Afrikas historia

Nominerad till Augustpriset för Årets Fackbok 2022"Ulrika Knutson fångas av en oavbrutet spännande bok, full av öden som alla kan fylla tjocka biografier i egen …

År 1870 inskränkte sig de europeiska intressena i Afrika till ett litet antal, mestadels kustnära områden, bara några procent av kontinentens yta. Afrikas inland var okänt och …

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece

Den svenska FN-insatsen i Kongo 1960-1964 var redan från början kontroversiell. Det svenska försvaret hade vid denna tid inga erfarenheter av operationer långt från hemlandet. Och …

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion …

This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, …

Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever expose of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the …

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by …

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship …

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For …