African History

The people of Uganda have struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi Amin, reminders were never far from view...

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...