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  • Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by

    A vivid, heartbreaking portrait of the fate that so many African countries suffered after independence. The dictator who grew so rich on his country's ...

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  • A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory by

    'A travelogue and memoir to rank alongside anything by Chatwin or Thubron' Jim Crace

    'A most absorbing and rewarding book' Michael Palin

    A moving portrait ...

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  • Short History of South Africa by

    South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a ...

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  • Africa: A Modern History by

    The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent; by ...

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  • Macat Citizen and Subject Contemporary Africa And The Legacy Of Late Colonialism by

    Mahmood Mamdani's 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often ...

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  • Soldiers in Revolt: Army Mutinies in Africa by

    Soldiers in Revolt examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in three West African countries, the book provides ...

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  • The Boer War by

    The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things- the first media war, a ...

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  • The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame by

    In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts ...

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  • A Short History of Mozambique by

    This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire ...

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  • Kruger, Kommandos, and Kak: Debunking the Myths of the Boer War by

    The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it ...

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  • Long Walk To Freedom by

    Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial ...

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  • Robert Mugabe's Lost Jewel of Africa by

    This is the story of Southern Rhodesia, from a time of its earliest known inhabitants, the Bushmen, to their displacement by the Bantu; the invasion ...

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  • Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa by

    In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years ...

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  • Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II by

    In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key military target. Nazi ...

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  • Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo by

    In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of ...

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