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A Missionary Nation
African Ecomedia
Race, Religion, and Spain's Age of Liberal Imperialism, 1841– 1881 Scott Eastman
Network Forms, Planetary Politics Cajetan Iheka October 2021 336pp 41 illus. 9781478014744 £20.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478013815 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
October 2021 256pp 7 photos, 14 illus., 2 maps 9781496204165 £48.00/ $60.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representa�on of environmental issues in visual culture, showing how African visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture deliver a unique perspec�ve on the socioecological costs of media produc�on.
Focuses on Spain’s crusade to resurrect its empire, beginning with the War of Africa. Interrogates the legacy of Hispanic iden��es from mul�ple axes, as former colonies were annexed and others were occupied, tying together strands of European, Mediterranean, and Atlan�c histories in the second age of global imperialism.
African Motors
Africanizing Oncology
October 2021 384pp 53 illus. 9781478011712 £22.99/ $29.95 PB 9781478010593 £88.00/ $109.95 HB
New African Histories November 2021 248pp 9780821424650 £64.00/ $80.00 HB
Technology, Gender, and the History of Development Joshua Grace
Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda Marissa Mika
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how everyday Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers recons�tuted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s to the early 2000s.
Combining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Ins�tute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the poli�cal, technological, moral, and intellectual aspira�ons and ac�ons of health care providers and pa�ents.
Amkoullel, the Fula Boy
Apartheid’s Black Soldiers
Amadou Hampâté Bâ Translated by Jeanne Garane
Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa Lennart Bolliger
August 2021 400pp 9781478014188 £22.99/ $29.95 PB 9781478013273 £88.00/ $109.95 HB
War and Militarism in African History October 2021 240pp 9780821424551 £64.00/ $80.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ—one of the towering figures in the literature of twen�eth-century Francophone Africa—tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against inter-ethnic conflict and the arrival and installa�on of French colonialism.
Thousands of Black troops served in South Africa’s security forces in Namibia and Angola during apartheid. Bolliger’s new research leads him to reject their common depic�on as “collaborators,” challenge the portrayal of the wars in which they fought as struggles for na�onal libera�on, and reveal the complexity of South Africa’s military culture. 1
Embodied Engineering
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali Laura Ann Twagira
Edited by Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jeanette S. Jouili Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People September 2021 352pp 20 illus. 9781478011750 £21.99/ $28.95 PB 9781478010647 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
New African Histories October 2021 344pp 9780821424681 £27.99 / $36.95 NIP
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Foregrounding African women’s ingenuity and labor, this pioneering case study shows how women in rural Mali have used technology to ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental crises, and postcolonial rule.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Inves�gates the complex intersec�ons between the body, religious expression, and the construc�on and nego�a�on of social rela�onships and collec�ve iden��es throughout the Black diaspora.
Faith in Flux
Fine Boys
Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique Devaka Premawardhana
A Novel Eghosa Imasuen Modern African Wri�ng September 2021 278pp 9780821424575 £17.99/ $22.95 PB
Contemporary Ethnography September 2021 232pp 8 illus. 9780812225105 £18.99/ $24.95 PB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Set in Nigeria during the prodemocracy movement and told from the perspec�ve of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this comingof-age novel examines the violent university confraterni�es during the mid-1990s.
Recent reports on Pentecostalism in the global South give the impression of an inexorable trajectory of massive growth, but Faith in Flux examines the religion's ambivalent recep�on in northern Mozambique, loca�ng vital insight in the overlooked places where this religion has failed to take root.
Fractured Militancy
Griot Potters of the Folona
Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion Marcel Paret
The History of an African Ceramic Tradition Barbara E. Frank
February 2022 234pp 1 map, 5 charts 9781501761799 £22.99/ $29.95 PB 9781501761782 £92.00/ $115.00 HB
African Expressive Cultures February 2022 408pp 391 color illus., 12 maps, 8 b&w tables 9780253058997 £26.99/ $35.00 PB 9780253059000 £64.00/ $80.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with ac�vists, Fractured Militancy tells the story of post-apartheid South Africa from the perspec�ve of Johannesburg's impoverished urban Black neighborhoods. Nearly three decades a�er South Africa's transi�on from apartheid to democracy, widespread protests and xenophobic a�acks suggest that not all is well in the oncecelebrated "rainbow na�on."
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Griot Po�ers of the Folona reconstructs the past of a par�cular group of West African women po�ers using evidence found in their ar�stry and techniques. The po�ers of the Folona region of southeastern Mali serve a diverse clientele and firing thousands of pots weekly during the height of the dry season. 2
Healing from Genocide in Rwanda
In the Net
Mahmoudan Hawad Translated by Christopher Wise Preface by Helene Hawad
Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book Susan Viguers & Lily Yeh
African Poetry Book February 2022 84pp 6 illus. 9781496229694 £13.99/ $17.95 PB
November 2021 144pp full color picture book 9781613321348 £33.00/ $40.00 PB 9781613321355 £71.00/ $89.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a por�on of Tuareg lands divided among five na�on-states created in the 1960s.
The power of art in the service of healing. Tells the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide. Their tes�monies are framed by chapters chronicling the crea�on, in the Rugerero Survivors’ Village, of a powerful Genocide Memorial. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Indirect Subjects
Love and Liberation
Nollywood's Local Address Matthew H. Brown
Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region Lauren Carruth
October 2021 328pp 42 illus. 9781478014195 £20.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478013280 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
October 2021 240pp 8 b&w hal�ones, 1 map, 1 chart 9781501759666 £22.99/ $29.95 PB 9781501759475 £92.00/ $115.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ma�hew H. Brown explores the connec�ons between Nigeria's booming film industry, state television, and colonial legacies that together involve spectators in global capitalism while denying them its privileges.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Carruth provides an alterna�ve vision of what "humanitarian" response means in prac�ce—not driven by Interna�onal Humanitarian Law, the missions of Western relief organiza�ons, or trends in the aid industry or academia, but instead, by what Somalis call "samafal."
