Picking Sides
Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army
ISBN: PB: 9781787388178,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Argues that an understanding of the origins of ethnic politics in Nigeria requires a rigorous historical and sociological study of the ethnicisation of the colonial army.
Nigeria's colonial history matters. It shaped the destinies of hundreds of e...
PB:
30.00 GBP
QTY:
African People's Quest for Freedom and Justice
A Political History of Eritrea 1941-1962
ISBN: HB: 9781911723790,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
536 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 illus.
536 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 illus.
A pathbreaking history of modern Eritrea under postwar international administration, shedding light on issues that rock the Horn of Africa to this day.
Like its African neighbours, Eritrea attained colonial statehood under a European power, in this...
HB:
37.50 GBP
QTY:
Greater Tigray and the Mysterious Magnetism of Ethiopia
ISBN: PB: 9781805261643,
ISBN: HB: 9781805260233,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A history of the perennial struggle between Amhara and Tigray for hegemony in Ethiopia.
This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's very ancien...
PB:
20.00 GBP
QTY:
HB:
45.00 GBP
QTY:
Maghreb Since 1800
A Short History (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781805261667,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The Maghreb – the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya – is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. Today the focus of popular uprisings for democracy and participation, it underwent long periods of colo...
PB:
18.99 GBP
QTY:
Zanzibari Muslim Moderns
Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period
ISBN: HB: 9781911723820,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Reveals how a generation of Muslim scholars, intellectuals and civil servants adapted and adopted ideas of modernity in colonial interwar Zanzibar.
"Zanzibari Muslim Moderns" is a historical study of Zanzibar during the interwar years. This was a...
HB:
45.00 GBP
QTY:
Long Shadow of German Colonialism
Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism
ISBN: PB: 9781805260455,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
416 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
416 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A no-holds-barred account of how German society struggles with its colonial legacy.
From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subjec...
PB:
30.00 GBP
QTY:
Abiy Project
God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia
ISBN: HB: 9781911723103,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
368 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 illus.
From "democratic revolution" to conflict in Tigray and beyond, a journalist's eyewitness account of Abiy Ahmed's controversial premiership. After premature euphoria, can Ethiopia survive?
In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of "Abiyma...
HB:
30.00 GBP
QTY:
What Britain Did to Nigeria
A Short History of Conquest and Rule
ISBN: PB: 9781911723264,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383845,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2024
416 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 27 illus.
416 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 27 illus.
An expose of the British Empire's shameful impact on Africa's most populous state.
Most accounts of Nigeria's colonisation were written by British officials, presenting it as a noble civilising mission to rid Africans of barbaric superstition and...
PB:
12.99 GBP
QTY:
HB:
20.00 GBP
QTY:
Lifeworlds in Crisis
Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands
ISBN: PB: 9781911723226,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2024
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Based on two decades of fieldwork, an anthropologist's revealing exploration of conflict, displacement and cooperation at the margins of the state.
The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driv...
PB:
22.00 GBP
QTY:
Towards Jihad?
Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
ISBN: HB: 9781805260431,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2023
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The important full history of Islamic politics in Mozambique, from independence to the current insurgency, looking beyond the lens of "jihadism".
Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at the origins o...
HB:
40.00 GBP
QTY: