African History

With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of s...

A critical attempt to understand liberalisms' encounter with South Africa - its evolution, intellectual history, and internal dynamics. Liberalism ...

If a paternity test were done on widely admired South Africas constitution, whose DNA would come up? Is the Constitution just a beautiful piece of ...

Bill Nasson's South Africa at War, 1939-1945 is the first history of South Africa's involvement in World War II to appear for a very long time. It ...

With the summer of 2012 marking half a century of independence for Algeria, the Algerian War has been brought into discussions in France once more,...

From Gazala to Tunisia: 422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade is the story of the riflemen and their battles of Gazala to th...

Almost everyone in Africa knows a mobile phone, the most widespread communication technology on the continent. That technology started as a voice-o...

Dear Sister and Brother, death has been very busy gathering his harvest in this country, wrote a soldier of the 80th Regiment from the brutal Anglo...

This book is written as an attempt to understand what psycho-historical factors played a dominant role and undoubtly contributed to Afrikaners crea...

Native Life in South Africa (1916) is a book by Solomon T. Plaatje. Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Nat...