African History

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...