African Studies

This study reconstructs the history of women in Sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the stages of women's collective roles as well as their individual emancipation through revolts, urban migrations, economic impacts, social claims, political strength and creativity...

This volume examines the growing presence of Africans and people of African descent in the Nordic countries in relation to national identities, racism and diaspora. The book covers a broad range of topics such as the history of jazz in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the existential predicament of being..

This volume examines the growing presence of Africans and people of African descent in the Nordic countries in relation to national identities, racism and diaspora. The book covers a broad range of topics such as the history of jazz in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the existential predicament of being..

Comprising an original group of contributions on that much maligned figure, the Afropolitan, this book is the beginnings of an activist scholarly agenda in which ‘the Afropolitan’ is reimagined to include globally mobile Africans in any theorisations of the transnational circuits we call Afropolitan..

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, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as..

Africa’s history has been misrepresented by the outside world, especially by the Judeo-Christian West. An awareness of such a bias in historiographical discourse explains much of the difficulty Africans and peoples of African descent have in formulating a viable identity in intellectual discourse. E..

This book explores the diverse situations that police forces operate under. The cross-cultural comparison of democracies highlights how societies struggle with the challenges of preserving democracy whilst ensuring effective policing...

China is the most powerful of a number of large developing country or new powers on the ascendance in the international system, all of which are deepening their economic relations with Africa. The primary aim of this book is to investigate what is particularly special about the emerging development ..

This book examines these challenges, considering Africa as a testing ground, both for Chinese companiesgoing global and for a Chinese government that is increasingly having to deal with issues beyond its shores and immediate control...

European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting ..

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as..