AFRICAN STUDIES
2018 Political Economy Well-being in modern Africa
Electricity in Africa Infrastructure and development politics
Christopher Okigbo Poet, Lover, Gun Runner
War Within Mozambique New Perspectives on the Civil War
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C ONTE NT S Achebe and Friends at Umuahia O CHIAGHA
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Hawks and Doves in Sudan’s Armed Conflict MUSA
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African Diaspora FALOLA
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In the Name of the Mother THIONG’O
African Garrison State TRONVOLL & MEKONNEN
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African Theatre 13 BANHAM, GIBBS & OSOFISAN
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Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855 LINDFORS
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African Theatre 14 BANHAM, GIBBS & OSOFISAN
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Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855-1867 LINDFORS
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African Theatre 15 BANHAM, GIBBS & OSOFISAN
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African Theatre 16 PLASTOW & BANHAM
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Africa’s Land Rush HALL, SCO ONES & TSIKATA Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World STRICKRODT
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ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives EMENYONU, NWANKWO
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ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story EMENYONU
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ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice EMENYONU
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ALT 33 Children’s Literature & Story-telling EMENYONU
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ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction
EMENYONU, COUSINS & D OD GSON-KATIYO
ALT 35: Focus on Egypt EMENYONU
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Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin SARR
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Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda BRUNER
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Lost Nationalism VEZZADINI
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Markets on the Margins PHILIP
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Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital MARK-THIESEN
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Narrating War and Peace in Africa FALOLA & HAAR
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Nation as Grand Narrative ADEBANWI
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New Black Middle Class in South Africa SOUTHALL
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Nyerere MOLONY
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On Durban’s Docks CALLEBERT
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Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia 1300-1700 HASSEN
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Beyond Religious Tolerance NOLTE, O GEN & JONES
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Ploughing New Ground BEKELE
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Blood on the Tides OKPEWHO
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Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa ADEBANWI
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Blue Stain BET TAUER 9
Politics of Peacemaking in Africa AFOLABI
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Christopher Okigbo 1930-67 NWAKANMA
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Quest for Socialist Utopia ZEWDE
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Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EMENYONU
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Reading Nuruddin Farah MO OLLA
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Companion to Mia Couto HAMILTON & HUDDART
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Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Cotton and Race across the Atlantic ROBINS
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Creed & Grievance MUSTAPHA & EHRHARDT
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Death Retold in Truth and Rumour MUSILA
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Electricity in Africa GORE
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Eritrean National Service KIBREAB
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Faith, Power and Family WALKER-SAID
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Gay Guerrilla PACKER & LEACH Gender, Home & Identity GRABSKA Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa HOUSE-SOREMEKUN & FALOLA
Guardians of the Tradition DE LORENZI
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MISEVICH & MANN
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Road to Soweto BROWN
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Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars JOHNSON
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Scoring Race HIGGINSON
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Sects & Social Disorder MUSTAPHA
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Slavery Hinterland BRAHM & ROSENHAFT
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Tuning the Kingdom KAFUMBE
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Violent Conversion VAN DE KAMP
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War Within MORIER-GENOUD, CAHEN & D O ROSÁRIO
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Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War FALOLA & EZEKWEM
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Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century OMOJOLA
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The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa
Christopher Okigbo 1930-67
Edited by WALE ADEBA N W I
OBI N WAKANM A
Beyond the Margins
Thirsting for Sunlight
Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa. What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? The contributors – experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language – examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living a sustainable life in Africa. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of everyday life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they analyse money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial and apartheid pasts. The influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer provides an Afterword. WALE ADEBANWI is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University
of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press).
$90.00/£50.00(s) June 2017 978 1 84701 165 7, eBook 978 1 78744 105 7, Library eBook 978 1 78744 051 7 15 b/w illus.; 384pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, June 2017, 978 1 84701 166 4
This first biography is now in paperback marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nigeria-Biafra War and the anniversary of the death of Christopher Okigbo, the most anthologized modern African poet. Christopher Okigbo, once described as “Africa’s most lyrical poet of the twentieth century” was killed in September 1967, fighting for the independence of Biafra. The manner in which Okigbo died typified the passionate, tortured and dramatic quality of his life. Widely considered along with Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe as part of modern Nigeria’s greatest literary triumvirate, Okigbo’s death promoted him to cult status among subsequent generations of African writers. Okigbo left behind a small but inspired body of lyrical verse which grew from his fascination with his mystical Igbo roots and with the poets of the classical world of Greece and Rome. Yet Nwakanma has written not just a biography of the poet but also a biography of the nation, and of an important time in the making of nation, giving powerful insights into the postcolonial transition in Nigeria and West Africa. OBI NWAKANMA, journalist and poet, is Assistant Professor in the English Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando. $24.95/£17.99 August 2017 978 1 84701 179 4, Library eBook 978 1 84615 798 1 12 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Nigeria: HEBN (PB)
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The War Within
Electricity in Africa
New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992
The Politics of Transformation in Uganda CHRI STOPHER GORE
Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development politics in African states. No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without at least minimum access to electricity for the majority of its population. Yet many sub-Saharan African countries struggle to meet demand. Christopher Gore examines the politics and processes surrounding electricity infrastructure, provision and reform, including the shifting role of national governments and multilateral agencies. Drawing on extensive research in Uganda, which has one of the lowest levels of access to electricity in Africa and has struggled to construct several, large hydroelectric dams on the Nile, Gore argues that there is a critical need to recognize how the changing political and social context affects the capacity to fulfil national energy goals, to minimize energy poverty and transform economies. CHRISTOPHER GORE is Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Hardcover: $99.00/£60.00(s) August 2017, 978 1 84701 169 5 Paperback: $25.95/£19.99 August 2017, 978 1 84701 168 8 eBook 978 1 78744 107 1, Library eBook 978 1 78744 057 9 5 b/w illus.; 200pp, 21.6 x 14, HB African Issues
Edited by E RIC MORI E R- GE NOU D, M IC H E L C AH E N & D OM I NGO S M . D O RO S ÁRIO
A fresh analysis of the post-colonial war in Mozambique that contributes to debates about conflict, peacebuilding, development and nationalism and offers insights into the nature of contemporary politics and the current conflict. The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas is a central event in the history of Mozambique. This book re-evaluates the period by looking at the conflict as a “total social phenomena” that involved all elements of society and impacted on every aspect of life in the country. The volume examines not only Frelimo and Renamo but also actors such as private, popular and state militias, the Catholic Church, NGOs and traders. Based on a wholly new set of sources, the book uncovers new dimensions of the civil war and offers an alternative narrative and explanatory framework for the conflict as well as a solid background for understanding the nature of peacemaking in Mozambique, contemporary politics and the current conflict in the country. ERIC MORIER-GENOUD is a Lecturer in African history at Queen’s University Belfast; Domingos MANUEL DO ROSÁRIO is Lecturer in electoral sociology and electoral governance at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique; MICHEL CAHEN
is a Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Bordeaux Political Studies Institute and at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. $80.00/£60.00(s) August 2018 978 1 84701 180 0 2 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, August 2018, 978 1 84701 181 7
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Cotton and Race across the Atlantic Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920 JONATHAN E. ROBINS
The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter.
This book tells the story of Britain’s effort to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton-producing region. Britons insisted that cotton was the “black man’s crop” and that the future of cotton lay in Africa, rather than America. African-American scientists embraced this project, reinforcing British colonialism but also discovering a diasporic connection to Africa. Some African farmers profited from cotton, but most suffered under new regulations and coercive policies as Britain struggled to compete with American cotton. $110.00/£90.00(s) November 2016 978 1 58046 567 0 11 b/w illus.; 312pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Slavery Hinterland
Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885 SIL KE STR IC K RODT
A uniquely detailed account of the dynamics of Afro-European trade in two states on the western Slave Coast over three centuries and the transition from slave trade to legitimate commerce. This book examines Afro-European trade relations on the western Slave Coast c.1550-c.1885 in Grand Popo (now in Benin) and Little Popo (now in Togo), the transition from slave trading to legitimate commerce, and the region’s position in the wider trans-Atlantic trade network. Situated between the Gold Coast to the west and the eastern Slave Coast to the east, these states were pivotal in slave trading in the region, supplying provisions to Europeans and facilitating communication along the coast between the trading companies’ headquarters and their factories. SILKE STRICKRODT is Visiting Research Fellow
Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850 Edited by F ELIX BR AHM & EV E RO SE NHAF T
Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland.
This book focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economies that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. It unearths material and economic entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the historical study of the relationship between business and morality. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. $24.95/£17.99 June 2016 978 1 78327 112 2, eBook 978 1 78204 811 4 Library eBook 978 1 78204 703 2 12 b/w illus.; 276pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
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at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. $29.95/£19.99 August 2017 978 1 84701 178 7 280pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Western Africa Series
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The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Edited by PHILIP MISEVICH & KRISTIN MANN
Essays cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and development of the African diaspora.
Written by leading younger and distinguished senior scholars, the twelve essays in this volume probe the long and interconnected histories of slavery and the slave trade and of abolition and emancipation throughout the Atlantic world. Drawing on innovative new research, the chapters recast knowledge about the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the commerce in human beings that supported it in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Engagingly written and attuned to both twenty-first century and historical problems and debates, this book will appeal to undergraduates and nonspecialists as well as to advanced researchers.
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Guardians of the Tradition Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea JA ME S DE LOR E N ZI
Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea’s rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day. De Lorenzi is a remarkable scholar . . . His latest and most interesting book deals with Ethiopian and Eritrean intellectuals, examined in terms of tradition and cultural change. This topic . . . is rarely treated in such a sweeping geographical-historical framework . . . An ongoing debate, a stimulating topic. AET H IOPICA
$110.00/£90.00(s) September 2015 978 1 58046 519 9 12 b/w illus.; 232pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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The African Diaspora
Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization TOYI N FA LOL A
In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. [A] rich and engaging work that should be read and discussed by all interested in how lessons from Africa’s past and present connects to the future of African and other diaspora communities across the globe. AF R ICA AT LSE Not only a significant scholarly contribution to African-American studies but also an invaluable addition to existing studies on globalization, international politics and development. Because of its accuracy of facts and simplicity of styles, this book is a must-read for scholars and students of African and African-American studies as well as people seeking general knowledge on contemporary global history, government, economics and politics. LEEDS AF R ICAN ST U DI ES BU LLET I N
$39.95/£19.99 October 2014 978 1 58046 453 6 21 colour illus.; 48 b/w illus.; 454pp, 9 x 6, PB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
PHILIP MISEVICH is assistant professor of history at St. John’s University. KRISTIN MANN is
professor of history at Emory University.
