African History

Belgium was a small, neutral country without a colonial tradition when King Leopold II ceded the Congo, his personal property, to the state in 1908...

Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy du...

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman wr...

Now in its sixty-fourth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world...

In this volume, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, a sociologist and son of a Kimbanguist pastor, provides a fresh and insightful perspective on African Kimb...

The book presents the first English edition of Hubertine Auclert's Arab Women in Algeria which offers a unique picture of Algerian society in late ...

Kirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the...

This book presents a comprehensive corpus of beads and pendants found during excavations undertaken by the Oriental Institute of the University of ...

Embark on a journey through Africas social innovation landscape with this groundbreaking book, which presents a comprehensive framework for transfo...

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free...

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free...

The Kete dance form, once exclusive to royal courts, carries intricate movements, symbolic gestures, and rhythms that mirror Ghanaian history and v...

In a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of ma...

This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africas democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining a number of themes with local,...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopolds Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting ...

Following thirty years of research, including research into recently declassified government archives, this newly revised and expanded edition of L...

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa.In 1518, al-Hasan i...

This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass...

The reign of the founder of Cairo, the fourth Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (341-365/953-975), marks a watershed in the transformation...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries. ...

Each country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments ...

In the last two decades, various states from the Global South have emerged as important players in international relations. Most popular among them...

Why has democracy failed to reduce corruption in Kenya? Framing the challenge in game theoretical terms, Dominic Burbidge examines how mutual expec...

Mageza-Barthel provides a context sensitive analysis of how Rwanda's women's movement used the United Nations (UN) gender norms in its efforts to i...

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far bee...

This book is the first study of displaced Mozambican men, women, and childrenfrom refugees and asylum seekers to liberation leaders, students, and ...