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A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history.

The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa.

An examination of French citizenship and cultural identity in Algeria during the last quarter-century of colonial rule.

An examination of the varied ways, outside and inside markets, in which Asante producers obtained labor, land and capital during the transformative era.

This book makes Africa the centerpiece of an intercultural investigation of modern colonial power and its resistance, focusing on the writings of Ghanaian intellectuals.

A detailed historiographical examination of the role the Ovimbundu people have played in Angolan politics from Portuguese colonization to the present.

The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government.

A history of the West Indians who migrated to Sierra Leone from the Caribbean after the abolition of slavery in 1807.

This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa.

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 development of the African diaspora.

Opens a fresh conversation on the study of the Mau Mau rebellion and Kenyan history by arguing that Mau Mau was a nationalist movement rather than a Kikuyu war.

The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.

An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa.

The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter.

Shortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize Tells the story of how people struggled to define, refine, reform, and ultimately overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics.

Presents a multidisciplinary study of how Nigerian pentecostals conceive of and engage with a spirit-filled world, arguing that the character of the movement is defined through an underlying "spell of the invisible."

Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807.