African History

Traces and Tracks is the culmination of a 30-year journey that photographer Paul Weinberg undertook with the San of southern Africa, beginning in 1...

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing e...

Published for the first time in one volume, Sven Lindqvist's uncategorizable, beautiful and angry books about the African continent and the legacy ...

The source of the River Nile was one of the great mysteries of the Victorian age. On an expedition with Richard Burton which reached Lake Tanganyik...

Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu host ...

The sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 1518 April 2015 at the University of Oxford and once again provided...

This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital...

Protestants have disagreed with each other for centuries. The right to dissent was at the heart of the many and varied paths that developed within ...

The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by Americas systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africas liberation ...

In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghanas planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics ...

In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghanas planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics ...

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. As a sociologist, Du Bois wrote much ...