African history

Limamou Laye, an Islamic leader from present-day Senegal, has proclaimed himself the reincarnation of Muhammad, with his son later proclaiming himself to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent.

For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice.

South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid.

The Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (Sudan).

This book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days.

National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives.

This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya.

First Published in 1968.

This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa.

The Zulu War of 1879 was the most brutal and controversial British imperial conflict of the 19th century.

An historical and empirical study of science in Africa, bringing to light connections between science, policy and development.

This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods.

Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women's rights since 2011.

Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

During the Zimbabwean struggle for independence, the settler regime imprisoned numerous activists and others it suspected of being aligned with the guerrillas.

Britain and Nyasaland (1964) is a study of the political development of Nyasaland under British control.

A multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages of the country.

This collection examines the Sahara holistically from the earliest (prehistoric) times through the 'historical' period to the present and with political direction into the future.

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.

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.

In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere.

This collection of essays demonstrates how chronic state failure and the inability of the international community to provide a solution to the conflict in Somalia has had transnational repercussions.

Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around pluralism - the segmentation of population by race and culture - as a social and state issue, and explores this issue in Third World and metropolitan contexts.

This book studies the Anglo-American media's representation of South Africa in the 1970s - the international media is shown to have been under continuous pressure from both the South African Dept of Information and the anti-apartheid movement.

In November 1949, Davidson Don Tengo (D.

In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its legacy in South African history will be indelible.

Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention.

Like other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Moroccans were inspired by the events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011.

From Cairo to Damascus and from Tunisia to Bahrain, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together some of the most exciting new writing born out of revolution in the Arab world.

This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today.

The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe.

Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur (1578-1603) was one of the most important rulers in the history of Morocco, which to this day bears the mark of his twenty-five year rule in the sixteenth century.

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

This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A.

Explores the global expansion of Christianity since 1500 from the perspectives of the indigenous people who were affected by it.

This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power.

With lyrical grace, Fugard demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

In 1997, M.

An important work for the nineteenth century history of East Africa.

After decades of civil war, the people of southern Sudan voted to secede from the north in an attempt to escape the seemingly endless violence.

Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "e;happy are those who sing and dance,"e; and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource.

Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents.