Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project

Toyin Falola

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers' understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. ... Lees meer

African Perspectives of King Dingane Kasenzangakhona

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives... Lees meer

Nkrumaism and African Nationalism

Matteo Grilli

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book examines Ghana's Pan-African foreign policy during Nkrumah's rule, investigating how Ghanaians sought to influence the ideologies of African... Lees meer

Remapping African Literature

Olabode Ibironke

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• Challenges current approaches to African book history by setting up a dialogue between literary production and the texts themselves Covers previously ... Lees meer

Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration

Thomas Jay Lynn

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe's fiction as well as ... Lees meer

Africa and Globalization

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book considers the promises and challenges of globalization for Africa. Why have African states been perennially unable to diversify their econom... Lees meer

The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales Over Two Generations

Walter E a Van Beek

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. These dynamics affect some types of tales more than ... Lees meer

Mugabeism?

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe... Lees meer

Kenyatta and Britain

W O Maloba

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's founding president. The first of two parts, it explores Kenyatta's forma... Lees meer

Globalization, Democracy and Oil Sector Reform in Nigeria

Adeoye O Akinola

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• The Nigerian state has been oil-rich for decades, and yet perennially incapable of converting its oil resources into wealth for ordinary Nigerians. Ad... Lees meer

Prisoners of Rhodesia

M Munochiveyi

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• During the Zimbabwean struggle for independence, the settler regime imprisoned numerous activists and others it suspected of being aligned with the gu... Lees meer

Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1979 to 2016

Ogenga Otunnu

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book, the second of two parts, demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persis... Lees meer

Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country's anti-colonial struggle has large... Lees meer

Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria... Lees meer

Regime, Religion and the Consolidation of Zanu-Pfism in Zimbabwe

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democratization process in Zimbabwe... Lees meer

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apar... Lees meer

The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of hi... Lees meer

Contemporary Africa

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• 60 years after independence, African nations still find it difficult to face a number of challenges, from establishing meaningful democratic instituti... Lees meer

Shadows of Empire in West Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, polit... Lees meer

Race, Ethnicity, and Violence in South Sudan

Amir Idris

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• The purpose of this book is to understand how and why "liberators" of South Sudan have become perpetrators of ethnically driven violence. How and why ... Lees meer

Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II

Mario J Azevedo

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book focuses on Africa's challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines... Lees meer

Sudan's "Southern Problem"

Sebabatso C Manoeli

• Paperback | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• The book offers a history of the discourses and diplomacies of Sudan's civil wars. It explores the battle for legitimacy between the Sudanese state an... Lees meer

The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very p... Lees meer

Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa

Niyi Afolabi

• Hardcover | Engels | African Histories and Modernities
• Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it tak... Lees meer