African history books

The growth of a middle class has been a feature of the 'Africa Rising' narrative in recent years. Sumich sheds new...  Read More >>

A remarkable 'ordinary person's' story that captures the day-to-day reality of life during the bloody conflict that...  Read More >>

Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa,...  Read More >>

Francois Levaillant was the first and greatest South African birder, the first major figure of modern ornithology,...  Read More >>

A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt The Book of the Dead. The papyrus of Ani, in the British Museum....  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Binding of the Nile and the New Soudan I have tried to tell in outline the story of the regulation...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from The Backward Peoples and Our Relations With Them The only non Christian Great Power which is completely...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Cecil Rhodes: Man and Empire-Maker No other country in the world could have achieved such a success...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Eighteen Years in Uganda East Africa, Vol. 1 of 2 - Large increase - Question of a native ministry...  Read More >>

Excerpt from La France au Congo Et Savorgnan de Brazza Parmi les nombreuses entreprises coloniales, qui ont signale...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Le Niger Et les Explorations de l'Afrique Centrale: Depuis Mungo-Park Jusqu'au Docteur Barth Toute...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from La Politique de la France en Afrique, 1896-1898: Mission Marchand, Niger, Madagascar Ces trois questions...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Histoire des Arabes, Vol. 1 Les pages qui suivent offrent au public un manuel puis sent-elles repondre...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from South Africa a Study in Colonial Administration and Development IN these pages I have endeavoured to...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Pioneers of Empire: Being a Vindication of the Principle, and a Short Sketch of the History, of...  Read More >>