African history

An anthropologist deconstructs the notion of masculinity using twenty years of field research in the Cairo neighborhood of al-Zawiya.

Although the results of colonial expansion have been described in other general studies of the region, this is the first book to take a close look at the case of the Swazi in Swaziland.

The British South Africa Company and the irregularity of its financial and political operations are dealt with in detail.

In an insightful new study, Donald Freeman examines the development and significance of urban agriculture in Nairobi, Kenya, overturning a number of common assumptions about the inhabitants and economy of African cities.

Painting the Map Red is based on extensive research into public and private papers from printed and manuscript sources in both Canada and Britain.

In tracing the development of the recruiting system, Alan Jeeves shows how a large proportion of the labour supply came to be controlled by private labour companies and recruiting agents, who aimed both to exploit the workers and to extract heavy fees from the employing companies.

In this edition of The Making of an African King: Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle Among the ?

Essentially, the study of black religion in America has been mysterious, quarrelsome, and paradoxical.

This survey of methodology provides a framework for understanding Africana Studies.

This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa.

Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from the capitalist countries and their own leaders.

First published in 1975, The Rhodesian Problem presents a documentary record of Rhodesia from the establishment of the Crown colony in 1923 to the illegal declaration of independence in 1965 and the post-independence efforts for a settlement of the conflict.

This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democratization process in Zimbabwe.

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By the early 1820s, British policy in the Eastern Mediterranean was at a crossroads.

By the early 1820s, British policy in the Eastern Mediterranean was at a crossroads.

Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013.

Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013.

[A] vivid travelogue.

[A] vivid travelogue.

Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Over forty years after the formal end of colonialism, suffocating ties to Western financial systems continue to prevent African countries from achieving any meaningful monetary sovereignty.

Over forty years after the formal end of colonialism, suffocating ties to Western financial systems continue to prevent African countries from achieving any meaningful monetary sovereignty.

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden Age as a handmaiden in struggles against colonialism, to difficult decades when its survival has been threatened by capricious political and economic conditions, and the uncertain present where the continent's historians struggle to justify their value to frequently sceptical publics.

Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists.

Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists.

Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth century's most violent wars of decolonisation.

Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth century's most violent wars of decolonisation.

"e;[An] informative and readable account of the growth of the politically motivated and extremely violent Mau Mau in Kenya.

During the Cold War the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colonies.

For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara.

This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism.

An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide"e;When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population.

A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas.

This book presents a re-engagement with oral histories as a way of documenting, understanding, and discussing experiences of work and economic life in Africa under neoliberal capitalism.

"e;THE ANUAKS MUST DEFEAT THE BRITISH.

Why is the Osu caste system, a form of discrimination, still deep-seated in Igboland?

This work explodes myths on the decolonization process in former British colonies of Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana.

PRAISE FOR THIS BOOK:"e;Highly educative!

Sounds of Sirens: Essays in African Politics & Culture critically examines the political and cultural landscape of the putatively primal continent since the advent of the post-colonial era.

By examining the history of the Potts-Johnsons, an immigrant Saro family from Sierra Leone living in the Port Harcourt region of Nigeria from roughly 1912-1984, this study reviews the migration history of the Saro in the Niger River delta.

This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola.

For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states.