African History

This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centur...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, the essays in this volume discuss the reasons for the end of the slave trade and the institution of s...

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phaseof American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000ensla...

The constant drumbeat of headlines about Darfur, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, as well as the other states in Africa that are beleaguered by political ...

Andrée Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in ...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common prac...

From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common prac...

This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society I...

Maghrebi literature published in the first half of the twentieth century is a subject that seldom receives focused scholarly treatment. This is par...

This book investigates gender equality and womens empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing especially on womens interactions with the state and its de...

Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...

This book examines the complex history of Adventism in Africa, situating it within the context of African traditions and culture. From a small move...