African History

Following a surge in oil revenues in the 1970s, Nigeria became one of Africas most rapidly developing nations. In Nigerian Capitalism, Sayre P. Sch...

Zanzibari Muslim Moderns is a historical study of Zanzibar during the interwar years. This was a period marked by rapid intellectual and social cha...

Examining aesthetic connections between the works of more than 50 Black artists from throughout the global diaspora This book was born out of frus...

**Winner of the Guardian First Book award**'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan g...

Food stood at the centre of Mussolinis attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking to redirect the surplus of It...

This work examines travellers accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of ...

First published in 1978, Britain and the Politics of Rhodesian Independence is a study of British policy towards Rhodesia and an account of the fai...

In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essent...

A British couple with their two young children leave dreary, post war Britain in 1952 and emigrate to Kenya in the hope of a better life. But the B...

To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning point in world history is a vast understatement. This bloody and protracted conflict pitted two ...

This book sets out to probe, explore and evaluate the betrayal of anticolonial nationalism in Kenya. Contemporary Kenyas emergence is rooted in the...

As a young Foreign Service officer, Frederic Hunter was assigned to the Congo in 1963, three years after independence. He expected to encounter hea...

Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovati...