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...

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...