On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean...

What are the African Middle Ages? A place, certainly, and a time period, evidently. But also a “documentary regime,” argues François-Xavier Fauvelle...

Newell, along with a team of researchers across a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, explore this idea of “dirt” across the long 20th century...

Angelo’s book analyses the little-studied institution of the Office of the President by studying its first postcolonial office-holder in Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.,,

An interview with Philip Drew

Ali provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar...

Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....

Aiyer investigates how Indian diasporic actors influenced the course of Kenya’s political history, from partnering with Europeans in their colonial mission in East Africa to political solidarity with Africans in their anticolonial struggles....

An interview with Philip Drew

Mundy's book is part-history, part-political science to guide readers through the intricate maze of foreign and Libyan actors and institutions that define modern day Libya...

Schauer explains how this global attention to African wildlife evolved from late nineteenth century to the present...

A history of the "middle sea" from prehistory to today....

Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

Suzuki provides an insightful perspective to the growing scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery by shifting focus onto those who profited from the slave trade...

Ba theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests....

Wright maps the intellectual history of the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa, the Tijaniyya...

Palat counters eurocentric notions of long-term historical change by drawing upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation...

Talton a transnational history that explores the influence of African American leaders on US foreign policy towards Africa in the 1980s....

What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it?

In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession...

Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies...

The contributors explore everything from issues of representation in novels and cinema, to political organizing, religious fundamentalism, slavery, love, and sexuality....

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Webel tells a history of colonial interventions among three communities of the Great Lakes region of East Africa...

What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?