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The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya, from Borneo to Suez, the dominoes began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the late 1940s and 1950s was energised by the grant of independence to India, and the emergence of a credible indigenous intellectual and political caste that was poised to inherit control from the waning European imperial powers. The British on the whole...

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Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under the control of Victorian capitalist Sir George Taubman Goldie. It was handed over to indigenous rule in 1960 with the best of intentions and a profound hope on the part of the British Crown that it would become the poster child of successful politic...

It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counter-insurgency campaign fought between a mobile, motivated and highly trained Rhodesian security establishment and two constituted liberations movements ...

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Fiction writers share the secrets of their craft in essays geared for the serious writer

A giant-sized book perfect for show-and-tell, with a lively story in clear words and pictures.

A giant-sized book perfect for show-and-tell, with a lively story in clear words and pictures.

A giant-sized book perfect for show-and-tell, with a lively story in clear words and pictures.

This illustrated pull-the-lever board book is ideal for kindergarten kids, with its bright pictures of children just like them - can you guess who they are?

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An incisive look at French influence in Central Africa." Lt-Col Robert Brown, Soldier of Fortune magazine France in Centrafrique explores the pre- and post-colonial history of the Republic of Central Africa as well as giving the reader a taste of the country's involvement in World War II itself.

In an age when English-speaking peoples straddled the globe, this insightful book explores attitudes to race, and belonging.