AFRICAN STUDIES 2021 CATALOGUE
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W OMEN IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA SERIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
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JOURNALS FROM MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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ANIMATED BY UNCERTAINTY
Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times Drew A. Thompson Mar 2021 328pp, 65 illustrations
Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Patience Mususa
9780472074990 Hardback £59.50 / €67.00
University of Michigan Press
Okechukwu Nwafor
AFRICAN PERFORMANCE ARTS AND POLITICAL ACTS
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Edited by Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo
May 2021 256pp, 42 illustrations
Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, Joshua Rubin argues that rugby is a form of performance and further, that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put.
THERE USED TO BE ORDER
Oct 2021
Examines social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatisation of the large state mining conglomerate. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines life for those living in difficult economic circumstances, and considers the tension between the life they live and the nature of an ‘extractive area'.
ASO Dress,EBÌFashion,
Aug 2021 408pp, 21 illustrations
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Examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability.
Paperback £23.95 / €27.00
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Oct 2021
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ELITES AND THE POLITICS OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN AFRICA
Edited by Wale Adebanwi & Rogers Orock
Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa
Sep 2021 9780472055005280pp
AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES SERIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection engages with a breadth of African countries and art forms, bringing together speech, hip-hop, religious healing, theatre and social justice, opera, radio, protest songs, and migrant workers' dances.
FILTERING HISTORIES
African Perspectives publishes the highest quality and most innovative research from scholars based in and beyond Africa. The series’ remit spans disciplinary approaches from anthropology to politics to public health, qualitative to quantitative methods, and thematic interests from musicology and literary studies to development and urban planning.
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Tells a history of photography alongside state formation to understand the process of decolonisation and state development after colonial rule. At the centre of the analysis are an array of photographic and illustrated materials from Mozambique, South Africa, Portugal, and Italy.
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The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebì fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice.
Joshua D. Rubin
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9781978823259 Hardback £94.95 / €108.00
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Sep 2021 248pp, 15 b&w images
CHANGES IN CARE
9781978823242 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00
Rutgers University Press
CULTURAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL & SOCIAL STUDIES
Critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the often racist philosophical motivations of these physical anthropology researchers and the discipline itself. Morris evaluates the works of famous anthropologists and archaeologists such as Raymond Dart, Thomas Dreyer, and Robert Broom, and demonstrates through a wide array of sources how they described their fossil discoveries through the prism of racist interpretation.
Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa
How South African Scientists Studied Race
Jan 2022 304pp, 35 illustrations
Wits University Press
Global Perspectives on Aging
Cati Coe
Africa is known both for having a primarily youthful population and for its elders being held in high esteem. However, this situation is changing: people in Africa are living longer, some for many years with chronic, disabling illnesses. By examining emergent discourses and practices of aging in Ghana, Changes in Care makes an innovative argument about the uneven and fragile processes by which some social change occurs.
Alan G. Morris
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BONES AND BODIES
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Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World
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FALLING MONUMENTS, RELUCTANT RUINS
Edited by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer & Tanusha Raniga May 2021 9781773851822392ppPaperback £31.95 / €36.00
9781776146673 Paperback £26.95 / €33.00
Explores how, in the era of decolonisation, post-apartheid South Africa reckons with its past in order to shape its future. Architects, historians, artists, social anthropologists and urban planners seek answers in this book to complex and unsettling questions around heritage, ruins, and remembrance.
Africa: Missing Voices
Critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa, and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use. Drawing on Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work as antidotes to colonial power and dehumanisation, this collection challenges cultural practices that violate human rights, and the dichotomous and taken-for-granted assumptions in the cultural representations between the West and the rest of the world.
HIGHLIGHT
Wits University Press
THETENSIONS BETWEEN CULTURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid
Edited by Hilton Judin Jun 2021 336pp, 50 illustrations
University of Calgary Press
Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique
Robert Murray Feb 2021 9780813066752288pp Hardback
Traces how national and global population politics collide in Senegal as health workers, health officials, and NGO workers strive to demonstrate post-abortion care's effectiveness, in the absence of rigorous statistical evidence that the intervention reduces maternal mortality.
