The great Africa correspondent delivers, after four decades’ close observation of the miraculous continent, a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa.
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'A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Denunciations thundered from speaker's [...]

A history of post-colonial Africa, exploring the continent's troubled trajectory from the optimism of the independence era to the seemingly intractable problems it faces.
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on [...]

The scramble for Africa astonished everyone. In 1880 most of the continent was still ruled by Africans and barely explored. By 1902, five European powers [...]

This book provides a wide-ranging history of Africa from earliest prehistory to the present day – using the cultural, social, political, and economic lenses of [...]

After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out [...]

Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this "Very Short Introduction" looks at Africa's past and reflects [...]

On 24 June 1995, at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, the Springboks faced the All Blacks in the final of the Rugby World Cup. When South [...]