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...

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

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...

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....

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

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

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

Alpers offers a concise yet an immensely informative introduction to the Indian Ocean world, which remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions...

An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa...

How have the everyday practices of parenting been shaped by patriarchy and coloniality?

Will’s book is an ethnography of taxi-moto drivers in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city...

Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...