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After Rape Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda Holly Porter Holly Porter explores wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda. November 2016 Hardback 9781107180048 £64.99 $99.99
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Salafism in Nigeria Islam, Preaching, and Politics Alexander Thurston Examines how Salafism, a globally influential Muslim movement, is reshaping religious authority in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country. September 2016 Hardback 9781107157439 £64.99 $99.99
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Pioneers of the Field South Africa’s Women Anthropologists Andrew Bank This book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women anthropologists, using a rich cocktail of new archival sources. August 2016 Hardback 9781107150492 £64.99 $99.99
The Politics of Heritage in Africa Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures Derek R. Peterson, Kodzo Gavua and Ciraj Rassool This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency. June 2015 Hardback 9781107094857 £64.99 $99.99
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Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church Joel Cabrita This book tells the story of one of the largest and most influential African churches in South Africa. April 2016 Paperback 9781107673137 £22.99 $34.99
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa A Church of Strangers Ilana van Wyk This book shows how the UCKG utilizes rituals that are locally meaningful and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. April 2016 Paperback 9781107686250 £21.99 $34.99
Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms The Roots of Impermanence Maxim Bolt This book addresses the complex labour and life conditions faced by workers in the agricultural borderlands of northern South Africa. October 2015 Hardback 9781107111226 £64.99 $99.99
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AFRICAN STUDIES SERIES National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps Christian A. Williams Williams traces the South West Africa People’s Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.
Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building Harry Verhoeven Water, Civilisation, and Power in Sudan offers an alternative account of how water policy, violence, and economic modernisation are linked. March 2015 Hardback 9781107061149 £65.00 $99.00
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From Slavery to Aid Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000 Benedetta Rossi This book explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries. August 2015 Hardback 9781107119055 £64.99 $99.99
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914–2014 Kate Skinner The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland examines the history and politics behind the failed project of Togoland unification. June 2015 Hardback 9781107074637 £60.00 $95.00
Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization Emma Hunter This book is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics during Africa’s decolonization. April 2015 Hardback 9781107088177 £60.00 $95.00
Dictators and Democracy in African Development The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria A. Carl LeVan This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors. July 2016 Paperback 9781107440951 £19.99 $31.99
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The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa The Kat River Settlement, 1829–1856 Robert Ross This book provides a detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. March 2016 Paperback 9781107616578 £19.99 $32.99
Political Identity and Conflict in Central Africa, 1975–2002 Justin Pearce This book examines the internal politics of the war that divided Angola for over a quarter-century after its independence. August 2015 Paperback 9781107438934 £14.99
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AFRICAN STUDIES SERIES A History of African Motherhood The Case of Uganda, 700–1900
An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World
Rhiannon Stephens
Benguela and its Hinterland
This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa.
Mariana Candido Traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century.
August 2015 $29.99 Paperback 9781107547193 £19.99
May 2015 Paperback 9781107529748 £21.99 $32.99
Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa
Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955
From Honor to Respectability Elisabeth McMahon Demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island of Pemba.
Katherine Luongo A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.
July 2015 Paperback 9781107533783 £19.99 $29.99
May 2015 Paperback 9781107529847 £18.99 $28.99
Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara
From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel
Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century
The Road to Nongovernmentality
Judith Scheele Describes life on the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context.
Gregory Mann This book explains the shift from the government of empires to that of NGOs in the region just south of the Sahara. March 2015 Paperback 9781107602526 £22.99 $34.99
July 2015 Paperback 9781107533813 £28.99 $28.99
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A History of South Sudan
The Emergence of the South African Metropolis
From Slavery to Independence Øystein H. Rolandsen, M. W. Daly South Sudan is the world’s youngest independent country. This book is the first general history of the new country. September 2016 Hardback 9780521116312 £59.99 $99.99
Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century Vivian Bickford-Smith A pioneering account of how South Africa’s three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived. July 2016 Hardback 9781107002937 £64.99 $99.99
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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Volume 2: Essays on Sources and Methods Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa. April 2016 Hardback 9780521199612 £64.99 $99.99
NEW APPROACHES TO AFRICAN HISTORY SERIES Foreign Intervention in Africa
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Women in TwentiethCentury Africa
From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Iris Berger
Elizabeth Schmidt
Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.
Chronicles foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa’s problems.
July 2016 Paperback 9780521741217 £19.99 $29.99
May 2013 Paperback 9780521709033 £18.99 $29.99
Democracy in Africa Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform
Warfare in African History
Nic Cheeseman
Richard J. Reid
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa’s history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.
This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy by tracing shifts in the culture and practice of war.
May 2015 Paperback 9780521138420 £17.99 $28.99
July 2012 Paperback 9780521123976 £19.99 $29.99
Slavery and Slaving in African History
Warfare in Independent Africa
Sean Stilwell
William Reno
This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from earliest times to the end of the twentieth century.
This book surveys the history of armed conflict in Africa in the period since decolonization and independence.
