Zambezi
A History
ISBN: PB: 9781805263173,
ISBN: HB: 9781787387003,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
376 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus.
376 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus.
Traces the history of the peoples that have lived along this key African artery.
The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian...
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History of Namibia
From the Beginning to 1990
ISBN: PB: 9781805263180,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule - and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of Namibia in two decades, provides a fresh synthesis...
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Undoing a Revolution
Sudan and the Politics of Debt
ISBN: PB: 9781805263050,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
216 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
216 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Reveals how international finance has kept its grip in post-independence Sudan.
In 2019, a people's revolution ended the thirty-year reign of Sudan's military president Umar al-Bashir. A transitional government took power, led by esteemed internatio...
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Picking Sides
Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army
ISBN: PB: 9781787388178,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
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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I Feel No Peace
Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers
ISBN: PB: 9781911723929,
ISBN: HB: 9781787389311,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
272 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
272 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
Shortlisted for the 2024 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing
Longlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
A vivid, powerful portrayal of the Rohingya in exile, from an award-winning reporter.
Rohingya men, women and childr...
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Weaving Political Time in Morocco
The Imaginary of the State in the Neoliberal Age
ISBN: PB: 9781805262794,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
424 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
424 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Explores how neoliberal ideology and historic traditions of government come together in contemporary Morocco.
Analyses of state power in Morocco have always been mired in exoticism or exceptionalism. The Kingdom is said to be a prototype of politica...
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27.00 GBP
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African People's Quest for Freedom and Justice
A Political History of Eritrea 1941-1962
ISBN: HB: 9781911723790,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
536 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 illus.
536 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 illus.
A pathbreaking history of modern Eritrea under postwar international administration, shedding light on issues that rock the Horn of Africa to this day.
Like its African neighbours, Eritrea attained colonial statehood under a European power, in this...
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Comrades Beyond the Cold War
North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781805262787,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A pioneering account of how African revolutionaries benefitted from North Korean aid in their struggles for independence - and how they repay this support today.
North Korea was an important player in the decolonisation of Africa. Freedom fighters a...
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25.00 GBP
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Greater Tigray and the Mysterious Magnetism of Ethiopia
ISBN: PB: 9781805261643,
ISBN: HB: 9781805260233,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2024
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A history of the perennial struggle between Amhara and Tigray for hegemony in Ethiopia.
This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's very ancient...
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Maghreb Since 1800
A Short History (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781805261667,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2024
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The Maghreb - the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya - is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. Today the focus of popular uprisings for democracy and participation, it underwent long periods of coloni...
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