The growth of trade stimulated the development of early Akan states located on the trade route to the goldfields in the forest zone of the south. The forest itself was thinly populated ...

Topics covered include pre-colonial African kingdoms, the ‘Scramble for Africa; white settler culture and the colonial state; the origins of apartheid South Africa; the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya; the ...

This was the first comprehensive analysis of slavery in early colonial South Africa under the Dutch East India Company (1652–1795) when it was published in 1985. Based on archival research in Britain, ...

exploitative South Africa, both during the colonial period, under apartheid, and even post-apartheid." She noted, pointedly, that the Commonwealth might have plenty in common, but the wealth was ...