Africa

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective.

In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships....

Starting on September 11th, 2012, al-Qa'ida carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens....

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....

This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....

From a NAACP award-winning historian and Fulbright scholar, a history of education in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the historic ruling of Brown v. Board of Education.

A sweeping history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people....

For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe....

A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one....

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"....

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....

Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies....

It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....

In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society....

This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up....

On the West coast of Africa there once, the Mali empire in its Golden Age was once bigger than the entirety of Western Europe put together, made possible by the efforts of one man Mansa Musa the Sultan of Mali....

An expansive history of the Sahara from prehistory to the present that shows how Saharans have, over time, built complex and cosmopolitan lives despite scarcity, conquest, and the relentless challenges of the desert environment.

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a long-awaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war....

A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....

Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder....

Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk, Durant was shot down and captured on October 3, 1993....

In 1899, Deneys Reitz, then aged seventeen, enlisted in the Boer army to fight the British. He had learnt to ride, shoot and swim almost as soon as he could walk. When he fought as a member several Boer commandos, he made full use of these skills and the endurance he acquired during the war.

Col. Mike Hoare tells how his force of mercenaries, 5 Commando, put down a Comunist-backed rebel uprising in the Congo....

Africa is the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. In The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis takes listeners on a gripping journey into the world of the magnates and militiamen, the despots and jet-setting executives who gorge on Africa’s vast stocks of oil, gas, metals, and precious stones. Combining deep reporting with an action-packed narrative, Burgis presents a blistering investigation of the plunder of a continent and the terrible human toll.

Shifting Sands is about that other Sahara, not the empty wasteland of the romantic imagination but the vast and highly differentiated space in which Saharan peoples and, increasingly, new arrivals from other parts of Africa live, work, and move. It takes us from the ancient Roman Empire through the bloody colonial era to the geopolitics of the present, questioning easy clichés and exposing fascinating truths along the way.

Tzu teaches: “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” The best response to the dynamics of the ADF/MTM nebula, now affiliated with ISIS and forming, together with Mozambique’s Al Sunnah, the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province (IS-CAP), lies above all in understanding its identity and strategy—one that spans across all areas of human activity. This book, unique in Central Africa, offers crucial insights for understanding the armed jihad that plagues eastern DRC and stretches into Mozambique. It provides anticipatory elements and tools for...

THE WHITE HUNTER Tabor fled Europe’s decadent pleasures and his own disastrous marriage hoping to find a new life in Africa. A land that was brutal, primitive, and yet offered unyielding beauty. A land that took the true measure of a man, that made him...or finished him. Here he will become embroiled in the destinies of a handful of men and women who are also trying to flee their haunting pasts only to find themselves barricaded in an ancient slave post, holding off the tiger-taloned night marauders who are sworn to kill the white man. For these desperate individuals are caught between ...

What will the future hold for this rich country, handed over to the vultures' feast, if not the urgent need and readiness for Congolese people to become aware and seize the opportunity history offers them - to play their rightful role in Africa? For better or worse, the example of the gold-rich Kibali-Ituri region- like many other regions in Africa plagued by “ethnic” conflicts - calls for the deconstruction of the notion of ethnicity/tribe, which manipulators use to justify their crimes: killing and looting. "Use weapons of gold, and nothing will resist you," advised the Oracle of ...