August 2014 Paperback 9780521171885 £18.99 $29.99
African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania Between the Village and the World Priya Lal This is the first major historical study of Tanzania’s socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–75. December 2015 Hardback 9781107104525 £64.99 $99.99
August 2011 Paperback 9780521615525 £20.99 $29.99
Free French Africa in World War II The African Resistance Eric T. Jennings A unique look at the key role Free French Africa played during World War II to help the Allied cause. September 2015 Hardback 9781107048485 £54.99 $84.99
Africa and World War II Edited by Judith A. Byfield, Carolyn A. Brown, Timothy Parsons, Ahmad Alawad Sikainga This volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. April 2016 Paperback 9781107630222 £22.99 $34.99
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Celebrating CAS at 50 To celebrate the anniversary of the Cambridge Centre of African Studies we are pleased to offer complimentary access to a range of articles by former directors and scholars who’ve played a role in the Centre over the years. Highlights include: A Modern Movement of Witch-finders Audrey I. Richards
The Myth of a State Jack Goody
Coping with the Contradictions: The Development of the Colonial State in Kenya, 1895–1914 John Lonsdale and Bruce Berman
African Resistance to the Imposition of Colonialism: A Historiographical Review Robert Ross
The Context of African Political Thought Christopher Clapham
Africa and the Birth of the Modern World Megan Vaughan
‘Divine Kings’: Sex, Death and Athropology in Inter-war East/Central Africa Megan Vaughan
Zambia at 50: The Rediscovery of Liberalism Harri England
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The Journal of Modern African Studies The changing religious composition of Nigeria: causes and implications of demographic divergence Marcin Stonawski, Michaela Potančoková, Matthew Cantele and Vegard Skirbekk
Seeking exposure: conversions of scientific knowledge in an African City Gemma Aellah and P.Wenzel Geissler
The Politics of displacement-related land conflict in Yei River County, South Sudan Peter Hakim Justin and Mathijs van Leeuwen
‘We are not farmers’: Dilemmas and prospects of residential suburban cultivators in contemporary Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Peace from Below: Governance and peacebuilding in Kerio Valley, Kenya Emma Elfversson
Censorship or self control? Hate speech, the state and the voter in the Kenyan election of 2013 Warigia M. Bowman and J. David Bowman
The Journal of African History Historical Archaeology in Eastern Africa JAH Forum
New Directions for Historical Archaeology in Eastern Africa? Paul J. Lane
Historical Archaeology in East Africa: Past Practice and Future Directions Peter R. Schmidt
Constructing History of Uganda Andrew Reid
Regional Struggles in Colonial West Africa [themed collection title] Who Controls Warri? How Ethnicity Became Volatile in the Western Niger Dekta (1928–52)
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Oghenetoja Okoh
Storming the Citadel: Decolonization and Political Contestation in Guinea’s Futa Jallon 1945–61 John Straussberger
The Politics of Higher Education in South Africa [themed collection title] Education and the Agrarian Question in South Africa, c. 1900–40 Julia Tischler
Nelson Mandela and Wits University Bruce Murray
Africa and the Price Revolution: Currency Imports and Socioeconomic Change in the West and West-Central Africa During the Seventeenth Century Toby Green
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History in Africa Published on behalf of the African Studies Association
History in Africa
“The Art or Mystery in Physick” – Asante Medicinal Plants and the Western Ordering of Botanical Knowledge Tom C. McCaskie
Bridging the Archival-Ethnographic Divide: Gender, Kinship, and Seniority in the Study of Yoruba Masquerade
A Journal of Method
John Thabiti Willis
“These Our Games” – Sport and the Church of Scotland Mission to Kenya, c. 1907–1937
PUBLISHED ANNUALLY FOR THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION VOLUME 43, 2016
Tom Cunningham
The Politics of African Household Budget Studies in South Africa
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Robert Ross
The Agadez Chronicles and Y Tarichi: A Reinterpretation Benedetta Rossi
Beyond the World of Commerce: Rethinking Hausa Diaspora History through Marriage, Distance, and Legal Testimony? Harmony O’Rourke
Published on behalf of the African Studies Association Misguided and Misdiagnosed: The Failure of Decentralization Reforms in the DR Congo Encouraging Rebel Demobilization by Radio in Uganda and the D.R. Congo: The Case of “Come Home” Messaging
Volume 59, Number 1
Pierre Englebert and Emmanuel Kasongo Mungongo
African Studies Review
African Studies Review
African Studies Review
PUBLISHED FOR THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Pierre Englebert and Emmanuel Kasongo Mungongo The Failure of Decentralization Reforms in the DR Congo Scott Ross “Come Home” Radio Messaging in Uganda and the D.R. Congo Andrew Hernann Joking among Displaced Timbuktians Robert M. Ahearne Perceptions of Development and Progress in Tanzania John Galaty Boundaries and Conflicts in the Kenyan–Ethiopian Borderlands ASR FORUM ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN AFRICA: PART 2 Judith Van Allen and Kathleen Sheldon, Guest Editors Introduction Rhiannon Stephens The History of Marriage in Uganda
