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When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a...
Inside Africa's Most Repressive State
The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, ye...
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe sharply divides opinion and embodies the contradictions of his country’s history and political culture. As a sy...
The First Struggle for a Non-racial South Africa
Setting sail -- South Africa's troubled century -- Scorched earth and broken promises -- From war to Union -- London: friends and allies -- London: ca...
The war in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray began in November 2020. It inflicted more casualties than any other contemporary conflict in the wor...
Pulling the strings in the battle for power
In this timely work, WHO RULES SOUTH AFRICA?, highly regarded authors Paul Holden and Martin Plaut analyse the political elites that battle daily for ...
African Soldiers in the Second World War
Based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of over half-a-million African troops who served with the British Army in campaig...
The communist party in South Africa began as a revolutionary movement. In exile in the 1960s and 1970s it took on significance its numbers never warra...
Black Workers, Their Unions and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Based on research and interviews with workers and union leaders in South Africa, this book examines and analyses the the history of the black working ...
The Conflict Between Eritrea and Ethiopia
The war that broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea in May 1998 is one of the bloodiest of recent times. yet prior to the fighting these neighbours we...
Out of the Laager?
This pamphlet is the first Fabian contribution to the debate on how Britain should respond to the dramatic recent changes in South Africa. South Afric...
A Jacana Pocket Biography
"Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is an African leader who sharply divides opinion. As man and leader he has come to embody the contradictions of hi...
The truth about post-apartheid South Africa, the West's gateway into Africa, and its most influential and yet conflicted nation....
This elegant publication visits over 30 remarkable locations within half-an-hour's stroll of Kentish Town station, and tells their curious stories. An...
Cabral, Machel, Mugabe, Sirleaf
This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Amílcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. A...
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Can the Frontline States Escape Apartheid's Stranglehold?
Plenty of people think they know Camden ... but what about the spiritualist temple that Sherlock Holmes helped build or the folk dance revival that st...
Hampstead Heath is under attack! A developer plots to build houses on London's best-loved open space. Only Hamster and his friend Vole are in the know...