Ali Mazrui argues that the emphasis in world politics continues to be on arms, on resources and o...

Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studi...

Volume 7 examines the period of partition, conquest and occupation from the beginnings of the 'Eu...

Foreign aid has always been a controversial subject. Roger Riddell provides a rigorous analysis o...

A study of links between interethnic conflict and processes of reconciliation in the ethnically c...

The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian...

This volume takes as its starting point an interrogation of the African contributions to the Glob...

Drawing on expertise from across the African continent this collection reflects the realities for...

How was an autocratic emperor replaced by a totalitarian dictator? An unexpected popular upsurge ...

Originally published in 1971, this was the first volume in the series to focus on a specific them...

Is Botswana still 'an African miracle'? Thanks to diamonds the country's growth rate was the high...

The current border between Ghana and Togo is usually regarded as a classically arbitrary European...