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Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

Black Atlantic Worlds

Landscapes are key to the history of the transformation of Atlantic nations, regions, and ecosystem by Africans and their descendants. Black Atlantic Worlds collects essays that focus on archival silences…

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866…

Leslie James

The Moving Word

In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through experimental reporting. But as press professionalism became a proxy for a colony's capacity to self-go…

Zeinab Badawi

An African History of Africa

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African per…

Zeinab Badawi

An African History of Africa

"... [Zeinab] Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history--from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilizations and medieval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the …

John Parker

In My Time of Dying

"Why do people die and where do they go when they are dead? How should the dead be buried and mourned in order to ensure that they continue to work for the benefit of the living? How have perceptions…

Terra X: Welten-Saga

Die »Welten-Saga« stellt in sechs Folgen einige der faszinierendsten Orte der Erde vor. Historiker Sir Christopher Clark reist einmal um den Globus und besucht UNESCO-Welterbestätten: Sein Weg führt ihn v…

Miranda Kaufmann

Heiresses

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses---and the role they played in the history of enslavement.Through the eighteenth and ear…

Luke Pepera

Motherland

"Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect with this extraord…

Sarah M. S. Pearsall,

Freiheit

Die Amerikanische Revolution war ein Epochenereignis: Ohne die Unabhängigkeitserklärung von 1776 wären die Französische Revolution und der Wandel des 'alten Kontinents' nicht denkbar gewesen. Sarah M.S. P…

Rich Benjamin

Talk to Me

A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson's account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his …

Howard W French

The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-Second World War colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary visi…

César Brioso

Havana Hardball

1947 Cuba, where the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League coincided with Jackie Robinson's spring training on the island before he made his major-league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers

Brooke N Newman

The Crown's Silence

For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family's centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy---from Eliza…

Imani Perry

Black in Blues

A "vast, multifaceted and enchanting" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, …

Imani Perry

Black in Blues

"Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue water offer hope for that wh…

June Sarpong

Calling Una Marson

The groundbreaking story of the BBC's first Black woman broadcaster - finally brought to light.

Nana Osei Quarshie

African Pharmakon

Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics of who gets to stay and who must be cast out.For centuries, mental distress in West Africa h…