$125.00/£95.00(s) June 2016 978 1 58046 560 1 6 b/w illus.; 376pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
Hawks and Doves in Sudan’s Armed Conflict
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Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909
Al-Hakkamat Baggara Women of Darfur
An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909. This book focuses on one of West Africa’s earliest large-scale industries, namely the Wassa gold mines in the southwest Gold Coast during the period 1879 to 1909. Author Cassandra Mark-Thiesen explores the plurality of labor relations that characterized the mining concessions, noting particularly the role of the labor agents who regularly recruited groups of migrant laborers, both male and female, to work the mines. The book discusses these agents’ means of employment and their influence on the informalization and indentureship of labor; in addition, it explores the regional dynamics of the recruitment machinery and confronts issues of coercion and choice. Scholars interested in African history, global labor history, economic history, and women’s work in Africa will find much of value in this innovative study. CASSANDRA MARK-THIESEN is a Research Fellow
of the Swiss National Science Foundation (MarieHeim Vögtlin Grant) in the history department of the University of Basel.
$110.00/£90.00(s) March 2018 978 1 58046 918 0 3 b/w illus.; 234pp, 9 x 6 Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Suad M.E. Musa is Assistant Professor for women and gender studies at The Royal University for Women in the Kingdom of al-Bahrain. $80.00/£60.00(s) April 2018 978 1 84701 175 6 3 b/w illus.; 204pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Eastern Africa Series
T HOMAS MOLONY
A uniquely detailed portrayal of the formative years of Tanzania’s first president and the influences that led him to enter politics. Offers a detailed, entertaining account of the life and ideas of one of Africa’s greatest statesmen that reaches far earlier than this, and makes a valuable contribution to Africa’s political history as a result. A F R IC A AT L SE BLO G
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An account of the rise of Ethiopia’s student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and its impact on the shaping of the country’s future. In the 20th and 21st centuries, Ethiopia has undergone a long transformation from empire to modern nation state. Bahru Zewde, one of the students involved in the uprising, draws on interviews with former student leaders and activists, to describe the steady radicalisation of the movement, characterised particularly after 1965 by annual demonstrations against the regime and culminating in the ascendancy of MarxismLeninism by the early 1970s. BAHRU ZEWDE is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University. $25.95/£19.99 April 2017 978 1 84701 164 0, 13 b/w illus.; 317pp, 21.6 x 14, PB Eastern Africa Series Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press
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The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia 1300-1700 MOHAM M E D HAS SE N
[A] carefully argued book that challenges us to reevaluate Ethiopian and Oromo history through a different lens.
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AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW
$25.95/£19.99 May 2017 978 1 84701 161 9 400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Eastern Africa Series
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Winner of the African Studies Association 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize Offers a history of a formative yet largely forgotten event, Sudan’s 1924 Revolution. Vezzadini connects this event to a host of regional and global developments, forcing us to rethink the role and utility of identifying ‘revolutions’ in African History. ASA [A]s a well-documented case study utilizing major conceptual frameworks for analysis, Lost Nationalism is a useful contribution to understanding nationalism and revolution in the modern world. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES
$80.00/£45.00(s) September 2015 978 1 84701 115 2, Library eBook 978 178204 528 1 6 b/w illus.; 333pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Eastern Africa Series
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The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974
Revolution, Memory and Anticolonial Resistance in Sudan
The Early Years
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Al-Hakkamat Baggara women hold an instrumental position in rural Sudan, wielding agency, social and political power, and understanding how they can contribute to the resolution and resettlement processes is vital to sustainable reconciliation and post-conflict transformation of the unstable state. This book uncovers their significant, but widely overlooked, role during the war in Darfur from the 1970s to today’s continuing conflict. The book explores the influence they exercised through their poems and songs, informal speech and symbolic acts, and analyses their impact in both social and political domains. Challenging the pervasive portrayal of women as natural peacebuilders and as passive and submissive, the author highlights how Sudan’s state government co-opted al-Hakkamat Baggara women to lobby on its behalf, to rally for war and to advocate for peace.
