AFRICAN ISSUES
A groundbreaking series that provokes debate on many of the critical issues facing the continent. NEW & RECENT
Inside Mining Capitalism
The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars
The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts
Old Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition]
Edited by BENJAMIN RUBBERS A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continent. This title is available as open access 978 1 84701 286 9 £19.99 /$25.95, October 2021 978 1 84701 286 9, 2 maps; 186pp, PB
DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan’s new south and South Sudan. £19.99 /$25.95, November 2016 978 1 84701 151 0, 3 line illus.; 272pp, PB
Women & Peacebuilding in Africa
Volunteer Economies
The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa
Edited by LADAN AFFI, LIV TØNNESSEN & AILI MARI TRIPP A key book for conflict and peace studies, reveals the gendered nature of peacebuilding, its consequences, and the importance of women playing a part in peace processes in Africa. £19.99 /$24.95, £75/$130, October 2021 978 1 84701 281 4, 978 1 84701 282 1, 1 map, 4 tables.; 208pp, PB/HB
Land, Investment & Politics
Edited by RUTH PRINCE & HANNAH BROWN Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility. £19.99 /$25.95, June 2016 978 1 84701 139 8, 2 b/w illus.; 280pp, PB
Reconfiguring Eastern Africa’s Pastoral Drylands
Africa’s Land Rush
Edited by JEREMY LIND, DORIS OKENWA & IAN SCOONES
Edited by RUTH HALL, IAN SCOONES & DZODZI TSIKATA
Examines the new challenges facing Africa’s pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples. £19.99 /$25.95, May 2020 978 1 84701 249 4, 15 line illus.; 224pp, PB
Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change Interrogates the narratives of “land grabbing” and “agricultural investment” through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa’s land and agricultural economy. £19.99 /$25.95, July 2015 978 1 84701 130 5, 15 line illus.; 224pp, PB
Electricity in Africa
The Development State
The Politics of Transformation in Uganda CHRISTOPHER GORE
Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development politics in African states. This title is available as open access 978 1 78744 057 9 £19.99 /$25.95, August 2017 978 1 84701 168 8, 5 b/w, 3 line illus.; 200pp, PB
Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania MAIA GREEN
A timely, ethnographically informed account of the “development state” of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and economically. £19.99 /$25.95, November 2014 978 1 84701 108 4, 2 line illus.; 229pp, PB
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Losing Your Land
Sudan Looks East
Dispossession in the Great Lakes
China, India and the Politics of Asian Alternatives
Edited by AN ANSOMS & THEA HILHORST Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today - land-grabbing - and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession. £19.99 /$25.95, October 2014 978 1 84701 105 3, 1 line illus.; 232pp, PB
Africa Rising?
Edited by DANIEL LARGE & LUKE A. PATEY Places Sudan’s oil industry (examined here in macro, micro and political terms), its economy, external relations and changing politics under the impact of the Darfur conflict and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, in the wider context of the expansion of Asia’s global economic strength. £17.99 /$24.95, November 2011 978 1 84701 037 7, 7 line illus.; 215pp, PB
BRICS - Diversifying Dependency
The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman
IAN TAYLOR Explores to what extent Africa’s “rise” has impacted on development and whether the BRICS are creating a new version of dependency.
Women and Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War
£19.99 /$25.95, September 2014 978 1 84701 096 4, 208pp, PB
ELEANOR O’ GORMAN
China’s Aid and Soft Power in Africa The Case of Education and Training KENNETH KING
Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe’s anti-colonial struggle. Zimbabwe: Weaver Press £17.99 /$24.95, October 2011 978 1 84701 040 7, b/w, 2 line illus.; 208pp, PB
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
China’s increasing role as an education donor in Africa, and the significance of this both economically and politically.
Myths and Realities
£19.99 /$25.95, May 2013 978 1 84701 065 0, 256pp, PB
IAN SCOONES ET AL.
From the Pit to the Market
Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone DIANE FROST Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excluding and marginalizing it from the club of wealthier nations, and causing it to continue to rely on international aid.
Challenges the commonly held myths about Zimbabwe’s land reform. Zimbabwe: Weaver Press Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana): Jacana £17.99 /$24.95, November 2010 978 1 84701 024 7, 17 line illus.; 304pp, PB
Identity Economics
Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria
£19.99 /$25.95, November 2012 978 1 84701 060 5, 6 b/w, 6 line illus.; 248pp, PB
South Africa’s Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis
over a century.
KATE MEAGHER
JOCK McCULLOCH
This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in Africa.
Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners was hidden for
£17.99 /$24.95, February 2010 978 1 84701 016 2, 4 line illus.; 224pp, PB
Nigeria: HEBN
The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials
Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana
Transitional Justice Challenged
£19.99 /$25.95, October 2012 978 1 84701 059 9, 2 b/w illus.; 202pp, PB
Edited by KJETIL TRONVOLL, CHARLES SCHAEFER & GIRMACHEW ALEMU ANEME This collection analyses the approach taken by the current government of Ethiopia to deal with the massive human rights violations that took place from 1974 to 1991 under the Derg. £17.99 /$24.95, March 2009 978 1 84701 320 0, 176pp, PB
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Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana
Angola
Anatomy of an Oil State
KENNETH GOOD
TONY HODGES
Analyses the limits to democracy in Botswana.
