African History

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...

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 ...