Invisibility in African Displacements
Robbie Corey-Boulet
Edited by Jesper Bjarnesen, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden & Simon Turner, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives In 2009 Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story and still today there is little consensus on how to advance LGBT rights beyond the U.S. and Europe. In this faithful and moving investigation, award winning journalist Robbie Corey-Boulet shows that LGBT liberation does not look the same in Africa as it does in the United States or Europe. At a time when there is a groundswell of interest in LGBT life in Africa and attempts at reversing LGBT rights across much of the ‘developed’ world Corey-Boulet lays bare past failures. To the extent that there exists a right way to engage on LGBT issues in Africa—and, indeed, worldwide—Love Falls on Us is for those looking to learn what it is. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 336 pages PB 9781786995179 • £8.99 / $11.95 Previously published in HB 9781786997081 ePub 9781786995193 • £17.09 / $22.16 ePdf 9781786995186 • £17.09 / $22.16 Zed Books
Malawi
Economy, Society and Political Affairs Edited by Matthias Rompel, Giessen University, Germany & Reimer Gronemeyer, Giessen University, Germany
From Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance
This book offers a series of case studies that explore the dynamics of the demonisation and marginalisation of African migrants in public discourse. What tends to be either ignored or demonised in public debates on African migration are the deliberate strategies of avoidance or assimilation that migrants make use of to gain access to the destinations or opportunities they seek, or to remain below the radar of restrictive governance regimes. This collection offers a fine-grained analysis of the ways in which African migrants negotiate structural and strategic invisibilities, adding innovative approaches to our understanding of both migrant vulnerabilities and resilience. UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 312 pages PB 9781786999207 • £24.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781786999191 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781786999160 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781786999184 • £22.49 / $28.32 Series: Africa Now • Zed Books
Undoing Coups
AFRICAN STUDIES - ZED BOOKS
Love Falls On Us
The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar Antonia Witt, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany
Subsistence agriculture remains at the very heart of Malawi's social fabric, and also lies at the root of its tremendous poverty. Yet while it is among the worst performers in terms of per capita income and infant mortality, it is also a surprising leader in other areas (such as freedom of the press), has enjoyed over fifty years of relative stability since independence, and still holds great potential for economic development. Bringing together some of the leading experts on the country, this collection offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Malawi, encompassing its economy, culture, and politics.
Since the beginnings of independence, many African nations have been plagued by repeated coup d'états. Within the African Union (AU), there has been an effort to break this cycle via the adoption of an ‘anti-coup norm’, by which the AU is mandated to suspend a member state and restore constitutional order following a coup. This book looks at the legacy of the AU’s intervention in Madagascar following the 2009 ‘Malagasy crisis’. It looks at the ways in which non-Western international intervention reconfigured the political order in Madagascar, how it facilitated the power struggle within the Madagascan elite and prevented more profound political change.
UK October 2020 • US June 2020 • 256 pages PB 9781786995872 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781786995865 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781786995896 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781786995889 • £17.99 / $22.16 Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa • Zed Books
UK September 2020 • US August 2020 • 304 pages HB 9781786996831 • £65.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781786996855 • £58.50 / $72.68 ePdf 9781786996862 • £58.50 / $72.68 Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa • Zed Books
Politics and Society in Urban Africa State of Slum
Tanzania's Informal Economy
Paul Stacey, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Alexis Malefakis, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra
The Micro-politics of Street Vending
Home to eighty thousand people, Accra’s Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal ‘squatters’ means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised within Ghanaian society and denied many of the rights to which they are entitled as citizens. Drawing on rich, ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes as its point of departure the narratives that emerge from the everyday lives and struggles of these people, using the perspective offered by Old Fadama as a means of identifying wider trends and dynamics across African slums.
An in-depth study of street trading in Dar es Salaam, revealing the hidden dimensions of the city’s thriving informal economy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive interviews with vendors living and working in Dar es Salaam, Malefakis’s book offers a nuanced portrait of those trying to carve out a livelihood in a major African city, one in which ties of kinship and ethnicity are often viewed as a barrier, rather than an aid, to success. Malefakis provides new perspective on the way in which co-operation, or lack thereof, functions in an informal economy, as well as insight into the experiences of those who depend on such economies.
UK February 2021 • US October 2020 • 240 pages • Halftones, black and white 9 ; Maps 1 PB 9781786992031 • £28.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781786992048 ePub 9781786992062 • £58.50 / $72.68 ePdf 9781786992055 • £58.50 / $72.68 Series: Politics and Society in Urban Africa • Zed Books
UK December 2020 • US October 2020 • 192 pages PB 9781786994516 • £28.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781786994509 ePub 9781786994530 • £58.50 / $72.68 ePdf 9781786994523 • £58.50 / $72.68 Series: Politics and Society in Urban Africa • Zed Books
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