Provides a comprehensive account of the severity of the problems that face war-torn, underdeveloped, oil producing states.
South Africa: Jacana £17.99 /$24.95, November 2008 978 1 84701 312 5, 1 b/w, 1 line illus.; 192pp, PB
North America: Indiana University Press
Gender and Genocide in Burundi
£17.99 /$24.95, November 2003 978 0 85255 874 4, 254pp, PB
Letting Them Die
The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region
Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail
PATRICIA O. DALEY Can Burundi achieve its political and economic objectives without returning to genocidal violence? North America: Indiana University Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP; South Africa: Jacana £17.99 /$24.95, April 2008 978 1 84701 306 4, 256pp, PB
CATHERINE CAMPBELL South Africa has the worst AIDS epidemic in the world... this book highlights the barriers and constraints to controlling the crisis. Published in association with the IAI North America: Indiana University Press; South Africa: Double Storey/Juta
Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley
£17.99 /$24.95, September 2003 978 0 85255 868 3, 224pp, PB
Somalia
Pastoralist Conflict and Small Arms
Economy Without State
KENNEDY AGADE MKUTU
PETER D. LITTLE
A vivid account of modern pastoralist armed conflict.
Amaury Talbot Prize Winner Shows that Somalia is an extreme case of an economy without a government.
North America: Indiana University Press; Kenya: EAEP; Uganda: Fountain; South Africa: Jacana £17.99 /$24.95, April 2008 978 1 84701 308 8, 8 b/w, 14 line illus.; 192pp, PB
Published in association with the IAI North America: Indiana University Press £17.99 /$24.95, September 2003
Becoming Somaliland
978 0 85255 865 2, 224pp, PB
MARK BRADBURY
Fortress Conservation
Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into ‘state collapse’? Published in association with Progressio; North America: Indiana University Press; South Africa: Jacana; Uganda: Fountain Publishers £17.99 /$24.95, April 2008 978 1 84701 310 1, 288pp, PB
Undermining Development
The Absence of Power among Local NGOs in Africa SARAH MICHAEL
The Preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania DAN BROCKINGTON Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people. Published in association with the IAI North America: Indiana University Press £17.99 /$24.95, May 2002
978 0 85255 417 3, 192pp, PB
How does power impact on sustainable development?
AFRICAN GRIOT NEWSLETTER
North America: Indiana University Press £17.99 /$24.95, December 2004 978 0 85255 439 5, 224pp, PB
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Asbestos Blues
The Criminalization of the State in Africa
Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State in South Africa
JEAN-FRANCOIS BAYART, STEPHEN ELLIS & BEATRICE HIBOU
JOCK MCCULLOCH Most of the world’s blue asbestos has been mined in South Africa, where industry and government have been slow to respond to environment and health issues. North America: Indiana University Press; South Africa: Juta £17.99 /$24.95, May 2002 978 0 85255 862 1, 12 b/w, 1 line illus.; 256pp, PB
Has Africa moved on from ‘classical corruption? What are the political and economic origins of official implication in crime? What are the new frontiers of crime in South Africa? Published in association with the IAI North America: Indiana University Press £14.99 /$19.95, January 1999 978 0 85255 812 6, 192pp, PB
Killing for Conservation
Famine Crimes
Wildlife Policy in Zimbabwe
Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa ALEX de WAAL
ROSALEEN DUFFY Examines conservation and wildlife policies in Zimbabwe. Published in association with the IAI North America: Indiana University Press; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press £17.99 /$24.95, January 2000 978 0 85255 846 1, 192pp, PB
Congo-Paris
Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law JANET MacGAFFEY & REMY BAZENGUISSA-
The persistence of famine reflects political failings by African governments, western donors and international relief agencies. Examines who is responsible for the failures, the role of international relief agencies, and the way forward. Published in association with the IAI North America: Indiana University Press
£17.99 /$24.95, January 1997 978 0 85255 810 2, 6 b/w, 2 line illus.; 256pp, PB
Fighting for the Rain Forest
GANGA
Examines aspects of the informal economy operating between Central Africa and Paris and its role in the identity of the traders involved.
War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone PAUL RICHARDS Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity. Published in association with the IAI
Published in association with the IAI North America: Indiana University Press
£17.99 /$24.95, January 1996 978 0 85255 397 8, 240pp, PB
£17.99 /$24.95, January 2000 978 0 85255 260 5, 208pp, PB
Lie of the Land
Africa Works
Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment
Disorder as Political Instrument PATRICK CHABAL & JEAN-PASCAL DALOZ
Edited by MELISSA LEACH & ROBIN MEARNS
An examination of the political instrumentalization of disorder. Published in association with the IAI
Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa. Published in association with the IAI
North America: Indiana University Press
£17.99 /$24.95, January 1996 978 0 85255 409 8, 256pp, PB
£17.99 /$24.95, September 1999 978 0 85255 814 0, 192pp, PB
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