African History

When President F.W. de Klerk announced the unbanning of the liberation movements on 2 February 1990, he opened the door to negotiations that would ...

How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing th...

This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the História da Ethiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez...

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can o...

Spend 24 hours with the ancient Egyptians.Ancient Egypt wasnt all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough...

Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to rad...

The women's league has played a large but little understood role in the history of the ANC. Over the years it has been headed by some powerful wome...

This collection of first-person accounts chronicles the experiences of 13 humanitarian aid workers who travelled to Sudan to provide food, medical ...

It is now more than 40 years since Fighters over the Desert was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by Fighters over Tunisia. Bot...

Richard Miles's Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World: the ...

'A stunning, clear-sighted history of ancient Egypt' Sunday TimesThe extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest ori...

A brilliantly readable, beautifully illustrated general history of ancient Egypt, from the builders of the first pyramids to Cleopatra.A sophistica...

This collection makes available rare sources on the aims, functions and effects of British administration in Africa. Topics examined include: land ...

Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global colo...