A Lost Boy Found

An African Proverb says"it takes a village to raise a child,"In this story, it takes two countries.

Letters from Egypt

A collection of letters written during a journey to Egypt describing the author's views on the country and its history and people

David Livingstone

David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire. Yet his career suffered many setbacks during his own lifetime, and since his death his reputation has swung...

The Grand Slave Emporium

For 143 years, Cape Coast Castle on the 'Gold Coast' of present-day Ghana was, in the words of one of its governors, the 'Grand Emporium' of the British slave trade. From this pretty, whitewashed, bui...

No Regrets

The Story of an African Famine

This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The ana...

Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War

The West African National Secretariat (WANS) has almost been forgotten by history. A pan-Africanist movement founded in 1945 by Kwame Nkrumah and colleagues in London and France, WANS campaigned for i...

Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081

The Byzantine Empire was almost always ready to fight, and often fought for its life. During much of its history its provinces were military districts called themes, and acclamation by the army, not c...

West Africa : Word, Symbol, Song

This bold, challenging and celebratory new book accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library - the first in the UK to explore in such detail the vibrant cultural history of this complex and c...

Cleopatra

Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, but our image of her is largely gleaned from the film...

From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi

In 1994, while nations everywhere stood idly by, 800,000 people were slaughtered in eight weeks in Rwanda. Arriving as U.S. Ambassador to neighboring Burundi a few weeks later, Bob Krueger began drawi...

Moroccan Mirages

Moroccan Mirages - Agrarian Dreams and deceptions 1912-1986