Afrika

Paris, sommaren 2010. Zahira, en marockansk prostituerad i slutet av sin karriär, är en generös kvinna trots förödmjukelser och misär. Hennes vän Aziz, på väg att byta kön, börjar …

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn …

In February 2025, Michael Palin travelled to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America's most culturally rich, vibrant but also troubled nations.In the …

A fascinating account of the story of the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech – and a gorgeous homage to creativity Conceived as a candid diary, this remarkable book documents …

This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. …

Nubia, the often overlooked southern neighbour of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians’ religious, social, …

Fem enkeltpersoner - en tannlege, en biolog, en filmklipper, en forfatter og en politietterforsker - kjenner dragninger og tilbøyeligheter de ikke forstår hvor kommer fra. De …

Mange nordmenn deltok som embetsmenn, handelsmenn, håndverkere og på annet vis i tropekoloniene. Tropesykdommer, forlis og alkohol tok mange liv, så det var ikke mange som vendte …

In 1866 Britain's foremost explorer, Dr David Livingstone, went in search of the answer to an age-old geographical riddle: where was the source of the Nile? Livingstone set out …

Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa’s largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in …