The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) took over from the much hated army dictatorship of Mengistu's DERG at the beginning of the 1990s. This book is the outcome of an intensive research and monitoring study of the growing gap between democratic aspirations and reality.

Professor Iliffe traces the history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa from the thirteenth-century Ethiopia to the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s.

The first full study of Wala history and society, which will be of interest to Africanists, Islamic studies specialists and historians of colonialism.

This substantial and thoroughly documented book is a political biography of an important figure in Sierra Leone.

The Politics of Harmony analyses how traditional ruling elites in Swaziland, as in other parts of Africa, use harmony ideologies to downplay and resolve land disputes.

A full history of Bundu, a Muslim state which developed a uniquely pragmatic outlook.

Argues that growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within West Africa. Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Senegal River Valley in the 18th century.

Examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. The book raises doubts over the moral legitimacy of both the Sokoto Caliphate and the colonial state and charts the development of British policy towards resolving the dilemma of slavery.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the country's political history over the past three decades.

This book is the first comprehensive study of leisure in an African colonial city.

This substantial and thoroughly documented book is a political biography of an important figure in Sierra Leone.

This book analyses socio-economic change among the peasants and traders during the the Turkiyya period of Sudanese history.

Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the country's political history over the past three decades.

Authoritative account of 400 years of West African history by a leading scholar.