First published in 1986, Military Power and Politics in Black Africa explores many themes that concerned military power and politics in sub-Saharan Africa at th

The concern of this book is with military rulers as political actors in contemporary Africa. Much of Africa has been under military rule during the quarter cent

From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientifi

The author provides extra coverage of both North and South Africa and of such key issues as debt, the AIDS epidemic, the position of women and the politics of p

This edited collection of essays answers a basic question posed by contemporary discourse on state building: How might people's identification with a particular