The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the

This volume looks at developments in Africa during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A History of Africa is a thorough narrative history of the continent from its beginnings to the twenty-first century. Long established at the forefront of Afric

Reflecting on South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It presents South Africa's past

South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and