Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan

Harry Verhoeven

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 131
• In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionar... Lees meer

National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa

Christian A Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 136
• This book traces the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) across its three decades in exile through rich, local histories of the camps wher... Lees meer

African Minorities in the New World

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies
• This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity espe... Lees meer

A South African Kingdom

Elizabeth A Eldredge

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 78
• The Basotho kingdom emerged and consolidated in the dramatic and dangerous environment of nineteenth-century South Africa. Elizabeth Eldredge explores... Lees meer

Doing Justice without the State

Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies
• This study examines the principles and practices of the Afikpo (Eugbo) Nigeria indigenous justice system in contemporary times. Like most African soci... Lees meer

France's Wars in Chad

Nathaniel K Powell

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 150
• Examining the continuous French military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France's success... Lees meer

Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe

Norma J Kriger, Kriger Norma J

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 105
• This critical examination of post-war of independence peace settlement and veterans' programs is the first extended study of the complicit relationshi... Lees meer

A Modern History of Tanganyika

John Iliffe

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 25
• This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth c... Lees meer

H.C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919-1958

Akintola Wyse

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 64
• This substantial and thoroughly documented book is a political biography of an important figure in Sierra Leone. It is also a comment on two of the ma... Lees meer

From Slavery to Aid

Benedetta Rossi

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 135
• From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and ... Lees meer

Between the Lines

A Lassissi Odjo

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies
• Africa's history has been misrepresented by the outside world, especially by the Judeo-Christian West. An awareness of such a bias in historiographica... Lees meer

The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland

Kate Skinner

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 132
• The end of World War I saw the former German protectorate of Togoland split into British- and French- administered territories, and by the late 1940s,... Lees meer

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya

Daniel Branch

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 111
• This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. As... Lees meer

Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire

Jonathon L Earle

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 138
• Colonial Buganda was one of the most important and richly documented kingdoms in East Africa. In this book, Jonathon L. Earle offers the first global ... Lees meer

Shaping the African Savannah

Michael Bollig

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 149
• The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an 'Arid Eden' in recent literature, as one of Africa's most sought after exotic tourism de... Lees meer

Social Movements and Democracy in Africa

Agnes Ngoma Leslie

• Hardcover | African Studies
• This book examines social movements in Africa, analyzing how they emerge and how they may impact public policy, the legal and political situation, and... Lees meer

East African Doctors

John Lliffe, John Iliffe

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 95
• This is a history of the training and work of East African doctors since modern medicine began in the region during the 1870s. It discusses recruitmen... Lees meer

West African States

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 23
• In 1956 the West African coast between southern Mauretania and western Cameroon was lined with no less than ten European colonial territories, along w... Lees meer

The Ancient Egyptian Family

Troy D Allen

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies
• Scholars in Egyptology have often debated the following question: was the ancient Egyptian society organized along patrilineal or matrilineal lines? I... Lees meer

Western-Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963

Jim C Harper

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies
• Western-educated Elites in Kenya, proposes to conduct a critical examination of the emergence of the American-educated Kenyan elites (the Asomi) and t... Lees meer

City Politics

J S La Fontaine

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 1
• City Politics is a detailed study of the city of Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville), capital of the Congo, in the years immediately following independen... Lees meer

Wa and the Wala

Ivor Wilks, Wilks Ivor

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 63
• In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Ivor Wilks traces the history of Wala from its beginn... Lees meer

Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa

Martin Klein

• Paperback | Engels | African Studies | nr. 94
• Using oral sources, as well as official and missionary archives, Martin Klein describes the history of slavery during the nineteenth and twentieth cen... Lees meer

Making Citizens in Africa

Lahra Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | African Studies | nr. 125
• Making Citizens in Africa argues that citizenship creation and expansion is a pivotal part of political contestation in Africa today. Citizenship is a... Lees meer