Books in the African Identities: Past and Present series

Combining extensive archival research with local fieldwork in the port of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, this first full history of the town re-examines and re-conceptualises the notion of urban identity as it has been traditionally understood on the Swahili Coast.

Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100,000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, this history of colonial Africa and examination of the African diaspora explores the links between emancipation, colonization, and identity formation in the Black Atlantic.