African history

Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects.

Kenya's central highlands are the elevated portions of East Africa that European colonists entered from the beginning of the twentieth century to make Kenya a white settlement area.

A little over two decades ago, Zimbabwe undertook its Fast Track Land Reform Programme.

A little over two decades ago, Zimbabwe undertook its Fast Track Land Reform Programme.

This groundbreaking study of Moroccan modernism in the visual arts contextualizes the work in terms of postcolonial struggles and a constellation of contemporary artistic movements.

This groundbreaking study of Moroccan modernism in the visual arts contextualizes the work in terms of postcolonial struggles and a constellation of contemporary artistic movements.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Afrika, Note: 1,3, , Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Anhand der vorliegenden Quellen lässt sich folgende Fragestellung entwickeln: Warum kam es in Soweto im südafrikanischen Johannesburg im Jahr 1976 zu einem gewalttätigen Schüler:innenaufstand?

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Afrika, Note: 1,3, FernUniversitat Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Text geht am Beispiel Tansanias der Frage nach, wie aus einer Vielzahl von Ethnien innerhalb einer Kolonie eine Nation entsteht, bzw.

This volume on Muslim life focuses on young male migrants of rural origin who move to build better lives in Bougouni, a provincial town in southwest Mali.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Afrika, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zur Überwindung des seit 1948 vorherrschenden Apartheid-Regimes gründete Stephen Biko mit der South African Students Organisation nicht nur seine eigene Organisation, sondern gab ihr mit Black Consciousness auch eine eigene Philosophie.

This book explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3 (=75%), University of Cape Town (School of Economics / Faculty of Commerce), course: Development Economics, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis on the South African economy and how this impact affects South Africa's economic growth and therefore its prospects for development.

How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam?

In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement.

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence.

In his 1903 hit Congo Love Song, James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans.

The Casablanca Connection examines France’s colonial policy in Morocco from the Popular Front to the end of the Vichy regime in North Africa, relating it to overall French imperial policy and placing it in a European and world context.

This study of a newly independent and developing country describes the environment the foreign investor may expect to find if he ventures into Nigeria.

Powerful Frequencies details the central role that radio technology and broadcasting played in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola.

Powerful Frequencies details the central role that radio technology and broadcasting played in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola.

In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule.

Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves.

In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa's postcolonial future.

In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving-cannibalism-was coproduced by Europeans and Africans.

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Afrikawissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: It is pertinent that stock price movement is a natural phenomenon of the stock market, but a stock market crash or meltdown occurs when the price of majority of stocks that are unusually high, subsequently exhibit a sharp decline within a short period of time.

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa is a collection of ten studies by the most prominent historians of the region.

This study of a newly independent and developing country describes the environment the foreign investor may expect to find if he ventures into Nigeria.

In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the freedom generation of the 1870s.

Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1960.

The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries.

On a freezing winter's night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten.

Africa supplies the majority of the world's diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.

The African National Congress (ANC) is Africa's most famous liberation movement.

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.

The human rights movement in South Africa's transition to a postapartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights.

Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change.

"e;No nation can win a battle without faith,"e; Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R.

Historians of colonial Africa have largely regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity.

Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence.

In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A.

Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world.

Following tirailleurs senegalais' deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how African servicemen advanced conjugal strategies with women at home and abroad.

Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments.

The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in incredible flux, framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration.

Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization.

Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state.

Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century-but it never got to "e;march triumphant into Pretoria.

With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent.