Africa

Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern AfricaTycho van der Hoog. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2025. £25.00. 368 pp.Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan StateMahmood Mamdani. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025. £27.95/$32.50. 352 pp.Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became AfricanSara Byala. London: C. Hurst & Company, 2023. £30.00. 328 pp.Africa, the EU and the Samoa Agreement: Exploring African Agency amid the ‘New Scramble’Sophia Price and Mark Langan, eds. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2025. £155.00/$200.00. 198 pp.An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to IndependenceZeinab Badawi. London: WH Allen, 2024. £25.00. 544 pp.