African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's seminal The Wre...

Selected as one of '100 Notable African Books of 2022' in Brittle Paper A leading African political philosopher's searing intellectual and moral c...

When northern Kenyans find elephant bones, they lay down blossoms and branches as a mark of respect, honouring their crucial connection with the wi...

Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed, yet enduringly neglected. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai desert...

This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, S...

An Economist Best Book of 2021 Artificial Intelligence is going to war. Intelligent military systems are already reshaping conflict-from the cha...

After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nati...

Zimbabwe's party-internal 'coup' of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe's death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced ...

The Great Indian Food Trip is an entertaining, erudite adventure of eating, drinking and travelling. This is how Zac O'Yeah has come to understand ...

'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. ...

Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today....

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year A rich h...

What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, whe...