Rutgers University Press eurospan.co.uk/inspection
Apr 2021 260pp, 20 b&w images 9781978821736 Paperback
AT HOME WITH APARTHEID
Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools
Jul 2021 9781978806696246pp Paperback £27.95 / 9781978806702€32.00 Hardback £94.95 / €108.00
Takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the world outside her mosque.
Critical Human Rights
Rebecca Ginsburg
£27.95 / €32.00
Provides an intimate examination of the cultural landscapes of Johannesburg's middle- and upper-middle-class neighbourhoods during the height of apartheid, and incorporates recent scholarship on gender, the home, and family.
Rutgers University Press
£27.95 / 9781978821743€32.00 Hardback £94.95 / €108.00
University of Virginia Press
Nicole S. Fox
AFTER inMemoryGENOCIDEandReconciliationRwanda
ATLANTIC PASSAGES
DYING TO Post-AbortionCOUNTCare and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal
Siri Suh Jul 2021 9781978804548226pp Paperback
AT LifeANSHA'SintheSpirit
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Aug 2021 9780299332204256pp Hardback
£72.50 / €83.00
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Rutgers University Press
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DISPUTING DISCIPLINE
Medical Anthropology
The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg
Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization
Daria Trentini
University of Wisconsin Press
£27.95 / 9781978804555€32.00 Hardback £94.95 / €108.00
£77.50 / €89.00
Investigates the ways memorials can shape the experiences of survivors, decades after mass violence has ended. Nicole Fox examines how memorialisations can both heal and hurt, especially when they fail to represent all genders, ethnicities, and classes of those afflicted.
Medical Anthropology
Franziska Fay
Established in the early nineteenth century, Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who travelled there. Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers did not remain in Africa but returned repeatedly to the US, and he explores the ways this movement shaped the construction of race in the Atlantic world.
Feb 2021 9780813946436248pp Paperback
Explores how global and local children's rights activists' efforts within the school systems of Zanzibar to eradicate corporal punishment are changing the archipelago's moral and political landscape. Through an equal consideration of child and adult perspectives, Fay explores what child protection means for Zanzibari children.
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Politics of Rwanda
Building on an array of sources, David Schoenbrun examines groupwork - the imaginative labour that people do to constitute themselves as communities - in East Africa.
Critical Voices from the Past Edited by Chris Broodryk Jul 2021 9781776146895272pp Paperback £26.95 / €33.00
Edward Said described a public intellectual as someone who uses accessible language to address a designated public on matters of social and political significance. The essays in this volume apply this interpretive prism and activist principle to a South African context, to tell the stories of well-known figures and some that have been forgotten.
MOBILIZATION,MOBILITY, AfricanTheCOUNTER/INSURGENCYANDRoutesofTerrorinanContext
David L. Schoenbrun May 2021 9780299332501376pp Hardback £72.50 / €83.00
Studies the Anglican Church's crucial role in many aspects of Rwanda's history, particularly its complicity with the current Rwandan regime. He boldly illuminates the Anglican Church's culpability in the events leading to the genocide, calling attention to the consequences of the church's unwavering support for the Rwandan regime.
University of Wisconsin Press
Daniel E. Agbiboa Feb 2022 9780472038923216pp Paperback £19.95 / 9780472132904€23.00 Hardback £54.95 / €63.00
Wits University Press
HEALTH IN A FRAGILE STATE Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
SAN ELDERS SPEAK
PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.
Lucinda Backwell & Francesco d'Errico Aug 2021 9781776146628312pp Paperback
University of Michigan Press
Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture Systems of belonging are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications.
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Wisconsin Press
£61.95 / €76.00
£72.50 / €83.00
San material culture has been a subject of study for many researchers and archaeologists but rarely has the documented material been seen through the eyes of the people themselves. San Elders Speak is the first attempt to document Indigenous knowledge through the voices of four San elders from the Kalahari.
