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.

Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands. Like many young Westerners, he first went to Africa to 'save' it, but he stayed to learn from it. Africans taught him how to laugh and dance, how to ...

Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot fall. But what if his fate was actually much more sinister?

Creates an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. This book gives a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practices we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination.

A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.

The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals. This book reviews Cabral's contribution to the debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics.

Describing the emergence and development of the civilization of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks and Romans, this title details the changing nature of life and death in the Nile valley, which gave rise to some of the earliest masterpieces of art, architecture, and literature.

This title distills the essence of this great civilization in a series of generously illustrated treatments of major themes, including historical, religious, scientific, artistic, and mythological strands of the culture's identity.

Thirteen months after Lt-Gen Romeo went to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in 1993, he flew home broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans. This book takes us on a return voyage into the hell of Rwanda, recreating the events the international community turned its back on.

the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of Africa

Offers an account of the return to orthodoxy after Akhenaten's revolution. This study tells the story of the decline and fall of the Pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved ones.

Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya.

An important reassessment of South Africa's history and a significant new tool for students and academics of African history worldwide.

This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996 to 2006.

Looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting. This book shows us the lives behind the headlines.

The Zulu War of 1879 was the most brutal and controversial British imperial conflict of the 19th century. Ill conceived and incompetently executed it served no useful purpose for the British who started it.

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 surviving courtiers to tell their stories. This work depicts the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to the vagaries of a ruler.

Examines the various aspects of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era.

An epic, sweeping history of the making of South Africa by the bestselling and acclaimed author of The State of Africa.