African Studies

First published in 1953 this book looks at solid, sensitive ethnographic and historical accounts of the peoples and cultures of the Tswana. Part One, a documentation of life and times in the Bechuanaland Protectorate stands as a starkly detailed chronical of an African population in a rapidly changi..

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples...

This fascinating work shows how global events have affected life in Niumi, a small region in the Gambia, for over a thousand years. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition remains an essential resource for students and scholars of African history, paticularly those interested in the impact ..

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples...

The book analyses the EU’s role as an international security provider in a comprehensive way providing theoretical and empirical grounding for the understanding of the making and implementation of EU security policy. The contributions in this book cover actors involved in the policy making process, ..

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples...

This book distinguishes the types of poverty and deepens readers understanding of the structural features and constraints that create poverty traps. This allows communities, local governments and donors to take proactive, effective steps to combat persistent poverty in Africa...

This book distinguishes the types of poverty and deepens readers understanding of the structural features and constraints that create poverty traps. This allows communities, local governments and donors to take proactive, effective steps to combat persistent poverty in Africa...

This analysis of urban politics in South Africa, twenty years after the end of apartheid, contributes to the emerging anthropology of policy by offering an understanding of gendered urban governance as an interactive process...

Previously published as a special issue of The Round Table, this book covers not only the political situation in Zimbabwe, but its international context and those areas of privation, exclusion and silence within the country that are beneath the everyday face of politics...