The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa A finalist for the 1985 Herskovits Prize First Paperback Edition

World is Africa brings together more than 30 important texts by Eddie Chambers, who for several decades has been an original and a critical voice within the fie

Auch in einer Welt der Zirkulation, in der dieselben Dinge und Ideen bis in die letzten Winkel vordringen, gleichen sich die Lebensverhaltnisse nicht notwendig

West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade surveys archaeological data from Senegal to the Cameroon. It focuses on the past 500 years, a period that witnessed

An exploration of the African past, from prehistory to about 1870.

Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Ame

The book includes eight papers focusing on the interaction of society, culture, and technology in Africa over the last two million years. The goal is to highlig

The hidden history of African uranium and what it means—for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.” Uranium from Africa has long b

The nineteenth century in Africa was a time of revolution and tumultuous change in virtually all spheres. Violent dry spells, the staggered abolition of the sla