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

’Serial killers experience the power over life and death as omnipotence...When I interrogate a serial killer, I dive int......more

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Oussei......more

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

Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politi......more

If asked to pinpoint the beginning of the war against Islamic extremism, most would probably say September 11, 2001. How......more

An examination of the first conflict to see the large-scale, systematic, deployment of chemical weaponry since the end 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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A landmark survey of the artistic traditions and cross-cultural exchange of Ethiopia, from the early centuries of our er......more

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

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

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During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-cal......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

Zanzibar Was a Country traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. In Oman today, w......more

The autobiography of Eli Wiggill offers a captivating narrative of one family’s journey from Gloucester, England, to Sou......more

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

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

Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian......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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How and when does culture enter the discourse on liberation, transition and crisis in an African post-colony such as Zim......more

Benin is now perceived of as a model of democracy in Africa because it has successfully established a democratic politic......more

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

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

Frederick Addison came from a family with a strong military tradition, and it is not surprising that he, his two brother......more

Originally published in 1978, this book was distinctive in translating the work of French labour specialists and include......more

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

A new study that challenges previous interpretations of post-Roman North Africa. North Africa was one of the richest par......more

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

Gathering Evidence (The Evidence of Things Not Said) is a collection of two diary cycles and two essays. The diaries are......more

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