In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had
been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independence was driven by …

In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to
revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. The rebels of the …

While academic literature has long explored the ways in which colonial reification of identity
and narratives underpinning unequal racialised status of colonial subjects contributed to …

Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength,
purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Congo's Patrice …

Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely
have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between …

As the decades that defined the Cold War, the 1960s and 1970s helped shape the world we
live in to a remarkable degree. Political phenomena including the almighty tussle between …

Women have been central to the work of Christian ministry from the time of Jesus to the
twenty-first century. Yet the story of Christianity is too often told as a story of men. This …

This is the second volume of A History of African Theatre. Volume one began with an
extensive contextualising introduction to the major concerns of theatre across the whole …

A large literature on favouritism argues that leaders favour their own ethnicity or
administrative birthplace. We question the assumption that these leaders are exogenously …

In 1961, a series of uprisings exploded in Angola, Portugal's largest colony in Africa. A
struggle for the independence of all the Portuguese colonies in Africa followed, organized by …