Africa’s history is filled with accounts of triumph, resilience, and profound transformation. Spanning thousands of years, the continent has been the cradle of some of the world’s earliest ...

The Republic of South Africa, located at the southern tip of the continent, has a diverse landscape and rich history that began with Portuguese explorers in the late 1400s. Initially occupied by the ...

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...