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This series presents fresh perspectives on the city and region's apartheid history. It takes a position that South Africa was liberated by all of its people.

This biography charts the life of Umaru Ibrahim, a Nigerian civil servant who later was active in the country's banking sector.

This is the first of a three-volume history by Bill Guest of a major South African university founded as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg in 1909.

This is the first of a three-volume history by Bill Guest of a major South African university founded as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg in 1909.

"Kusadziwa Nkufa Komwe"(Lack of Knowledge is as Being Dead) is a Nyanja maxim, African Philosophy that is true the world over. A person who lacks knowledge is as good as dead, inactive and insensitive.

Traditional and Religious Plants of West Africa is a collection of plant uses that appear to be based on beliefs, symbols, signs and values.

The focus of this book is to assess, through language and literary studies in interpretation, the epistemic representation of frontiers in its shifting and fixing categories.

Rural communities, particularly in developing countries, face perpetual risks of being displaced by infrastructure development projects.

The Making of a Nigerian Engineer is a personal account of an accomplished Engineer, Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa, OFR, beginning with his early life in Kano through his education and training on several continents, and practice as a professional who is well travelled and highly experienced. The book further captures the author's rise through the ranks to becoming former Presidents of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and Council for the Registration of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), and Technical Secretary and Council Member of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering (NAEng._. His participation in the activities of the Federation of African Organisation of Engineering (FAOE), Federation of African Engineering Organisations (FAEO) and World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) are also detailed in the book.Beyond being an ordinary autobiography, the book also provides a template to everyone as to how truly certified engineers are made in Nigeria and how versatile they can be when engaged in any capacity. It equally gives a historical account of the formation and activities of main engineering bodies such as the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and Council for the Registration of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and their international adventures.The book is a must read for every aspiring and professional engineer in Nigeria and Africa. It is also recommended for historians and all lovers of good book.

Each rich essay hints, in different ways, at alternative conceptions of the universal that emerge in collective struggles, enriching understanding of the creative capacity of African communities to make their own history.

Ceded at Dawn identifies and examines decolonization as the principal source of the smoldering tension that persisted between the two former United Nations Trust Territories in Cameroon which finally exploded into an armed conflict in 2017. French Cameroon (now the Republic of Cameroon) was decolonized while the decolonization of British Cameroons was abandoned unfinished. The international experiment on independence by joining was an exceptional route selected for the decolonization of British Southern Cameroons and was defended with the untenable arguments that British Southern Cameroons was too small and too poor to be granted sovereign independence. Both British Southern Cameroons and French Cameroon rejected independence by joining - the latter registering her objection in a "No" vote at the General Assembly meeting in April 1961. In British Southern Cameroons on the other hand, the suppression of bilateral agreement on confederation of states of equal status, the nullification of their self-governing status and worst of all the wrongful transfer of that self-governing state to the Republic of Cameroon on no known terms became a complete recipe for a disaster awaiting outburst and eruption. Ceded at Dawn documents and methodically analyzes these developments using archival and recently declassified British colonial sources. Historians, diplomats, political scientists, scholars of the UN system and international law as well experts on decolonization will find this volume it very illuminating.

Independent African, first published in 1958, is still one of the few serious attempts to write a history of an African Rising against European rule south of the Sahara.

This provocative book on The Future of Africa addresses fundamental genealogical developmental challenges of vital concern to Africa's transformation is premised on the orientation that the continent's future is up to Africans, cognizant of the fact that Africans cohabit the same diversified and inter-connected planet with others.

É quase injusto celebrarmos a força feminina em situações como as das personagens Zola e Mvelo, em que a única opção dada às mulheres é serem fortes: nos guetos do apartheid não há outra escolha senão resistir. Precisamos olhar mais fundo, para além da sobrevivência, e ver o que estas mulheres foram capazes de preservar da sua identidade individual, o que puderam guardar intocado mesmo diante da degradação a que foram submetidas. Se acompanhamos a história de Zola, temos um testemunho vivo de integridade e autonomia. Numa época em que o feminismo mal tinha palavras às quais se agarrar, Zola mantém-se sólida e determinada a seguir seus próprios princípios. E, se olharmos com atenção, encontraremos em Mvelo a infância que, roubada tão precocemente, se fez durar um pouco mais ao subsistir na inocência de uma menina que se alimenta de esperança.

There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This view has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to make Africans internalise and reinforce this supposed dependency. Africa needs to embark on paradigm shift; and tweak and turn things around. Africa has what it take to do so quickly, especially now that new economic powers such as China and India are evolving as counterweight to the West. Shall Africa use these new economic forces to its advantage based on fair and win-win cooperation? To do so, Africa must make sure that it does not slink back into business as usual vis-a-vis beggarliness, dependence, frailty, gullibility, made-up backwardness, monkey business, and pipedreams, not to mention the nasty and narcissistic behaviours of its venal and navel-gazing rulers. Verily, Africa needs, inter alia, to use its God-given gifts, namely, immense resources, young population, abundance of vast and unexploited amounts of land. Equally, Africa must, without equivocation, invest copiously and earnestly in its people, the youth in the main. Most of all, Africa needs to shy away from all colonial carryovers and encumbrances. This volume shows many ways through and by which Africa can reverse the current imbroglio-cum-no-go it faces for the better; and thereby actualise the dream of being truly independent and prosperous.