African History

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner''s The Art of Mbira documents ...

Reexamines the first twenty years of the East African revival movement in Uganda, 1935-1955, arguing that through the movement African Christians a...

Arrested in 1962 as South Africas apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and Afri...

A fresh look at the British Museums celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand yearsPharaoh: King of Ancient E...

In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprec...

The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of Sou...

As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in ...

Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes updates the history of the Defence of Rorke's Drift, which will forever be ...

The Roman province of Africa was one of richest in the Empire and as a result has some of the most spectacular remains. The Cities of Roman Africa ...

On 4 October 1943, two trainee RAF pilots, Walter Adamson and Gordon Edwards, took off from Kumalo in Zimbabwe. Some time later they were forced to...

The Siege of Mafeking remains one of the most renowned actions of the Second Boer War, with the British Army defeating a Boer force of up to 8,000 ...

The Zulu War grabs attention in a way that no other of Queen Victoria's Little Wars does. It is a story rich in the extremes of human experience: g...

The German Afrika Korps was an outstanding military organisation that experienced both the height of glory and the depth of defeat in the Western D...

The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enem...

The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposin...

The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were we...

In King Leopold IIs infamous Congo Free State at the turn of the century, severed hands became a form of currency. But some in the Belgian governme...

This authoritative, yet hugely readable, book traces the history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa they were not indigenous as were t...

Second place in the Military History Monthly Book of the Year Award 2018Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness befo...

  Sudan has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. After decades of civil war, rebel uprisings and power struggles, in 2011 it gave birt...

Self-presentation is the oldest and most common component of ancient Egyptian high culture. It arose in the context of private tomb records, where ...