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On 21st November 2017 Robert Mugabe resigned as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power. A week earlier the military had seized control of ...
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver
In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ...
In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith, bestselling author of The State of Africa, follows the fortunes of Africa over a period ...
By the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had ...
Congo is one of the most complex countries in the world, yet it is the most overlooked. It is one of the wealthiest in Africa ...
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 ...
A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration ...
Faced with the 'total onslaught' by its enemies, in 1979, Apartheid South Africa established Vlakplaas-lit. 'shallow farm', a 100-hectare farm nestling in the hills outside ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
