African History

This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account...

Great speeches have the power to bring about political change, and South Africa lays claim to some of the worlds most skilled orators, from Nelson ...

On 2 February 1990, FW de Klerk made a speech that changed the history of South Africa. Nine days later, the world watched as Nelson Mandela walked...

For three thousand years a dominant force, Ancient Egypt is arguably the most successful and longest lasting human civilization yet. In this pacy g...

Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably ...

Most people believe that black South Africans obtained the vote for the first time in 1994. In fact, for almost a century suitably qualified black ...

Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the unbanni...

In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agrégation in philosophy, fou...

Sparked by the protest of a single vegetable seller in Tunisia, the flame of revolutionary passion swept across the Arab world in what has come to ...