The Quest for Socialist Utopia
Lost Nationalism
Nyerere
A major contribution to the field. THE
Analyses the involvement of the agro-pastoral alHakkamat Baggara women of Darfur in Sudan’s recent civil wars and the implications of this for conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
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The Road to Soweto
Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976 J UL IA N BROW N
It encapsulates the long build-up of unrest in the black community… describ[ing] the range of events that led to a growing sense of frustration and anger. TIMES LITER ARY SUPPLEMENT
$34.95/£25.00 April 2016 978 1 84701 141 1 eBook 978 1 78204 759 9 Library eBook 978 1 78204 760 5 216pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana
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The Politics of Peacemaking in Africa
The Eritrean National Service Servitude for “the common good” and the Youth Exodus
Non-State Actors’ Role in the Liberian Civil War
A detailed examination of the role of two critical non-state groups in the Liberian Civil War peace process – the diaspora and the religious – that provides key insights for policymakers and NGOs into the roles that civil society actors can play in conflict resolution and peacemaking. The Liberian Civil War exemplified the “new wars” breaking out in Africa after the Cold War, and showed how collaboration between a regional economic grouping – in this case ECOWAS – and religious and diaspora actors might aid conflict resolution and the peacemaking process. Taking the war as a case study, this book examines the involvement of Liberia’s religious and diaspora groups, finding that their actions influenced both the trajectory of the conflict and the outcome of the peace process. The religious actors, initiators of the Liberian peace process, were mediators and dialogue facilitators, watchdogs and trustees during the war and its aftermath, and in the process were able to regain some of the societal influence that organized religion enjoyed during the 158 years of Americo-Liberian rule. BABATUNDE T. AFOLABI is a Senior Programme
Manager at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD).
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The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars Old Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition] D OUG L AS H. JOHNSON
Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan’s new south and South Sudan. A third edition of what is rightly regarded as a classic work... useful for people who need a reliable and astute summary of war-related events. SUDA N STUDIE S
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GAIM KIBREAB is Professor of Research and Director of Refugee Studies, School of Law and Social Science, London South Bank University. $90.00/£50.00(s) June 2017 978 1 84701 160 2, Library eBook 978 1 78744 020 3 230pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Eastern Africa Series
Gender, Home & Identity
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
The Eritrean National Service (ENS) lies at the core of the postindependence state, not only supplying its military, but affecting the country’s economy, social services, public sector and politics, driving its youth to escape national service by seeking employment and asylum elsewhere. Yet how did the ENS, which began as part of the “common good” degenerate into a modern form of slavery? Drawing on the testimony of the conscripts themselves, this book provides for the first time an in-depth and critical scrutiny of the ENS. The author discusses its historical backdrop, the rationales underlying it, and its goals and objectives; its transformative effects, as well as its impact on the country’s defence capability, and national identity.
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£9.99, July 2017, 978 1 84701 157 2
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Gives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today.
Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan KATAR Z Y NA G R A B SKA
Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 Analyses the experiences of Nuer women and men of all ages and how they negotiate and reshape gender identities and relations in the context of prolonged war and violence. This is an empirically rich, multi-sited ethnography... the book contributes substantively to the literature on return migration. JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES While Grabska contributes to the academic debate and a global discussion about those who are displaced, humanitarians currently spending millions in South Sudan would also do well to read this book. JOU R NAL OF T H E ROYAL A NTHROP OLO GICAL I NST I T U T E
$80.00/£45.00(s) October 2014 978 1 84701 099 5, eBook 978 1 78204 381 2 Library eBook 978 1 78204 380 5 10 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Eastern Africa Series
Narrating War and Peace in Africa Edited by TOY I N FALOL A & H ET T Y T E R HAAR
G A IM KIBRE AB
BA BAT UNDE TOLU AF OL A BI
$80.00/£45.00(s) July 2017 978 1 84701 158 9, eBook 978 1 78744 109 5 Library eBook 978 1 78744 052 4 215pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Western Africa Series
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Representations of war and peace in Africa from the fields of African studies and cultural studies, linguistics, journalism and the media, literature, film, drama and performance, women’s and gender studies, and human rights. The wars of the latter half of the nineteenth century seem to have defined and reinforced the myth of barbarism in Africa: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. This volume addresses the stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as “tribal” in nature, and offers instead perspectives to foster a more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. TOYIN FALOLA is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. HETTY TER HAAR is an independent researcher in England. $39.95/£19.99 August 2017 978 1 58046 913 5, 3 b/w illus.; 342pp, 9 x 6, PB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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The African Garrison State
Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea - REVISED & UPDATED K J ET I L T RON VOL L & DAN I E L R . M E KON N E N
Examines Eritrea’s deprivation of human rights since independence and its transformation into a militarised “garrison state”. A comprehensive study of how and why the bright prospects of the new 1991 state of Eritrea were undercut, turning the country into one of the world’s most authoritarian, militarised, isolated, and human rights-abusing states. While the situation is bleak, it is not without hope: the epilogue describes the recent UN Commission of Inquiry process, the renewed international dialogue with Asmara and the new geopolitical dynamics. KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College. DANIEL MEKONNEN is the Executive Director of the Eritrean Law Society. $25.95/£19.99 June 2017 978 1 84701 167 1, 232pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Eastern Africa Series
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On Durban’s Docks
Markets on the Margins
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Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia An in-depth analysis of the politics and practice of food production and supply in Ethiopia, and their impact on the largely agricultural economy and farming populations, who represent nearly 80 per cent of the country’s population. In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. Land deals by the Government with foreign investors have put pressure on agricultural, rural areas. Today, dispossessions, drought and social unrest surround fears of the worst food shortages in decades. Examining these developments in Ethiopia’s lake region, the author shows how transformations in state-society relations and the organization of production and exchange have impacted on a population of smallholder farmers for whom agriculture is not only the mainstay of the economy but a way of life. GETNET BEKELE is Associate Professor of History
at Oakland University, MI, where he teaches African History and the Environmental and Economic History of Africa and the Global South. $90.00/£50.00(s) August 2017 978 1 84701 174 9, eBook 978 1 78744 053 1 Library eBook 978 1 78744 058 6 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Eastern Africa Series
Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South. Using seventy-seven oral histories, author Ralph Callebert examines the working and living conditions of Durban’s predominantly Zulu dock workers and the livelihoods of their rural households. These households relied on a combination of wage labor, pilferage, informal trade, and the rural economy; dock workers’ experiences were thus more intricate than a focus on wage labor alone could capture. The book examines their complex political identities, including their economic nationalism and fervent anti-Indian sentiments, in the context of these multifaceted livelihoods, offering a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally. RALPH CALLEBERT teaches history at the
University of Toronto.
