Join author, guide and veteran African traveler Peter Baxter on a journey of historical discovery through South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Malawi and Tanzania. Follow the Livingstone Trail, the Rhodesian Pioneers, the Great Trek, the East and West Africa Campaigns of WWI, the Anglo/Boer War, the Rhodesian Civil War and the guerrilla conflicts of Mozambique and Angola.

In the year 1488 a fragile flotilla of Portuguese caravels rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first Europeans to record a voyage on the Indian Ocean. A few years later a second Portuguese expedition succeeded by the same route in reaching India. The East India trade had begun. After the Portuguese came the Dutch, who is 1562 established a settlement at the Cape to service passing ships of the Dutch East India Company, and after them the British. By the turn of the 19th century almost no part of Africa was free from Old World domination. Two world wars would test and challenge European colonialism, while the cold war would nurture the rise of militant nationalism to challenge foreign, minority rule across the continent. In 1994 South Africa became the last, free nation of bothAfrica and the world, laying to rest almost 300 years of white rule, and closing a dark and painful chapter in the history of black Africa.

Relics of this stormy epoch remain visible across the continent. From the deep rooted flavor of Islam in Tanzania to the patois Portuguese spoken in Mozambique and Angola. In quiet corners the names of Livingstone, Speke and Stanley still resonate, while the battlefields of empire are scattered across the region from the Cape to Nairobi.

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