African History

Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its border...

Under chapter headings such as Sources of Africas cultural fragility, Thinking differently about African institutions, and Liberating human capital...

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the mur...

For more than four decades, Libya has been something of an enigma to outsiders. Ruled by the despotic and unstable Muammar Gaddafi since he led a m...