African History

'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern A...

This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking i...

Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous nation...

Acts of terrorism and forms of counter-terrorism have been evolving for quite a long time. Although we have been living with these phenomena for ce...

On April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe executed a bloody coup that put an end to the Americo-Liberian minority...

Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between A...

Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your stu...

In this comprehensive picture of Belgian colonialism in the Congo, Lewis Gann and Peter Duignan trace the formation of the colonial state that beca...

This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed...

Reading African arts impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The Black Art Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements...

Over two separate twelve-year periods, two opposing states governed in parallel in Angola (19791991) and Sudan (19902002), each with competing conc...

Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers a radical new departure from existing historical accounts of what is s...

Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive s...

This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South...

The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, ...

One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat...