Demonstrates that the history of missionary activity and Fipa conversion in the late 19th and 20th centuries is most aptly explained within the context of families.
Kaler examines how "modern" contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generational conflicts, and in the national liberation struggle, i
There is an adage that the Igbo have no kings. Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings focuses on an area in Igboland where, contrary to this popular belief, Igbos not only have kings, but female kings.
Seven American academics search for a more nuanced understanding of many of the most basic issues in colonial and postcolonial African history. Their seven essays cover much of former British Souther
This work provides a collective biography of Thompson Samkange and of two of his sons, Sketchley and Stanlake. Thompson Samkange was born in 1893 at the time that his land was being overwhelmed from t
