Hampstead Heath is under attack! A developer plots to build houses on Londons best-loved open space. Only Hamster and his friend Vole are in the know. So can they save their homes and the Heath from this fiendish scheme? With the help of the wily crows and a regiment of moles, not to mention the assistance of a passing squirrel, Hamster and Vole fight back. But their vigilance drops, and the bulldozers are advancing across the precious land, digging gaping holes in the Heath. Is all lost? Will Hampstead be blotted out by the greed of the developer?

The struggle for freedom in South Africa goes back a long way. In 1909, a remarkable interracial delegation of South Africans traveled to London to lobby for a non-racialized constitution and franchise for all. Among their allies was Mahatma Gandhi, who later encapsulated lessons from the experience in his most important book, Hind Swaraj. Though the mission failed, the London debates were critical to the formation of the African National Congress in 1912.

With impeccable storytelling and rich character depictions, Martin Plaut describes the early quest for black franchise...

The struggle for freedom in South Africa goes back a long way. In 1909, a remarkable interracial delegation of South Africans traveled to London to lobby for a non-racialized constitution and franchise for all. Among their allies was Mahatma Gandhi, who later encapsulated lessons from the experience in his most important book, Hind Swaraj. Though the mission failed, the London debates were critical to the formation of the African National Congress in 1912.

With impeccable storytelling and rich character depictions, Martin Plaut describes the early quest for black franchise...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was an African leader who sharply divides opinion.