Gregory Luebbert Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1995. "In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished scholar of African affairs argues that the crisis in African ...

Most of what you think you know is wrong. What was the relationship between Christian missions and European colonialism in West Africa? For decades Western and African historians have agreed on an ...

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This article was originally published by The Conversation. Read the original article. The 2017 French election was watched with great nervousness by millions across Francophone Africa. That's because ...

Audie Cornish talks to Howard French, associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a former, longtime foreign correspondent for The New York Times, about the ...

THE Italian colonies, which cover altogether an area of about 780,000 square miles and contain a population of over a million and a half, are entirely inadequate to care for Italy's economic needs or ...

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