In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa ‘from below,’ asking what this means for the r

The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and tr

As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing pres

Decolonization of knowledge has become a major issue in African Studies in recent years, brought to the fore by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #Bl

A history of a political practice through which East Africans have sought to create calm, harmonious polities for five hundred years. “To speak and be heard