Essays from a symposium in honor of Gerhard Kubik, held in December 2004 at the University of Vienna. Accompanying DVD-ROM contains photographs, videorecordings, and audio recordings to illustrate the ...

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 ...

Donkeys entered Namibia’s central north relatively late, and only became common in the 1920s and 1930s. Their presence across ...

In what the publisher describes as “an original history of race-making, belonging and rights,” Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of “métis,” referring to the multiracial children ...

In the 17th century, life along what would become the Delaware coast included European families working alongside enslaved Africans to farm the land and survive a rugged pioneer life. The recent ...

Colonial Williamsburg, the country’s largest living history museum, has been bringing to life the Founding Fathers and reenacting some of America’s defining origin moments through costumed ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — In honor of Juneteenth, Colonial Williamsburg isn't just looking back. It's making steps forward. Thursday, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the reconstructed African Baptist ...