Presents a comprehensive overview of African colonial and postcolonial history

Provides an invaluable reference for students and scholars of history and African studies

Includes fifty-two chapters from emerging and established across numerous disciplines in African history and African studies

Demonstrates how the field of modern African history has evolved and expanded since the mid-twentieth century

Autorentext
Martin S. Shanguhyia is Associate Professor of African History in the History Department of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA. His most recent book is Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya (2015). 
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has received seven honorary doctorates in addition to scores of lifetime career awards, and is the author and editor of over a hundred books.

Klappentext
This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date. It assembles dozens of new and established scholars to tackle the questions and subjects that define the field, ranging from the economy, the two world wars, nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience. Contributors are drawn from numerous fields in African studies, including art, music, literature, education, and anthropology. The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African history and the diversity and originality of lenses available for examining it. Older themes in the field have been treated to an engaging re-assessment, while new and emerging themes are situated as the book's core strength. The result is a comprehensive, vital picture of where the field of modern African history stands today.

Inhalt

1. Introduction
   I. Colonial Africa

2. Colonialism and the African Environment

3. Colonial Administrations and the Africans

4. Slavery in the Colonial State and After

5. Africans and the Colonial Economy

6. African Women in Colonial Economies

7. Colonialism and African Womanhood

8. Administration, Economy, and Society in the Portuguese African Empire (19001975)

9. Christian Evangelization and Its Legacy

10. Colonial Education

11. Health and Medicine in Colonial Society

12. African Colonial Urban Experience

13. Africa and the First World War

14. Africa and the Second World War

15. Colonialism and African Migrations16. Colonialism and African Childhood

16. Literature in Colonial Africa

17. Art, African Identity, and Colonialism

18. Intensification and Attenuation: Colonial Influences on an African Culture

19. Youth and Popular Culture in Colonial Africa

20. The Horn of Africa and the Black Anticolonial Imaginary: 18961915

21. Colonial Africa and the West

22. International Law, Colonialism, and the African

23. Colonialism and Development in Africa

24. Nationalism and African Intellectuals

25. Decolonization Histories
    II. Postcolonial Africa

26. Africa and the Cold War

27. African Politics since Independence

28. Secession and Separatism in Modern Africa

29. Post-Colonial Africa and the West

30. United States and Africa

31. Franco-African Relations: Still Exceptional?

32. Algeria and France: Beyond the Franco-Algerian Lens

33. China and Africa

34. Africa and Global Financial Institutions

35. Development History and Postcolonial African Experience

36. The African Diaspora and Postcolonial Africa

37. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

38. The Unfinished Business of Postcolonialism: Theological Perspectives

39. South Africa: Apartheid and Post-Apartheid

40. The Pan-African Experience: From the Organization of African Unity to the African Union

41. Africa and Human Rights

42. Education in Postcolonial Africa

43. African Women and the Postcolonial State

44. Young People and Public Space in Africa: Past and Present

45. Colonialism and African Sexualities

46. Culture, Artefacts and Independent Africa: The Cultural Politics of Museums and Heritage

47. Building the African Novel on Quick Sand: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership

48. Music an...