word. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It ran across the Mediterranean Sea to the island of Crete and then on to Cyrenaica in North Africa. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z If only South Africa was full of them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the British Empire there were no railroads or postal services in India, and Africa was full of tribal warfare, with spears, and had no proper clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet because the plant would grow only in a small coastal area in north Africa, it was only available “wild,” and there- fore worth its weight in gold. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Well, an example would be: a big American timber company logs a huge forest in Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z |
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