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

Ebimanyererio nigo bire bi’echingencho ao ao ase abanto ao ao. N’enchera eyemo abanto b’ororeria oromo bakomanyana na kw......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

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

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

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

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

This book analyses securitization processes outside of the West, with a focus on Africa. The aim of the volume is to dev......more

This volume brings together a wide range of contributors to examine the legacy and impact of Tempels’ work for the study......more

As the first book-length work on the history of Chinese presence in Nigeria, this book examines how Chinese migrants and......more

Delve into the world of Yoruba mythology! Are you interested in learning about different religions? Do you want to learn......more

This volume covers Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment from precolonial times throug......more

This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certai......more

Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apart......more

In ancient africa, myths helped people try to make sense of the world around them. There are different types of african ......more

Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthr......more

This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia......more

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In Primitive Normativity Elizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a distinct narrative about African sexuality that......more

The Umayyad Empire (644-750 CE) was the first Islamic empire and one of the largest empires of ancient and medieval time......more

WITH A CANDID, CLEAR, and engaging voice, Dr. Hanna, born in Sudan, shares captivating true-life stories about his immig......more

This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well a......more

Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead o......more

A panorama of the career of South African photographer David Goldblatt, elucidating his artistic commitments, networks, ......more

SPLINTER: Rhodesia’s Lake War aims to fill a gap in the record of the 1970s Rhodesian Bush War. Related partly in partic......more

Since the 2005 urban protests in France, public debate has often centered on questions of how the country has managed it......more

Since the 2005 urban protests in France, public debate has often centered on questions of how the country has managed it......more

This "Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900)" book written by A. G. Hales, gives a vibrant and firstha......more

That Mussolini wished to conquer Abyssinia is well known; that Italy’s Catholic Church also sought the eradication of th......more

Focusing on the attitudes and experiences of American female diplomats and spouses, this book examines the social, polit......more

This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the ston......more

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the my......more

The British know nothing about Botswana because it seldom gets a mention in the press; and because it’s ’simply not inte......more

Ready to learn about one of the major medieval African empires? Many people know about the Mali Empire and its famous ru......more

While the revolutionary leftist movements of the 1960s and ’70s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been......more

A Short History of the Fatimid Khalifate, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout ......more

The phenomenon of labour takes the character of a prism. Labour is thereby always context dependent and constituted thro......more

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge......more

This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democ......more

This book examines the various ways in which colonialism in Zimbabwe is remembered, looking both at how people analyse, ......more

If you were about to talk about Uganda, what would you say? A great Nation! Right? This shocking and provocative questio......more

Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of ......more

Political conflict in many parts of the world has been shaped by notions of who rightfully belongs to a place. The conce......more

Ten years’ digging in Egypt, 1881-1891, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout th......more

Ten Years’ Captivity in the Mahdi’s Camp 1882-1892, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important t......more

This book engages with how the South African Indians in South Africa and Siddis in Gujarat perform creolized musical, sp......more

Forty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South W......more

Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradh......more

This edited collection reviews the relationship and clashes between the military and the media in post-colonial Nigeria.......more

This volume focuses on a longing projected mostly toward the past (mal d’Afrique) alongside a longing toward the future ......more

Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain’s African territories, the death penalty was an i......more

Historical Dictionary of Lesotho, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. T......more

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Northern Ghanaian Women’s Artistry: Visualizing Culture explores women’s tradition of wall painting, or bambɔlse, in nor......more

This book provides compelling case studies of Africa’s struggles, accomplishments, challenges, and prospects in the crit......more

Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved......more

Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved......more

Seventeen trips through Somáliland;A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893, is a classical and a rare ......more

Originally published in 1978, this volume provides a selection of Michael Crowder’s wrtings on the impact of colonial ru......more

This volume addresses the ways the ’native labour’ question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a re......more

An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, Eu......more

The Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the......more

In From Migrants to Refugees Jill Rosenthal tells the history of how Rwandan migrants in a Tanzanian border district bec......more

In From Migrants to Refugees Jill Rosenthal tells the history of how Rwandan migrants in a Tanzanian border district bec......more

This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police mas......more

Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collec......more

This book provides a holistic and historic text on the history, heritage, and culture of the Akwa-Cross people of Nigeri......more

The Tell El Amarna Period, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so tha......more

Tell el Amarna and the Bible, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so ......more

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential t......more

Morocco, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is nev......more

​This book explores the role of caravan transport and human porterage in the colony of German East Africa (present-day m......more

Unveil the complexities surrounding the term "radical imam" in post-revolutionary Tunisia through a meticulous examinati......more