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'Meredith has given a spectacularly clear view of the African political jungle' - Spectator
'This book is hard to beat... Elegantly written as well as unerringly ...
Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of ...
Fully revised and updated, in a biography the Sunday Timesdescribed as 'a fitting epitaph to an extraordinary career', Martin Meredith details the life of Nelson ...
The twentieth anniversary edition of Caroline Elkins's Pulitzer Prize-winning expose, now with a new introduction
The twentieth anniversary edition of Caroline Elkins's Pulitzer ...
This is the first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation. This critical work elaborates the life and times of Rhodes, showing how his ...
Blue-veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready-made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly ...
The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-World War II colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the ...
'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago
In 1665 Crispina Peres ...
The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book ...
The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone.
In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and ...
