From Beads to Drums to Masquerades, from Grandmother to Yams, this photographic alphabet captures the rhythms of day-to-day village life in Africa. Ifeoma Onyef

Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central A

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following k

The volume studies the meaning of secularization in sub-Saharan Africa and among the African diaspora. The first part focuses on Africa's cultural and religious

Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.