An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African
continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African …

During the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day
Angola) as communities and an identity for those fleeing expanding states and the violence …

Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West
Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the …

This paper charts the rise and transformation of biography as a form of Africanist history
writing. Biography in African history, as in other fields, has included attention to nationalist …

Children in Africa are heavily involved in migration but we know too little about the
circumstances in which they migrate, their motivations and the impact of migration on their …

This article explores the nature and expansion of slavery in Benguela, in West Central
Africa, during the nineteenth century, engaging with the scholarship on second slavery …

This book centers on the Africa-Atlantic-Americas system and its relationship to the complex
of Atlantic slavery, regimes of slavery on land in Africa and America, enslavement and …

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora
of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address …

The Nature of the Path reveals how a single road has shaped the collective identity of a
community that has existed on the margins of larger societies for centuries. Marcus Filippello …

African children shaped social, cultural, and productive dynamics during European colonial
rule. Often marginal to those in power, children have been neglected by historians until …