This collection examines the role of space in six areas of West, Central and East Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries. The contributors demonstrate the active quality of space and ways people ha
The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a r
This study about David Livingstone is different from all other publications about him. Here, Livingstone is not the main topic of interest; the focus of the author is on nutrition and health in pre-co
This book provides graphic and scholarly perspectives of ethnic conflict in kenya where ethnocentrism has grown with time and where both ethnic and administrative units are coterminous. As the country
This set of ten revised conference papers, presented by Kuba (history and anthropology, Frobenius Institute, Germany) and Lentz (anthropology, U. of Mainz, Germany), looks at land tenure in West Afric
The South African War 1899-1902 is no longer treated as 'a white man's war' by historians. Black South Africans were drawn into service by both sides, and the war affected the black communities in a
The author shows how the societies of West Africa were transformed by the slave trade. The growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within the region, with slaves working in
A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition from the slave trade to "legitimate" commerce, and its significance for the African societies of the region.
This book explores the complex interrelationships between multi-party elections and traditional authorities in Ethiopia and is based on nine case studies of the country's 2005 regional and national el
In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the “Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.” Wi
The double-sided nature of African nationalism-its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate- are explored by sixteen historians, focusing on the experience
Eastern African pastoralists often present themselves as being egalitarian, equating cattle ownership with wealth. By this definition “the poor are not us”, poverty is confined to non-past
From 1974 to its overthrow in 1991, a state socialist government ruled Ethiopia. This interdisciplinary collection of 15 papers examines a range of issues from during that period and during the afterm
This groundbreaking book by two leading scholars offers a complete historical picture of women and their work in Uganda, tracing developments from precolonial times to the present and into the future.
Kenya was where the term “informal sector” was first used in 1971. During the 1980s the term “jua kali” — in Swahili “hot sun” — came to be used of the informal sector artisans, such as carworkers and
Eurafricans in Western Africa traces the rich social and commercial history of western Africa. The most comprehensive study to date, it begins prior to the sixteenth century when huge profits made by