Wits University Press
THE NAMES OF THE BelongingPYTHONinEast Africa, 900 to 1930
NEW IN PAPERBACK
John M. Janzen May 2021 288pp, 36 b&w illustrations 9780299325046 Paperback £19.95 / 9780299325008€23.00 Hardback £72.50 / €83.00
Phillip A. Cantrell, II Jan 2022 9780299335106248pp Hardback
Ancestral Knowledge of the Kalahari San
TheANDREVIVALRECONCILIATIONAnglicanChurchand the
Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Despite the centrality of mobility to the operations of both state and non-state armed groups, as well as the survival strategies of civilians in conflict zones, issues of mobility and access have remained tangential to how we analyse contemporary armed insurgencies. Daniel E. Agbiboa foregrounds mobility in this book as a key arena where state and non-state actors jostle for ascendancy, reflecting the contested nature of power.
Paperback £27.50 / €32.00 9781469665856 Hardback £86.50 / €99.00
Apr 2021
By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa and the effect of the anticolonial struggles on the Soviet Union, Natalia Telepneva bridges the gap between the narratives of individual anticolonial movements and those of superpower rivalry in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Cold War.
CUBA AND AFRICA, 1959-1994
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Cuba was a key participant in the struggle for the independence of African countries during the Cold War. Beyond the military interventions, there were many engagements between Cuba and the continent. This book tells the story of tens of thousands of individuals who crossed the Atlantic as doctors, scientists, soldiers, students and artists. Approaching African-Cuban relations from a multiplicity of angles, this collection will appeal to a wide range of readers, from scholars in black Atlantic studies to general readers with an interest in contemporary African history.
The New Cold War History
Wits University Press
Edited by Giulia Bonacci, Adrien Delmas & Kali Argyriadis
The University of North Carolina Press
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Mar 2022 9781469665863288pp
COLD WAR LIBERATION
Paperback £26.95 / €33.00
The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975 Natalia Telepneva
Writing an Alternative Atlantic History
9781776146338304pp
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University of Wisconsin Press
Carol Spindel
UniversityPressof
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I GIVE YOU HALF THE ROAD
Mário Pinto de Andrade
Oct 2021 9781951470036264pp
Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and a violent conflict. Carol Spindel provides an intimate glimpse into this turbulent period by weaving together the daily lives and paths of five of her neighbours. Illuminating democracy as a fragile enterprise that must be continually invented and reinvented, I Give You Half the Road emphasises the importance of connection, generosity, and forgiveness.
Named one of Africa's hundred best books of the twentieth century, this innovative study traces the emergence of African nationalism, starting at the end of the nineteenth century, and illuminates how nationalists from across the Portuguese empire were brought together in subsequent decades in a unified struggle.
ORIGINS OF AFRICAN NATIONALISM Continuity and Rupture in the Movements of Unity Emerging from the Struggle Against Portuguese Colonial Domination, 1911-1961
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Massachusetts Press
Translated by Mario Pereira
Mar 2021 9780299330507328pp
Hardback £33.50 / €39.00
Tagus
The University of North Carolina Press
This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archives that historically have been used to tell Southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.
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Wits University Press
This biography sets out the contexts of Deneys Schreiner's forebears, his youth, wartime service, studies in Britain and America, family life, and tenure as vice principal, as well as the context of the times in which he lived.
Examines how Portugal privatised part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed central Mozambique under a royal charter, and built a vast forced labour regime camouflaged by the rhetoric of the civilising mission.
ARCHIVESHISTORYOFTIMES
The United States and the Decolonization of Africa
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa Mxolisi R. Mchunu Jul 2021 9780813946368272pp Hardback £31.50 / €36.00
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine
THE PERSISTENCE OF SLAVERY
University of Virginia Press
Bucknell University Press
PAST
Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth
BESTSELLER TO THE FAIREST CAPE European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope
TEARS, FIRE, AND BLOOD
Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounters that European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative, from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
Reconsiderations in Southern African History
An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria
Deneys Schreiner: A South African Liberal Life Graham Dominy Feb 2021 9781869144449240pp Paperback £21.95 / €25.00
Reconsiderations in Southern African History
THE MAN BEHIND THE BEARD
SLAVERY BY ANY OTHER NAME
Malcolm Jack 2018 270pp, 26 £19.959781684480005illustrationsHardback/€24.00
University of Virginia Press
James H. Meriwether Oct 2021 9781469664224320pp Paperback £27.50 / 9781469664217€32.00 Hardback £86.50 / €99.00
Offers a sweeping history of how the United States responded to decolonisation in Africa.
