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Topics may lie in any area of Africa’s history, broadly defined to include economic, political, or social history, and other specialties. The editors are particularly interested in projects that bear upon the following: economic activities of peoples or regions during the colonial period; effects of political turmoil upon the social and economic diaspora of the post-colonial period; economic development modeling for Africa; and historiographical examinations of particular regions. This list, we stress, is meant only to encourage certain kinds of submissions, not to exclude thoughtful and challenging work of other sorts. 

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64 results in Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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The Global Ethiopian Diaspora

African Migration and the Novel
  • Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction
  • Jack Taylor
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 May 2024
    Print publication:
    23 April 2024
  • Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration.

Transactional Culture in Colonial Dakar, 1902-44
  • Rachel M. Petrocelli
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 May 2024
    Print publication:
    18 June 2024
  • Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control by forging adaptive economic relationships.

Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa
  • Jennifer Lofkrantz
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    20 June 2023
  • Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads.

Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa
  • Nation and African Modernity
  • Kwaku Korang
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    20 January 2004
  • This book makes Africa the centerpiece of an intercultural investigation of modern colonial power and its resistance, focusing on the writings of Ghanaian intellectuals.

A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984
  • The Potts-Johnsons of Port Harcourt and Their Heirs
  • Mac Dixon-Fyle
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    24 May 1999
  • Using the history of the Potts-Johnsons, who lived in the Port Harcourt region of Nigeria from 1912-1984, as a case study, this book reviews the migration history of the Saro in the Niger River delta.

Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa

The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • Rebecca Shumway
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 February 2023
    Print publication:
    15 October 2011
  • Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807.

Cultivating their Own
  • Agriculture in Western Kenya during the 'Development' Era
  • Muey Saeteurn
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 January 2023
    Print publication:
    01 June 2020
  • Traces the consequences of agricultural development in western Kenya in the 1950s and 1960s.

West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960
  • Timothy Stapleton
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 October 2022
    Print publication:
    17 December 2021
  • Explores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region.

Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda
  • Jason Bruner
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 October 2022
    Print publication:
    01 September 2017
  • Reexamines the first twenty years of the East African revival movement in Uganda, 1935-1955, arguing that through the movement African Christians articulated and developed a unique spiritual lifestyle.

Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel
  • Blackness, Religion, Immigration
  • Bonnie S. Wasserman
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    03 May 2022
  • This book explores the dimensions of the coming-of-age novel in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, focusing on works by eight major Afro-Latin American writers.

Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
  • Media, Music, and Politics
  • Edited by Paul Ugor
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    15 October 2021
  • This book explores the range of vibrant cultural production and political activism of youth in Africa today, as expressed through art, music, theater, and online media.

Masquerade and Money in Urban Nigeria
  • The Case of Calabar
  • Jordan A. Fenton
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    07 February 2022
  • Examines the economic and spatial importance of performance arts in West Africa through a close analysis of the masquerade culture of Calabar, the capital city of Nigeria's Cross River State.

Guardians of the Tradition
  • Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea
  • James De Lorenzi
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    15 September 2015
  • Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day.

The Power of the Oath
  • Mau Mau Nationalism in Kenya, 1952–1960
  • Mickie Mwanzia Koster
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    30 June 2016
  • Opens a fresh conversation on the study of the Mau Mau rebellion and Kenyan history by arguing that Mau Mau was a nationalist movement rather than a Kikuyu war.

Disability in Africa
  • Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity
  • Edited by Toyin Falola, Nic Hamel
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 March 2021
  • Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.

Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya
  • Martin S. Shanguhyia
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 December 2015
  • Drawing from accounts of colonial experience in western Kenya, Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya examines the government's efforts to enforce certain land management programs in relation to its initiatives to revive and co-opt African "traditions" in soil conservation and land consolidation programs. Martin Shanguhyia analyzes how these programs were negotiated or contested by the local community; further, he argues that their legacy continues to define the everyday experiences of the rural population in Vihiga County, Western Province, notably in termsof high population densities and diminishing returns from the land. Relying on a rich collection of archival sources as well as oral interviews, the book explores the intersection between government policies, demography, and community traditions within a rapidly declining natural environment and adds significantly to our understanding of Africa's environmental history.

    Martin Shanguhyiais assistant professor of history at Syracuse University.

Manners Make a Nation
  • Racial Etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910–1963
  • Allison K. Shutt
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 September 2015
  • Shortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize Tells the story of how people struggled to define, refine, reform, and ultimately overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics.

Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone
  • Alusine Jalloh
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 June 2021
    Print publication:
    25 June 2018
  • The first comprehensive book on the participation of Muslim Fula business elites in the post-independence politics of Sierra Leone.

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