Moving Home
Policing Bodies
Next Wave: New Direc�ons in Women's Studies October 2021 280pp 10 illus. 9781478014553 £20.99/ $26.95 PB 9781478013624 £80.00/ $99.95 HB
December 2021 232pp 9781503629745 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503629226 £72.00/ $90.00 HB
Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic Sandra Gunning
Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg I. India Thusi
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, and police a�tudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated. I. India Thusi’s ethnography considers how sex work is policed and how it should be policed—and exposes the limita�ons of dominant feminist arguments regarding its legal treatment.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel wri�ng to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlan�c. Gunning draws on the wri�ng of missionaries, aboli�onists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assump�ons that travel wri�ng is primarily associated with leisure or scien�fic research. 3
Reimagining Social Medicine from the South
Sharing the Burden of Sickness A History of Healing and Medicine in Accra Jonathan Roberts
Abigail H. Neely
August 2021 200pp 12 illus. 9781478014270 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9781478013365 £76.00/ $94.95 HB
October 2021 418pp 33 b&w illus. 9780253057938 £27.99/ $36.00 PB 9780253057945 £68.00/ $85.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine's possibili�es and limita�ons at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (PCHC) in South Africa.
Sharing the Burden of Sickness explores medical history during important periods in Accra's history. Roberts not only introduces readers to a wide range of ideas about health but also charts a course for a thoroughly pluralis�c culture of healing in the future, especially with the spread of new epidemics of HIV/AIDS and ebola.
The Author as Cannibal
The Egyptian Labor Corps
Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969–1995 Felisa Vergara Reynolds
Race, Space, and Place in the First World War Kyle J. Anderson
January 2022 306pp 1 photograph, 4 illus., 1 appendix, index 9781496218421 £48.00/ $60.00 HB
December 2021 288pp 10 b&w photos 9781477324547 £44.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
During World War I, Bri�sh authori�es reneged on their promise not to draw Egyp�ans into the war, enlis�ng half a million young men into the Egyp�an Labor Corps (ELC). Anderson tells the story of these young men and the essen�al part they came to play in the 1919 Egyp�an Revolu�on.
A�er French colonial rule ended, Francophone authors began rewri�ng narra�ves from the colonial literary canon. Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figura�ve acts of cannibalism and examines how these literary cannibaliza�ons cri�que colonialism and its legacy in each author’s homeland.
The Great Upheaval
The Poetics of Difference
Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria Judith A. Byfield
Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
New African Histories November 2021 334pp 5 illus. 9780821423981 £27.99 / $36.95 NIP
New Black Studies Series September 2021 288pp 9780252086038 £19.99/ $25.95 PB 9780252043963 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
This social and intellectual history of women’s poli�cal ac�vism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of na�onalism and poses new ques�ons about Nigeria’s colonial past and independent future.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexi�es surrounding na�on and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the mul�ple meanings of sexuality. Illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s wri�ng. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Village Work
War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953
Development and Rural Statecraft in TwentiethCentury Ghana Alice Wiemers
Alfred Tembo
War and Militarism in African History November 2021 256pp 9780821424629 £64.00/ $80.00 HB
New African Histories September 2021 250pp 4 illus. 97808214224667 £26.99 / $34.95 NIP
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first major study of its kind, this book shows— from a Zambian perspec�ve—how Northern Rhodesia, then a Bri�sh colony, organized and deployed human, military, and natural resources during the Second World War. New research and oral histories further demonstrate the war’s social and industrial impact on Zambia in the immediate postwar period.
A robust historical case study that demonstrates how village development became central to the rhetoric and prac�ce of statecra� in rural Ghana.
Kwame Nkrumah
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Visions of Liberation Jeffrey S. Ahlman
I've Been Here All the While
Ohio Short Histories of Africa May 2021 218pp 9780821424520 £12.99/ $16.95 PB
Black Freedom on Native Land Alaina E. Roberts
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
America in the Nineteenth Century April 2021 224pp 10 b&w illus. 9780812253030 £26.99/ $34.95 HB
This new biography of Kwame Nkrumah (1909–72), Ghana’s first president, demonstrates how his accomplishments extend well beyond his role in Ghanaian decoloniza�on, statebuilding, and the promo�on of pan-Africanism to include his broader an�colonialist work toward an independent, unified Africa.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule.” Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the tradi�onal story of Reconstruc�on.
The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga
The Outside
Migration as Life in Morocco Alice Elliot
Mohamedou Ould Slahi & Larry Siems
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa April 2021 204pp 9780253054746 £18.99/ $25.00 PB 9780253054739 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
February 2021 176pp 9780821424384 £17.99/ $22.95 PB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS Modern African Wri�ng
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This s�rring, poe�c tale features a Bedouin man whose irrepressible love for his family, his camels, and his way of life fuels both his harrowing journey into the Sahara Desert to find a lost camel and his struggle to preserve a culture on the brink of profound change.
The Outside seeks to answer the ques�on, what is migra�on when it becomes the very founda�on on which forms of social and individual life are built? New understandings of migra�on emerge through its in�mate textures as Elliot shows how it has become, in some parts of the world, a dis�nc�ve condi�on of everyday life. 5
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