'An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Books of the Year'A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity.
A culinary expedition celebrating cooking from across the African continentAfricana travels the continent showcasing its vibrant and varied cuisines that are rich in flavour, diverse in culture and steeped in tradition.
The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynastyIt is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power.
From the award-winning author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia comes a new journey, following four 19th century elephants marched from the East African coast towards Congo to tell a heartbreaking story of folly and colonial greed.
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy.
In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century.
Over seven centuries ago, a young legal scholar from Tangier set out on a pilgrimage-only to embark on one of the greatest exploratory odysseys in human history.
Long before caravans carved their paths into Africa's Golden Ages, a small band of early travelers dared to confront a world no human had ever crossed-the vast, unforgiving Sahara in its most ancient form.
In the parched savanna of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, where the sun bleaches the South East District and the Notwane River is more a memory than a flow, a vision took root in 1936.
For too long, the story of ancient feminine power along the Nile has been told through a single face — the serene, iconic profile of Egypt's Nefertiti, whose limestone bust has become the universal symbol of ancient queenship.
Volume 2 of Three Wise Monkeys explores Catholic Mozambique's role in the leisure economy of Protestant South Africa, as a place where bachelor miners and Randlords alike could project their fantasies of subtropical exotica, whether in the raucous bars and brothels of the port or in the development of the upmarket Polana Hotel and the vision of segregated 'tourist zones' for race-conscious Rand holidaymakers.
Volume 1 of Three Wise Monkeys explores the Portuguese colonisation of Mozambique, and the gradual transformation of the colony into a reservoir of cheap labour, first during the Atlantic slave trade and then during the rise of the voracious Rand mining industry.
The Dead Will Arise tells the story of Nongqawuse, the young Xhosa girl whose prophecy of the resurrection of the dead lured an entire people to death by starvation.
Southern Africa's first people communities are the groups of hunter-gatherers and herders, representing the oldest human lineages in Africa, who migrated from as far as East Africa to settle in what is now Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.
In January 1900, galvanised by the daring of the Boers in taking on imperial Britain, the young Russian officer Yevgeny Avgustus set off for the Transvaal to fight in the Anglo-Boer War.
In die vroeë 1940's het die charismatiese Hans van Rensburg duisende volgelinge na die Ossewabrandwag gelok en die regering van Jan Smuts gekonfronteer oor sy deelname aan die Tweede Wêreldoorlog.
Sansibar boomt als Urlaubsdestination, seit die Insel 2020 fur coronafrei erklart wurde und damit Tausende TouristInnen anlockte, die Infrastruktur und Leben der Einheimischen auf den Kopf stellten.
Khalid ibn Hamid and the Great Berber Revolt of 740 ADIn 740 AD, a Zenata Berber chieftain named Khalid ibn Hamid al-Zanati led a coalition of North African tribes in one of the most consequential military campaigns of the medieval world, and then vanished from history as completely as he had entered it.
