Gregory Luebbert Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1995. "In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished scholar of African affairs argues that the crisis in African ...

Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...

Did Christian missionaries help or harm Africa during the colonial period? Were the missionaries perceived as a threat by Muslims in the Middle East? These were the issues addressed by Asian and ...

Maano Ramutsindela is an associate professor of environmental and geographical science at the University of Cape Town. Updated July 4, 2014, 12:45 PM The partitioning of Africa by European empires has ...

South Sudan’s independence July 9 could encourage secession efforts elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, but elites in those countries will likely stymie those attempts at challenging colonial borders, at ...

Most of what you think you know is wrong. What was the relationship between Christian missions and European colonialism in West Africa? For decades Western and African historians have agreed on an ...

A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim they had seized power- a familiar scene playing in West Africa. Within hours, the president announced the coup had been ...

THE Italian colonies, which cover altogether an area of about 780,000 square miles and contain a population of over a million and a half, are entirely inadequate to care for Italy's economic needs or ...