Over the course of the Great War, a quarter of million settlers and subjects from Algeria
served in French forces. Thousands more crossed the Mediterranean to work in the war …

A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the
world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by …

This article explores the intellectual life and organizational work of an Indian Muslim activist
and journalist, MO Abbasi, a largely forgotten figure who nonetheless stood at the center of …

In the last few years, our understanding of police forces in Africa has increased significantly.
Whilst in previous literature the police tended to be presented as a mere instrument in the …

Introduction n 1936 an Accra newspaper hit the streets with the alarmist headline"
Tribesmen Mobilise for War in British Togoland."'According to the newspaper the people of …

A communications perspective on the history of power on the African continent therefore
guides a fuller understanding of change and continuity in politics in a digital age by draw ing …

This dissertation compares how eastern and southern Africans incorporated colonialism into
their historical imagination. It does so by examining how ordinary men and women …

On January 8, 1968, a woman we shall call AN 1 sent a petition to Governor Pape Malick
M'Bengue of Cape Verde Peninsula (Cap-Vert, a region of Dakar, Senegal) in “hopes” of …

This article explores the social and political context embedded in Atlantic child slave
biography, such as claims about family, parentage, and orphanhood in narratives of child …

The book uses the main body of Lovejoy's work to speak to core African and economic
history issues. It thoroughly examines Lovejoy's contributions to the study of Africa …