African history

In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror in the mass killings of one group of people by another in Rwanda.

This Child Will Be Great is an inspirational memoir from Africa’s first elected female president about her improbable rise to international prominence.

Angola's civil war was the longest in Africa.

Die große Menge der Afrikawerke, welche in den letzten Jahren auf dem deutschen Büchermarkte erschienen sind, ließ auffallender Weise immer noch eine eigentliche Geschichte des Ostafrikanischen Aufstandes und seiner Niederwerfung vermissen.

"e;Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa"e; by Heinrich Barth is a sweeping, firsthand chronicle of exploration through the heart of the African continent during the mid-19th century, offering an extraordinary glimpse into a world largely unknown to Europeans at the time.

Using original sources the author weaves a number of themes into the sad personal story of Uganda's first president in his last exile, 1966-1969.

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Normally dealt with in a rather limited way, through the examination of a particular activity or geographical zone, the artisans of ancient North Africa are here, for the first time, the subject of an entire book.

An incisive look into the lives, politics, and horrible deeds of fifty-six of history's most notorious world leaders-and how they shaped our world for the worst.

The forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a crushing defeat on British imperial forces at Isandlwana in January 1879.

For centuries, Africa s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict.

In his long academic career, historian Andre Raymond has been one of the foremost scholars of urban history in the Arab world, and in particular of Cairo during the Ottoman period.

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.

The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 still intrigues both scholars and enthusiasts alike more than 130 years after it was fought.

Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

‘I make no apologies for being a mercenary soldier.

Tsenhor was born about 550 BCE in the city of Thebes (Karnak).

For centuries, Africa s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict.

A concise, gripping history of the resource-rich yet poverty-wracked nation's instability and military conflict in the 1960s.

The forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a crushing defeat on British imperial forces at Isandlwana in January 1879.

In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world's population.

This lively, firsthand account of an army trapped in a hostile land, cut off from reinforcement and facing powerful enemies, is offered in English for the first time.