African History

Based on previously unused primary sources including extensive interviews in Cameroon, personal journals, diaries, responses to questionnaires, and...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays unites researchers from many divergent fields in a common effort to explore the complexity, diversity, ...

Although multilingualism is the norm in the day-to-day lives of most sub-Saharan Africans, multilingualism in settings outside of cities has so far...

Professor Zolberg brings the factual material about the Ivory Coast's social, economic, and political development since 1961-1962. Originally publ...

This volume interrogates some of the multiple ideas and issues that define the shape of postcolonial Nigeria. Postcolonial Nigeria has been the sub...

From an array of prominent activists including Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko to renowned performers and oral poets such as Johnny Dyani and Samuel ...

In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortab...

In this edited volume, Nigerian scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the relationship between gender and Nigeria’s pathways of developmen...

This book interrogates contemporary debates, controversies, achievements, challenges, and future prospects of African development and democratizati...

Long on the periphery of both academic research and international attention, the countries of the West African Sahel currently find themselves at t...

This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic of Ghana, particularly the ...

In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people ...

Persons of Courage and Renown is theoretically-engaged ethnography by a social/cultural anthropologist that explores issues of culture, memory, cre...

The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011 proclaimed that the oppress...

Africa’s Social Cleavages and Democratization offers a comparative approach to African countries by providing an in-depth analysis of the impact of...

The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France’s colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian r...

This work examines the history of colonial administration and economic development policy in Kenya during the early colonial period of 1909-1912. A...

In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's lega...