African History

This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centur...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, the essays in this volume discuss the reasons for the end of the slave trade and the institution of s...

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phaseof American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000ensla...

The constant drumbeat of headlines about Darfur, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, as well as the other states in Africa that are beleaguered by political ...

Andrée Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in ...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common prac...

From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common prac...

This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society I...

Maghrebi literature published in the first half of the twentieth century is a subject that seldom receives focused scholarly treatment. This is par...

This book investigates gender equality and womens empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing especially on womens interactions with the state and its de...

Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...

This book examines the complex history of Adventism in Africa, situating it within the context of African traditions and culture. From a small move...

The people of Uganda have struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi Amin, reminders were never far from view...

In Touched by Biko, Andile M-Afrika writes about his memories of Ginsberg, the black township across the Buffalo River from central King Williams T...

In Touched by Biko, Andile M-Afrika writes about his memories of Ginsberg, the black township across the Buffalo River from central King Williams T...

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, t...

This title was first published in 2002: Addressing the burning questions confronting the Nigerian nation-state today, this book explores the divers...

Africas modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were force...

British Somaliland provides a history of the administration of the British Somaliland Protectorate from the time when Somaliland first became gover...

This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans Ma...

Biographical research can illuminate imperial and colonial history. This is particularly true of Africa, where empires competed with one another an...

Recent events in Ukraine and Russia and the subsequent incorporation of Crimea into the Russian state, with the support of some circles of inhabita...

This book provides unique and detailed perspectives on different aspects of dissent, protest and disputes and how these have, in turn, continued to...

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 is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African persp...

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (182893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he shou...

This book examines the development of medical sciences in postcolonial Kenya, through the adventures and stories of the controversial Kalenjin scie...