African Studies

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Between Sahara and Sea

Africa in the Roman Empire

By David J. Mattingly
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, African Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

David Mattingly’s long-awaited book on North Africa and the Romans

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

By Sara Pugach
Subjects: German Studies, African Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization

The Evolution of Settlement Systems in the Region of Vohémar, Northeast Madagascar

By Henry T. Wright, Robert E. Dewar, Chantal Radimilahy, and Lucien Marie Aimé Rakotozafy
Subjects: Archaeology, History, African Studies
Series: Memoirs

In this monograph, Henry T. Wright reports on the results of a four-year archaeological survey on the northeast coast of Madagascar, near the town of Vohémar. Researchers found evidence of a roughly 600-year-old port site; early estuarine villages of the 7th and 8th centuries; and a rock shelter with microlithic tools.

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

By Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series: African Perspectives

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

Unsettled History

Making South African Public Pasts

By Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley, and Ciraj Rassool
Subjects: African Studies, History, Race and Ethnicity
Series: African Perspectives

An engrossing look at how history has been produced, contested, and unsettled in South Africa from Mandela’s release to 2010.

Counting the Tiger's Teeth

An African Teenager's Story

By Toyin Omoyeni Falola
Subjects: Memoir, African Studies, History

A preeminent historian’s memoir of the first peasant rebellion in postcolonial Nigeria

German Colonialism Revisited

African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences

Edited by Nina Berman, Klaus Muehlhahn, and Patrice Nganang
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Asian Studies, African Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt

An African Memoir

By Toyin Omoyeni Falola
Subjects: Memoir, African Studies, History

The long-awaited memoir from the most prolific historian of Africa

After Independence

Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States

Edited by Lowell Barrington
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, History, Russian History, Asian Studies, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

What happens to nationalism after independence is achieved?

The Price of Racial Reconciliation

By Ronald Walters
Subjects: African American Studies, History, American History, Law, Political Science, Race and Politics, African Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States

Freedom by a Hair's Breadth

Tsimihety in Madagascar

By Peter J. Wilson
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, History, Political Science

How a group of people in Madagascar resisted oppression and maintained their political and cultural freedom

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