University of Massachusetts Press
VIOLENCE AND SOLACE
Conversations about South Africa's Deep History
Feb 2022 336pp, 27 illustrations 9781776147274 Paperback £26.95 / €33.00
Paperback £21.50 / 9781625345233€25.00 Hardback £71.50 / €81.00
Edited by Cynthia Kros et al
Aug 2021 9780813947273288pp Paperback £27.95 / €32.00
James Meriwether explores how Washington, grappling with national security interests and racial prejudices, veered between strengthening African nationalist movements and bolstering anti-Communist European allies seeking to maintain white rule.
Drawing on a wealth of primary sources that include oral interviews, British and Nigerian archival materials, newspaper holdings, and missionary and anthropological accounts, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine argues that slavery's endurance can only be understood when we fully examine ‘the social economy of a child’.
African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique Eric Allina
The Natal Midlands in South Africa was ravaged by conflict in the 1980s and 1990s between supporters of the United Democratic Front and Inkatha. Mxolisi Mchunu provides a historical study of the origins, causes, and nature of political violence in the rural community of KwaShange in the Vulindlela district.
Jan 2021 9781625345240224pp
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Northeast African Studies (NEAS) is a biannual interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes high quality original research in the social sciences and the humanities on the Horn of Africa and its neighbours. The region covers primarily Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia/Somaliland, and looks at a range of academic disciplines including history, anthropology, political science, sociology, religion, environmental studies, literature, and the arts.
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The Journal of West African History (JWAH) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed research journal that publishes the highest quality articles on West African history. Located at the cutting edge of new scholarship on the social, cultural, economic, and political history of West Africa, JWAH fills a representational gap by providing a forum for serious scholarship and debate on women and gender, sexuality, slavery, oral history, popular and public culture, and religion.
Volume 20, Numbers 1-2 Mar 2021 9781684301324300pp Paperback £27.95 / €32.00
Translated from French by Melissa Thackway
Edited by Nwando Achebe
Volume 6, Number 1 2020 9781684301157224pp Paperback £27.95 / €32.00
Edited by Jonathan Miran
JOURNALS FROM MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
JOURNAL OF WEST AFRICAN HISTORY
NORTHEAST AFRICAN STUDIES
Michigan University
Volume 6, Number 2 Aug 2021 9781684301164224pp Paperback £27.95 / €32.00
State
JOURNALS FROM MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Press
Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature
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Aesthetics of Reconstruction
Jan 2022 9781496836021128pp
Michigan State University Press
African Humanities and the Arts
LITERATURE, MEDIA & THE ARTS HIGHLIGHT
Paperback £43.50 / €50.00
University Press of Mississippi
THE DRUM IS A WILD WOMAN
Paperback £27.50 / €32.00 9781496836038 Hardback £89.95 / €103.00
Analyses the aesthetic strategies adopted by contemporary African diasporic filmmakers to express the reconstruction of identity. Having left the continent, these filmmakers see Africa as a site of representation and cultural circulation. The diasporic experience displaces the centre and forges new syncretic identities. Reflecting these complex circumstances, this book analyses the contemporary diaspora through the prism of cultural hybridisation and the processes of recomposing fragmented identities, out of which new identities emerge.
Breaks new ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of improvisation by examining recurring literary motifs - cry-and-response, the Wild Woman, and the jazz moment - in jazz novels, short stories, and poetry. Within an interdisciplinary and transnational context, Lespinasse foregrounds the vexed negotiations around gender and jazz discourse.
LITERATURE, MEDIA & THE ARTS
Patricia G. Lespinasse
Daniela Ricci 2020 9781611863642326pp
AFRICAN DIASPORIC CINEMA
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Northwestern University Press
Performance Works
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Featuring interviews from fourteen contemporary South African writers, this volume traces concepts and terms that describe the current moment of South African literature. By adopting a world-literary approach to (post)apartheid literature, this book makes an important contribution to debates on contemporary South African writing.
