African History

In Touched by Biko, Andile M-Afrika writes about his memories of Ginsberg, the black township across the Buffalo River from central King Williams T...

In Touched by Biko, Andile M-Afrika writes about his memories of Ginsberg, the black township across the Buffalo River from central King Williams T...

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, t...

This title was first published in 2002: Addressing the burning questions confronting the Nigerian nation-state today, this book explores the divers...

Africas modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were force...

British Somaliland provides a history of the administration of the British Somaliland Protectorate from the time when Somaliland first became gover...

This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans Ma...

Biographical research can illuminate imperial and colonial history. This is particularly true of Africa, where empires competed with one another an...

Recent events in Ukraine and Russia and the subsequent incorporation of Crimea into the Russian state, with the support of some circles of inhabita...

This book provides unique and detailed perspectives on different aspects of dissent, protest and disputes and how these have, in turn, continued to...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African persp...

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (182893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he shou...

This book examines the development of medical sciences in postcolonial Kenya, through the adventures and stories of the controversial Kalenjin scie...

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 ...