African history

A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa.

In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A.

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.

West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915-16.

Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments.

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.

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions.

This intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of East Africa and beyond.

Brazils northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony.

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

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

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social change.

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

A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change.

Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.

A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations.

In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea engaged in a course of intellectual and political debate that marked the beginnings of a genuine national consciousness across the region.

The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa.

This survey of North African history challenges both conventional attitudes toward North Africa and previously published histories written from the point of view of Western scholarship.

A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa.

Timothy Sisk presents a new way of conceiving the transition to democracy in South Africa.

The first English translation of the earliest book-length biography of an African womanThis is the hardcover scholarly edition of the award-winning English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century.

Kenya has been the object of much controversy among students of African politics.

Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in his tragic writing.

In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire.

The Gender of Piety is an intimate history of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, or BICC, as related through six individual life histories that extend from the early colonial years through the first decade after independence.

Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government.

The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid.

Sierra Leone's unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s.

Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond.

Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies.

States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges.

The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined.

The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined.

This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined.

How should we make sense of the political dynamics in Africa today?

This book addresses the ways in which science and technology were employed in South Africa during the Second World War.

This eye-opening perspective on Stanley's expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa.

Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa.

This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts.

This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts.

Captured by Julius Caesar and raised by Octavian.

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Afrika, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit skizziert die Sitten und Gebräuche sowie die Geschichte des Volkes der Herero seit seiner Auswanderung aus dem Kaokoveld und schätzt anhand der natürlichen Bedingungen und der geschichtlichen Ereignisse die Entwicklung und den Umfang seiner Bevölkerung ab.

Scientific Study from the year 2016 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, , language: English, abstract: The study was conducted in Sibu Sire District of eastern Wollega zone with the objective of to determine dairy production practice, traditional milk processing and to identify the marketing system of milk and milk products in the study area.

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject History - Africa, , course: Economic History, language: English, abstract: This work is about the European colonization of Africa during the 19th century.

Fallstudie aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Afrikawissenschaften - Kultur und Landeskunde, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This study generally examines the effect of investigating conflict between traditional and western culture on the contemporary Ghanaian society, a case study of Ama Ata Aidoo’s the Dilemma of a Ghost.

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 1,0, University of Hamburg (Fakultat Geschichte), course: Einfuhrung in die Geschichte Afrikas, language: English, abstract: Since the first enslaved Africans had reached the coast of Virginia in 1619, European, American, and African slave traders captured about one-quarter of all African slaves in Central Africa to ship them to America via the Congo River or other ports along the Congolese Loango due to the transatlantic slave trade.

Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject History - Africa, , course: History and International Studies, language: English, abstract: This discourse opens with an explicit exploration of the two schools of thought that have come to chart the course of Ugbo and Ifee-Yoruba historiography and are pivotal to unravel Ugbo-Ooni of Ife controversy.

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject African Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, , course: Sociolinguistics, language: English, abstract: This paper is a sociolinguistic study of Vagla proverbial names.