For more than forty years, Charles Potts has remained true to his origins as a relentless and radical visionary. This se......more
This genre-shattering anthology includes writings in a variety of styles by pensioners, prisoners, schoolchildren, drift......more
Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Car......more
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Olga Matich suggests that same-sex desires underlaid Russian modernists utopian proposal of abolishing the traditional p......more
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A further new title in this series on East African oral literature, considering East African-Indian genres of oral liter......more
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Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (varie......more
Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine e......more
Out of French-speaking Africa, from Togo, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Rwanda, Djibouti, and Madagascar......more
Set in Soweto outside Johannesburg, Between Two Worlds is one of the most important novels of South Africa under aparthe......more
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First published one hundred years ago, and now translated into English for the first time by noted Norwegian scholar Sve......more
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This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. This bibliographic wor......more
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Discusses higher education in Mozambique, especially in the context of the dramatic changes the country has undergone. T......more
Examines institutional transformation in the University of Dar es Salaam. The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa......more
Makerere University was first established as a colonial university and its challenge is to consolidate and improve on pr......more
This work outlines the importance of local knowledge for understanding environmental change. African farmers and herders......more
In this thoughtful collection of essays, some of the region s most notable writers join fresh new literary voices in an ......more
Addressed not only to those interested in the culture and politics of present day India, but also to those more generall......more
Addressed not only to those interested in the culture and politics of present day India, but also to those more generall......more
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Stunning new edition of this classic African story collection ’It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was ......more
Beautiful new edition of this classic collection ’As for these stories -- when I write one, it is as if I open a gate in......more
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The product of a decade of research, this landmark collection is the first of four volumes in the Women Writing Africa P......more
This volume contains nineteen important essays related to the Greek historian Polybius by Professor F.W. Walbank, the re......more
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The public sphere of the Manchester Muslim diaspora is a place of intense local micro-politics of honour and shame, deba......more
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The book looks at how conflict and competition between various forms of Hinduism undermines and sustains relations of hi......more
The book looks at how conflict and competition between various forms of Hinduism undermines and sustains relations of hi......more
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In the lightly-populated northwestern corner of Nevada, a former geologist and rural schoolteacher, a published poet and......more
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Thomas Hardy has generally been viewed as an intensely private figure, shy of publicity and even of people. What the pre......more
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Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their litera......more
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A comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options......more
Examines contemporary identities in a region of Turkey’s eastern Black Sea coast. Based on fieldwork carried out between......more
Examines contemporary identities in a region of Turkey’s eastern Black Sea coast. Based on fieldwork carried out between......more
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In T.S. Eliot and Our Turning World, fifteen scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan examine Eliot s ......more
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The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose......more
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A history of the West Indians who migrated to Sierra Leone from the Caribbean after the abolition of slavery in 1807. An......more
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A detailed, historiographical examination of the Ovimbundu people in Angola from 1840s through to the present day. The b......more
The Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska are known for their totem poles, Chilkat blankets, and ocean-going canoes. No......more
Urbanization has been an important feature of Africa’s history for over 2000 years. Towns and cities have been arenas ar......more
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This volume reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater. Meganisi is one ......more
This volume features the play Babalawo, Mystery-Master by Agbo Sikuade. First title in the African Theatre series with a......more
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Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African write......more
Extensive use has been made of Ngugi’s Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary This interpretation of the work of Ngugi wa Thi......more
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This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre. Ngugi has put together a n......more
Studies the impact of colonialism on a mountainous region of Tanzania. This work examines the struggle between the Meru ......more