African History

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...