Since the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a
How were whites implicated in and shaped by apartheid culture and society, and how did
The works collected in The Lure of Authoritarianism
This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South
Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function,
In times of peace as well as conflict, humor has served Algerians as a tool of both
This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa
Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered
December 2014 marked a year since the passing of Nelson Mandela—a man who was as much myth
In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British
Although it lasted only thirty years, German colonial rule dramatically transformed South
Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn
When Zulu women potters innovate or move to a more urban setting, they are asked
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary
Jay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers the
Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first
The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In
In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing
This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing
