"John K. Thornton’s new book is another must-read. It contains both translations of the extant letters of the most significant king of Kongo’s hist...

For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources reporting on events in Iran from 1580 to 1722. One of ...

Two aspects of the Egyptian civilisation characterise the work of Erik Iversen: Its original art and literature, and its reception in Europe from c...

"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo F...

"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo F...

Malawi is one of the smallest and economically the poorest countries in the world. Yet, its impact has given it the name: The "Warm Heart of Africa...

The book investigates the politics of education in pre- and post-genocide Rwanda, examining the actors, interests, and discourses that have histori...

This book presents ten narrative texts written in the demotic script and preserved in papyri from the Tebtunis temple library (1st / 2nd century AD...

The book is an edition of an ancient Egyptian cosmology for which there is no known parallel. The cosmology was written in the demotic script and p...

Told through diary entries interspersed with the stories of many Ethiopian Jews in their own words, this is the gripping account of the Jewish Agen...

A richly illustrated volume presenting the biographies of twenty-four eminent statesmen of Hellas, Thrace and Macedonia, whose rule extended from t...

Against the background of the escalating violence of the 1980s, this novel tells a story of three families -- black and Jewish -- who are inextrica...

"Northrup's highly accessible book breaks through the most common barriers that readers encounter in studying African history. Each chapter takes o...

The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Kathar...

The second volume of the trans-disciplinary series Research in Peace and Reconciliation looks at ways of dealing with the past in Sub-Saharan Afric...

"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...

"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...

This colourful and thoroughly researched history of the Lord Delamere branch of the British aristocracy focuses on the famous Vale Royal Abbey in C...

The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...

The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...

Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century. She was a feminist, a pacifist and an internationalist, and a...

"When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." --Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to ...

John Hanning Speke writes about the history of his first two explorations in Africa that led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. The manner...

Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...

Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...