At least 45 million people are displaced and 1 million are stateless on the continent, according to the UN Refugees Agency, for reasons including war, conflict, persecution, colonial legacies, discrimination, and displacement. Statelessness is highest in Coté d’Ivore where the numbers range between 700,000-930,000. Africa’s largest...

The Cauldron, The Making of the Modern Middle East by the British Jewish historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore, is an astonishing achievement because of the number of countries whose histories the book distils since 1900. The press release from publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson includes a militarily concise...