African History

The extraordinary true story of a West African girls upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only...

Once a thriving, multiracial community, the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg was home to many famous artists, musicians, and poets. It was also a ...

Looking beyond the novels and short stories of acclaimed South African writer Alex La Guma (19241985), Christopher Lee focuses on the nonfiction th...

The history of the Moroccan troops in the Spanish Civil War (19361939) is the story of an encounter between two culturally and ethnically different...

Impressive[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and prod...

This book serves two purposes: first, it celebrates the career of the late Maureen Tilley; second, it provides a state of the field look at some of...

The definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic, political, statistical and directory data. Gen...

Now in its sixty-sixth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world ...

Examines how young male migrants in urban Nairobi navigate the tension between expectations of success and repetitive failure. Pipeline is a low-i...

In the fiery political debates in and about Italy, silence reigns about the countrys colonial legacy. Reducing European colonial history to Britain...

One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the YearOne of the smartest young writers of her generation....

The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women of antiquity, rivaled only by Cleopatra and Helen of Troy for wealth, power and beauty. She is b...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea...

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leo...

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals....