Around 1850 the peoples of central Africa from Duala to the Kunene River and from the
Atlantic to the Great Lakes shared a common view of the universe and a common political …

Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental
and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging …

Much of the Africanist literature that has emerged on postcolonial politics and society over
the past four decades has emphasized the shaping influence of colo-nial rule on forms of …

The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on The
Early State in Africa, conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew …

This collection of essays brings together historians and political scientists from Britain,
France and the United States, who, from widely differing perspectives and traditions, have …

There are many ways of approaching the past, 1 What is called'history'in European,
American, or African universities is only one of them. As V. Y Mudimbe and Bogumil …

More than twenty years ago-for reasons in which chance now seems to have played a
considerable part–I began a major study of the European partition of West Africa in the later …

The past haunts Africa. Futuristic policies on Africa are based on critical assessments of
present possibilities rooted in Africa's rather unique and rich history and geography …

The ancient African political society were not only not democratical, but above all did not
contain any seed directly profitable to democracy, concept and process of the developed …

For a long time, all kinds of myths and prejudices concealed the true history of Africa from
the world at large. African societies were looked upon as societies that could have no …