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.
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 (1900–1975)
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 Migrations
16. Colonialism and African Childhood
17. Literature in Colonial Africa
18. Art, African Identity, and Colonialism
19. Intensification and Attenuation: Colonial Influences on an African Culture
20. Youth and Popular Culture in Colonial Africa
21. The Horn of Africa and the Black Anticolonial Imaginary: 1896–1915
22. Colonial Africa and the West
23. International Law, Colonialism, and the African
24. Colonialism and Development in Africa
25. Nationalism and African Intellectuals
26. Decolonization Histories
II. Postcolonial Africa
27. Africa and the Cold War
28. African Politics since Independence
29. Secession and Separatism in Modern Africa
30. Post-Colonial Africa and the West
31. United States and Africa
32. Franco-African Relations: Still Exceptional?
33. Algeria and France: Beyond the Franco-Algerian Lens
34. China and Africa
35. Africa and Global Financial Institutions
36. Development History and Postcolonial African Experience
37. The African Diaspora and Postcolonial Africa
38. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
39. The Unfinished Business of Postcolonialism: Theological Perspectives
40. South Africa: Apartheid and Post-Apartheid
41. The Pan-African Experience: From the Organization of African Unity to the African Union
42. Africa and Human Rights
43. Education in Postcolonial Africa
44. African Women and the Postcolonial State
45. Young People and Public Space in Africa: Past and Present
46. Colonialism and African Sexualities
47. Culture, Artefacts and Independent Africa: The Cultural Politics of Museums and Heritage
48. Building the African Novel on Quick Sand: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership
49. Music and Postcolonial Africa
50. Sports and Politics in Postcolonial Africa
51. Media, Society, and the Postcolonial State
52. Between Diaspora and Homeland: The Study of African and the African Diaspora in the United States
