Africa

Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar leads an army that controls most of Libya, stands at the gates of Tripoli, and is threatening to overthrow the Government of National Accord. Backed by the powerful Libyan tribes, Khalifa Haftar has also won the backing of...

One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year"One of the smartest young writers of her generation."--Book RiotFrom New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing Morgan Jerkins, a powerful...

One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn't Put Down"One of the smartest young writers of her generation."--Book RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing--a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed...

In July of 1994, Leading Seaman Derrick Nearing, a military medic, is urgently deployed to Rwanda, a country he has never heard of, sent on a mission halfway around the world that will colour the rest of his life. In the previous months, Rwanda has lost...

In July of 1994, Leading Seaman Derrick Nearing, a military medic, is urgently deployed to Rwanda, a country he has never heard of, sent on a mission halfway around the world that will colour the rest of his life. In the previous months, Rwanda has lost...

Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span...

For many African Americans who grew up in the pre-civil rights era, the segregated community was usually referred to as a village. This was the origination of the phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child." The voices that came out of the village were...

My name is Debra Lynn Heagy. My family moved to various places in the United States and Europe. My dad, Lt. Col. Carleton L. Johnson was in the Air Force and had many interesting assignments in various parts of the world. My mother, Sharon Rose Seagrave...

These thrilling, whimsically and action packed anthology of adventurous stories bring to life some vital aspects of traditional African culture. These wonderful African traditional stories offer a rare glimpse into a portion of African traditional...

Vincere! presents an overview of the counterinsurgency operations carried out by the Italian Royal Army from 1922 to 1941 in Libya and Ethiopia. Based on ten years of study conducted in the Italian archives and on the ground, this volume looks at a...

"An elegant and expansive history" (New York Times) of African American women's pursuit of political power--and how it transformed America  In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American...

The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling within their boundaries and restricted their rights to...