83 Another critic of Belgian rule was the novelist Joseph Conrad . A friend of Roger Casement , Conrad had piloted a Congolese steamboat in his youth , and the experience of the first decades of Belgian rule informs his best - known ...
In this third edition of East Africa: An Introductory History, Robert M. Maxon revisits the diverse eastern region of Africa, including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. With...
This book begins with a survey of Congo's early history, when diverse peoples such as the Luba, the Kuba, and the Nilotic inhabited the area, and continues by tracing the...
Now newly revised, this invaluable reference work provides a succinct account of the development of African society from the first appearance of man to the complex polity of today. Kingdoms...
In 1994, genocide put Rwanda on the map for most of the world. It also exposed one of the most shameful scandals of the Rwandan churches-the complicity of the Christian...
Expanded and updated by one of the foremost experts on Francophone Africa, the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Congo offers African scholars an easy-to-use reference source on...
Cameroon is one of the intriguing countries in Africa, often viewed as Africa in miniature. Geographically, it comprises very different regions; economically, it covers a broad mix of products and...
Warriors and Strangers
The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this...
Original ed. issued as no. 11-12 of Institutional and economic history, which forms the 12th series of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.