African history

This book provides a general guide to stone-structures of the pre-colonial period called zimbabwes.

This book traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during ‘the formative period’ of the colony between 1845 and 1899.

This book uses gender and the history of migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa to highlight a marginal area of research in the Global South.

This book addresses the long understudied topic of wage issues in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book is a testament to the importance of historical institutional analysis for understanding the reform of Africa’s institutions.

This book is a testament to the importance of historical institutional analysis for understanding the reform of Africa’s institutions.

This book traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during ‘the formative period’ of the colony between 1845 and 1899.

This book provides a general guide to stone-structures of the pre-colonial period called zimbabwes.

This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates.

This book addresses the long understudied topic of wage issues in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates.

This book uses gender and the history of migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa to highlight a marginal area of research in the Global South.

He was born into chains-and taught himself to break them.

In Islam in Abyssinia, Youssef Ahmed takes us back to the folded pages of Islamic history, where Abyssinia played a pivotal role in the early days of the call to Islam, when the just King "e;Al-Najashi"e; embraced the first Muslim immigrants fleeing the brutality of the Quraysh.

Postcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism explores the ways in which communities that have been marginalized in colonial discourses attempt to reconstruct their identities, histories, and narratives through the use of postcolonial myths.

Postcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism explores the ways in which communities that have been marginalized in colonial discourses attempt to reconstruct their identities, histories, and narratives through the use of postcolonial myths.

Examines the history of tobacco farming in Zimbabwe to illuminate debates on landscapes, people and political economy.

Explores both Zambian dress practices from the late-colonial period until the present and African contributions to globally circulating fashions.

Examines key technological innovations, knowledge transfer, connectivity and social meaning in the ancient and Medieval Sahara.

This book traces the formation of the Sudanese state following the Second World War through a developmentalist ideology.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Philippe M.

This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Maps an apartheid-era Zulu Radio station as it grew to become one of the largest stations in Africa, countering censorship and propaganda.

Drawing on extensive interviews, Hartshorn explains how labor became a revolutionary topic prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010–2011.

Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

A rich ethnographic account of young West African fisherfolk navigating a precarious social and economic environment shaped by ecological crisis, war, and secrecy.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.

A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan''s harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.

Drawing on Rwandan genocide survivor testimonies, this book offers a new approach to psychological trauma that considers both the positive and negative consequences.

Mapping Ghana''s struggle to transform its economy after independence, this original interpretation highlights the economic difficulties associated with the political legacies of colonialism.

A vivid ethnographic study of cattle traders, truckers, public contractors and NGO actors'' everyday encounters with state bureaucracies in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.

This extended treatment of insurgent fragmentation provides an innovative new theory tested through analysis of the Horn of Africa''s civil wars.

Soldiers rebel when leaders attempt to build or dismantle ethnic armies, posing a deep challenge to contemporary democratization efforts.

A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world''s longest archaeological record.

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.

The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt''s visual and literary modernity.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa.

An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

This book examines the role of the law in the constitution and contestation of state power in Zimbabwean history.