African History

This title includes a new Foreword by WM. Roger Louis. On 26 July 1956, the British Empire received a blow from which it would never recover. On th...

Against the backdrop of the end of Mpande's rule and the coming of the missionaries to Natal in the mid-1800s, a love story between Ntsikana and No...

Hear the legend of the infamous Kgodumodumo monster, who swallowed all the people, except one pregnant woman. In time, her son, Senkatana, becomes ...

I'm laying a charge! Which of the twins -Babini or Wele - should inherit the homestead when their father dies? This classic tale of a court case am...

We yearn to live, yet living frustrates us; we yearn to strive higher, yet striving frustrates us; we yearn for progress, yet progress frustrates u...

Lesotho 1945. Minor king Mosito is educated at Lovedale College, but then is caught in a struggle between new ways and additions. His traditional c...

In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women faced the impossibleresurrecting their lives amidst unthinkable devastation. Haunted by memori...

Tippu Tip was chiefly an ivory trader, who pioneered for new sources through present day Tanzania into the Congo basin. Slavery is part of his stor...

The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandelas defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and...

In this extraordinary debut called gripping by The Times of London Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news from a forgotten town deep in Congos ...

If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possib...

Why do millions of African children die before their fifth birthday? In African Children in Peril, Brian Waller takes his enormous experience in wo...