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African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892

William G. Stairs - History - 1998 - 468 pages
A record of the experiences of a young Canadian caught up in European expansion into Africa in the 1880s, African Exploits provides a disturbing record of William Stairs's two ...
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Dr. William Edward Dillon, Navy Surgeon in Livingstone's Africa

Julia Turner - Biography & Autobiography - 2014 - 264 pages
“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.” -Cicero It was the 1860s, and slave traders were slipping across the seas between Zanzibar and ...
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The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

Douglas Hamilton Johnson - South Sudan - 2003 - 260 pages
Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by long, recurring, and bloody civil wars. Most commentators have attributed the country's political and civil strife ...
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Scramble for Africa...

Thomas Pakenham - History - 1992 - 806 pages
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A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period

Jamil M. Abun-Nasr - History - 1987 - 474 pages
A new history of North Africa within the Islamic period from the Arab conquest to the present.
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Empire on the Nile: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1934

M. W. Daly - History - 2004 - 562 pages
Essential background for an understanding of the social and economic issues confronting the Sudan today.
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Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African ...

Randall L. Pouwels, Randall Lee Pouwels - History - 2002 - 292 pages
A major historical study of Islam among the Swahili.
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