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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
HIGHLIGHT
CLAIMING CIVIC VIRTUE
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Jan Bender Shetler
Women in Africa and the Diaspora
The University of Wisconsin Press
Academica Press
THE AFRICAN THEATER OF THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
Studies in Arab Neo-Colonialism in Black Africa, 1952-1993
Nwankwo Nwaezeigwe Jun 2019 378pp 9781680534962 Hardback £157.00 / €170.00 Examines cooperation between Arab nationalist governments and the nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. The book clinically explores the proper bases, character, and implications of Arab-Sub-Saharan relations through the lens of Arab nationalist diplomatic initiative and collective Black African development initiatives.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN BIAFRA
Memories, Foreign Visitations and Life Experiences in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus Jul 2019 194pp 9781680531596 Hardback £149.00 / €167.00 Presents an unprecedented study of prominent individuals from across the globe who visited the Republic of Biafra and Federal side of the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970. This innovative new study contributes much to restoring the memory of the civil war, which has faded in recent decades.
Lynne Rienner Publishers
ADVENTURES IN ZAMBIAN POLITICS
A Story in Black & White
Guy Scott Dec 2018 270pp 9781626377592 Hardback £34.95 / €44.00 This is unlike any political memoir you have ever read. It is a political history of Zambia from colonial times to the present. A revealing insider account of politics and government within a modern African state. A story about race in Africa. A chronicle of the rise and fall of two improbable political allies who wanted to change Zambian politics.
McFarland
SOUTH AFRICA’S HIGH TREASON CLUB
The White Separatist Boeremag Conspirators on Trial
Karin Mitchell Oct 2019 185pp, 20 photos 9781476678832 Paperback £47.95 / €54.00 Chronicles the longest running criminal trial in South African history, piecing together court transcripts and interviews to explore the dynamics and ideals at the source of the Boeremag movement and its coup attempt. The book offers a firsthand look at the dark consequences of nationalism and populism.
Naval Institute Press
VINCERE
The Italian Royal Army’s Counterinsurgency Operations in Africa 1922-1940
Federica Saini Fasanotti Jan 2020 240pp, 18 b&w photos 9781682474280 Hardback £45.95 / €50.00 Based on ten years of study in the Italian archives and on the ground, Vincere examines a little-known topic: the counterinsurgency operations carried out by the Italian Royal Army in Libya and Ethiopia from 1922 to 1941.
Real African Publishers
OLIVER TAMBO
His Life and Legacy: 1917–1993, Third edition
Luli Callinicos Aug 2019 44pp 9781928341925 Paperback £11.95 / €14.00 An updated new edition of the original publication issued by the ANC Elections Committee to honour the legacy of Comrade Oliver Tambo, late president and national chairman of the African National Congress. This little book provides an overview of his life and generous contributions during the struggle for a new South Africa.
Wits University Press
CAPE RADICALS
Intellectual and Political Thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s-1960s
Crain Soudien Jun 2019 232pp 9781776143177 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 In 1937, a group of young Capetonians embarked on a remarkable public education and cultural project called the New Era Fellowship (NEF). By shining a contemporary light on the NEF, Crain Soudien shows how its members were at the forefront of redefining the debate about social difference in a racially divided society.
LIKE FAMILY
Domestic Workers in South African History and Literature
Edited by Ena Jansen Apr 2019 382pp 9781776143511 Paperback £36.50 / €40.00 Argues that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. This established social hierarchies and patterns of behaviour that persist to the present day. To support her argument, Ena Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans.
The University of Wisconsin Press
CLAIMING CIVIC VIRTUE
Jan Bender Shetler Jul 2019 400pp, 9 b&w photos 9780299322908 Hardback £78.95 / €89.00 Women in Africa and the Diaspora For more information on this title, see page 92
HOLDING THE WORLD TOGETHER
African Women in Changing Perspective
Edited by Nwando Achebe & Claire Robertson Apr 2019 352pp, 14 b&w illustrations 9780299321109 Hardback £36.50 / €42.00 Women in Africa and the Diaspora 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.
BESTSELLERS
Bucknell University Press
TO THE FAIREST CAPE
European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope
Malcolm Jack 2018 242pp, 26 colour illustrations 9781684480005 Hardback £21.50 / €24.00 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 encounter 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.
HSRC Press
DIVIDED COUNTRY
The History of South African Cricket Retold - 1914-1960
Andre Odendaal, Krish Reddy & Christopher Merrett 2018 536pp 9781928246169 Paperback £19.95 / €24.00 Explains how segregation and apartheid became entrenched in a unique way in cricket in South Africa between 1915 and the 1950s. Divided Country paints an entirely new picture of cricket in South Africa during a crucial and complex period. It completely inverts previous whites-only general histories of cricket, showing that the game has an infinitely richer history than has been recorded to date.
Best Red University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
A HISTORY OF INEQUALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA 1652-2002
Sampie Terreblanche 2003 544pp 9781869140229 Paperback £46.95 / €51.00 This work is an analysis of economic relations in South Africa. It analyses the work of numerous historians on inequality and exploitation in South Africa around a single theme: the systematic and progressive economic exploitation of indigenous people by settler groups.
University of Michigan Press
PROSPERO AND CALIBAN
The Psychology of Colonization, Second Edition
Octave Mannoni 1990 240pp 9780472064304 Paperback £20.50 / €23.00 Ann Arbor Paperbacks In his now classic volume Prospero and Caliban, Octave Mannoni gives his firsthand account of a 1948 revolt in Madagascar that led to one of the bloodiest episodes of colonial repression on the African continent. Anthropologist Maurice Bloch has written a powerful and critical new foreword to this English translation.
UNISA Press
BEYOND THE BORDER WAR
New Perspectives on Southern Africa’s Late Cold War Conflicts
Edited by Gary Baines & Peter Vale 2009 362pp 9781868884568 Paperback £38.95 / €42.00 For years, little attention has been paid to South Africa’s late Cold War conflicts and the memories of soldiers who fought in them. This book offers various perspectives on the Border War through the paradigms of diplomatic and military history, cultural and literary studies, as well as victimology.
