AFRICAN STUDIES Spring 2020
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Affective Trajectories
African Kings and Black Slaves
Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt & Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Herman L. Bennett
The Early Modern Americas March 2020 240pp 9780812224627 £18.99/$22.50 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People February 2020 320pp 9781478006268 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478005490 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European Examines religion and affect in urban Africa in the interaction. early twenty-first century.
Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa
Embodying Relation
Art Photography in Mali Allison Moore
Art History Publication Initiative June 2020 376pp 102 color and b&w illus. 9781478006626 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478005971 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Francis Musoni
April 2020 256pp 9780253047151 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9780253047144 £73.00/$85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices.
Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement in Bamako, Mali, which blossomed in the 1990s after Malian photographers Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé became internationally famous and the Bamako Photography Biennale was founded.
Ending Gender-Based Violence
Exodus
‘Gbenga Adeoba Foreword by Kwame Dawes
Justice and Community in South Africa Hannah E. Britton
African Poetry Book Series March 2020 78pp 9781496221179 £14.99/$17.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
April 2020 232pp 9780252084966 £19.99/$24.95 PB 9780252043093 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, Adeoba’s collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the Venturing into South African communities, Britton slave trade, war, natural disasters, and economic invites service providers, religious and traditional opportunities. leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words.
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Former Guerrillas in Mozambique
Healing from Genocide in Rwanda
Nikkie Wiegink
The 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi Susan Viguers & Lily Yeh
The Ethnography of Political Violence April 2020 280pp 3 illus. 9780812252057 £47.00 /$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
May 2020 144pp full color pictures 9781613321348 £34.00/$40.00 PB 9781613321355 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW VILLAGE PRESS
In Former Guerrillas in Mozambique, Nikkie Wiegink describes the trajectories of former RENAMO combatants in Maringue, a rural district in central Mozambique. She examines both male and female war veterans and their attempts at securing a tolerable life.
This work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Histories of Dirt
Kwaito Bodies
Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos Stephanie Newell
Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa Xavier Livermon
January 2020 272pp 14 illus. 9781478006435 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005391 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 288pp 35 illus. 9781478006633 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005797 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty.
Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of Kwaito—a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.
‘mamaseko
Naked Agency
Thabile Makue
African Poetry Book Series March 2020 144pp 9781496219602 £14.99/$17.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Named after the poet’s mother, ‘mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. In her poems Makue looks for traces of shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.
Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa Naminata Diabate
Theory in Forms March 2020 272pp 20 illus. 9781478006886 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006152 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Naminata Diabate explores how the deployment of defiant nakedness by mature women in Africa challenges longstanding assumptions about women’s political agency.
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Policing the Frontier
Readings in Sexualities from Africa
An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger Mirco Göpfert
Edited by Rachel Spronk & Thomas Hendriks
Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance March 2020 192pp 1 map 9781501747229 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781501747212 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Readings in African Studies March 2020 350pp 9780253047618 £43.00/$50.00 PB 9780253047601 £86.00/$100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The authors here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across the continent.
In Policing the Frontier, Mirco Göpfert explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, writing reports, and settling disputes in rural Niger. Excludes ANZ
Rethinking Cosmopolitanism
Rock | Water | Life
Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa Lesley Green
Africa in Europe / Europe in Africa Edited by Salah M. Hassan & Chika Okeke-Agulu
March 2020 328pp 26 photos 9781478003991 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478003694 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 150pp 150 illus. 9781478008743 £21.99/$27.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa’s history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.
Contributors to this issue reconfigure concepts of art, culture, and politics through the lens of cosmopolitanism.
Sacrament of Bodies
Signs of the Spirit
Romeo Oriogun
Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life Tony Perman
African Poetry Book March 2020 78pp 9781496219640 £14.99/$17.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Sacrament of Bodies interrogates what it means to be queer, male, and Nigerian. In this groundbreaking work, Oriogun seeks to understand how a queer man can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. His poems deal with grief and how the body finds survival through migration.
June 2020 280pp 9780252085178 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780252043253 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future.
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Sustaining Life
Time Out of Joint
AIDS Activism in South Africa Theodore Powers
The Queer and the Customary in Africa Edited by Kirk Fiereck, Neville Hoad & Danai Mupotsa
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights March 2020 280pp 9780812252002 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This title traces how the political principles of the anti-apartheid movement were leveraged to build a broad coalition that changed national HIV/AIDS policy norms and highlights how changes in statesociety relations can be produced by local activism.
