Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...

Kara’s book is rigorously researched and beautifully written. She draws on both archival and life history methods to center rural Kenyans,...

Tchouta Mougoue illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon...

In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...

Taylor explores the second wave of African American exiles or repatriates to Ghana in post-1980s...

Opalo examines the development of African legislatures from their colonial origins through independence, autocracy and the transition to multi-party rule....

By 2024, global sales of skin lighteners are projected to reach more than $30 billion...

In the early 19th century, on the floodplain of the Niger river’s inland delta in West Africa (present-day Mali), the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi emerged....

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Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...