Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they have colonised spaces ...

Editor’s note: Our reviewers each selected a set of books essential to understanding the past century and another set essential for imagining the century ahead. These seminal works provide a guide to ...

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 ...

Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

2015-12-19T20:48:45-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/bc5/20151219205009002_hd.jpgOusmane Power-Greene talked about his book, Against Wind and Tide: The African ...

Cows are highly intelligent and deeply sentient and emotional beings with distinct individual personalities, and have been ...

Isabel Hofmeyr receives funding from the National Research Foundation. Some years back, I wrote a book about Mahatma Gandhi’s work as a printer and publisher in South Africa, from 1893 to 1914. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Prince William and Prince Harry's competitiveness over Africa is "extremely unhealthy," a British author has told Newsweek. Harry's describes in his memoir, Spare, how he wanted to make charity work ...