A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late
nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had …

The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year
journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue …

Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new
interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe. It combines …

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The status of tropical peatlands, one of Earth's most efficient natural carbon stores, is of
increasing international concern as they experience rising threat from deforestation and …

This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe.
Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some …

In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and
passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late …

This review draws from old and new archaeological data and takes interpretive flavor from
indigenous African concepts to demonstrate that, within a context of local and external …