African History

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

In 1840 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions die...

Since independence, African countries have been confronted with the relics of colonial powers and, in southern Africa, white minority regimes. The ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s. In this first full-length examination ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

A timely history of the connections between science, segregation, and species in twentieth-century South Africa.Throughout the twentieth century, r...

This edited volume encompasses a range of themes and approaches relevant to the field of South African history today, as viewed from the perspectiv...

Of all the great kingdoms that flourished in Africa, the Kongo is one of the most famous. It remains an important historical and cultural reference...