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A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration ...
A vivid, heartbreaking portrait of the fate that so many African countries suffered after independence.
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's ...
South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a ...
In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years ...
Mahmood Mamdani's 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often ...
The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things- the first media war, a ...
This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire ...
In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of ...
A superb new history of Africa, told from the ground up
Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many ...
In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a ...
The magnificent saga of how the white man changed Africa: the pioneers, visionaries and politicians - and their crazy railway.
In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at ...
