African Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Economic History
Ewout Frankema
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Economic HistoryIntroductionThe study of Africa’s economic past has experienced phases of growth and decline. In the 1960s to 1980s scholarly interest...
Economy, Informal
Martin J. Murray, Dana Kornberg
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Informal Economy Introduction Generally speaking, the term “informal economy” refers to income-generating activities that take place outside o...
Education
Amy Stambach
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
EducationIntroductionEducation in Africa refers to a number of social institutions and teaching practices, including government-run systems of schooli...
Education and the Study of Africa
Corrie Decker
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Education and the Study of Africa Introduction Though some historians and anthropologists have examined precolonial or indigenous forms of soci...
Egypt
Farha Ghannam
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Egypt Introduction The Arab Republic of Egypt, with around 85 million inhabitants, is the second most populous African country. Located mainly...
Egypt, Ancient
Toby Wilkinson
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Ancient EgyptIntroductionAncient Egypt produced the longest-lived civilization of the ancient world and one of the most stable systems of government i...
Environment
A. T. Grove
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Environment Introduction The environment of Africa, as it is considered here, includes the atmosphere and its behavior over the long and short...
Environmental History
Gregory H. Maddox
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Environmental History Introduction Environmental history, the study of how human societies and the natural world shape each other over time, d...
Equatorial Guinea
Alicia Campos Serrano
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Equatorial GuineaIntroductionThe state of Equatorial Guinea is the product of the patchy Spanish colonization in the Gulf of Guinea since the mid-19th...
Eritrea
Dan Connell
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
EritreaIntroductionHuman settlement in Eritrea stretches back at least 10,000 years with tools discovered in the Barka Valley dating from 8000 bce and...
Ethiopia
David H. Shinn
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
EthiopiaIntroductionEthiopia is perhaps the origin of humankind; it is sub-Saharan Africa’s oldest civilization, the second most populous country in a...
Ethnicity and Politics
Crawford Young
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Ethnicity and Politics Introduction Ethnicity is now universally regarded as a key element in the political process in African states. Paradox...
Europe and Africa, Medieval
Allen Fromherz
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Medieval Europe and Africa Introduction Studies of the relationship between Western North Africa (the Maghreb) and Europe have been marked by ...
Family Planning
Emily Callaci
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Family PlanningIntroductionFamily planning, as defined by contemporary institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International ...
Famine
Daniel Maxwell, Merry Fitzpatrick
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Famine Introduction Famine is now generally described as an extreme crisis of access to adequate food, manifested in widespread malnutrition a...
Farah, Nuruddin
F. Fiona Moolla
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Nuruddin FarahIntroductionNuruddin Farah (b. 1945 in Baidoa, southern Somalia) is an award-winning African author. He is internationally known, with a...
Feminism
Desiree Lewis
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Feminism Introduction Contemporary forms of feminist activism in Africa originated in women’s participation in nationalist struggles during th...
Food and Food Production
Ayodeji Olukoju
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Food and Food Production Introduction The transition from a hunter-gatherer existence to food production and urbanization was a turning point ...
Fugard, Athol
Marianne McDonald
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Athol FugardIntroductionSince the 1950s, the searing plays of South African playwright Athol Fugard (born 1932 in Middelburg, South Africa) have trace...
Fulani
Tea Virtanen
Subject: African Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Fulani Introduction The Fulani—also known as Fulbe, Fula and Peul—constitute one of the largest and most widely spread ethnic groups in Sub-Sa...
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