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Africa’s Land Rush
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The New Black Middle Class in South Africa RO G E R SOU T HA L L
Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change Edited by RU T H HALL, IAN SC O ONE S & D Z ODZ I T SIKATA
Interrogates the narratives of “land grabbing” and “agricultural investment” through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa’s land and agricultural economy. This collection of essays is the finest to be published on the broad debates of land grabbing in Africa. It covers empirically rich and diverse case studies. These are framed in an introduction of immense analytical heft that should be read by everyone who thinks they know what is often called in short hand the land grab in Africa. A F R IC AN AFFAIRS
Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa’s “black middle class”. An insightful and engaging read for those who seek to learn more about social stratification and mobility in South Africa. AF R ICA SPECT RUM ROGER SOUTHALL is Professor Emeritus in
Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.
Examines more than a decade of enterprise development strategies in marginal economic contexts in South Africa’s mining communities and shows how this might impact on development strategies. In 1987, workers in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them, the NUM set up a job creation programme, starting with worker co-operatives before shifting to wider enterprise development strategies in communities affected by on-going job losses – including in neighbouring countries. This book explores the lessons learned from trying to create jobs through enterprise development in marginal economic contexts, and the limits and opportunities that such market participation offers to improve livelihoods. KATE PHILIP is a Senior Economic Advisor in the
Government Technical Advice Centre (GTAC) of South Africa’s National Treasury.
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Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa
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The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa. The chapters are well written and topical, and they offer a good introduction to both current and traditional issues concerning African
development. C HOIC E
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Faith, Power and Family
Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon
Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda JAS ON BRU N E R
Reexamines the East African revival movement in Uganda, 1935-1955, arguing that through the movement African Christians developed a unique spiritual lifestyle.
CHA RLOT T E WALKER-S A ID
A study of Christianity and society in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to 1946. Explores the radical innovations of African Catholic and Protestant evangelists who used Christianity to challenge governments operating in Cameroon. As African believers transformed foreign missionary societies into profoundly local religious institutions, they established not only new African family and community models but also redefined African male guardianship over wives and children. Countering the economic and legal power wielded by African chiefs and sharply challenging French colonial rule, African Christian spiritual guides emerged as reformers of African family life and local authority. CHARLOTTE WALKER-SAID is Assistant Professor,
Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY).
$70.00/£40.00(s) July 2018 978 1 84701 182 4 10 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Religion in Transforming Africa
Starting in the mid-1930s, East African revivalists (or, Balokole: “the saved ones”) proclaimed a message of salvation, hoping to revive the mission churches of colonial East Africa. Frustrated by missionary Christianity, they preached that in order to be saved, converts had to confess their sins publicly, putting them “in the light.” Using archival collections, oral histories, and interviews, this study argues that the Balokole revival was a movement through which African Christians articulated and developed a unique spiritual lifestyle, one that responded creatively to the sociopolitical contexts of late colonial East Africa. JASON BRUNER is Assistant Professor of Global Christianity at Arizona State University. $99.00/£80.00(s) September 2017 978 1 58046 584 7 204pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
of related interest
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Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940
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Beyond Religious Tolerance Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town
Edited by INSA NOLT E, OLU KOYA O G E N & R EBEC C A JONES
A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam’s role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence.
