African history

Less well known than the Zulu of South Africa, the warriors of East Africa had just as fearsome a reputation.

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War.

The scope of Britain's wartime Middle East Command stretched far beyond the Libyan desert where the 8th Army's most famous battles were fought.

The scope of Britain's wartime Middle East Command stretched far beyond the Libyan desert where the 8th Army's most famous battles were fought.

In September 2000 the notorious militia gang, 'West Side Boys' kidnapped eleven British soldiers in Sierra Leone and Operation Barras was launched as the rescue operation.

In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the freedom generation of the 1870s.

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state.

"e;This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.

Mr BaloyiTruth By Last EldersWhat happens when the last keepers of wisdom begin to disappear?

During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers.

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians.

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.

This 2-volume set examines African intellectual traditions as a resource to decolonize African Studies, this book argues that indigenous methods and knowledge are essential for studying Africa's diverse peoples and historiesThe study and research of the African past and present require well-defined approaches and methodologies aimed at decolonizing African studies.

This 2-volume set examines African intellectual traditions as a resource to decolonize African Studies, this book argues that indigenous methods and knowledge are essential for studying Africa's diverse peoples and historiesThe study and research of the African past and present require well-defined approaches and methodologies aimed at decolonizing African studies.

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: B+, , course: Peace,Conflict and International relations, language: English, abstract: The main objective of this work is to investigate how national identity in Cameroon can be constructed around education and language.

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2015 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 5, University of Lagos (Department of History and Strategic Studies), course: Economic History, language: English, abstract: This study is a comparison of the circumstances which led to the founding, operation, fall and liquidation of Nigeria's and Ghana's first national carriers.

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians.

In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the freedom generation of the 1870s.

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Carl Peters (1856-1918) ranked among Germany's most prominent imperialists in the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine periods.

Master's Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1,2, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut fur Politikwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: This thesis is conducting an in-depth analysis of the links between political power, institutional evolution and economic growth in Ethiopia since the fall of the Derg regime in 1991.

"e;This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject History - Africa, grade: A, , course: History, language: English, abstract: The main aim of this seminar paper is to discuss the Ethiopia-Sudan Relationship: With Particular References to South Sudan from the 1950s, when the first South Sudanese civil war began, to South Sudan's independence in 2011.

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2.

Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: The goal of this research is to create an agri-business model to create uses for tomato crop farmers in Rwanda.

Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, , language: English, abstract: The purpose of this study is to make the readers to examine and understand the importance of making available research as a competence course for missionary trainees that will be working among the unreached Muslims people group.

During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers.

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Afrika, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Darstellung des Sanitätsdienstes der Schutztruppe in Südwestafrika von 1894-1915 ist die Ergänzung der Arbeit von Walter Rahn.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Afrika, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut), Veranstaltung: Ausgrenzung und Segregation im städtischen Raum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit soll untersucht werden, wie verschiedene Akteure aus dem In- und Ausland Sport als Mittel im Widerstand gegen das Apartheid-Regime einsetzten.

How has European imperialism (re)made the world?

Das größte Rätsel der ägyptischen Geschichte: Der historische Roman »Im Tal der Könige« von Cecelia Holland jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks.

A committed communist and anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First dedicated her life to African liberation struggles until her assas,sination by South Africa's Special Branch in 1982.

In 1960, 21-year-old Berta Zuther left her life in West Berlin behind to join African American missionary Andrew Foster in Ghana, thus embarking on a journey that would span three continents and result in the establishment of schools for the deaf across Africa.

Why do some countries hold elections that meet global democratic standards, while other countries do not?

From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.

The new generation of African constitutions crafted in the 1990s marked the beginning of a trend that promised a radical transformation of the continent's governance landscape.

A Sea of Wealth is a sweeping retelling of the Omani position in the Indian Ocean.

A Sea of Wealth is a sweeping retelling of the Omani position in the Indian Ocean.

Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two journals published in Europe by African writers: Presence Africaine, launched in Paris in 1947, and Mensagem, published between 1948 and 1964 in Lisbon.

Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two journals published in Europe by African writers: Presence Africaine, launched in Paris in 1947, and Mensagem, published between 1948 and 1964 in Lisbon.

Between 1838 and 1888 the recently formed Zulu kingdom in southeastern Africa was directly challenged by the incursion of Boer pioneers aggressively seeking new lands on which to set up their independent republics, by English-speaking traders and hunters establishing their neighboring colony, and by imperial Britain intervening in Zulu affairs to safeguard Britain's position as the paramount power in southern Africa.

Home to emerging economies, a growing middle class, and the world's youngest population, Africa presents exciting opportunities for high-value products, including products bearing a geographical indication (GI).

'A stunning global history of West Africa .

In 1960, 21-year-old Berta Zuther left her life in West Berlin behind to join African American missionary Andrew Foster in Ghana, thus embarking on a journey that would span three continents and result in the establishment of schools for the deaf across Africa.

The new generation of African constitutions crafted in the 1990s marked the beginning of a trend that promised a radical transformation of the continent's governance landscape.

Why do some countries hold elections that meet global democratic standards, while other countries do not?

What if Masr in the Qur'an was never Egypt?

Home to emerging economies, a growing middle class, and the world's youngest population, Africa presents exciting opportunities for high-value products, including products bearing a geographical indication (GI).

**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history.