African history

AFRICAN HISTORY FOR BEGINNERS explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts.

The captivating story of how a band of scientists has redrawn the genetic and behavioral lines that separate humans from our nearest cousins.

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

In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers––and fortune hunters––than the lost city of Timbuktu.

This WWII history examines Nazi air force operations in Egypt and Libya with more than 100 rare wartime photographs.

The title Drumbeat is rooted in the African culture of using the drum as a voice and a means of communication.

The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues-war, development, and youth-in new ways.

"e;Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014.

Far too many Americans, of all races, are unaware of the pivotal role that people of African descent have played in shaping the US and the world.

In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past.

A new study that challenges previous interpretations of post-Roman North Africa.

Kusasi is a three-hundred-pound male who could rip your arms and legs off like daisy petals if he wanted.