Jan-Bart Gewald

André Leliveld

Iva Pe a.

Iva Peša

In Transforming Innovations in Africa the authors explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, institutions and processes) that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere, came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly appropriated and transformed within Africa.

Explorative Studies on Appropriation in African Societies

Transforming Innovations in Africa

Marja Hinfelaar

Giacomo Macola

Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a more nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia than has hitherto been presented in nationalist histories.

Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia

Living the End of Empire

Klaas van Walraven

Sabine Luning

In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists, social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa.

Motor Vehicles and People in Africa, 1890-2000

The Speed of Change

A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia Between 1890 and 1923

Towards Redemption

This text describes the manner in which the Herero of Namibia struggled to maintain control over their own freedom in the face of advancing German colonial control. The Herero-German war led to the destruction of Herero society in all of its pre-war facets. Yet Herero society re-emerged, re-organizing itself around the structures and beliefs of the German colonial army and Rhenish missionary activity. Taking advantage of the South African invasion of Namibia in World War I the Herero established themselves in areas of their own choosing. The effective re-occupation of land by the Herero forced the new colonial state, anxious to maintain peace and cut costs, to come to terms with the existence of Herero society. The study ends in 1923 when the death and funeral of Samuel Maherero - first paramount of the Herero and then resistance leader - the catalyst that brought the disparate groups of Herero together to establish a single unitary Herero identity.

A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923

Herero Heroes

Martine Prins

25 Years IOV-IOB

Competence with Consequence?

Socio-cultural Aspects of Herero History in Namibia 1915-1940

"We Thought We Would be Free--"

Jan-Bart Gewald

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