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Political life among the Wolof (the largest and most powerful of Senegal's 'tribal' groups) is the principal theme of this collection of essays. The focus of study is on African …
Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic as those in Eastern Europe. Yet much of the comparative literature on transitions has overlooked African …
This first academic history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of the beginning of South Africa’s mineral revolution. It includes the first analysis of the formation …
The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until l862, historians …
This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these …
This book examines the effects of migrant labour in a southern African labour reserve. Politically independent, Lesotho is acutely dependent on the export of labour to South …
Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and …
West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on …
Nineteenth-century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Longstanding British …
Islands of dense forest in the savanna of ‘forest’ Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, …