The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth Century Malawi (Cambridge 1987)
Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness (Polity Press, 1991)
Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in Noorthern Province, Zambia, 1890-1990 (with Henrietta L. Moore) (Heinemann and James Currey, 1995)
Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius (Duke University Press, 2004).
Professor of African History and Health. Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London.
