This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century.

This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.

This book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island of Pemba.

This book describes life on the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context.

This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa.

This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).

This book provides a detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century.

This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966.

Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan offers an alternative account of how water policy, violence, and economic modernisation are linked.

This book is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics during Africa's decolonization.