Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of
its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 to South Africa's hosting …

This volume is a selection of revised papers from the Pathways to Africa's Past conference
held at the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. It seeks, in its own words, to be 'both a …

This festschrift in honor of Professor Ayodeji Olukoju, one of Nigeria's brightest historians,
brings together scholarship representative of the third wave of historical scholarship on …

The history of African history Page 1 Review Articles Page 2 Journal of Contemporary African
Studies, Vol. j , No. 1/2, April/October ig86, pp. 185-189 The History of African History …

Colonial attitudes and prejudices can be readily identified by every student perusing
Africanist literature of the early twentieth century. More than that, one gets to recognize …

Leonard Thompson has written a volume that will serve very admirably in undergraduate
courses and for those who seek a succinct history of South Africa. A model of compression, it …

The Kano Chronicle is one of the classic texts of African history. 1 It appears to represent a
combination of oral tradition and Arabic text that has often been cited as primordial to African …

Monographs by African archaeologists that purport to be more than site reports are few,
while textbooks appropriate for teaching African archaeology are particularly sparse. Thus …

Archives of Times Past'explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's time
before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in …