A reinterpretation of the history of Sokoto that provides a new assessment of its leaders and their visions for the Muslim state.
Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.
Traces Kabylia's history through French occupation, the Algerian war of independence, and the political turmoil that followed.
Examines the slave trade in three areas of Africa: the old Congo kingdoms, the city states of the East Coast, and parts of the Guinea coast.
Relates issues of land tenure and entitlement to the history of power in the region.
Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western nations.
Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected in government.
The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media.
Updated and revised edition.
Designed as a textbook for the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Kenyan historians chart Kenya's post-independence years.
The long-view on more recent events in Zimbabwe's history.