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This text on maritime Djibouti describes the geography, naval history and present strategic role of the country, and indicates its possible future. Topics covered include French covert action in Italian East Africa, and the Allied blockade of Djibouti in 1941-42.

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This book critically examines the emerging architecture for regional security in Africa, with a focus on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin. The volume is divided into five parts, providing conceptual, transnational, regional, national and alternative perspectives on regional security.

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Written by leading experts in African studies, this broad introduction to Nigeria follows the history of the republic from the early period to the present day.

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Exploring the history of ethnic, regional, and religious diversity in Nigeria, this volume traces most of the country's current problems to its colonial exploitation.

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Despite the many complexities that defined the scope of their work, British officials were able to accomplish a great deal during Cromer's tenure, a tenure which began by announcing its end and ended by proclaiming a new beginning.

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This study uses the Nuwaubian movement to examine Pan-Africanism and black nationalism in the post-civil rights era. The author places the movement within the context of the history, culture, and tradition of the African diaspora and argues that the movement represents contemporary efforts of African descendants to resist oppression.

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provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge.

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Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our Fighting Sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. -- .

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Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our Fighting Sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. -- .

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Precolonial African Material Culture presents a comprehensive challenge to the long-held myth of the inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in sub-Saharan Africa. It revisits the history of early and late precolonial technology in Africa and explores its impacts on the wider world.

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Much of the literature on ancient Egypt centers on pharaohs or on elite conceptions of the afterlife. Drawing on the archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence from the earlier years of the New Kingdom, this book examines how ordinary ancient Egyptians lived their lives, from birth to death.

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Phiri (social science, Regis U., Colorado) works for the non- profit Cook Communications, which promotes indigenous publishing around the world. He explores the role of the churches in the African transitions to plural politics in the 1990s, and how they were drawn into a role that invariably brough

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Making provocative use of the term apartheid," Janet Abu-Lughod argues that French colonial policies in Moroccan cities effectively segregated Moroccans from Europeans. Focusing on Rabat and drawing upon unpublished data from the 1971 census of Morocco, she documents the results of this segregation. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Leg

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A gripping eyewitness account of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution as told by the only American present throughout the turmoil

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