Afrikas historia

The first book to feature Jacob Lawrence’s Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa’s place as a global center of modernist art and culture   This …

A Best Book of the Year- The Economist & the Wall Street Journal At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that …

Demonstrates the wider genesis of the conflict between the two nations. This text presents contextual aspects in order to explain the growing discord between the two former …

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson …

A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for control of the Horn of Africa. In …

'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 …

"The most stirring portion of his book...deals with the part which Mr. Selous himself played in suppressing the rising...and the various accounts he gives of the brave deed done by …

Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide," on a visit he was making the …

A Nobel laureate offers a keen, thought-provoking analysis of Africa's current crises and points the way to cultural and political renewal A member of the unique generation of …

An African Younghusband – the compelling life of a great adventurer. Ewart Grogan, 'the baddest and boldest of a bad bold gang' of settlers in Kenya, was one of the most …