African History

One of the worlds most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and 30s, a vibra...

This is an authoritative companion that is global in scope, recognizing the presence of African Diaspora artists across the world. It is a bold and...

This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa. Grounded in oral history, the book examines the acquire...

This book, the second of two volumes, focuses on the conceptualization of Indigenous Knowledge and Curriculum, Ethiopian/African Philosophy and the...

This book, the first of two volumes, focuses on the conceptualization of Indigenous Knowledge and Curriculum, Ethiopian/African Philosophy and the ...

Statuomania overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the ...

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of ones commitment to ones freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom ...

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of ones commitment to ones freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom ...

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart. It has the longest ...

The Maghreb - the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya - is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. To...

The objective of this edited book is to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Africa through an integra...

The humanitarian movement against Leopolds violent colonisation of the Congo emerged out of Europe, but it depended at every turn on African input....

This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through...

Herewith an historical journey from the third century to the multiethnic metropolis of the twentieth century, bringing together two diverse histori...

In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism ...

As a trained nurse, newly married to the son of the Governor of Rhodesia during the UDI years, Susan writes compellingly about bringing up a family...

In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive...

Disintegrating Empire examines the entangled histories of three threads of decolonization: the French welfare state, family migration from Algeria,...

Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage...

As climate crisis ensues, a transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent. However, some renewable energy developments are propagating injustice...

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the f...

In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine's possibilities and limitations at one of its most importa...

In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine's possibilities and limitations at one of its most importa...

Bus stations are among the most prominent sites of social and economic activity in Africa. Integral to transport, trade, and exchange over distance...

For two generations after independence, Americans viewed the Mediterranean as the new commercial frontier. From common sailors to wealthy merchants...

This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produc...

Unbounded Jews is the story of Denmark's (failed) engagement and exchange with Morocco in the 18th century. The story is told through two Jewish fa...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...