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Memoirs of the Maelstrom
Between 1914 and 1918, the French recruited over 140,000 West Africans who fought on the Western front. Based on personal testimonies of war veterans and archival research, this …
'I Will Not Eat Stone'
Focusing on conjugal production and reproduction in colonial Asante, this text seeks to understand how broader social and economic factors - cash cropping, trade, monetization of …
Insiders and Outsiders
This work, which draws on substantial interviews, is a study of economic history from below. It focuses on the cultural and social history of Indians in Durban, exploring such …
White Farms, Black Labor
Racist policies throughout southern Africa consciously drove African farmers off their land during the first half of the 20th century and forced them to become laborers on white …
Negotiating Development
Focusing on the Office du Niger's irrigation project in what was then French Soudan (Mali), the author analyses how and why development policies emerge, persist and change. Van …
Marriage in Maradi
This work explores how both men and women adapted, negotiated and contested their rights and duties in marriage during a period of socio-political upheaval in 20th-century Niger, a …
Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast
The focus is on the history of the Anlo-Ewe of south-eastern Ghana from the 17th-19th centuries, though in the last two chapters the author extends her analysis to the 20th …