Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changi...

Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba,whose people's r...

Explores similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition ...

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

New and more complex partnerships linking donors, governments, community-based organizations, NGO...

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

The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who ser...

Intended as a reference and textbook, it does not assume prior knowledge of the subject.

Places Sudan's oil industry (examined here in macro, micro and political terms), its economy, ext...

This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transfor...

Challenges the commonly held myths about Zimbabwe's land reform.

Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre o...