African History

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...

The Mayor of Mogadishu tells the story of one family's epic journey through Somalia's turmoil, from the optimism of independence to its spectacular...

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...