About Barnaby

Barnaby Phillips is an historian, award-winning journalist, lecturer and conservationist. He was a TV and radio reporter for 27 years, working for the BBC and Al Jazeera English, covering news and current affairs all over the world.

Barnaby grew up in Kenya and Switzerland, studied at Oxford and London Universities, and has spent much of his career in Africa. He has been based as a reporter in Mozambique, Angola, Nigeria, South Africa and Greece. He speaks French and Portuguese, (and Greek not as well as he should do). 

The African Kingdom of Gold- Britain and the Asante Treasure (2026)  is Barnaby’s third book. His second, Loot- Britain and the Benin Bronzes (2021) was an Art Newspaper and Prospect Magazine Book of the Year. His first, Another Man’s War- The Story of A Burma Boy in Britain’s Forgotten African Army (2014) was a Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year and an NPR Best Book of the Year.