African History

The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, ...

This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to appl...

The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young...

The surprising story of the wine industrys role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire.We owe to wine a blessing far more precious th...

A Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Africa surveys the significant reconstruction work undertaken in the social and political organization of sub-Sah...

Under the energetic but confused prodding of the activist ruler Ahmad Bey, Tunisia made its first effort to institute European-inspired political a...

Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apartheid regime as an intellect...

The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region...

The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony) is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1...

With forty accessible essays on the key intellectual contributions to Pan-Africanism, this volume offers readers a fascinating insight into the int...

This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Politiques in Brussels c...

The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to r...

In January 1885, the powers of Europe gathered in Berlin to set ground rules for dividing Africa and its lucrative natural resources among themselv...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to Worl...

An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa...

The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton export...

Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been report...

Shortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize Tells the story of how people struggled to define, refine, reform, and u...

Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chie...

In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and i...

A uniquely detailed portrayal of the formative years of Tanzania's first president and the influences that led him to enter politics. Julius Kamba...

Proposes a dynamic new approach to the production of knowledge on Africa, one that is global, multiple and heterogeneous, elucidating this through ...

The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and t...

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, th...

Explores various aspects of chiefly authority in South Sudan from its historical origins and evolution under colonial, postcolonial and military ru...

A distinguished scholar's magnum opus and the first full account of Malawi's colonial history. WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awar...

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...