Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the past three decades. Why? Robert
Guest's fascinating book seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's …

Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches
to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since …

This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has
been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyond. The author illustrates important …

During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times,
David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than …

The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism--from Mugabe's
doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of apartheid. The Fate of Africa has been …

“For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright
Continent is a good place to start”(Reuters). Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience …

This book begins by looking at the peoples of Africa at the turn of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, and goes on to study the commercial and ideological penetration of …

Geologically speaking, southern Africa is without equal, a treasure house of valuable
minerals with a geological history dating back some 3 600 million years. In addition, the …

summary In this third edition of East Africa: An Introductory History, Robert M. Maxon revisits
the diverse eastern region of Africa, including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and …