African History

This essential book explores the early years of military rule following the Free Officers' coup of 1952. Enriched by interviews with actors in and ...

Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracl...

Why does the zebra have stripes and the elephant a long trunk? How did the giraffe acquire a long neck and why does a hippopotamus lie in muddy wat...

Lauren Carruth's Love and Liberation tells a new kind of humanitarian story. The protagonists are not volunteers from afar but rather Somali locals...

Although it lasted only thirty years, German colonial rule dramatically transformed South West Africa. The colonial government not only committed t...

The story of the last surviving 'Desert Rats' in their own words and their experience of war in North Africa. From 1940-3 Britain was engaged in a ...

The conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has the characteristics of Shakespearean drama - the key figures are larger than life, each with a fatal flaw, and th...

When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once pra...