An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa. $49.95/£30.00(s) December 2016 978 1 58046 569 4 2 b/w illus.; 258pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Violent Conversion
Brazilian Pentecostalism and Urban Women in Mozambique L I NDA VAN DE KA MP
Examines Pentecostal conversion as a force of change, revealing new insights into its dominant role in global Christianity today. $90.00/£50.00(s) October 2016 978 1 84701 152 7 eBook 978 1 78204 845 9 10 b/w illus.; 248pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Religion in Transforming Africa
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Creed & Grievance
Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria Edited by ABDU L R AU FU M U STAPHA & DAVI D E H RHARDT
Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threatens the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security. Ethnic and cultural fragmentation, the frequent overlap between ethnicity and religion, and socio-political changes from the 1980s have resulted in acute polarization between Muslims and Christians in northern Nigeria. This book presents an in-depth exploration of the conflicts, which both threaten the region’s development and present a wider threat to global security. Examining the multiplicity of Muslim and Christian groups involved, the tensions between and within them, and appropriate and effective policy responses at local, national and international levels, the authors also analyse three of the most contentious issues: conflict in Jos; the Boko Haram insurgency; and the challenges of legal pluralism posed by the declaration of full Sharia law in 12 Muslim majority states. ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA is Associate Professor in African Politics, University of Oxford. DAVID EHRHARDT is Assistant Professor of International Development at Leiden University College. $90.00/£60.00(s) January 2018 978 1 84701 106 0 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Western Africa Series Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, January 2018, 978 1 84701 142 8
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Sects & Social Disorder
Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria Edited by A BDUL R AUF U MUSTA PHA
Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian (for which, see the companion volume, Creed and Grievance), with consequences for long-term peacemaking.
Abdul Raufu Mustapha is Associate Professor of African Politics, University of Oxford. $25.95/£19.99 (s) March 2017 978 1 84701 159 6 eBook 978 1 78204 970 8, Library eBook 978 1 78204 473 4 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Western Africa Series
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A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence. It powerfully illustrates the creative complexity and bold humanity of Adichie’s fiction... A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie represents a vital milestone in the literary scholarship of this most widely-cited and intriguing of 21st-century authors. A F R IC A IN WORD S
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A Companion to Mia Couto This new research in English on the work of the Mozambican writer Mia Couto provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical terrain of Couto’s literary thought. This is a welcome aide to understanding one of today’s most important writers. E RIC
M. B. BEC K ER , translator of Mia Couto and editor of Words without Borders
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Examines key contemporary accounts of the civil war and a range of subsequent texts to reveal the ideas behind the conflict and how these frame the understandings of what took place and what it means for contemporary Nigeria. An engaging and often enlightening exploration of the Biafran war’s cultural and intellectual history. AF R ICA I N WOR DS Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; OGECHUKWU EZEKWEM is a PhD student in the Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
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OF REL ATED INTEREST The individual, the novel & the idea of home F. F IONA MO OL L A
A close analysis of Farah’s novels is used to track the contradictions implicit in the notion of the modern, disengaged self and how transformations of the novel in literary history attempt to negotiate this founding contradiction. Moolla’s book is an important contribution to the expanding body of Farah criticism...her text opens a different and challenging perspective on how an author like Farah might be read. SO CIAL DYNAMICS Reading Nuruddin Farah is the most exhaustive critical text dedicated to Nuruddin Farah to date. Moolla’s analysis is ... remarkable for its originality and intellectual rigor. $80.00/£45.00(s) March 2014 978 1 84701 091 9, eBook 978 1 78204 319 5 Library eBook 978 1 78204 238 9 216pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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A Novel of a Racial Outcast H U GO BET TAU E R Translated and intro by PET E R HöY NG Translated by C HAU NC EY J. M E LLOR Afterword by K E N N ET H R . JAN KE N
A European novel of racial mixing and “passing” in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today.
TOYIN FALOLA is the Jacob and Frances
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The Blue Stain
Reading Nuruddin Farah
Edited by GR ANT HAM ILTON & DAVID HU DDART
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Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War Edited by TOYI N FA LOL A & O G E C H U K W U E ZE K W E M
Edited by ERNEST N. EME NYONU
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First published in 1922, this novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American slave daughter, who, having passed as white in Europe and having fled to America upon losing his fortune, resists being seen as “black” before ultimately accepting that identity and joining the early movement for civil rights. Never before translated into English, this is the first novel in which a German-speaking European author addresses early twentiethcentury racial politics in the United States-not only in the South but also in the North. HUGO BETTAUER (1872-1925) was a prolific
Austrian writer and journalist, a very early victim of the Nazis. PETER HÖYNG is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University. CHAUNCEY J. MELLOR is Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. KENNETH R. JANKEN is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. $99.00/£80.00(s) May 2017 978 1 57113 982 5 182pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Blood on the Tides
The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology I SI D OR E OK PEW HO
Examines the Ozidi Saga – one of Africa’s best-known epics – as an example of oral literature and as a reflection of the specific social and political concerns of the Niger Delta. [I]t argues for the artistry of oral literary performances, and ultimately demonstrates that the epic of Ozidi, in effect the genre at large, transcends art, and makes a commentary on and offers an insight into the socio-politics of a people. AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY
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Nation as Grand Narrative
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The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning
Achebe and Friends at Umuahia
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A methodical analysis of relations of domination and subordination through media narratives of nationhood in using the typical postcolonial state of Nigeria as a template. This is a thought-provoking book which takes a novel approach to some of the most fundamental questions facing contemporary Africa. It deserves a wide readership. AF R ICAN
The Making of a Literary Elite TE R RI O CHIAGHA
Winner of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2016 The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a re-assessment of this influential group of Nigerian writers in relation to the literary culture fostered by the school and its tutors.
