Jean Marie Allman eBooks

For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In "Tongnaab", Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction >>

Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. To date, few scholars have explored what clothing means in 20th-century Africa and the diaspora. >>

“Like the quills of the porcupine, if you kill a thousand, a thousand more will come.”—Asante aphorism Bearing the historic symbol of the Asante nation, the porcupine, the National Liberation Movement >>