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A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers.
For millennia the location of ...
Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and ...
'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular ...
An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.
From the ancient Nile Valley to the savannas of ...
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once ...
The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference.
Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered ...
This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role ...
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZE
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human ...
Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through ...
The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first ...
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of ...
Trapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. It describes the terrifying first attacks by the ...
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 ...
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance- an African diplomat's guide to Africa
In ...
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South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises ...
