African history Books

This book examines Africa's internal and external relations by focusing on three core concepts: orders, diplomacy and borderlands. The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors, and domestic, regional, continental, and global...

Development in Modern Africa: Past and Present Perspectives contributes to our understanding of Africa's experiences with the development process. It does so by adopting a historical and contemporary analysis of this experience. The book is set within...

The topic of South African Apartheid (1948-1994) is controversial, and the real-life stories featured in When Mourning Turned Into Dancing: An American’s Journey of Discovery of Post-Apartheid South Africa are passionate, inspirational, and...

Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and...

Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The...

This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa. It examines the 'on the ground' history of colonialism from the vantage point of a small...

This book examines the role of NGOs in relation to two overlapping political processes: internal politics in Africa and the wider world "order". Formal political structures have produced little more than "electoral democracy" in Africa without tackling...

This book examines conflicting historical interpretations of the origins, evolution, and ending of apartheid. Lipton asserts that apartheid was ended by a relatively non-violent process of reform that began around 1970, and culminated in the...

This book describes the growth and development of communal forced labor in Kenya from 1912-1930. During the early period in Kenya's colonial history the British administration employed various forms of forced labor to make Africans work on the building...

In the first book to explore the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, Christabelle Peters shows how the internationalist mission profoundly influenced Cuban thinking on the African cultural element in national...

Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting stories...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

My Sudan Year is a memoir written by Ethel Stefana Stevens about her experiences living in Sudan for a year in 1913. The book is a detailed account of her daily life, including her work as a teacher and her interactions with the local people. Stevens...

Storm and Sunshine in South Africa is a book written by Rosamond Southey and published in 1910. The book is a memoir of the author's experiences living in South Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Southey provides a vivid description of...

Making a fresh contribution to our understanding of the history of Angola, this book explores the impact of social, political and economic change upon the largest ethnic group of the country, the Ovimbundu. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in...

This book explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were also expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession and ancestor worship. It operates as a suspension bridge between...

Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state's politics. This book is a...

This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa's role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality. The contributors engage the unresolved...

The study of Muslim societies has been for a long time the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies. This Variorum volume by an eminent North...

Frontispiece - Notes on the Contributors - Preface - Introduction - PART 1: LEGITIMACY AND THE COLONIAL STATE - Purity and Exotica in Legitimating the Empire. Cultural Constructions of Gender, Sexuality and Race; H.Callaway - The Invention of Tradition...

The two main arguments in the book are to contest the reduction of African civil wars to ethnic conflicts, and to point out the emergence of civil wars as the result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the "other" has entailed that...

Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary of Heads of French Government List of Maps Introduction Divergent Imperialism? Britain and the Restoration of French Power in North Africa, 1945-49 Towards Independence for Morocco and Tunisia: British...

Examines the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in southwest Africa (present-day Namibia), exploring how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity between 1842 and 1915.

In 1966, several waves of rioting in northern Nigeria culminated in the brutal massacre of thousands of easterners by their northern Nigerian counterparts. Sensing that their safety could no longer be guaranteed, the easterners fled to the eastern region...

This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Alice Dinerman offers a detailed chronicle of the Mozambican government's attempts...

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique.Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of...

This celebrated classic now includes a new introduction by Robert Tombs. The history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century France has often seemed complex and confusing. France, 1814-1940 has a long-established reputation as a clear, accessible and...

This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe and in former German colonies in sub-Saharan Africa during the Second World War.An intellectual and...

This volume contains original essays by authors who have worked together to derive lessons for African export prospects from the experiences of some of the more successful developing countries in East Asia and Latin America. They present up-to-date data...

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: John Flint and Agency in History; C.Youé & T.Stapleton Chronology of John Flint's Publications Faku, the Mpondo and Colonial Advance in the Eastern Cape, 1834-53; T.Stapleton 'Scientific Gold':...

The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. Bringing to an end 132 years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers, the collapse of the Fourth Republic, and...