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Plongez dans la riche histoire africaine, des routes de l'or aux crises géopolitiques qui secouent le Sahel actuel. Parfait pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien, ce récit captivant retrace l'évolution millénaire d'une région carrefour stratégique. Laissez-vous transporter par une narration...

Dieser packende Bericht zur Zeitgeschichte zeigt den brutalen Kampf zwischen staatlicher Gewalt und mutigem Widerstand. Erlebe die komplexe Entwicklung einer zutiefst gespaltenen Nation von den dunklen Wurzeln des Kolonialismus bis zu den ersten freien Wahlen. Als fesselnde historische Analyse...

Packende afrikanische Geschichte: Zehn historische Wendepunkte offenbaren den dramatischen Kampf um Macht und Freiheit. Ob auf dem täglichen Arbeitsweg oder beim konzentrierten Zuhören am Abend, diese tiefgründige Reise zieht dich sofort in die komplexen Dynamiken einer Weltregion im...

Rétablissez la vérité historique sur cette métropole africaine médiévale effacée par des siècles de déni colonialiste. Parfait pour vos trajets quotidiens ou vos moments d'apprentissage, ce récit immersif vous plonge au cœur d'une ingénierie de pierre sèche inégalée du onzième au...

Dieses fesselnde historische Sachbuch beleuchtet den systematischen Terror hinter Europas grausamstem Kolonialreich. Perfekt für konzentrierte Hörstunden beim Pendeln, entfaltet sich hier eine erschütternde Chronik afrikanischer Geschichte. Begleite komplexe politische Umbrüche, die tief...

Explorez mille ans d'histoire africaine et les luttes géopolitiques qui ont forgé un géant économique moderne. Des réseaux transsahariens à l'émergence de l'or noir, plongez dans une fresque historique captivante, idéale pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens d'une culture générale...

Plongez dans l'histoire africaine épique où rois millénaires et foi inébranlable brisent les empires coloniaux. Suivez trois millénaires de luttes pour la souveraineté au cœur des hautes terres, loin des mythes figés d'une indépendance pacifique. Ce récit historique immersif retrace...

Dieses packende historische Sachbuch zeigt, wie rücksichtsloser Kolonialismus einen ganzen Kontinent für immer spaltete. Tauche auf dem täglichen Weg zur Arbeit tief in eine dramatische Epoche ein, in der europäische Mächte am Reißbrett über das Schicksal von Millionen entschieden. Es ist...

Bloomsbury presents Anansi's Gold by Yepoka Yeebo, read by Jude Owusu. Winner of the Jhalak Prize & Plutarch Award | A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023 ‘Fabulously entertaining’ Daily Telegraph | ‘Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.’s...

Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa. 

In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart songs from sun bleached rocks.

Uncover the epic rise and fall of ancient West Africa’s most powerful civilization, a legendary empire forged in gold. Perfect for an engaging daily commute or an afternoon of deep focus, this immersive historical narrative transports you directly to the unforgiving Sahara and vibrant Sahelian...

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. Lead researcher Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid.

After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.  

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of Normandy ‘44 comes a major new history of one of World War II’s most crucial campaigns. Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history...

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is credited with driving through the deal between the apartheid government and the African National Congress that was at the heart of South Africa’s democratic constitution. He was the ANC’s lead negotiator and the man who persuaded one of the most recalcitrant racist governments in the world to buy into a settlement based on one of its most enlightened bills of rights. But once the ink had dried on the constitution, Ramaphosa found himself politically sidelined.

In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows the trail of discoveries about human origins made by scientists over the last hundred years, recounting their intense rivalry, personal feuds, and fierce controversies, as well as their feats of skill and endurance. The results have been momentous. Scientists have identified more than 20 species of extinct humans. They have firmly established Africa as the birthplace not only of humankind but also of modern humans.

In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was...

Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country.

A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures and isolated tribes of the world's fourth island: Madagascar. An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar but it's too big, too eccentric, and too impenetrable to be truly understood...