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Aspects of Colonial Tanzanian History is a collection of essays that examines the lives and experiences of both colonizers and the colonized during colonial rule in what is today known as Tanzania.

One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write.

This book demonstrates the place of women's movements during a defining period of contemporary Zimbabwe.

The celebrated Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide relates here his experience of  living in the United States where he has been based teaching and writing since 1996.

The traumatized woman who dies of grief, the girl whose dream to become a doctor is thwarted, the little girl who raises a vulnerable family of little children because her parents and all her relat

Writing Lives, a collection of short stories, featuring  Lawrence Hoba, Tendai Huchu, Tendai Machingaidze, Nevanji Madanhire, Daniel Mandishona, Christopher Mlalazi, Blessing Musariri, Chiedza Muse

The sequel to the award-winning Writing Still, this new collection of stories paints an engaging—and sometimes challenging—picture of contemporary life and concerns in Zimbabwe.

Much has been said over the last decade about the forcible eviction of the white farmers in Zimbabwe, less about the plight of the farm-workers, while the voice of the new settlers, and militia man

McGuffey Readers were bestsellers only surpassed in America by the Bible and Websters Dictionary.

Frank Fiske was a young boy in 1890 when he moved to Fort Yates on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where Sitting Bull was being held in a form of house arrest.

Occupation and Insurgency details German policies toward civilians and captured military forces in the Soviet Union from 1941–1945 and examines them in the context of the laws of war.

"I'll sue you!" In America's litigious society, everyone needs  to know a few basics to avoid being snowed, cowed and generally abused.

In The Pyramid Age, Northern Irish historian Emmet Sweeney provides evidence suggesting the pyramids were not built around 2350 BC, as is currently thought, but only around 800 BC.

I have long believed that the most comprehensive portrait of historical figures might be seen in their personal correspondence and journal entries.

In an incisive view of the relationship between Africa and the West, the author, who holds diplomas from the London School of Economics and the London School of Journalism, suggests that the aid ma