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Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War
The war in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray began in November 2020. It inflicted more casualties than any other contemporary conflict in the world. It has also been among the …
Understanding Eritrea
The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is haemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not …
Who Rules South Africa?
In this timely work, WHO RULES SOUTH AFRICA?, highly regarded authors Paul Holden and Martin Plaut analyse the political elites that battle daily for power in South Africa. They …
The Hamster of Hampstead Heath
Hampstead Heath is under attack! A developer plots to build houses on London's best-loved open space. Only Hamster and his friend Vole are in the know. So can they save their homes …
Understanding South Africa
When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, …
Fighting for Britain
The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who served with the British army during the Second World War. During the Second World War …
Promise and despair
The struggle for freedom in South Africa goes back a long way. In 1909, a remarkable interracial delegation of South Africans traveled to London to lobby for a non-racialized …
Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa's Most Repressive State
The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed …
Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War
The war in Ethiopias northern region of Tigray began in November 2020. It inflicted more casualties than any other contemporary conflict in the world. It has also been among the …
Understanding South Africa
When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, …
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman (1872-1940) was the first person of colour ever to be elected to political office in South Africa. He represented some of the poorest people in Cape Town on …
South Africa's Uneasy Alliance
The communist party in South Africa began as a revolutionary movement. In exile in the 1960s and 1970s it took on significance its numbers never warranted through its relationship …