The history of southern Africa is marked by both the convergence and divergence of diverse
cultures. Clashes between European settlers and indigenous peoples throughout this …

Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you
find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the …

This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West
Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the …

Abstract Nigerian scholar Adekeye Adebajo's book The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold
War centres on the 1884 1885 conference in Germany, presided over by the 'Iron …

PREP ARING this chapter was at once intimidating and challenging-intimidating because I
have no models to draw from; and challenging because it needed to be done. More …

PROFESSOR JD FAGE HAS recently put forward a radical and most interesti re-assessment
of the Atlantic slave trade', a re-assessment which was also pr sumably intended to be …

A detailed and thorough chronological overview of the history of warfare and military
structures in Africa, covering ancient times to the present day. A Military History of Africa …

During the 1990s, West African conflicts in places like Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria's
oil-rich Niger Delta contributed to an increasingly heated debate concerning" new" forms of …

History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned
with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book. This is the …