Africa Audio & Video

The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa.

Forty years ago, Paul Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush.

Start speaking Arabic in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Survival Phrases - Arabic, a completely new way to travel with confidence! Survival Phrases.

The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics.

As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt.

Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway's remarkable re-creation of his two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, is rich in description and refreshingly alive to the character, culture, and customs of the country.

Dr. Livingstone, I presume?....

Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn't leave home.

Michael Palin is off again, this time to the seemingly desolate Sahara Desert.

A short travelogue of Egypt, this book was written as part of an early 20th century series of travelogues on exotic destinations.