“We who have been colonized can never forget”Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and ’60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of...

An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and criticIn this groundbreaking work the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious...

In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of "Abiymania", a fervor of popular support for the divided country's young, charismatic new prime minister. Arriving as if from nowhere, Abiy Ahmed, a Pentecostal Christian, promised democratic...

In This Book, Anthropologists Peter Geschiere And Rogers Orock Examine The Moral Panic That Engulfed Cameroon And Gabon, Beginning In The Mid-2000s, Over A Perceived Rise In Homosexuality. Setting Out To Uncover The Origins Of The Conspiratorial...

Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt...

How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers' visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state.   In 1918, South Africa's climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers...