John Parker teaches African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra (2000); Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (2005; with Jean Allman); and African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007; with Richard Rathbone). He is currently conducting research on the history of death and the end of life in Ghana.

Richard Reid is Professor of the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of several books, including Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda (2002), War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present (2009; 2012), Frontiers of Violence in Northeast Africa (2011), and Warfare in African History (2012). He is the editor of Eritrea's External Relations: Understanding its Regional Role and Foreign Policy (2009), and has written a number of articles on various aspects of violence and liberation struggle in nineteenth- and twentieth-century northeast Africa. His work has focused particularly on the history of warfare and military culture in Africa; now he is researching historical consciousness and culture in Uganda. Professor Reid is also an editor of the Journal of African History.

Jean Allman, Washington University
Nicolas Argenti, Brunel University
Robert M. Baum, University of Missouri
James R. Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barbara M. Cooper, Rutgers University
Shane Doyle, University of Leeds
Deborah Durham, Sweet Briar College
Veit Erlmann, University of Texas at Austin
Sean Hanretta, Stanford University
Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University
Nancy Rose Hunt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Morten Jerven, Simon Fraser University
Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University
Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, Professor Emerita, Emory University, Atlanta
David Maxwell, University of Cambridge
James C. McCann, Boston University
Marie Miran-Guyon, Centre d'études africaines (CEAf), Paris
Stephanie Newell, University of Sussex
Emily Lynn Osborn, University of Chicago
John Parker, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Richard Reid, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Richard Roberts, Stanford University
Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania
Carol Summers, University of Richmond
Jean-Louis Triaud, Professor Emeritus, Université de Provence
Richard Waller, Bucknell University in Pennsylvania
Justin Willis, Durham University

"The Handbook will be of major interest to both teachers of African history and the curious general reader. And since most essays include sections on 'future directions' and subjects ripe for further investigations, prospective researchers, too, have reasons to be grateful for the appearance of this timely addition to the Oxford Handbooks series."--History Today

"The volume's essays offer a fascinating panorama of the landscape of African history as it is today: in many ways a vibrant picture of the breadth and subtlety of research. The essays often impress with their grasp of the continent as a whole, and in their coverage of interactions between politics, society, and culture...[A]n invaluable addition to an outstanding series."--Journal of Historical Geography

"[S]et to be a great success."--English Historical Review