Africa

Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective.

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....

This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time....

In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships....

This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....

Starting on September 11th, 2012, al-Qa'ida carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens....

The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David....

A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a long-awaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war....

Si le interesan estos temas, este libro es para usted. Contiene fascinantes historias de los yorubas y otros pueblos de África Occidental, este libro presenta cuentos de coraje y astucia, virtud y vicio, y fortunas encontradas y perdidas....

Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of 12 American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815....

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"....

Lessons From the Rhodesian Bush War is not a conventional history—it’s a focused, hard-edged study of what happens when a nation is cut off, ...

It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....

Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies....

Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk, Durant was shot down and captured on October 3, 1993....

This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up....

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....

A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....

A sweeping history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people....

Men in the furnace of adversity… Step into the extraordinary life of Jake Harper-Ronald, a man whose childhood dream of becoming a soldier led him on an unparalleled journey.

Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. They explored the vast land and produced the first tools. And although we migrated from that continent, we never completely abandoned it....

Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder....

Lessons From the Rhodesian Bush War is not a conventional history—it’s a focused, hard-edged study of what happens when a nation is cut off, surrounded, and forced to fight a war with limited men, limited resources, and no margin for error. Rhodesia’s bitter bush war offers more than military lessons; it’s a case study in rural defense, community survival, and the slow-motion unraveling of a society under siege. Written with the clarity and grit demanded by today’s preparedness-minded readers, this book explores the tactics, gear, and lived experiences of Rhodesian security forces...

Through this powerful and well-documented book, General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, former Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Gendarmerie during the dark years, sheds light on the hidden aspects of the 1994 Rwandan tragedy. Accused of participating in the 1994 genocide, imprisoned for several years in Arusha, and later fully acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the author presents a compelling and thoroughly substantiated account that exposes the various manipulations and international complicities that distorted the understanding of the Rwandan genocide. He reveals the ...

Stanwood Shot Dead! Death, Diplomacy, and the Dawn of American Power relates the true story of nineteenth-century adventurer Louis Duverge and his killing of American consular agent Victor Stanwood. Born to a wealthy family in Mauritius, Duverge attended university in France before joining the Foreign Legion. He then took to sea, leading a failed attempt to steal a cargo of gold from an Indian Ocean trading vessel. Duverge slipped away from authorities in British India and fled to Boston, where he joined the Union effort. Commissioned as a lieutenant with a Massachusetts regiment, Duverge ...

Desvele los misterios de la antigua África: ¡Descubra los imperios, leyendas y mitos que dieron forma a la historia! Tres textos en un solo libro: Antiguos imperios africanos: Una fascinante guía sobre los principales reinos y civilizaciones de África Antigua Cartago: Una apasionante guía sobre las civilizaciones fenicia y cartaginesa Mitología africana: Apasionantes mitos, fábulas y leyendas de África Sumérjase en el cautivador mundo de las antiguas civilizaciones africanas con los Antiguos imperios africanos. Perfecto tanto para los entusiastas de la historia como para las mentes...

What was it really like to live in Ancient Egypt—not as a pharaoh or high priest, but as an ordinary person? In Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt: What Was It Really Like?, historian and storyteller Thalos Virellon invites listeners on a vivid journey into the bustling streets, sunbaked homes, sacred temples, and fertile fields of one of history’s most fascinating civilisations.