Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and ......more

Inspired by the author’s harrowing experiences, Oluwa Street Evil Mobs 1967 explores the brutal torture and ruthless kil......more

A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience o......more

The presence of Africans in the German Democratic Republic is very rarely thought of in connection with the experience o......more

In this compelling new study, Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown chart the rise and fall of the Zouave uniform, the n......more

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Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal, a classical book, has been considered imp......more

In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic......more

Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation explores Chinua Achebe’s ......more

Equally skilled in a variety of trades other than in the art of love, the Italian prisoners of war (POWs) who were incar......more

A "gripping and important" (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s prot......more

A "beautifully written, funny and deeply moving" memoir about a son’s reckoning with his father’s political idealism, se......more

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so th......more

Sketches in Egypt, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work i......more

Three Years’ War, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is......more

The nation of Liberia has a rich and deep history that represents its strength and perseverance, as it has dealt with se......more

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Immerse yourself in Africa’s vast and intricate story and discover Africa’s true place in world history. Spanning more t......more

In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and......more

This work explores the long-term evolutionary implications of the "Mobility Imperative: " the foundational nature of mob......more

Italy and the Islamic World tells the story of how Italian cities have been centres of international exchange for centur......more

During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as......more

With the introduction of wine to the Cape Colony, it became associated locally with social extremes: with the material t......more

The New Jerusalem is a 1920 book by the English author and journalist G. K. Chesterton. Dale Ahlquist calls it a "philos......more

Mpuke, Our Little African Cousin, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the huma......more

This book provides an insightful analysis from complementary perspectives of the seven-decades-long contest and contesta......more

Mountain life in Algeria, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human histor......more

This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the org......more

This book investigates Afrikaner anticommunism in South Africa in the twentieth century, focusing on the Dutch Reformed ......more

A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point ......more

Longlisted for South Africa’s 2022 Sunday Times Non-fiction Award Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Commu......more

Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give wa......more

This volume addresses the nexus between the East African citizens and the integration agenda, with special focus on the ......more

Contemporary Wars and Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa highlights Africa’s tragedy of endless conflicts. Rich in ......more

A thousand miles up the Nile, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human hi......more

Pentecostalism, Africa’s fastest-growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing ......more

The book "Rwanda’s Rise: Africa’s Leading Transformation Story" tells the riveting story of a country that has overcome ......more

Sir Charles Warren and Spion Kop: A Vindication, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important thro......more

Uganda has an amazing missionary heritage that reflects her mighty Nile River - she has brought life wherever she goes. ......more

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial pe......more

A revealing account of the lives and work of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome, examining how this A......more

Despite peace agreements, demobilization, and reintegration processes, the end of war does not automatically or necessar......more

This book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of......more

The political and military contest black nationalists in Rhodesia waged against the white minority governments of Winsto......more

Discover the 3 rules that every successful group follows that allows them to thrive & dominate even in societies where t......more

The Siege of Kimberley; Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters, i......more

The Siege of Mafeking (1900), is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human hi......more

This book explores pastoralist/ farmers’ approaches to environmental disaster management in East Africa, charting their ......more

This seminal collection, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym ’Publius, ’ was ......more

This open access book takes a deeper and broader perspective of the Hassaniya-speaking groups of the western region of t......more

This book provides a survey of the social reconstruction recommended by African intellectuals and subjects their ideas t......more

WINNER SAfA BOOK PRIZE 2023 The first full-length examination of the archaeology and history of the Namib Desert. This i......more

In-depth account of the Marikana massacre, based on the voices of the miners and their families themselves, from the bui......more

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Archaeology brings together contributions from a global community of leading scholars......more

The history of the Boer identity is an epic saga. The Boer identity emerged in the isolation of an expansive landscape a......more

This book explores anti-apartheid movements on university and college campuses across Africa and the US in 1970s and 198......more

In the heart of Mamelodi Township, a community forged by the harsh winds of forced relocation and apartheid-era hardship......more

’A forensic, riveting account of a wondrous and principled advocate’ Philippe Sands ’Well-written, deeply researched and......more

Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember th......more

This book of 100 essays written over the last three post-apartheid decades provides profiles of pan-African figures, mos......more

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Colonialism tends to arouse emotional debate, often based on incomplete knowledge of the facts and context. Colonial Con......more

Opération Crevette is a meticulously researched account of the political instability leading to private mercenary action......more

How were whites implicated in and shaped by apartheid culture and society, and how did they contribute to it? In Ordinar......more

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Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and......more

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and......more

The opening section reviews the centuries long journeys of the Ibibio people from Usak Edet in the Cameroun valleys unti......more

In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of it......more

Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking inve......more

The First Comprehensive Investigation into the First Uprising Against Slavery in British North America At 2 a.m. on Apri......more

The new edition of this comprehensive survey of African history provides an accessible overview of the continent’s narra......more

This book argues that civil wars in Africa stem from the contradictions and crises that have been generated by the post-......more

The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony) is a collection of prison poems composed by ......more