A story of a publishing enterprise. It also tells the story of African literature and its dissemi...

New and more complex partnerships linking donors, governments, community-based organizations, NGO...

Updated and revised edition.

Basil Davidson is the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Afric...

Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre o...

Analysis of South African politics under the administration of Mandela and Mbeki

Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into 'state collapse'?

PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLYAnalyses the structural and institutional obstacles to democrati...

Examines the slave trade in three areas of Africa: the old Congo kingdoms, the city states of the...

A student's textbook suitable for course adoption

A compact and useable introduction to the understanding of contemporary Sudan, and a convenient r...

A single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the roots of medieval Christian Et...

Theoretical perspectives on the crisis of development theories.

The first full-length examination of the archaeology and history of the Namib Desert.

Intended as a reference and textbook, it does not assume prior knowledge of the subject.

The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the ...

Analyses African insurgencies and their relationship to the societies in which they are set and t...

Examines one of the few documented early examples of restorative justice from Africa or Latin Ame...