307pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, hardback, d.w., Hurst & Co., London, 2025

ISBN: 9781805264026

A history of slavery in Africa, from the pharaohs to the present.

"Martin Plaut has combined his journalist's eye with scholarship and depth of understanding of Africa to bring to life, through the words of the enslaved, a compelling analysis of the complexity and scale of African enslavement and its continuing impact on current African areas of conflict." Mark Bowden, former UN Assistant Secretary General

"In masterly fashion, Unbroken Chains sweeps from the trans-Saharan slave trade through indigenous slavery in Ethiopia and Nigeria to the Indian Ocean trade and slavery today. A must-read for anyone interested in African enslavement." Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town

Martin Plaut is the BBC World Service's former Africa Editor. An adviser to the Foreign Office and the US State Department, he is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. His other books include Promise and Despair, the first struggle for a non-racial South Africa; Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, South Africa's first elected black politician and Understanding South Africa (with Carien du Plessis).

UNBROKEN CHAINS, a 5,000 year history of African enslavement

: Plaut (M.)

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