African History

Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is known about their politi...

The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africa provides a comprehensive, current introduction to the key themes and debates concerning the hi...

Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Lib...

Offers a radical political interpretation of history that generates fresh insights into the emancipatory potential of ordinary Nigerians and their ...

This book offers a holistic and comprehensive assessment of the European Union's (EU) relations with Africa focusing on their historical, political...

History is rife with tales of fighting women. More often than not, these stories prove more legend than history. Dating back to the Amazons of anci...

At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin a cartel of largely European states effectively set the rules for the partition of Africa, an event whose his...

The efficiency of the Hutu killers in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 exceeded that of even the Nazi Holocaust. It happened in front of the world's ey...

This present volume presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 an...

Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elect...

Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 ele...

At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin a cartel of largely European states effectively set the rules for the partition of Africa, an event whose his...

Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by the species-rich diversity they contain. This book explores human...

Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century So...

As a teenager, Joseph Sebarenzi fled Rwanda, escaping a campaign of genocide that saw 800,000 Tutsis murdered in just ninety days. He returned to ...

When Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated scholars. Given the scale and uniqu...

Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William's Fort at Ouida...

Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair...

Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime...

State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the study of security issues and African states. This book br...

This book offers a novel, incisive and wide- ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and pol...

The liberatory sentiment that stoked the Arab Spring and saw the ousting of long-time Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak seems a distant memory. Democ...

Zimbabwe's recent history has been shaped by battles about who speaks for the nation, one fought out in struggles for control of political institut...

This book offers a much-needed corrective to dominant approaches to understanding political causality during episodes of intense social mobilisatio...

Boko Haram's appetite for exemplary violence and kidnapping women and girls has thrust it to the top of the global news agenda. In a few furious ye...

The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus decolonisation ...

Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then...

In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since...

In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. N...

This Present Darkness analyses how Nigeria acquired its unfortunate reputation as an epicentre of global illicit trade and organised crime. Celebra...

By the early evening, the irresolute and weakened Ramaphosa slate left no one unscathed not Mabuyane, not Lamola, not the Mkhize camp. The Ramapho...

Why do some countries hold elections that meet global democratic standards, while other countries do not? Electoral Commissions and Democratization...

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emer...

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emer...

Die Geschichte der kolonialen Veterinärmedizin illustriert nicht nur die Entstehung von Wissensbeständen durch die transimperiale Verflechtung mit ...

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond...

This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework ...

Winner, Prix Pierre Lafue Winner, Prix lycéen du livre dhistoire des Rendez-vous de lhistoire de Blois In the archives of the main institution in c...

Winner, Prix Pierre Lafue Winner, Prix lycéen du livre dhistoire des Rendez-vous de lhistoire de Blois In the archives of the main institution in c...

Innovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa. Sports in Ethiopia was always more than a means of useful recreation. It was also a...

This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and ...

Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against whi...