African History

Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation explores Chinua Achebes literary works and how they ...

In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 19261963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made...

This methods handbook investigates the multiple sources and interdisciplinary methodologies employed by scholars working on Africa. It illuminates ...

Huseyn Efendi, a scribe in the Treasury of Ottoman Egypt who put his service at the disposal of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French expedition to ...

Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman PrizeSlaves for Peanuts plumbs a fascinatin...

A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike. By th...

The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slav...

Morafe is a luminous exploration of two generations of the Molema family. Beginning in the 1880s and ending in the 1950s in Mafikeng, the capital t...

In 2007 Terry Crawford-Browne published the explosive Eye on the Money. Primarily an account of the international banking sanctions campaign agains...

Using Mandela's house in Vilakazi Street, Soweto, as the setting, 8115: A Prisoner's Home is a collection of some of Alf Kumalo's most historically...

In 1913, Sierra Leone bore witness to a Special Court convened to hear cases of cannibalism. Described as Human Leopards, those accused of ritually...

In Myth, Ritual, and Visible Expressions of Obàtálá and Olókun Ilé-If, Oluwafunminiyi Wasiu Raheem and Ayowole S. Elugbaju explore Obàtálá (Yorùbá ...