Brian Valente-Quinn
SENEGALESE STAGECRAFT
Paperback £31.95 / €37.00
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
TRACINGTHE (POST)APARTHEID NOVEL BEYOND 2000
Interviews with Selected Contemporary South African Authors Danyela Dimakatso Demir & Olivier Moreillon
9780810143661 Hardback £91.50 / €104.00
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Jul 2021 9780810143654208pp
Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa
Through a study of the innovative work of Senegalese theatre-makers from the 1930s onward, Senegalese Stagecraft explores a wide range of historical contexts and themes, including French colonial education, cultural Pan-Africanism, West African Sufism, uses of television and mass media, and popular theatre and activism. Brian Valente-Quinn offers a fresh look at performance cultures of West Africa and the Global South in a book that will interest students and scholars in African, Francophone, and performance studies.
Sep 2021 9781869144609272pp
Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
African Humanities and the Arts
Michigan State University Press
Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism
Barbara Boswell
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent Black female writers. Studying these writers' key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during apartheid and the transition to democracy, Barbara Boswell traces the ways in which Black women's fiction critically interrogates narrow ideas of nationalism.
Edited by Isabel Balseiro & Zachariah Rapola 2020 9781611863734218pp Paperback
Michigan State University Press
Shedding new light on both well-known and less familiar films by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Abderrahmane Sissako, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Moussa Touré, Safi Faye, Cheick Doukouré, and Joseph Gaï Ramaka, among others, this study asks just whose fantasy is articulated in football and African cinema.
Aug 2021 9781869144487216pp Paperback
African Humanities and the Arts
Jan 2021 9781776146185250pp Paperback
£21.95 / €25.00
Provides a Marxist critique of the representation of the nationalisation of the mines debate by the South African commercial media. Radebe examines corporate control of the media in order to articulate the interrelations between the state, capital and the media, and the way the commercial media represents, shapes, and influences public policy.
Offers a series of reflections on the field of South African literature from the perspective of 2020. This book emerges from Duncan Brown's experiences of three decades of working in the field, and is both a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and elsewhere.
THE PASSPORT THAT DOES NOT PASS PORTS
£43.50 / €50.00
Examines the ways in which national and transnational forces have shaped the representation of race and nation in feature-length narrative fiction films in South Africa.
FINDING MY WAY
Wits University Press
AND WROTE MY STORY ANYWAY
THE BEAUTIFUL SKIN
Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa
Mandla J. Radebe
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
£24.95 / €31.00
Apr 2021 9781869144586300pp Paperback
African Humanities and the Arts
PROJECTING NATION
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Vlad Dima 2020 9781611863703276pp Paperback
CONSTRUCTINGHEGEMONYTheSouthAfricanCommercialMedia and the (Mis)Representation of Nationalisation
Duncan Brown
These seventeen pieces on travel in Africa by leading African authors take readers to places at once homelike and foreign. Against the tropes of travel writing, this book offers the acuity of vision of particular types of travellers. These are travellers whose mother tongue may find the hint of familiarity across otherwise unintelligible languages, and for whom a foreign land isn't necessarily strange; in it, they perceive vestiges of the familiar.
African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century
Reflections on South African Literature
South African Cinemas After 1994 Cara Moyer-Duncan 2020 9781611863635298pp Paperback £43.50 / €50.00
£26.50 / €31.00
£27.95 / €32.00
Michigan State University Press
The Griot Project Book Series
Wits University Press
African Child Soldier Narratives Joya Uraizee 2020 9781611863758149pp Paperback £18.50 / €21.00
SITUATED NARRATIVES AND SACRED DANCE Performing the Entangled Histories of Cuba and West Africa
University Press of Florida
Michigan State University Press
Jill Flanders Crosby & J.T. Torres May 2021 264pp, 64 b&w illustrations 9781683402060 Hardback £81.95 / €94.00
Edited by Desiree Lewis & Gabeba Baderoon Apr 2021 9781776146093328pp Paperback £26.95 / €33.00
“The respect this work affords the voices of the practitioners clearly emerges from its origins in the study of a collectivist, non-textual mode of communication: dance.” — Beauty Bragg, author of Reading Contemporary African American Literature
WRITING THAT BREAKS STONES
Through a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance as alternative means of knowledge, Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arara of Cuba.
