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Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of ...
David Livingstone has gone down in history as a fearless explorer and missionary, hacking his way through the forests of Africa to bring light to ...
In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable--it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in ...
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage ...
The wonderful, powerful story of one of the most important and exciting campaigns in Victorian history, from the publishers of Zulu and Hell Riders.
The ...
'So Far and No Further!' Rhodesia's Bid for Independence during the Retreat from Empire 1959-1965
Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia ...
When Lt. General Rom-o Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda, he thought he was heading off ...
The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young photographers who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the photographs that encapsulate the ...
In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on ...
"A truly great work--massive, monumental. . . . A wonderful story of heroism, a superb feat of research. . . . The best book of its kind." --Baltimore Sun
Relive all ...
In "an enthralling story, full of fascinating characters, intense drama, high adventure, deceitful manipulation, courageous truth-telling, and splendid moral fervor" ("Christian Science Monitor"), Hochschild tells ...
The companion to Allister Sparks's award-winning "The Mind of South Africa", this book is an account of the negotiating process that led to majority ...
Reprint. Originally published: Random House, 1991. An account of one of the most gigantic and astonishing episodes in human history . . . First-class . . . Meticulously written and researched ...
In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The ...
