African History

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the War in the Desert, that epic struggle of the Second World War between Axis (Italian and Ge...

Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Ma...

One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in on...

The events that took place in Tunisia in January 2011 were the spark igniting the uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East, top...