African history

Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa's economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last three decades.

Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa's economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last three decades.

This book considers South African writing for what it tells us about politics, culture and change after apartheid.

This book takes the transnational history of southern Africa’s liberation struggles in an innovative direction.

"Ich stand wohl eine halbe Ewigkeit vor der verschlossenen Tür.

"Afrika" dient in vielen haarpolitischen Debatten nur als positive und teilweise sehr unpräzise definierte Projektionsfläche, die für eine bessere vorkoloniale Schwarze Welt steht.

This monograph examines the roles and functions of Swahili in war/conflict situations, and the impact of wars on the destiny of the language.

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

This book takes the transnational history of southern Africa’s liberation struggles in an innovative direction.

"Afrika" dient in vielen haarpolitischen Debatten nur als positive und teilweise sehr unpräzise definierte Projektionsfläche, die für eine bessere vorkoloniale Schwarze Welt steht.

Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of religion and religious policy.

Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics introduces and makes available, for the first time in English, an incandescent corpus of experimental leftist writing from North Africa.

Libya is a dynamic country with a rich and turbulent history that goes far beyond present conflicts.

In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century.

Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine.

Mauritania is bordered by Senegal in the south, Mali in the east, Algeria in the far northeast, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the north.

The Doctrine of Presence introduces the reader to honest men and women challenged with half-truths and false accusations during their attempts to expose animal abuse among wildlife cinematographers in Kenya.

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations.

When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule.

Sierra Leone was founded, albeit under British control, with the highest hopes of being a refuge for liberated Africans and freed slaves.

"e;Laura Bier unpacks the complicated dynamics and legacy of an historical moment in which women were understood to be crucial to modern nation-building.

The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to respond.

There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt.

Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society.

The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain-it created a nation.

The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues-war, development, and youth-in new ways.

For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "e;marriage crisis"e; heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage.

Drive the streets of Nairobi, and you are sure to see many matatus-colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city.

West African history is inseparable from the history of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism.

Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers.

The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's political and economic marginalization.

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow.

Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since.

Refrains about financial hardship are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed through the idiom "e;to be a man is not a one-day job.

Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others.

In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal-a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future.

When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "e;fetishes.

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge.

Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland.

In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years.

What is the meaning of blackness in Africa?

In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778-1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery-as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle-was entangled with the production, circulation, and reception of geographical knowledge.

The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed for digital devices.

Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology.

A comprehensive history of the relationship between Africa and the United States Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present.

A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation.

In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years.

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community.

A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia.