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Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of ... More

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A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history.

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Readers at all levels will find even-handed coverage of politics in sub-Saharan Africa's more than thirty states from the early years of independence ... More

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The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands.

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Charts the responses of the Sufi orders to the French colonial regime and their negotiations over power and autonomy.

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'A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have forfeited their history.' So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The Burden of Memory, ... More

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Volume 7 examines the period of partition, conquest and occupation from the beginnings of the 'European Scramble for Africa' to the Italian fascist ... More

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During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international ... More

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This book discusses the following questions: What are the new directions after over half a century of education and re-education, dismantling of ... More

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Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.

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Draws together primary texts and a range of analytical perspectives on African popular fiction.

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This work features articles which examine the works of new African writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in the last two ... More

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Simon Gikandi has written an insightful book for students of literature by examining the work of some major African writers.

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In The African Novel in English Keith Booker uses eight African novels to illustrate the scopes, varieties and the general aesthetic, cultural, and ... More

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The essays here underscore Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe's continuing optimism about the possibilities of Africans constructing post-"Berlin-states" as the ... More

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With a new Introduction by Said S. Samatar and an Afterword by the author

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Assesses the importance attached by African societies to their past and the growth and development of African historiography. This is followed by ... More

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With a new introduction by Henrietta Moore

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The twelfth to the sixteenth centuries constitute a crucial phase in the continent's history, and a period in which written records became more ... More

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ... More

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