This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles dark continent myths, foregrounds Afric...Loe edasi...
Drawing on new interviews and previously underused archival material, this book explores women’s anti-apartheid activism in South Africa and within broader transnational networks from 1952 to 1962 through a comparison of the Federation of South Af...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009487788)
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of development and decolonization in West Africa. Elisa Prosperetti demonstrates t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009618625)
In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of development and decolonization in West Africa. Elisa Prosperetti demonstrates t...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the story of early modern Swedish sailors and merchants captured and enslaved in the North African territory then known as ‘Barbary’ (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Moroc...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together an international roster of scientists, many of which have spent their careers researching the fossil evidence for, and the context of, the taxa that are conventionally subsumed within the genus Paranthropus, to pres...Loe edasi...
Provides a connected history of the ends of the French and British empires, through an examination of the support the British left gave Algerian liberation movements...Loe edasi...
This book explores how Polish writers in colonial West Africa positioned themselves as neither colonized or colonizers, employing their unique in-between position to influence international discourse and policy on colonialism and its legacy....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190921767)
In the 20th century, South Africa was the focal point of the one of the most contentious political struggles of the post-colonial era. Now a generation removed from apartheid, the country has established a democracy, while also grappling with the maj...Loe edasi...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...Loe edasi...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...Loe edasi...
This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining history in our catastrophe-ridden twenty-first century. This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary mo...Loe edasi...
This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining history in our catastrophe-ridden twenty-first century. Examining eight works from diverse African writers—ranging from Achebe’s class...Loe edasi...
This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora. Making a crucial contribution to our understanding of African conceptions and practices of heritage, this book is important to scholars of...Loe edasi...
This book examines the history of the demographics of Cameroon, a country with more than 250 ethnic groups interacting together. It examines the geographical and historical context of ethnic distribution and the advent of urban centres in Cameroon....Loe edasi...
This book provides critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the history and origin of an Africanist co...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africas democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining themes with local, national, regional, and global relevance: the politics of nation building, public memory, residential segregation...Loe edasi...
The book provides a social analysis of marriage in contemporary Zimbabwe, highlighting how it is evolving in the face of societal factors such as globalisation, technology, increased migration, religious plurality and shifting cultural systems. Esse...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190077631)
Both colonial and early nationalist writers of African history tried to minimize the importance of the slave trade in the study of Africas past and present. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the significance of the institution for prop...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the historical trajectory of postcolonial Sierra Leone, especially the persistence of a culture of political violence and autocratic tendencies. Drawing on extensive archival research as well as the author’s own interviews,...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198902454)
This book provides a captivating, multifaceted portrait of the many ways in which power relations and the daily lives of individuals are negotiated all around the African continent, in places that are often discrete and far removed from the classic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009689847)
Traces the rise and evolution of Christian Zionist and Messianic Jewish faiths among Nuer communities in the Ethiopia-South Sudan borderlands. Drawing on ethnographic research in Ethiopias Gambella region, Yotam Gidron explores processes of religio...Loe edasi...
Drawing on chapters from the Africa Yearbook, this book chronicles Madagascar’s turbulent path — where democracy falters amid coups, shifting alliances, and surging donor aid. Through it all, paradox reigns: strong institutions and growth coexist wit...Loe edasi...
The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarchs 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic War, the Africa, mapping out its place in the development of European, early modern discourses of race, empire, and nation...Loe edasi...
The book will be of interest to researchers and students in arts and health, health communication, medical humanities, African Studies, social psychology, public health and global health as well as creative arts communities working on health-related...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles dark continent myths, foregrounds Afric...Loe edasi...
Sari: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299356903)
Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New World. While a vast swath of scholarly work on th...Loe edasi...
Drawing on new interviews and previously underused archival material, this book explores women’s anti-apartheid activism in South Africa and within broader transnational networks from 1952 to 1962 through a comparison of the Federation of South Af...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781913368777)
This book explores the life of Patrice Lumumba (1926-61), the iconic leader of the Congos independence movement and a symbol of anti-imperialist struggle. Revised with new intelligence archives, it traces his transition from nationalist to revolutio...Loe edasi...
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009487788)
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of development and decolonization in West Africa. Elisa Prosperetti demonstrates t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009618625)
In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of development and decolonization in West Africa. Elisa Prosperetti demonstrates t...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the story of early modern Swedish sailors and merchants captured and enslaved in the North African territory then known as ‘Barbary’ (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Moroc...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together an international roster of scientists, many of which have spent their careers researching the fossil evidence for, and the context of, the taxa that are conventionally subsumed within the genus Paranthropus, to pres...Loe edasi...
As a child Jean-François Champollion had but one fervent wish—to travel to Egypt and solve the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphs. Finally, a brief lull in the Mediterranean war against the Ottoman Sultan offered his expedition a window of a few...Loe edasi...
Provides a connected history of the ends of the French and British empires, through an examination of the support the British left gave Algerian liberation movements...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia Global Reports, ISBN-13: 9781967190140)
For decades, the oil-rich Niger Delta—an important wetland and farming area—has seen its natural environment devastated as a result of oil extraction that has brought little economic benefit to its people. Following a nonviolent campaign for environm...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805966319)
Drawing on a planters manuscript, shipping records, missionary accounts and seventeenth-century scraps of paper, Dibias World will appeal to specialists as well as general readers interested in the early Atlantic world, Creole societies, slavery and...Loe edasi...
This book explores how Polish writers in colonial West Africa positioned themselves as neither colonized or colonizers, employing their unique in-between position to influence international discourse and policy on colonialism and its legacy....Loe edasi...
During the colonization of Africa, European colonists set about creating game reserves in Africa, convinced that they would find in Africa a nature that no longer existed in Europe. After independence, and with the help of UNESCO and the WWF, Africa...Loe edasi...
ALSO AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW: MICHAEL PALIN IN THE PHILIPPINES - COMING SEPTEMBER 2026. --------- The extraordinary new book from the bestselling author, a richly illustrated travel adventure across the African nation. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190921767)
In the 20th century, South Africa was the focal point of the one of the most contentious political struggles of the post-colonial era. Now a generation removed from apartheid, the country has established a democracy, while also grappling with the maj...Loe edasi...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...Loe edasi...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...Loe edasi...
This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining history in our catastrophe-ridden twenty-first century. This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary mo...Loe edasi...
This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining history in our catastrophe-ridden twenty-first century. Examining eight works from diverse African writers—ranging from Achebe’s class...Loe edasi...
This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora. Making a crucial contribution to our understanding of African conceptions and practices of heritage, this book is important to scholars of...Loe edasi...
This book examines the history of the demographics of Cameroon, a country with more than 250 ethnic groups interacting together. It examines the geographical and historical context of ethnic distribution and the advent of urban centres in Cameroon....Loe edasi...
This book provides critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the history and origin of an Africanist co...Loe edasi...
