African history

This book looks at the challenges and possibilities facing leadership in Africa today by providing a rich history of the continent, the complexities the continent has experienced, and the great hope and encouragement that remains.

This book explores the culture of migration that emerged in Malawi in the early twentieth century as the British colony became central to labour migration in southern Africa.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the 'special relationship' between Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.

This book contributes to the discourse on post-colonial and globalization theories, focusing on Nigeria's transition to a federal system of government.

The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were duplicated elsewhere in Africa.

This book is a history of a prominent Ghanaian newspaper, the Ashanti Pioneer, as well as well-known figurers in the country itself.

This book examines the Empire's Patriotic Fund, established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home because of wounds or illness.

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation.

The African Red Sea Littoral, currently divided between Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, is one of the poorest regions in the world.

This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the "e;Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket.

For the past sixty years, the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement has played a major role in Zambia.

The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires.

As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent.

The memoir of a special forces veteran of the Rhodesian War, with over a hundred photos included.

Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa.

In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa.

Dahomey's Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin.

Dahomey's Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin.

The title of this book originates from the self-description of Namibian Evangelists in their own words.

This study draws from life histories to present constraints and possibilities that have shaped former SWAPO exilesi economic reintegration in post-colonial Namibia from 1989 through 2018.

This book examines the complex history of Adventism in Africa, situating it within the context of African traditions and culture.

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.

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.

This book examines the complex history of Adventism in Africa, situating it within the context of African traditions and culture.

This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices.

This newly edited volume, Bali Nyonga Today covers about thirty years of (1985-2015) developments in Bali Nyonga, Cameroon.

A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

Examining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.

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

Drawing on communications erescuedi from the shredders in the last days of Rhodesia, enlivened by photographs and memories n both her own and those of her colleagues n Maia Chenaux-Repond tells the story of her work as the Provincial Community Developpment Officer (Women) for Mashonaland and South in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the 1970s.

The complete guide to our closest living relative, drawing on thirty years of primate observation.

Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions.

An African Adventure is a non-fiction book by Isaac Frederick Marcosson, published in 1921.

Born in 1925, this autobiography includes an account of his early years, giving a vivid picture of growing up in Freetown in the latter days of British colonial rule.

WINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardExamines Eritrea's deprivation of human rights since independence and its transformation into a militarised "e;garrison state"e;.

A uniquely detailed portrayal of the formative years of Tanzania's first president and the influences that led him to enter politics.

Exposes the 'blind spot' in popular and academic histories about the role of African soldiers in the creation of Britain's empire, through a re-telling of one of the best known episodes in British imperial military history.

A history of Southern Sudan, from pre-colonial times to the present.

An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history.

Examines the Ozidi Saga -- one of Africa's best-known epics -- as an example of oral literature and as a reflection of the specific social and political concerns of the Niger Delta.

A highly original treatment of significant topics in African Studies and beyond: violence, colonialism, landscape, memory and religion.

A novel study of the complex connections between Nelson Mandela and the nationalist leadership in the ANC with their kinsmen inside the Transkei Bantustan state, that reveals the significance of ethnic belonging, so important in African history.

Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years.

WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardA distinguished scholar's magnum opus and the first full account of Malawi's colonial history.

Examines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed.

Finalist for the African Studies Association 2016 Melville J.

A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "e;A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy.