Africa

It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....

A sweeping history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people....

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces....

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....

In "Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State," Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop boldly calls for the unification of Black African nations.....

Martin Meredith has revised this classic history to incorporate important recent developments....

A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the 20th century....

From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda....

Bigger than Watergate! Bigger than Iran-Contra! Ten times bigger than both, said one representative. The Bengahzi scandal may have been covered up by the White House, but the truth is about to come out....

It's a Continent aims to counter the misconception that Africa is a country by breaking down this vast, beautiful and complex continent into regions and countries....

The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela’s memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency....

The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of the Broederbond....

The Inheritors follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern country has ever faced....

John Prendergast co-writes a compelling book with Fidel Bafilemba revealing the way in which the people and resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been used throughout the last five centuries to build, develop, advance, and safeguard the United States and Europe....

The first definitive account of Boko Haram’s abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, their years in captivity, and why this story still matters - by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay....

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls taken captive by the terrorist group Boko Haram....

The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round. But the celebration would not last. Drawing on extraordinary personal stories of identity, liberation, and survival, this narrative tells an epic story of paradise won and then lost....

What happens after you click tweet? The heart-stopping and definitive account of one of the most intriguing chapters of the "War on Terror"....

With his 2003 announcement of a program known as PEPFAR, George W. Bush launched an astonishingly successful American war against a global pandemic. PEPFAR played a key role in slashing HIV cases and AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the brink of epidemic control....

Destructive forces have been eroding the University of Cape Town, Africa’s leading university. This audiobook tells the sad, true tale of what has been transpiring....

Written in 1983, The Africans is a remarkable and very personal commentary on the people of this vast continent....

Dreams We Shared is an inspiring political memoir of a young dissident and those he associated with in the struggle against a mafia-style political...

This is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism....

What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissene Habre, the former despot of Chad, terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight years in power—while enjoying full American and Western support....

In this account full of mind-blowing revelations, Janvier Tchouteu exposes the mechanism of election-rigging in a way that has not been seen before. It is a journey that takes us to the heart of voter fraud and election-rigging, revealing how they are not only the fundamental killers of civil rights, free and fair elections, and the rule of law, but how they also take countries down the path of autocracy, dictatorship and crime against humanity. For the first time, we get to understand how the country variously described as the “Microcosm of Africa” and “Africa in Miniature” is held...

In 1968, two young medical students, Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele, fell in love while dreaming of a life free from oppression and racial discrimination. Their love story is also the story of the founding of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) by a group of 15 principled and ambitious students at the University of Natal in Durban in the early 1970s.

In 2010, government spokesperson Themba Maseko was called to the Gupta family’s Saxonwold compound and asked by Ajay Gupta to divert the government’s entire advertising budget to the family’s media company. When Maseko refused to do so, he was removed from his position and forced to leave the public service. The life of this once-proud civil servant would never be the same again.

This account of Muammar Gaddafi takes us to his rise to power, to the moments when he was in the spotlight, and then to his travails and his swift elimination from the geopolitical developments in Libya in a procession that plunged the country into a turmoil that it is yet to recover from. With insight, lucidity, impartiality, breadth, and diligence, Janvier T, Chando manages to delineate the intricate threads that weaved the controversial character of Muammar Gaddafi. He not only finds the truth from the disparate accounts about the Libyan strongman, he shed light on him in a unique manner...

As the unpopular regime of Cameroonian head of State Paul Biya cracks down on a popular protest by the people of the English-speaking regions of the country, the world wonders why a country that is Africa’s Number One Football (Soccer) Playing Nation, one that just won the continent’s most prestigious and most coveted sports trophy (The African Cup of Nations), and one that the powers that be would like to sell as the oasis of peace in a turbulent continent, would undermine the part of the country that realized its reunification. The area that was Südwesten Kamerun when the ...

This thoughtful account of Patrice Lumumba finds that the swift elimination of the legend from the geopolitical developments involving his country plunged Congo into a turmoil that it is yet to recover from. Janvier T. Chando gives shape to Congo’s deep trauma as the private possession of King Leopold of Belgium, later as a Belgian colony and afterwards as a so-called independent state wretched by a tug-of-war between the cold war rivals. That resulted in the inhuman dictatorship of pro-Western Mobutu Sese Seko, in wars during which millions of Congolese died, in the impoverishment of the...

