African History

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...

This book is a study of the challenges facing the Mano River Union (MRU) countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte dIvoire, with respect...

A new perspective on the dynamics of dynastic rule in the southernmost province of Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the New KingdomThe First Upper E...

The Bari people, who settled on the banks of the White Nile, remained closed off from the outside world until the dawn of the 19th century. The ear...

The first monograph on the sinuous, exhilaratingly colorful and pattern-filled portraiture of Amoako Boafo Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo has built...

Examines the history of post-colonial Kenya's and Zambia's relations with the People's Republic of China from ideological, political, economic and ...