James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which
states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues …

Dependence on others has often figured, in liberal thought, as the opposite of freedom. But
the political anthropology of southern A frica has long recognized relations of social …

In the innovative and intriguing Freedom Burning, Richard Huzzey explores the global
continuities and complexities of anti-slavery as ideology and policy, bridging the end of …

Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century,
and others turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers …

A large fraction of modern global conflicts has occurred in Africa, resulting in a
disproportionate number of fatalities compared to other regions. Many of Africa's conflicts …

Agricultural production has historically been integral to the central African Copperbelt's
urban growth. None the less, urban agriculture has rarely received attention in the otherwise …

In this article I explain a nexus between slavery and state formation in Africa, proceeding
from initial demographic and institutional conditions to an external demand shift, individual …

This article complicates historical understandings of the extreme violence of late nineteenth-
century European colonialism by examining African agency in the build up to the most …

Este artigo trata da renovação dos laços coloniais entre Portugal e Angola na primeira
metade do século XIX, enfocando sobretudo as tentativas de estabelecer uma agricultura …

The politics of the global imperial era are having real-world environmental consequences
globally, especially in the former colonies. Indifferent administration by overseas imperial …