JOURNA LISM ST U DI ES
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This is an eminently readable book...Ochiagha is a clear and capable writer... LUCAS BULLETIN Proof that that education has the power to change the world can be found in the story told in this groundbreaking book.
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Julius Eastman and His Music
T I M E S EDU C ATIONAL SU PPLE ME NT
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A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman’s enigmatic and intriguing life and music. A picture of [Eastman] – charismatic performer, magnetic personality and emotional escape artist – that puts his work in a context larger and more representative. BAY AR EA R EP ORT ER Part of the pleasure of Eastman’s rediscovery has been the belated, deserving reinsertion of a black, gay figure into music history. THE NEW YORK TIMES
TERRI OCHIAGHA is a Teaching Fellow in the
History of Modern Africa at King’s College, London and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.
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A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour
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Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder G R AC E A. M U SIL A
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century
Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated. Feminism and gender studies, history, international studies, African studies and literature, sociology and creative writing programmes would be among the priority home disciplines for this book. JOHANNESBU RG REVIEW OF B O OKS $80.00/£45.00(s) November 2015 978 1 84701 127 5, Library eBook 978 1 78204 590 8 1 b/w illus.; 233pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB African Articulations
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Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice B ODE OMOJOL A
Very detailed, reflecting the author’s two decades of research . . . Omojola’s writing style is clear, concise, and thoroughly engaging . . . Highly recommended. CHOICE
$39.95/£19.99(s) June 2014 978 1 58046 493 2 28 b/w illus.; 296pp, 9 x 6, PB Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
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Tuning the Kingdom
Kawuugulu Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda DAM AS C U S KAFUM BE
Examines how the Kawuugulu Clan Royal Musical Ensemble of the Kingdom of Buganda enforces politics among the Ganda people of south-central Uganda through stories passed down by oral tradition. Draws on ethnographic research, musical and textual analyses, and an integrated narrative of oral and written accounts to examine how the Kawuugulu Clan Royal Musical Ensemble of the Kingdom of Buganda enforces principles of politics among the Baganda (Ganda) people of south-central Uganda through stories passed down by oral tradition. The book’s focus is the ensemble’s ability to shape kinship, clanship, and kingship through the use of stories that serve as records of and frameworks for enacting principles of these three domains. DAMASCUS KAFUMBE is Assistant Professor of
Music at Middlebury College.
$34.95/£25.00(s) April 2018 978 1 58046 904 3 25 b/w illus.; 299pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
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Scoring Race
Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa PI M H IG G I N S ON
Reveals the importance of the jazz craze in France between the two world wars and the French construction of jazz as a “black music” – an exoticization which had wide-reaching effects on the artistic output of the African diaspora and on contemporary perceptions of black writers, musicians and film makers. Pim Higginson draws on race theory, aesthetics, cultural studies, musicology, and postcolonial studies to examine the convergence of aesthetics and race in Western thought and to explore its impact on Francophone African literature. Reading avant-garde French writers Sartre and Soupault to prize-winning Francophone authors Congolese Emmanuel Dongala to Cameroonian Léonora Miano, Scoring Race explores how jazz masters Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane became touchstones for claims to African authorship across the long twentieth century. PIM HIGGINSON is Professor of Global French
Studies at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
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Ira Aldridge
The Last Years, 1855-1867 BE R NTH LI NDFORS
Winner of the Theatre Library Association’s 2015 George Freedley Award Special Jury Prize This final volume of Bernth Lindfors’s definitive biography records the remarkable achievements and experiences of Ira Aldridge in the last years of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. Lindfors’s four-volume biography is destined to become the standard life of Aldridge, without equal in the future. Highly recommended. CHOICE $55.00/£35.00(s) November 2015 978 1 58046 538 0 20 b/w illus.; 364pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Ira Aldridge
Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855 BER N T H LINDF ORS
This book describes the “glory years” of Ira Aldridge’s first Continental tour, during which he won more awards and honors, often conferred by royalty, than any other actor of his day. As a meticulously researched study with superb supplementary materials, Lindfor’s book is a very valuable historical resource. THE ATRE SURV EY $55.00/£35.00(s) December 2013 978 1 58046 472 7 21 b/w illus.; 362pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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In the Name of the Mother Reflections on Writers and Empire NG UGI WA T HIONG’O
Alongside the impact of his early novels and plays, and his more recent memoirs, these essays give new insights into Ngugi’s and other writers’ responses to colonialism - there is new material here for students of literature, politics and culture. This is vintage Ngugi, plainspoken, intensely committed, and passionate about the values of freedom and struggle in which he still profoundly believes. Elleke B oehmer , Professor of World L iterature in English, Universit y of Oxford
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African Theatre 16
Six Plays from East & West Africa Edited by JA N E PL ASTOW & M A RTIN BANHAM
A collection of playscripts and texts that give an Englishreading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untranslated works – a superb resource for scholars and theatre practitioners. Makes available some of the most influential, imaginative and exciting plays to come out of East and West Africa from the 1970s to the present day. The editors have selected plays, some well-known and some less widely available, that represent the diversity and richness of these two very different African regions, including a new translation from Amharic, and the English version of a play originally written in French. Each script is accompanied by an essay from an expert on the work, the playwright, and the context in which the play was produced, so that the volume will be of maximum use to both researchers and students of African theatre. $90.00/£45.00(s) November 2017 978 1 84701 172 5 10 b/w illus.; 320pp, 21.6 x 14, HB African Theatre Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, November 2017, 978 1 84701 173 2
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China, India & the Eastern World Edited by M A RT I N BA N HA M, JA ME S G I BB S & F E M I O SOF I S A N
Extends the study of China’s “soft power” into theatre studies and looks more widely at syncretic traditions evolving in other long-term historic exchanges between Asia and Africa.
In the context of anxiety about expanding Chinese influence in Africa, this volume examines the neglected longer historical, cultural interrelationship between China and Africa. Articles look at material aspects of China’s influence through its participation in theatre festivals in Cape Verde and South Africa, and through the hosting of Lusophone theatre festivals in Macao. Volume Editors: JAMES GIBBS & FEMI OSOFISAN $80.00/£45.00(s) November 2016 978 1 84701 146 6 Library eBook 978 1 78204 859 6 5 b/w illus.; 264pp, 21.6 x 14, HB African Theatre
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African Theatre 14 Contemporary Women
Edited by MA RT I N BA N HA M, JA ME S GI BB S & F E MI OS OF I S A N
Looks at the lives, challenges and contributions of African women from across the continent to making and participating in theatre in the 21st century. The book shoulders the responsibility of bringing to light the theatre-making efforts of African artists within their local contexts. T H EAT R E R ESEARCH I NT ER NAT IONAL
This book should be seen as a necessary guide that should enable others to pursue the conversation on how to improve accessibility and the work of African women in theatre. LOND ON SC HO OL OF EC ONOM ICS BLO G
Volume Editors: JANE PLASTOW & YVETTE HUTCHISON
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Wole Soyinka Edited by MA RT I N BA N HA M, JA ME S GI BB S & F E MI OS OF I S A N
Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong’o are the pre-eminent playwrights of West and East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential across the continent. This volume features directors’ experiences of recent productions of their plays, the voices of actors and collaborators who have worked with the playwrights, and also provides a digest of their theatrical output. The playscript for this volume is a previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka entitled A Rain of Stones. Volume Editors: MARTIN BANHAM & FEMI OSOFISAN
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ALT 35: Focus on Egypt African Literature Today
Edited by ERNEST N. EMEN YON U
As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement. The main focus here is on Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces. Creativity has flourished in Arabic as well as the English language, producing acclaimed national and international writers whose thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial. Nawal El Saadawi provides a Foreword to the volume and an interview. ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor of Africana
ALT 33 Children’s Literature & Story-telling
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ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction African Literature Today
Edited by ERNEST N. EME NYONU Guest Editor HELEN C OU SI NS & PAULINE D OD G SON-KATI YO
Imagined or actual returns to a “homeland” in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space.
Focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her “original” or ancestral “home” in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return – intentional and actual – have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora. The contributors explore the ways in which African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing a multiple sense of place. $80.00/£45.00(s) November 2016 978 1 84701 148 0, eBook 978 1 78204 858 9 272pp, 21.6 x 14, HB African Literature Today
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Contributors analyse the theories behind children’s literature, its functions and cultural significance, and suggest the new directions this literature is taking in terms of its craft, themes and intentions. Brings much-needed attention to the numerous stories and folktales written for African children. A FRICA IN WOR DS
$25.95/£19.99 November 2015 978 1 84701 132 9, eBook 978 1 78204 638 7 Library eBook 978 1 78204 602 8 223pp, 21.6 x 14, PB African Literature Today Nigeria: HEBN
ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice
A focus on some of the pioneers of African literary creation.
This special issue is devoted to some of the key voices of African fiction in the twentieth century: Bessie Head, Cyprian Ekwensi, Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Flora Nwapa, Ousmane Sembène and Zulu Sofola. $25.95/£18.99 November 2012 978 1 84701 056 8 Library eBook 978 1 78204 048 4 208pp, 21.6 x 14, PB African Literature Today
Nigeria: HEBN
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African Literature Today
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Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/ neocolonialism.
Many African writers have illustrated through their work different understandings of Chinua Achebe’s reference to “where and when the rain started beating Africa”. These works have recalled, recorded and reconfigured that past and taken the debate forward in its complex engagement with the critical issues of politics and social justice in the contemporary postcolonial/neocolonial context. ALT 32 concludes with tributes to the life and works of Kofi Awoonor. $25.95/£18.99 November 2014 978 1 84701 097 1, eBook 978 1 78204 387 4 211pp, 21.6 x 14, PB African Literature Today Nigeria: HEBN
ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story African Literature Today
Edited by E R N E ST N . E ME N YON U
The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short story in its rightful place within the study and criticism of African literature.
$25.95/£18.99 November 2013 978 1 84701 081 0 Library eBook 978 1 78204 196 2 191pp, 21.6 x 14, PB African Literature Today Nigeria: HEBN
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African Literature Today
African Literature Today
Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.
$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2017 978 1 84701 171 8 272pp, 21.6 x 14, HB African Literature Today
ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives
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