Success story highlighting role of peasant farmers in cotton revolution in C te d'Ivoire.

An account of the Nigerian military coups of 1966 in which the author discusses both the events themselves and their sociological background.

In 1956 the West African coast between southern Mauretania and western Cameroon was lined with no less than ten European colonial territories, along with a single independent African state. All of these colonial units have joined Liberia in formal political independence. Their political experiences since 1956 and indeed the forms of their present political regimes themselves have varied very widely over this period, from the defiant and paranoid austerity of Guinea to the gleeful surge of Nigeria's oil-generated capitalist expansion. In political taste the present governments cover almost the...

This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies.

The book addresses a wide audience: students of African history and politics, of Third World development and of political theory.

A detailed examination of the impact of Islam upon traditional art forms in African society.

The history of the TLC from its origins in the 1920s to its demise in the 1950s.

Originally published in 1975, and reprinted with additional introductory material in 1989, this book provides an in-depth account of Asante history during the nineteenth century.

This 1988 text traces the continuities between revolutionary Ethiopia and the development of a centralised Ethiopian state since the nineteenth century.