In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements, social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal, and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist to this day.

Contributions by: Paul Chiudza Banda, Nicholas K. Githuku, Gift Wasambo Kayira, John M. Lonsdale, Robert M. Maxon, Anne Kisaka Nangulu, Peter Odhiambo Ndege, Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo, Opolot Okia, George L. Simpson, Joseph M. Snyder, Betty Wambui, Peter Waweru