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...