Essays from a symposium in honor of Gerhard Kubik, held in December 2004 at the University of Vienna. Accompanying DVD-ROM contains photographs, videorecordings, and audio recordings to illustrate the ...

While scholars have amassed large amounts of data related to the transatlantic slave trade, a more pressing question lingers: Where did those 12.7 million people come from within pre-colonial West ...

A research project from a University of Colorado Boulder professor could help trace the path of African cultures that came to the Americas through slave ships, as well as provide more answers on ...

Three U.S. museums have returned 31 bronzes looted from the pre-colonial African kingdom of Benin to the Nigerian National Collections in a ceremony held at the Smithsonian Institution. The looted ...

Embodied ethical life and the threat of cognitive imperialism in African contexts -- -- Hayford, Balewa, and the representation of African culture and society -- Articulations of empire and hatred of ...

The institutional memory of pre-colonial African governance systems has suffered from both scholarly neglect and wilful misrepresentation. V. L. K. Djokoto’s Revolution offers a corrective and ...