African History

This survey of North African history challenges both conventional attitudes toward North Africa and previously published histories written from the...

In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere ...

This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Politiques in Brussels c...

Voices of Liberation: Archie Mafeje should be understood as an attempt to contextualise Mafejes work and thinking and adds to gripping intellectual...

This book identifies the most important sources of intra-state conflict in the individual countries of the Horn of Africa. It explores how serious ...

The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa investigates the changing entomological, parasitological and medical understandings of vectors...

Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an importa...

Examining the process of abolition on the island of Pemba off the East African coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this boo...

The themes of sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation are fundamental ones in the archaeology of many diverse parts of the world but have...

Despite Ghana's strong democratic track record in recent decades, the economy remains underdeveloped. Industrial policies are necessary to transfor...

As Kenyan women traditionally have fewer formal employment opportunities, often occupying lower-paid jobs in the informal sector, the experiences o...

Military coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control of 'civilian states', yet the military remains u...

After Atomic Junction, along the Haatso-Atomic Road there lies the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, home to Africa's first nuclear programme after i...