African history

This book explores the experiences of 'Indo-Mozambicans,' citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms during the twentieth century.

Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others.

The Colonial Office (1956) examines the organisation and work of the Office as it stood in the mid-1950s.

An important contribution to the debate on forms of civil society in Africa and elsewhere, and to the global literature on dissent.

Analysis of impact of infanticide on social organization and reproductive behavior in primates including humans.

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals.

A comprehensive history of Uganda, examining its political, economic and social development from its precolonial origins to the present day.

Contrary to much perceived wisdom, the Sahara is a rich and varied tapestry of diverse environments that sustain an array of ecosystems.

A “well-researched” account of the nineteenth-century Sudanese cleric who led a bloody holy war, from a New York Times-bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).

Nigeria, the United States' most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble.

The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria.

Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid.

For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two commonly used languages of communication.

This book examines a key period in the formation of modern Egypt, the early years of military rule following the coup of 1952.

This is a brief introduction to the history of Elmina, its castle, the people, and their traditions.

In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fiancE across the border into Angola.

The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory.

First Published in 1998.

Boko Haram is the major threat to the Nigerian state, and has emerged as a destabilizing factor across sub-Saharan Africa.

A political and military analysis of this conflict in southern Africa with maps, photos, and a new introduction assessing its long aftermath.

Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy.

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.

Originally published in 1959, this book charts the journey made by the author and a Creole journalist from Sierra Leone across West Africa at a time when a political, economic and cultural revolution was taking place.

Ghosts of Kanungu throws light on secrecy and violence in Uganda, Rwanda and the Great Lakes area of East Africa.

This book explores concepts of decolonisation, identity, and nation in the white settler society of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between 1964 and 1979.

Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive study of the forms of violence adopted by the French Army in Africa.

This book examines the relationship between Catholic missionaries and the colonial administration in southeastern Belgian Congo.

Examining online and in-person public discussion in Kenya, this book sheds fresh light on the role of public discussion and social media in politics.

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

Following a surge in oil revenues in the 1970s, Nigeria became one of Africa's most rapidly developing nations.

African-American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth Century Religious Activism is an important book-length treatment of African-American female mysticism.

History of the Conquest of Peru (1959) contains a detailed analysis of the political, religious and social organisation of the Incas prior to the arrival of the Spanish colonisers, and then moves on to look at the story of the conquest and subjugation of the Incan Empire, the largest in South America.

In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents.

Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already composed a tale of soldiers hiding Ali Baba-like in baskets to capture a besieged city.

Why do only some incipient rebel groups become viable challengers to governments?

A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.

In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture.

Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas.

For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture-embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists.

A History of the African American Novel offers an updated overview of the development of the novel and its major genres.

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Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela's 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa's apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.