African History

This book picks up where its predecessor, Somalia between Jihad and Restoration, left off, examining international efforts to stabilize war-torn So...

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the Congo crisis (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battlegrou...

The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the ...

This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea...

The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. Boko Harams goal of an Islamic Ca...

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis...

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leo...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönn...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands ...

Rhodesias illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965 is an act that not only shaped regional politics but also had a profound eff...

Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition group...

Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition group...

This pioneering and celebrated work was the first, and remains the standard, account of the economic history of the huge area conventionally known ...

As a field of research, settler colonial studies has developed dynamically in recent years. This volume contributes a set of much-needed empirical ...

The emerging literature on the so-called Arab Spring has largely focused on the evolution of the uprisings in cities and power centres. In order to...

Published in 1971: The purpose of this book is to describe and to analyse the administrative policies in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan during the format...

The name and fame of Muhammad Ali, the Founder of Modern Egypt, are well known. His vivid personality has appealed to many writers, who have concen...

This book describes KENSIM's basis in economic theory and the use of a general systems simulation model for identifying, discussing, and analyzing ...

The essays collected here investigate art made by women in South Africa between 1910, the year of Union, and 1994, the year of the first democratic...

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in t...

This title was first published in 2003. Wolfgang Stolper was one of the first Western economists to serve as an adviser in the government of an ind...

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North Canada, Austra...

This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between relig...

The Maghreb - the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya - is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. To...

Freshly out from under French colonial rule in 1960, the West African nation of Dahomey (now Benin) became home to the largest number of coups déta...

On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, ...

Through narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Pythons Throatmakes an invaluable con...

Phoenician and Punic archaeology have long been overlooked by Mediterranean archaeologists, who focused their attention on Greek and Roman cultures...

Civil Wars in Africa, edited by Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh, Jr., examines civil conflicts throughout various African countries. They argu...

The unusually long version of West African Mande epic transcribed and translated for this book is an extravagant demonstration of the extremes to w...

This book presents a detailed study of the political journalism of Ruth First an independent thinker and a headstrong journalist who stood her gro...

This book provides a detailed account of the history, consequences, and events leading up to the Inkathagate Scandal which changed the course of So...

This book presents a detailed study of the political journalism of Ruth First an independent thinker and a headstrong journalist who stood her gro...

In South Africa, the decade of 19801990 not only saw the mobilisation of the popular masses, but also the marked escalation of the armed struggle i...

This book covers the contributions of various international organisations, governments and their peoples, and solidarity organisations to the liber...

This book examines the contributions made by the governments, organisations and African people on the ground throughout the continent towards the r...

This book examines the contributions made by the governments, organisations and African people on the ground throughout the continent towards the r...

In South Africa, the decade of 19801990 not only saw the mobilisation of the popular masses, but also the marked escalation of the armed struggle i...

This book covers the contributions of various international organisations, governments and their peoples, and solidarity organisations to the liber...

Civil Wars in Africa, edited by Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh, Jr., examines civil conflicts throughout various African countries. They argu...

Examines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns reste...

New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War: No Victor, No Vanquished analyzes the continued impact of the Nigeria-Biafra war on the Igbo, the failu...