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...

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

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

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...

Kara’s book is rigorously researched and beautifully written. She draws on both archival and life history methods to center rural Kenyans,...

Tchouta Mougoue illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon...

In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...

Taylor explores the second wave of African American exiles or repatriates to Ghana in post-1980s...

Opalo examines the development of African legislatures from their colonial origins through independence, autocracy and the transition to multi-party rule....

By 2024, global sales of skin lighteners are projected to reach more than $30 billion...

In the early 19th century, on the floodplain of the Niger river’s inland delta in West Africa (present-day Mali), the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi emerged....

Where do good ideas come from?

Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...

De Luna documents the evolving meanings borne in the collection of wild foods for an agricultural people in south central Africa around the turn of the first millennium....

How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?

“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Bedasse examines Rastafarian reparation to Tanzania in the 1970s and 1980s...

Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...

Konadu tells the story Kofi Donko (1913-1995) and the many communities he served as a blacksmith, healer, farmer, leader and intellectual...

Heffernan offers a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Dua describes a tale that is not often told: how piracy works in the everyday lives of those involved in its grip...