The first collection of essays dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives. Leading feminist theorist, Desiree Lewis, and poet and feminist scholar, Gabeba Baderoon, have curated contributions by some of the finest writers and thought leaders.
Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, Sierra Leone, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone's civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon.
Bucknell University Press
TESTIMONYFoundPoems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone Shanee Stepakoff Jul 2021 9781684483105110pp Paperback £16.50 / €18.00 9781684483112 Hardback £39.50 / €45.00
OnSURFACINGBeingBlack and Feminist in South Africa
“At once astonishing and devastating, these poems attest to poetry’s ability to bear witness to atrocity, while the poignant cover image by Liberian American artist and war refugee Papay Solomon reminds us of those whose voices have been silenced for too long.” — Poetry Foundation
A critical examination of six memoirs and six novels written by and about young adults from Africa who were once child soldiers. This book analyses not only how such narratives document the human rights violations experienced by these former child soldiers but also how they connect and disconnect from their readers in the global public sphere
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The University of Arizona Press
NATURALIZING INEQUALITY
More than twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, water access remains a striking reminder of racial inequality in South Africa. This book compellingly argues that in the post-apartheid period, inequality has not only been continuously reproduced, but also legitimised. Marcatelli examines the connections between neoliberalism, race, and the environment, showing that racialised property relations around water and land are still recognised and protected by the post-apartheid state to sustain green growth.
THE JUSTICE LABORATORY
Brookings Institution Press
Oct 2021
POLITICS & ECONOMICS
Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives
9780816539505192pp
Kerstin Bree Carlson
Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa
Paperback £31.50 / €35.00
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Hardback £58.95 / €67.00
International Criminal Justice in Africa
Feb 2022 9780815738138240pp
Michela Marcatelli
Reviews five examples of international criminal justice as they have been applied across Africa, where brutal civil conflicts in recent decades resulted in varying degrees of global attention and action. The book contributes to a broader international understanding of African politics and international criminal justice. Written in an accessible style, this book explores the connections between politics and the doctrine of international criminal law.
Nov 2021 9781776147434168pp
“This highly readable book illuminates Africa’s currency question and its contribution to trade and development. The conclusions are convincing and could open a discussion on aspects of currency management in West Africa that have been taken for granted by policymakers over the past 70 years.” — Kofi Adjepong-Boateng, University of Cambridge Centre for Financial History
ONE VIRUS, TWO COUNTRIES
Makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how the Economic Community of West African States could achieve and manage its currency union, and the ramifications for the African continent.
Steven Friedman
Offers a searing analysis of government and expert scientists’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Friedman argues that South Africa is two societies in one, and rouses debate about South Africa’s health and economic system in the context of serious inequality.
IsThere a Role for a Single Currency?
Jul 2021 9780815738534180pp
15 HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHT POLITICS & ECONOMICS
Eswar Prasad & Vera Songwe
Paperback £14.95 / €19.00
Wits University Press
Brookings Institution Press
What COVID-19 tells us about South Africa
Paperback £27.95 / €32.00
REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN WEST AFRICA
Presents the history and inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the canvas of the major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, up to the first democratic elections in 1994.
Wits University Press
PRISONERS OF THE PAST
16 POLITICS & ECONOMICS
Wits University Press
Steven Friedman
PRECARIOUS POWER
Offers a first-hand look at the remarkable policy changes that took place between 1986 and 2012 in Uganda, and their effect in contrast with the turbulent events after independence.
What happens when a former liberation movement turned political party loses its dominance, but survives because no opposition party is able to succeed it? This incisive analysis of ANC power will appeal not only to political scientists, but to all who take a keen interest in current affairs.
Building on the work of the economic historian Douglass North and the political thinker Mahmood Mamdani, Steven Friedman shows that South African democracy's difficulties are legacies of the pre-1994 past.
WESTERN SAHARA
Paperback £23.95 / €27.00
£16.95 / €20.00
Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution
Jun 2021 9781776146840288pp Paperback £24.95 / €31.00
Building on his previous research into how apartheid templates of ethnic separatism, and its popular mobilisations, played out in violence in Natal and Zululand, Maré now takes the story into post-1994 South Africa. He sets as his focus three powerful men, to illustrate how each has relied on claims to Zulu tradition to occupy powerful positions.
