Cultural Literature

This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring. The African American Experience is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely...

Roxanne Booth examines the historical creation of the African-American Baptist church, in a straightforward, simplified manner. Her book, African-American Baptist in Mission: A Historical Guide examines the spiritual awakening and journey through slavery...

Jabarius and Tameesha have been collecting African American baby names for more than twenty years from all over the United States.The authors now live in Tennesee, but have lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Alabama, and Arizona. They love to...

The African American adult male's role as a provider and protector has not changed over the years. African American families are facing increasing fatherlessness and a decline in the continuity of the African American home. The African American male...

Africa: The Quest for Justice Amid Conflict and Corruption outlines the struggle for justice and stability in a region fraught with insurgencies, terrorism, and corrupt governments. Human rights and health challenges abound, although many African...

In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away from a volcano, were preserved in the petrified surface of a mudpan over three million years ago. Out of...

In Africa, Quod Vadis, Steve Kakrabah-Quarshie presents the reader with a passionate examination of the development of politics in the great continent of Africa. His focus centres on the founding of the Organisation of African Unity, profiling its...

Africa's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begins this sweeping chronicle by describing the role of African armies in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were...

Africa State of Mind gathers together the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across the continent, exploring Africa as a psychological space as much as a geographical one. Both a summation of new photographic practice from the last...

Under chapter headings such as 'Sources of Africa's cultural fragility', 'Thinking differently about African institutions', and 'Liberating human capital', Hlumelo Biko shows how, twenty years in, this century could yet become Africa's century, as many...

Africa in History provides a history of Africa without the typical Eurocentric approach. Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of civilization, applying a...

Many outstanding men-James Bruce, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others-won lasting fame from their African journeys. Africa Explored collects their amazing tales of treks into the unknown. These tales of Europeans...