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 ...