David Dickinson
Ezra Sabiti Suruma 2014 9780815725893213pp Paperback £31.95 / €36.00
Examines how labour broking was defeated in the South African Post Office. Sharing the attempts of ‘casual’ workers to organise within the law - and how their efforts were defeated at every turn – David Dickinson shows how labour broking created misery for those trapped in precarious employment, how the Constitution failed these workers, and how the South African industrial relations system is unravelling.
Paperback £24.95 / €31.00
South African Democracy and the Legacy of Minority Rule
Goodwill MangosuthuZwelithini,Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma
Aug 2021 9781869144685344pp Paperback
In the first book-length treatment of the issue in over two decades, Zunes and Mundy examine the origins, evolution, and resilience of the Western Sahara conflict, deploying a diverse array of sources and first-hand knowledge of the region.
Syracuse University Press
ETHNIC CONTINUITIES AND A STATE OF EXCEPTION
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Stephen Zunes & Jacob Mundy Sep 2021 9780815636908360pp
Off-Centre: New Perspectives on Public Issues
Brookings Institution Press
BESTSELLER ADVANCING THE UGANDAN ECONOMY A Personal Account
Compliance and Discontent Under Ramaphosa's ANC Susan Booysen Apr 2021 9781776146451328pp
Gerhard Maré
£27.50 / €32.00
War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution
Aug 2021 9781869144562128pp Paperback
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
IN PRECARIOUS BATTLE Labour Broking in the South African Post Office
COLOUR, CLASS AND TheCOMMUNITYNatalIndian Congress, 1971-1994 Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed Nov 2021 394pp, 47 illustrations 9781776147151 Paperback £24.95 / €31.00
Wits University Press
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Women's Roles in Ceremonial Rituals of the Agwagune
Nov 2021 9780299318444360pp
9780299321109 Hardback £33.50 / €39.00
Edited by Nwando Achebe & Claire Robertson
Nov 2021 9780299334406160pp
Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
The Women in Africa and the Diaspora series studies topics including gender and politics, religion, sexuality, law, health, the environment, race and ethnicity, and conflict resolution. Titles examine women and authority, women as political and spiritual leaders, women’s knowledge and ways of knowing, and women healers. They also study historic and contemporary transnational linkages, literature and popular culture, and identity construction and representation.
May 2021 9780299331207304pp
Nov 2021 9780299321147384pp
Hardback £72.50 / €83.00
Using the Agwagune community in southeastern Nigeria as a case study, David Uru Iyam asserts that women are not stereotypically submissive, oppressed, or passive. Though women are often misrepresented in studies that fail to ask about their agency, Iyam highlights the overlooked contributions of women that uphold and change entire social systems.
Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
“Oliveira examines new sources and convincingly demonstrates the central role African women played in the social and economic organization of Luanda. Mandatory reading for those interested in urban slavery, slave trade, and African’s urban past.”
University of Wisconsin Press
Hardback £72.50 / €83.00
Joanna Allan
African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa
SHAPING TRADITION
WOMEN IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA SERIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
African Women in Changing Perspective
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume demonstrates social, economic, and cultural changes on the African continent and internationally.
Paperback £21.50 / €24.00
SLAVE TRADE AND ABOLITION
SILENCED RESISTANCE
HOLDING THE WORLD TOGETHER
Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda Vanessa S. Oliveira
17WOMEN IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA SERIES
A BOLD PROFESSION
Hardback £72.50 / €83.00
David Uru Iyam
9780299318406 Hardback £72.50 / €83.00
— Mariana P. Candido, University of Notre Dame
Traces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas were often important cultural brokers.
In rural South African clinics during apartheid, Black nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations, and increasing educational and economic opportunities for South Africa's Black middle class. Leslie Anne Hadfield demonstrates how these women were able to reshape notions of health and healing.
This comparative study of authoritarian regimes and the resistance movements in Spain's former African colonies demonstrates why we should foreground gender as a key lens for understanding both authoritarian power projection and resistance.
Feb 2021 9780299325800272pp
Leslie Anne Hadfield
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