May 2020 220pp 5 illus. 9781478008729 £9.99/$12.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contributors to this special issue investigate how queer theory might change when African texts, experiences, and concepts are placed front and center rather than treated as examples or case studies.
Africa Every Day
Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent Edited by Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes & Habib Iddrisu
March 2020 256pp 1 map 9781501747151 £31.00/$36.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by it. Sarah G. Phillips’s When There Was No Aid offers us one such example. Excludes ANZ
Research in International Studies, Africa Series November 2019 386pp 9780896803244 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9780896803237 £70.00/$85.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Essays address creative and dynamic elements of daily life in Africa, without romanticizing them.
Afrotopia
Ambivalent
Felwine Sarr Translated by Drew S. Burk
Photography and Visibility in African History Edited by Patricia Hayes & Gary Minkley
Univocal
November 2019 128pp
9781517906917 £20.99/$24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
New African Histories November 2019 376pp 9780821423943 £31.00/$36.95 PB 9780821423936 £74.00/$90.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through a reflection on contemporary African writers, artists, intellectuals, and musicians, Sarr elaborates Africa’s unique philosophies and notions of communal value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient traditions and landscape. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa.
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When There Was No Aid
War and Peace in Somaliland Sarah G. Phillips
Beauty Diplomacy
Beneath the Surface
Embodying an Emerging Nation Oluwakemi M. Balogun
A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners Lynn M. Thomas
Globalization in Everyday Life December 2019 256pp 9781503610972 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608856 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Theory in Forms January 2020 376pp 85 illustrations (incl. 39 in color) 9781478006428 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478005384 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about Nigerian society.
Constructs a history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, theorizing skin and skin color as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.
Food for All in Africa
Hot Feet and Social Change
Sustainable Intensification for African Farmers Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane & Katrin Glatzel
African Dance and Diaspora Communities Edited by Kariamu Welsh, Esailama Diouf & Yvonne Daniel
November 2019 364pp 3 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 10 maps, 38 charts 9781501743887 £20.99/$24.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2019 272pp 9780252084775 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780252042959 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Describe the challenges faced by Africa’s smallholder farmers and presents the concepts of The essays explore myths about African dance. Sustainable Intensification (SI) as opportunities to Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ sustainably transform Africa’s agriculture sector. Excludes ANZ
Living Tangier
Modern Sudanese Poetry
Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City Abdelmajid Hannoum
An Anthology Edited by Adil Babikir, Foreword by Matthew Shenoda, Translated by Adil Babikir
Contemporary Ethnography November 2019 312pp 14 illus. 9780812251722 £65.00/$75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city.
African Poetry Book September 2019 186pp 9781496215635 £16.99/$19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Modern Sudanese Poetry features voices as diverse as the country’s ethnic, cultural, and natural composition.
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Panic City
Roses from Kenya
Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg Martin Murray
Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers Megan A. Styles, Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
February 2020 344pp 9781503611269 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503610194 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Culture, Place, and Nature December 2019 248pp 7 b&w illus., 1 map, 2 charts 9780295746500 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295746517 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Panic City is an exploration of urban fear and its impact on the city’s evolving siege architecture, the transformation of policing, and obsession with security that has fueled unprecedented private consumption of ‘protection services.’
Styles presents the point of view of local workers in this rich portrait of Kenyan floriculture.
Self-Devouring Growth
The Great Upheaval
A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa Julie Livingston
Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria Judith A. Byfield
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography September 2019 176pp 20 illus. 9781478006398 £19.99/$23.95 PB 9781478005087 £77.00/$89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
New African Histories November 2019 276pp 9780821423981 £25.99/$32.95 PB 9780821423974 £66.00/$80.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation-making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political activism in postwar Nigeria.
Julie Livingston shows how the global pursuit of economic and resource-driven growth comes at the expense of catastrophic destruction.
The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix
Unfixed
Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa Jennifer Bajorek
Alain Mabanckou Translated by Bill Johnston
February 2020 352pp 132 illus., incl. 30 in color 9781478003922 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478003663 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Global African Voices October 2019 160pp 9780253043887 £16.99/$20.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix, begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Award-winning author Alain Mabanckou is at his satiric best in this novel that catalogues the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war.
Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial politics in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960.
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