African History

This comprehensive military atlas covers every aspect of the Boer War in some 230 full-colour maps, diagrams and detailed ORBATs. Maps covering the...

The Concubine, Elechi Amadis most celebrated work of fiction, paints a picture of pre-colonial life in rural Eastern Nigeria and explores the bound...

Ghanas Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumahs Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism examines Ghanas foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on ...

The Complex Interplay between Power, Politics, and African Agency: The Philosophy of Toyin Falola by Serges Djoyou Kamga examines the experience of...

This is the first comprehensive exploration of African ethics covering everything from normative ethics and applied ethics, to meta-ethics and meth...

In 1978, Congolese inventor David Wabeladio Payi (19582013) proposed a new writing system, called Mandombe. Since then, Mandombe has grown and now ...

Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of every...

The ramifications of election violence in Zimbabwe are huge and ongoing, and the loss of lives in the quest for democratic rights might be regarded...

The interconnectedness between sport and colonialism has long been a matter of interest to sport historians. Consequently, a large number of schola...

Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regi...

Despite Chaka being considered an African literary masterpiece, Thomas Mofolo has paradoxically been dismissed by critics as a mission boy who wrot...

The introduction of modern forestry in Tanzania during the German colonial period was accompanied by massive encroachments on the land use rights o...

This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's...

What does reconciliation mean and entail? Is collective reconciliation for entire societies or nations possible? This book aims to present it as a ...

One of the first books to examine the wide breadth of the African Diaspora and its influence on international fashion. Tracing the local and global...

In Sudan the first ceramic containers appeared at the beginning of the 9th millennium BC, with the earliest dates c. 8700 BC from Sorourab 2, in Ce...

For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the othe...

In Dialogue of the Heart, Fr Martin McGee presents a timely and heartfelt plea encouraging Christians everywhere to cultivate harmonious relationsh...

In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, an...

In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, an...