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'A wonderful debut by a talented and exciting young historian' Peter Frankopan
'Simultaneously capacious and personal...a masterful achievement' Tom Holland
'Elegant and powerful, Pepera ...
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for ...
'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' Observer
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"[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman
"Has much to offer." The Spectator
"Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine
"A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine
"Essential ...
A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialism
Africa's long nineteenth century was a time of revolutionary ferment and cultural innovation ...
This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's ...
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice . A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the U.S.-sanctioned ...
Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the ...
A Financial Times Book of the Year
'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express
'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times
'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times
The dictator who grew ...
The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody day ...
