African History

For courses in History of African Americans   A biographical approach to the African American experience Revel The Struggle for Freedom: A H...

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 ...

David Livingstone, the missionary-explorer, has attracted more commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero. Beginning in the years following hi...

Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporar...

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, bet...

Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfare of communities, rather th...

An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Dep...

In postapartheid Cape TownAfrica's gay capitalmany Pentecostal men turned to ex-gay ministries in hopes of curing their homosexuality in order to c...

This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian childrenone of the least researched groups in African colonial...

This book examines French motivations behind the decolonisation of Tunisia and Morocco and the intra-Western Alliance relationships. It argues that...

A visual overview of contemporary African fashion, Fashion Africa is a comprehensive guide compiled with an ethical perspective.Jacqueline Shaw pro...

As a soldier in the French army, Pierre Bourdieu took thousands of photographs documenting the abject conditions and suffering (as well as the reso...

In postapartheid Cape TownAfrica's gay capitalmany Pentecostal men turned to ex-gay ministries in hopes of curing their homosexuality in order to c...

Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of...

This study investigates the various extreme-rightist leagues in Algeria, with particular attention to certain key themes, among them the rabid xeno...

This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the...

Moving beyond the current fixation on state construction, the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's b...

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris...

To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated stagg...