African history

For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa.

This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic.

Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories.

Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community.

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone.

South Sudan is the world''s youngest independent country.

For decades, Africa was falling apart.

Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership.

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life.

Fabian Colonial Essays (1945) brings together a host of leading thinkers to discuss different aspects of colonialism.

This book offers a historically sensitive ethnography of the zar tumbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan.

This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years.

This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction.

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa.

This volume of fourteen papers covers the environment, archaeology and conservation of the Dakhleh Oasis, as presented at the Second International Conference of this long-running project (held in Toronto, 1997).

It was the war that changed everything, and yet its been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia.

This book examines why some rebel groups abuse civilians and factionalize, presenting an inside look at Liberia''s rebels and using innovative quantitative methods.

Since gaining independence from colonial rule, most African countries have been struggling to build democratic and peaceful states.

This volume draws together richly textured and deeply empirical accounts of rice and how its cultivation in the Carolina low country stitch together a globe that maps colonial economies, displacement, and the creative solutions of enslaved people conscripted to cultivate its grain.

The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa is an assemblage of transdisciplinary essays that offer a spirited reflection on the debate and phenomenon of postcoloniality in Africa, including the changing patterns and ramifications of problems, challenges and opportunities associated with it.

This book is a short biography of the life of Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana - the General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Published in the year 296, The Land of Zinj is a valuable contribution to the field of History.

The Royal Navy and the Slavers, first published in 1969, examines not only the Royal Navy's 60-year campaign to eradicate slavery, but also the British Government's diplomatic pressure on other countries to discontinue the slave trade.

Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences.

This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule.

Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp.

This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change.

This Element is aimed at discussing the relations between Egypt and its African neighbours.

Explores the intersecting politics of Cold War rivalries, African liberation, and socialist state-making in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The studies in this collection comprise a series of explorations into the revolutionary character of the Almohad movement in medieval North Africa and Spain and how it was expressed, including through compelling visual and auditory means.

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

This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic.

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By balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people.

This book focuses on regions for which until now the geomorphology was very poorly studied and relatively unknown.

Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.

The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa?

A history of colonial Africa and of the African diaspora examining the experiences and identities of ''liberated'' Africans in Sierra Leone.

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart.

A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike.

The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

In Unfixed Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960.