Darfur Sultanate
A History
ISBN: PB: 9781805267027,
ISBN: HB: 9781850658535,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2027
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
This text presents an analytical narrative of Darfur, from the beginnings of its recorded history to the present. Three themes dominate: Darfur's complex history and its equally complex ethnic and ecological issues. The various phases of Darfur's his...
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40.00 GBP
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Great Groundnut Fiasco
Colonial East Africa and the Downfall of a Labour Government
ISBN: HB: 9781805266730,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2027
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 black&white illus.
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 black&white illus.
The fascinating story of Labour's efforts to feed post-war Britain by leveraging its African colonies - and the enduring political consequences of the Scheme's failure
Britain in 1946 was a bruised and miserable nation. Despite its victory in World...
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25.00 GBP
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Bitter Sweet
The Story of West Africa Through the Kola Nut
ISBN: HB: 9781805266686,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
248 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
248 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The beautifully written history of a uniquely West African nut with a truly global story.
The kola nut is a seed indigenous to West Africa, a seed that ancient caravan travellers chewed to survive their harsh desert journeys, the "Cola" in Coca-Cola...
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20.00 GBP
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Skull in the Versailles Treaty
Chief Mkwawa, Human Remains and the Violence of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9781805265689,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
How the looted skull of Tanzanian Chief Mkwawa became a tool to justify colonial power and silence anticolonial resistance.
In 1891, Tanzanian Chief Mkwawa began an epic war of resistance against German colonialism. After defeating in battle the lar...
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La Francafrique
The Global History of an Idea
ISBN: PB: 9781805266853,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A fresh exploration of the post-colonial relationship between France and Africa, challenging long-held assumptions about French influence in the continent's political life.
The term "Francafrique" describes a system of domination which has secured F...
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30.00 GBP
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State in Relief
Civil Servants and Disaster Governance in Malawi
ISBN: PB: 9781805266846,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2026
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Shows how civil servants navigate duties and dependencies as the aid-reliant Malawian state struggles to recover from disasters.
In March 2019, one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere to date wreaked havoc across several Af...
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27.00 GBP
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Picking Sides
Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army
ISBN: PB: 9781787388178,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2026
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Argues that an understanding of the origins of ethnic politics in Nigeria requires a rigorous historical and sociological study of the ethnicisation of the colonial army.
Nigeria's colonial history matters. It shaped the destinies of hundreds of eth...
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30.00 GBP
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Country That Does Not Exist
A History of Somaliland
ISBN: PB: 9781805264422,
ISBN: HB: 9781787382039,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2025
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
In his inimitable prose, Prunier conveys how one of the world's newest nations came into being and survived, against all odds.
The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different pow...
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45.00 GBP
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Cabo Verde and the Creole South Atlantic
A New History
ISBN: HB: 9781805264293,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2025
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The first general history of the archipelago available in English, set within a broader regional, oceanic and global tapestry.
The Cabo Verde Islands are now a popular tourist destination but, guide books apart, there is little in print in English t...
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30.00 GBP
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Bonds of Freedom
Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300263206,
Yale University Press,
October 2025
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 22 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 22 black&white illus.
The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage.
"The Bonds of Freedom" tells the forgotten story of people seized from slave ships by maritime patrols, "liberated...
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35.00 GBP
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