African Studies from GlobalAcademics

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1982. Scholarly text presents a detailed historiography of South Africa before the beginning of large-scale mining operations in Kimberley in 1870. Topics covered include economy and social structure of the herders and hunters; Nguni people; the Sotho, Venda, and Tsonga; white settlers and the origin of a new society, 1652-1778; the Eastern Cape frontier; cosolidation of… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1998. Chad, the fifth largest country in Africa, has experienced great difficulties politically, economically, and socially. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Chad briefly held international attention because of its warring with Libya. This situation underlines Chad’s potential for drawing its neighbors—Libya, Sudan, Cameroon, and Nigeria in particular—and to some degree France and the United States… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 2000. When World War I came to the British Protectorate of Nyasaland, Africans called it the Chiwaya War, from a Chichewa word meaning a "potsherd used for roasting grain." Malawians first used the word to describe military mess tins. When they later discovered that grain roasted on the tins made a distinct popping sound, they began… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Scholarly text based on rare oral data from women participants in the "Mau Mau" rebellion, chronicles changes in women's domestic reproduction, legal status, and gender roles that took place under colonial rule. The book links labour activism, cultural nationalism, and the more overtly political issues of land alienation, judicial control, and character of the colonial… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1986. Scholarly text documents the experiences of anthropologists with development in West Africa during the past ten years. It presents case study material to bring out the actual and potential contributions of social science to solving development problems found in Africa and other parts of the Third World. 323 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. A small West African nation with bountiful resources and an extraordinary diversity of ethnic groups, Guinea Bissau was, until independence in 1974, a Portuguese colony surrounded by Franco-phone neighbours. This profile offers an overview of the country's history and culture - including precolonial peoples, the slave trade, resistance to colonial rule, and the struggle for… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1989. Scholarly text presents the application of of the corporatist approach to select African cases, demonstrating the varying success of respective states in effecting control in Tanzania, Zaire, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe. This conceptual framework offers a fresh perspective on the continuing debate about social control by the state, extending the discussion beyond the modernization, dependency,… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1984. Scholarly text traces the history of the Tanzanian manufacturing industry since the beginning of colonial rule, focusing on the period since Tanzanian independence and especially on the effects of socialist policies resulting from the 1967 Arusha Declaration. Includes a detailed examination of the changes in labor productivity, earnings, unit labor costs, investments, aand the prices… Read more about this item