Voices of the Poor in Africa

Elizabeth Isichei

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 12
• An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather t... Lees meer

White Chief, Black Lords

Thomas V McClendon

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 46
• A study of colonial Natal, focused on the contradictions related to indirect rule, the legacy of which continues to inform the political and social cl... Lees meer

Nation as Grand Narrative

Wale Adebanwi

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 70
• A methodical analysis of relations of domination and subordination through media narratives of nationhood in an African context. Nation as Grand Narra... Lees meer

Decolonizing African Studies

Toyin Falola

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 93
• Examines transformational moments and liberation movements in the decolonization of inherited Western academic traditions in Africa. This book explore... Lees meer

Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 40
• A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era. Migration, whether forc... Lees meer

The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 71
• Essays draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and deve... Lees meer

Narrating War and Peace in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 47
• A comprehensive volume that offers historical and nuanced representations of war and peace in Africa from the fields of African studies and cultural s... Lees meer

Constructions of Belonging

Axel Harneit-Sievers

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 23
• Applies new approaches to the study of a small, densely populated region of West Africa, integrating them into a regional history that analyzes intera... Lees meer

Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa

Jennifer Lofkrantz

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 97
• Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this pio... Lees meer

Indirect Rule in South Africa

J C Myers

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• A groundbreaking new study of the ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power. Indi... Lees meer

IRA Aldridge

Bernth Lindfors

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 28
• Ira Aldridge -- a black New Yorker -- was one of nineteenth-century Europe's greatest actors. He performed abroad for forty-three years, winning more ... Lees meer

Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

Abiodun (Person) Alao

• Hardcover | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Lees meer

Opposing Apartheid on Stage

Tyler Fleming

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 89
• A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point in the nation's cultural histo... Lees meer

Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria

Ebenezer Obadare

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 69
• An important contribution to the debate on forms of civil society in Africa and elsewhere, and to the global literature on dissent. In Humor, Silence,... Lees meer

Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana

Gareth Austin

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 18
• An examination of the varied ways, outside and inside markets, in which Asante producers obtained labor, land and capital during the transformative er... Lees meer

Indirect Rule in South Africa

J C Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 33
• A groundbreaking new study of the ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power. Indi... Lees meer

Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

Tibebu Teshale

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 56
• A critical study of Edward Wilmot Blyden, whose voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important African and black diasporic thi... Lees meer

Nigerian Pentecostalism

Nimi Wariboko

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 62
• Presents a multidisciplinary study of how Nigerian pentecostals conceive of and engage with a spirit-filled world, arguing that the character of the m... Lees meer

Nigeria's Digital Diaspora

Farooq A Kperogi

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 87
• In a disruptive media landscape characterized by the relentless death of legacy newspapers, Nigeria's Digital Diaspora shows that a country's transnat... Lees meer

Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate

Mohammed Bashir Salau

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 80
• A work of synthesis on plantation slavery in nineteenth century Sokoto caliphate, engaging with major debates on internal African slavery, on the mean... Lees meer

Ira Aldridge

Bernth Lindfors

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 59
• This book describes the "glory years" of Ira Aldridge's first Continental tour, during which he won more awards and honors, often conferred by royalty... Lees meer

Not So Plain as Black and White

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insigh... Lees meer

Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974

Messay Kebede

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 36
• A provocative investigation into the root causes of the Ethiopian political upheavals in the second half of the twentieth century. During the 1960s an... Lees meer

Ethnicity in Zimbabwe

Enocent Msindo

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 55
• A comparative study of identity shifts in two large ethnic groups in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Transformations in Kalanga and Nde... Lees meer