Basil Davidson on the nation-state in Africa and its huge disappointments, its relationship to th...

The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of approaches to accountability and peacebuildi...

The Nigeria-Biafra War lasted from 6 July 1966 to 15 January 1970, during which time the post-col...

High youth unemployment is seen as a major issue across Africa and globally, not solely as a sour...

A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the...

Is Botswana still 'an African miracle'? Thanks to diamonds the country's growth rate was the high...

How was an autocratic emperor replaced by a totalitarian dictator? An unexpected popular upsurge ...

In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization betwe...

This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Ber...

This volume makes available some of the most influential, imaginative and exciting plays to come ...

2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The 'rise of the black middle class' is one of the most vi...

African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short ...

While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the ...

Why, despite the introduction of new land laws beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in l...

There is a new interest among publishers in New York and London in books by writers of African or...

This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns ...

This overview of Africa is intended as an introduction for people who have a professional contact...

The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education prov...

Born son of a Governor-General of South Africa, Patrick Duncan rejected the attitudes of his priv...

This volume, first published in 1978, looks at the fascinating literary links of the African dias...

The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among ...

Contemporary African creative writers have confidently taken strides which resonate all over the ...

Examining the social, political and economic dynamics in Juba, Southern Sudan, following the 2005...

Kabylia is a Berber-speaking, densely populated mountainous region east of Algiers, that has play...

In the early 1990s, a wave of democratization swept through many African countries, but its preva...

A story of a publishing enterprise. It also tells the story of African literature and its dissemi...

The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inte...

Ali Mazrui argues that the emphasis in world politics continues to be on arms, on resources and o...

Africa has been at the centre of a 'land grab' in recent years, with investors lured by projectio...

The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened acad...

It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of ter...

More than any other part of the globe, Africa has become associated with conflict, insecurity and...

The creation of Africa's newest state, South Sudan, in 2011, involved national and international ...

Co-published with the International Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919,...

Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah seized opportunities to lead the countries of sub-Saharan Africa awa...

Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that app...

In this survey of theatre forms in sub-Saharan Africa from pre-colonial times to the present day,...

No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring at least minimum ...

The 2012 coup d'état in Mali, and the political destabilization that followed, brought an abrupt ...

Both a monograph and a critical dialogue between academic Melissa Thackway, author of Africa Shoo...

International scholars explore one of the most important postcolonial novels of African literatur...

This volume, first published in 1980, provides an overview of the way myth and history have influ...

Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studi...

During the last fifty years, those working in the cultural sectors in African countries have atte...

How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their 'homes' in southern Sudan? How were gender r...

Between 1975 and 2002 Angola underwent a very destructive civil war, in which much of the non-eli...

State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as...

The land issue, as in other parts of Africa, dominates life in Ethiopia, where agriculture accoun...