African history

This book is aimed at providing a framework for research into African issues in the twenty-first century.

This book considers the historical and spatial dimensions of civil society in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland region, an area suffering from severe development and democratic deficits over many decades.

Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the past three decades.

The violent colonization of Africa by European nations toward the end of the 19th century-a colonization justified by theories about the African Mind promulgated in the Age of Reason-had a profound impact upon the mind of Black Africa.

Few of the major campaigns of World War II aroused as much controversy as the War in North Africa, 1940-1943.

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In autumn 1951, a diverse array of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish students from clubs like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Worker's Vanguard launched a guerrilla struggle against British occupation of the Suez Canal Zone.

This book offers a continent-wide examination of Africa's foreign policy and diplomacy, addressing the relevance of its many languages, precolonial history, traditional value systems, and previous international relationships.

The role of the police force was central in the politics and social life of Egypt during the British occupation between 1882 and 1914.

This sociopolitical study shows why patriarchy has been the dominant pattern in Algeria, in spite of colonialism, revolutionary war, and the implementation of state socialism after independence.

Few would disagree that since 1990 Sub-Saharan Africa has undergone a process of political transformation.

This book vividly depicts Somalia from its pre-colonial period to the present day, documenting the tumultuous history of a nation that has faced many challenges.

This book provides an overview of contemporary issues in Sudan, Africa's largest nation, examining the country's history and current scene to help readers develop a deeper understanding of how much Sudan matters in today's world.

This work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa.

This book provides an extensive examination of the major conflicts in the extremely volatile region of sub-Saharan Africa and their ramifications throughout the continent and beyond.

This book provides an overview of the history, culture, and society of Namibia, a country on which little information in English exists.

Everyone should know the life story of Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest leaders of all time, the first black president of South Africa, the most famous African, and a major world statesman.

Henry Venn, secretary of the London-based Church Missionary Society from 1840 to 1872, coined the term euthanasia of a mission to describe the vital process whereby a foreign mission becomes progressively indigenous and independent.

Following her defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain shifted her colonial focus to her Protectorate in northern Morocco.

Somalia, the Horn of Africa nation, is finally recovering from recent wars and famine.

With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, expectations were high for the enfranchisement of the acutely underdeveloped majority in South Africa.

Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires.

This book surveys the history of higher education-principally universities-in Africa.

Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, won its independence from Great Britain in 1980 yet continues to feel the impact of Western lifestyles and prejudices.

Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century.

An NPR Best Book of the Year The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this dayby the journalist who discovered the ship's remains.

The end of the Anglo-Boer War in May 1902 left the Boers (Afrikaners) defeated and bitter in a ravaged land.

One hundred years after the Boer War, the British continue to debate what went wrong, while the war has significant nationalist overtones in today's South Africa.

There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora.

Scherrer examines the ethnicized conflicts, periodic war, and genocide in Rwanda and Burundi.

Even as a young girl, Jane Goodall was fascinated with animals.

The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed.

Africa's former colonial masters, including Great Britain; France, Portugal and Spain, trained members and leaders of the various colonial Armed Forces to be politically non-partisan.

The British Army was shocked by three military defeats in a week in South Africa in late 1899.

The Anglo-Zulu War may be best remembered for the military blundering that led to the astonishing British defeat at Isandlwana, but as Stephen Wade shows in this book, military action throughout the war was supplemented by the actions of spies and explorers in the field, and was often heavily influenced by the decisions made by diplomats.

This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africa's democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining a number of themes with local, national, regional, and global relevance: the politics of nation building, public memory, residential segregation, higher education, media, racism, trade unionism, women's rights, and global climate change, to name only a few.

Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats.

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa.

Steve Itugbu, for many years a foreign policy aide to Obasanjo, draws on an extensive corpus of official documents, interviews, unpublished material and first-hand experience to explore the president's multi-faceted personality in depth.

Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats.

In recent decades, African states have developed an impressive infrastructure for training their peacekeepers.

The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by "e;a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars"e; (Kirkus Reviews).

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

Yours for the Union stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa.

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

The British Army was shocked by three military defeats in a week in South Africa in late 1899.

A military history of the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia-now Zimbabwe-spanning from 1890 to the 1970s.

In Part 1 of his book the author describes his life as a young officer in the Somaliland Scouts in the (then) British Protectorate of Somaliland.

The Anglo-Zulu War may be best remembered for the military blundering that led to the astonishing British defeat at Isandlwana, but as Stephen Wade shows in this book, military action throughout the war was supplemented by the actions of spies and explorers in the field, and was often heavily influenced by the decisions made by diplomats.