Scott Ross
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach Polygyny and Alternatives in Senegal
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Development and Progress as Historical Phenomena in Tanzania: “Maendeleo? We Had That in the Past” Robert M. Aheame
Boundary-Making and Pastoral Conflict along the Kenyan-Ethiopian Borderlands John Galaty
Also includes ASR Forum on Women and Gender in Africa
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Deborah Atobrah and Akosua Adomako Ampofo Husbands’ Care of Wives with Cancer in Accra
April 2016
Joking Through Hardship: Humor and Truth-Telling among Displaced Timbuktians Andrew Hermann
Editors’ Introduction
Koni Benson Graphic Histories of Crossroads, South Africa Book Reviews Film Reviews
VOLUME 59, NUMBER 1
APRIL 2016
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Journal of African Law Published on behalf of SOAS – School of Oriental and African Studies Talking Domestic Women’s Rights Seriously: Using Human Rights to Require State Implementation of Domestic Abortion Laws in African Countries with Reference to Uganda Charles G. Ngwena
Reflections on the Constitutional Regulation of Property and Land Rights under the 2013 Zimbabwean Constitution James Tsabora
Bridging the Peace Gap in Nigeria: The Panel of the Wise as a Constitutional Essential Ademola Oluborode Jegede
Striking a Balance between Protecting Trademarks and Public Health Interests in Combating Trade in Couterfeit Medicines: Lessons from Kenya and South Africa
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Pamela Andanda
The Criminalization of Torture in South Africa Lovell Fernandez and Lukas Muntingh
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Articles
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Evidentiary truth claims, imperial registers, and the Ottoman archive: contending legal views of archival and record-keeping practices in Ottoman Greater Syria (seventeenth–nineteenth centuries) GUY BURAK
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Muh.ammad, Menah.em and the Paraclete: new light on Ibn Ish.āq’s (d. 150/767) Arabic version of John 15: 23–16: 1 SEAN W. ANTHONY
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Functional codeswitching and register in educated Negev Arabic interview style RONI HENKIN
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The Sanskrit Udānavarga and the Tocharian B Udānastotra: a window on the relationship between religious and popular language on the northern Silk Road MICHAËL PEYROT
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Erotic asceticism: the razor’s edge observance (asidhārāvrata) and the early history of tantric coital ritual
Islam for the indentured India: A Muslim missionary in colonial South Africa Nile Green
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
SHAMAN HATLEY
An object-oriented study on Yongwu Shi : poetry on eyeglasses in the Qing dynasty ZINAN YAN
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Reviews
Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS, University of London
Aspects of Islam in Nineteenth-Century South Africa
79:2 2016
Humphrey J Fisher
A phonological history of Amdo Tibetan rhymes XUN GONG
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School of Oriental & African Studies
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Many deep baptisms: reflections on religious, chiefly Muslim, conversion in Black Africa
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Bulletin of the
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S. A. Rochlin
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CELEBRATING THE WORK BY THE 2016 AUDREY RICHARDS PRIZE NOMINEES
Cambridge is pleased to offer complimentary access to work by the 2016 Audrey Richards Prize nominees, including Deborah James, Maxim Bolt, Benedetta Rossi and Terri Ochiagha View the collection for free at journals.cambridge.org/audreyrichards ‘Music of Origin’: class, social category and the performers of kiba, a South African migrant genre Deborah James
Burial Sites, Informal Rights and Lost Kingdoms: Contesting Land Claims in Mpumalanga, South Africa Deborah James
An Apartheid of Souls: Dutch and Afrikaner Colonialism and its Aftermath in Indonesia and South Africa – An Introduction Deborah James and Albert Schranwers
Waged Entrepreneurs, Policed Informality: Work, the Regulation of Space and the Economy of the Zimbabwean-South African Border Maxim Bolt
Money-Go-Round: Personal Economies of Wealth, Aspiration and Indebtedness Deborah James
The Bureaucratic making of national culture in North-Western Ghana Konstanze N’guessan
There was a college: Introducing The Umuahian: A Golden Jubilee Publicatio, edited by Chinua Achebe Terri Ochiagha
“A Little Book of Logic” – Reconstructing Colonial Arts of Suasion at Government College, Umuhia Terri Ochiagha
Dafur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: a critical reader edited by Salah M. Hassan and Carina E. Ray Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. 524 £24.95 (pbk). Wendy James
The Agadex Chronicles and Y Tarichi: A Reinterpretation Benedetta Rossi
Dependence, Unfreedom and Slavery in Africa: Towards an Integrated Analysis Benedetta Rossi
Illiberal peacebuilding in Angola Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Business Success, Angola-style: postcolonial politics and the rise and rise of Sonangol Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
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