African History Books

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1. Time and Justice: History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence

   By Berber Bevernage

   Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting presence....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88340-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Music, Performance and African Identities

   Edited by Tyler Fleming, Toyin Falola

   Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa....

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-88843-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Belonging in Europe - The African Diaspora and Work

   Edited by Caroline Bressey, Hakim Adi

   This publication does not just mark the presence of black people in Europe, but brings research to a new stage by making connections across Europe through the experience of work and labour. The working experience for black peoples in Europe was not just confined to ports and large urban areas –...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-48870-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Darfur Conflict: Geography or Institutions?

   By Osman Suliman

   Although it is often simplified as an "ethnic conflict" in popular media, the current crisis in Darfur can only be superficially defined across ethnic lines. Any long-term solution to the conflict must also address the underlying social and environmental influences such as changing resource...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-88598-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora

   By Marika Sherwood

   Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britian, organized the...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-87959-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present

   Edited by Lynn Schler, Louise Bethlehem, Galia Sabar

   This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study of African laborers,...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-58802-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. British Pro-Consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929: The Challenge of Nationalism

   By C. W. R. Long

   With World War I and Egypt's colourful politics as background, C.W.R. Long tells the story of four proconsuls (McMahon, Wingate, Allenby and Lloyd), their principal opponent, Sa'ad Zaghul, and the great events of the time: the rise of the Wafd party, the uprising of 1919, the murder of Sir Lee...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59501-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The Pasha's Bedouin: Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848

   By Reuven Aharoni

   Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile Valley. Mehemet Ali’s era represented the initial ending of the traditional tribalism, and the beginning of emergence of a...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59504-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

   By John Wright

   This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-58947-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    The African Origins of Rhetoric

    By Cecil Blake

    Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "darkness metaphor" -- the rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans. Blake offers a thorough examination of...

    June 2010 | 978-0-415-88387-0 | Paperback (Routledge)