An exploration of how Jihadist forces are responsible for instigating and escalating conflicts in countries across Africa.
Al J Venter Book order
Al J Venter is a war correspondent and documentary filmmaker whose extensive career has taken him to the heart of numerous global conflicts. His reporting from Africa's and the Middle East's most harrowing wars, from the Nigerian Civil War to the turmoil in Lebanon, demonstrates an unflinching commitment to chronicling the brutal realities of combat. Venter's work is marked by its raw realism and a keen insight into human resilience and brutality in the face of violence. Through his books and documentaries, he offers essential testimony on pivotal moments in modern history.






- 2025
- 2023
From a small town in Mpumalanga to dodging bullets in war-torn Al J. Venter, the oldest war correspondent still active, bore witness to some of humanity’s biggest atrocities – and has lived to tell the tale. In the 1960s, with little money, a sense of adventure and a healthy dollop of chutzpah, Venter set out overland from Cape Town to London. Since then, Venter has reported from 25 conflict zones. In his memoir, Venter masterfully recounts his experiences.
- 2018
Nuclear Terror
- 312 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Al Venter is a recognised expert in recent military history, particularly on nuclear weapons. In Nuclear Terror, he assesses the developments over the past 10 years of different countries in their attempts to build a nuclear programme.
- 2018
Biafra Genocide
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Latest edition to the Cold War series, this time focussing on The Biafra War.
- 2018
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere-the majority linked to al Qaeda-are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very little surfaces about a festering insurgency that has been on the go for six years in West Africa under the acronym of AQIM, or al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
- 2018
Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended, but memories die hard. Biafra's war was modern Africa's first extended conflict & lasted almost three years.
- 2018
Sierra Leone: Revolutionary United Front
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Outlines the cause and effect of Sierra Leone's eleven-year guerrilla war - that left 200,000 people dead.
- 2018
Angolan War of Liberation
- 136 pages
- 5 hours of reading
The story of how an ailing colonial power comprehensively defeated a communist-inspired insurgency.
- 2017
Al-Qaeda, through its surrogate insurgent force al-Shabaab remains a major player in Somalia, receiving its support from Iran, today a close ally of the Russians
- 2017
Lebanon
- 136 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Al Venter was rarely conventional in his approach to problems encountered in the Middle East. číst celé