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

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.

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

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

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

A look at the ambiguous experience of black security force personnel in white minority ruled colonial Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe].

A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts

Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves

Malawi's political culture is examined as it emerged in the colonial and early post-colonial periods, particularly in light of anti-colonial protest.

A thought-provoking study of local peoples' participation in the process of cultural transfer in colonial Northern Nigeria.

A provocative investigation into the root causes of the Ethiopian political upheavals in the second half of the twentieth century.

Examines through the use of Murid oral and written sources the creation of an "alternative modernity" as an understanding of historical change by Sufi notables and disciples.

A historical reconstruction of the campaign to end the slave trade in Southeastern Nigeria.

A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries.