Early in 2007, hundreds of families living in shacks in Cape Town were moved into houses they had been waiting for since the end of the apa...

If you’re going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here’s the key to getting the very best medical care:...

A variety of authors contribute to this book on the causes of crime and violence in South Africa. Based on a public health approach, it pre...

Dexter B. Gordon’s Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism explores the problem of racial alienation a...

Today AIDS dominates the headlines, but a century ago it was fears of syphilis epidemics. This book looks at how the spread of syphilis was...

A riveting, in-depth account of one of New York City’s most notorious crimes. On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman is discovered in Cent...

The Igbo people and their unique culture represents a mercurial bridge of time, with potentials of linking the contemporary mind to the mys...

Having spent more than twenty years as a performer, manager, and producer of African music, John Collins brings an insider's perspectiv...

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americ...

The Egyptological literature usually belittles or ignores the political and intellectual initiative and success of the Nubian Twenty-Fifth ...