Africa
This enthralling account of a political murder in the Ugandan countryside in 1972 and the victim's son's efforts, 30 years later, to get a measure of justice is a highly readable narrative of a murder investigation and trial.
Reyntjens has written a perceptive account of a war whose origins lie in the advanced decay of the Congolese state at the end of Mobutu's 32-year reign and in the ethnic conflict in neighboring Burundi and Rwanda.
As Gibson's book reminds readers, land issues lie at the heart of racial politics in contemporary South Africa.
Edited by Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo
As Zimbabwe's political and economic collapse enters its second decade, this book summarizes the historical and structural factors that led to it.
