African history

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.

A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s.

DianeTuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts attheir heels.

This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decoloniality discourse and considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy.

An essential introduction to the history of Algeria, spanning a period of five hundred years.

Available now for the first time in English, the most important work of one of the great moderate political leaders of the Muslim world Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker.

A revisionist exploration of identities and interactions in the ''Punic World'' of the western Mediterranean.

Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life presents the findings of archaeological investigations at Qsar es-Seghir, a medieval port midway between Tangier and Ceuta on the Moroccan shores of the Strait of Gibraltar.

This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends with her life in the United States.

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.

Litigating War offers an in-depth examination of the law and procedure of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, which was tasked with deciding, through binding arbitration, claims for losses, damages, and injuries resulting from the 1998-2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian war.

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items - such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport - played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "e;global trade"e; in the first millennium CE.

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence.

This book covers the contributions of various international organisations, governments and their peoples, and solidarity organisations to the liberation struggle in South Africa.

Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast.

Published in 1970, Travels in the Great Desert is a valuable contribution to the field of History.

Palm oil is the quintessence of West Africa - it is complex, an acquired taste and reckoned to be rather unhealthy.

A history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes.

This book explores British post-colonial foreign policy towards Kenya from 1963 to 1980.

Lost Boy No More tells the incredible true story of Abraham Nhialbut the story is not his alone.

What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one?

“The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R.

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

To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets-the perils and promises-of change in the rapidly modernizing Egypt of the nineteenth century.

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern day.

Based on rich oral histories, this is an engaging study of citizenship construction and practice in Liberia, Africa''s first black republic.

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?

Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not.

This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC).

This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and signi?

First Published in 1967.

Lesotho is rather different from most other African countries.

This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication.

This book updates African maritime economic history to analyse the influence of seaports and seaborne trade, processes of urbanization and development, and the impact of globalization on port evolution within the different regions of Africa.

This book traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil.

Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States.

This volume explores some of the key features of popular politics and resistance before and after 1994.

This book offers in-depth analysis of parliamentary development set in a historical context informed by Africa's post-1990s democratic resurgence.

Discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II.

A fascinating study that shows how the intersection of technology and politics has shaped South African history since the 1960s.

As one of the few surviving archaeological sites from the medieval Christian kingdom of Nubia, Qasr Ibrim is critically important in a number of ways.

This volume is a bold attempt to address a comprehensive range of themes and issues relating to contemporary Kenya.

Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans' struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation.

In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings.