Politics, social theory, history of ideas

African government, politics, policy

Activist Origins of Political Ambition

Opposition Candidacy in Africa’s Electoral Authoritarian Regimes

Keith Weghorst | Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden

Activist Origins of Political Ambition is the first book to study opposition motivations to run for elective office in autocracies. Exemplifying mixed-methods research design, the book has rich contextual details and engages popular comparative and US-focused academic literature to inform public policy on democratization.

300pp

Jul. 2022 9781316519929 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009019705

African Peacekeeping

Jonathan Fisher | University of Birmingham

An accessible and comprehensive look at the story of Africa’s contemporary history and politics through the lens of peacekeeping, which draws on examples from across the continent to explore peacekeeping by Africans, rather than peacekeeping by others in Africa.

New Approaches to African History

258pp

Feb. 2022 9781108713498 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD

29.99

Feb. 2022 9781108499378 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 eISBN 9781108582179

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Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia

Robtel Neajai Pailey | London School of Economics and Political Science

Based on rich oral histories from over two hundred interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, this engaging study of dual citizenship and its development implications seeks to understand the origins of contemporary struggles over citizenship in Liberia, Africa’s first black republic.

African Studies

295pp

Jul. 2022 9781108812528 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2021 9781108836548 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108873871

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East Africa after Liberation

Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s

Jonathan Fisher | University of Birmingham

From 1986 to 1994, East Africa’s postcolonial, political order was profoundly challenged when four revolutionary ‘liberation’ movements seized power. This novel, far-reaching analysis focuses on the crisis of East Africa’s postcolonial political order, and the attempts by four revolutionary movements to disrupt, transform and reconstitute it.

African Studies

342pp

Mar. 2022 9781108714310 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Mar. 2020 9781108494274 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108665070

Election Violence in Zimbabwe

Human Rights, Politics and Power

Vimbai Chaumba Kwashirai | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen

Vimbai Chaumba Kwashirai explores the history and significance of election violence in Zimbabwe from the 1980s to the present day. Examining both overt and covert forms of violence, Kwashirai considers how violence can be understood and addresses wider questions about democracy and electoral freedom across the African continent.

320pp

Dec. 2022 9781107190818 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108120265

Good Governance in Nigeria

Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century

Portia Roelofs | St Anne’s College, Oxford

Drawing on original fieldwork in Nigeria, Portia Roelofs argues for an innovative reconceptualisation of good governance. Contributing to contemporary debates over technocracy, populism and the survival of democracy amidst conditions of inequality and mistrust, Roelofs reconsiders what it means for leaders to be accountable and transparent.

264pp

Jan. 2023 9781009235426 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009235471

Land Politics

How Customary Institutions Shape State Building in Zambia and Senegal

Lauren Honig | Boston College, Massachusetts

This book provides new insight into the highstakes struggle to control land in the Global South through the lens of land titling in Zambia and Senegal. Based on extensive fieldwork, it shows how chiefs and communities challenge the state, in an era of increasing scarcity and booming global land markets.

320pp

Aug. 2022 9781009123402 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009129183