When it comes to Cameroon, there seems to be an international conspiracy of silence regarding the destiny of this land variously described as “Africa in Miniature” or “The Microcosm of Africa”. It is as if it truly embodies the haunted existence of Africa. When talking about dictators, the media giants apparently fail to mention the world’s longest serving non-royal head of state---Paul Biya of Cameroon, as if there is something to hide or as if there is something shameful about the Biya story and the anachronistic system sustained by France and its allies, which includes the ...

As other African nations forge ahead tapping on the resources of their Diaspora, the French-imposed minority system in Cameroon is unique in limiting the economic, political and social influence of its Diaspora, seeing it as a threat to the mafia dictatorship. Even though it is variously described as Africa's most educated Diaspora percentage wise, this resourceful Cameroonian Diaspora risks giving up on Cameroon as the nation slowly heads into abyss.

The people of Burkina Faso have put a stop to a script devised in the Élysée Palace in Paris by the French political mafia where France's puppet presidents in Africa can change their country's constitutions at will to ensure that their children take over following their deaths (Omar Bongo/Ali Bongo of Gabon, Gnassingbé Eyadéma/Faure Gnassingbé of Togo etc), to ensure that they prolong their rule (Paul Biya of Cameroon, Idris Derby, Sassou Nguessou etc), and where these puppets can extend their autocratic rules through masquerades called elections that see them wining despite a more ...

Three attempts have been made by Cameroonian patriots in the history of the land to change the status quo and usher in freedom, democracy, liberty, prosperity and the rule of law. Unfortunately, the Cameroonians patriots otherwise known as the Kamerunists or union-nationalists, never succeeded. Today, the Cameroonian struggle against the French-imposed system under the leadership of Paul Biya is in its fourth Phase, haunted by the lessons of: • The First Phase of the Struggle where the German colonial army defeated it and executed Marin Paul Samba, Rudolf Duala Manga Bell and the rest of ...

Kamerun, Cameroun or Cameroon, a former German colony with a vibrant economy that Germany lost to Britain and France following its defeat in the First World War, a territory partitioned by Britain and France into British Cameroons (British Southern Cameroons and British Northern Cameroons) and French Cameroun, territories Kamerunian civic-nationalists sought to reunite and achieve independence for in a quest that was suppressed by French-led forces, resulting in the loss of half a million Cameroonian lives from 1956-1971. France’s clamp down on French Camerounian civic-nationalists ...

An excerpt from a February 20, 1962 article in the Guardian Newspaper read “The unification of French-speaking Cameroun with the former British-administered Southern Cameroons is a ‘unique experience’ in Africa..." The reunification of the two territories marked a milestone in the cause espoused by Cameroonian civic-nationalists to reunite the lands of the 1884-1916 former German colony of Kamerun that was partitioned by Britain and France following the defeat of Germany in the First World War. It was one step forward in realizing the dream of "THE NEW CAMEROON", even though ...

Cameroon, the microcosm of Africa is a country that is still haunted by an unfinished liberation struggle where those in power are not the people who asked for independence, where the two heads of state in its entire history have not been the choice of the people, but rather the choice of France in a political mafia setup or system that keeps the human-and-material-resources-rich country bogged down in underdevelopment. When the wind of change generated by Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika started rattling the monolithic systems and dictatorships of the world, pundits expected ...

Cameroon, Africa's No 1 soccer (football) giant, is the only country in Africa where those who advocated for its independence and reunification have never acceded to power; it is the only country in Africa where the people have never really had a voice in choosing their political leadership. Cameroon has only had two heads of state in the last five and a half decade, all puppets put in place by its former master France, who wrestled part of the territory from Germany (the former colonial master) during the First World War in 1916. Why has the country been stuck in political bondage when the...

Cameroon's chronic economic, social and political decline over the past six decades of the system imposed by France following General Charles De Gaulle's return to power in France in 1958 promises to place the country among the bottom performers on indices in Africa. What is to be done to change the system? Who does the responsibility for the change rests on? Who would be the overwhelming losers if the anachronistic French-imposed system currently under the regime of Cameroonian dictator Paul Biya persists? In this account are some of the answers to the above question to the above questions.