Books in the Oxford Studies in African Affairs series

Examines the famine in Dafur, Sudan in the 80's, and aid agencies' response to it. This book claims that humanitarian aid can be made more effective by looking at the underlying causes of local response to disaster, rather than relying simply on providing massive amounts of food aid, which is often distributed ineffectively.

This is the first full scholarly study of British and French policy in their West African colonies during the Second World War and in the years immediately after.

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-1890

A history of sexuality and gender relations in colonial Africa, this work examines African marriage relationships in southern Rhodesia. Combining historical and anthropological approaches, it analyzes colonial ideology, its contradictions and its effects on the people of southern Rhodesia.

The political history of an East African stateless society c.1800-1939.

A study of the armed resistance of the Turkana people of north-western Kenya to British colonial administration in the early 20th century. The author takes full account of the military history of the period, and addresses the fundamental question of why some African societies met the European advance with armed resistance while others did not.

A history of the Kenyan city of Mombasa and its surrounding settlements from the mid-19th century to the height of colonial rule in the 1930s. The author examines the institutions and social networks which simultaneously united and divided the people of the region and traces the development of these institutions under British rule.

This study of rural life and struggle in the Transvaal illuminates our understanding of the South African War and its aftermath, and offers new insights into peasant societies during the colonial period.

The hydropolitics of the Nile Valley are the most important issue today for the future of the inhabitants of Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia and East Africa. This is a study by British, Egyptian and Sudanese engineers and hydrologists of the evolution of proposals to develop the Nile Basin to ensure the best use of its precious waters.

A study of the administration and government of the Kingdom of Asante, analyzing the nature and development of the pre-colonial state, and the history and character of the Asante-Dutch relationship from the early 18th century until the Dutch departure in 1872.

This book breaks new ground by exposing some of the crucial political processes and struggles which shaped the reciprocal development of apartheid and capitalism in South Africa.