Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies...

In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession...

The contributors explore everything from issues of representation in novels and cinema, to political organizing, religious fundamentalism, slavery, love, and sexuality....

Webel tells a history of colonial interventions among three communities of the Great Lakes region of East Africa...

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?

Alpers offers a concise yet an immensely informative introduction to the Indian Ocean world, which remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions...

An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa...

How have the everyday practices of parenting been shaped by patriarchy and coloniality?

Will’s book is an ethnography of taxi-moto drivers in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city...