African History

Everyday practices of state building interrogates the question about how to reinstate movement to our conceptualisation of state formation in Afric...

First published in 1975, The Rhodesian Problem presents a documentary record of Rhodesia from the establishment of the Crown colony in 1923 to the ...

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See ...

It is now more than two decades since the world stood idly by, witnessing the genocide taking place in Rwanda in 1994. During the one hundred days ...

This book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both Wor...

Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two journals published in Euro...

One of the world's greatest revolutionary leaders, Amílcar Cabral's long and arduous campaign for the liberation of Portuguese-dominated Africa is ...

This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. Besides...

In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since...

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to re...

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Ethiopian labour movement, exploring the impact of trade unions on workers agency from the 1960s un...

This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowl...

Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses...

'The benefit of teaching life skills is that I also changed. If I can make a difference in the life of just one child, I will be happy When we thin...

South Africa is a major player in African diplomacy. Its economic, diplomatic and military resources far outstrip those of other nations on the con...

In the long history of the British Empire there are few stories as singular as that of Margery Perham. From the moment she first set foot on Africa...

The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging This lavishly illustrated book brings a new appro...

The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed ...

In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the countrys urban black youth developed kwaitoa form of elec...

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expec...