The Manga is one of Africa s most wild and remote regions: a hostile and unforgiving landscape inhabited by nomads. Situ......more
Shortlisted for the Herskovits Award, this book throws light on secrecy and violence in Uganda, Rwanda and the Great Lak......more
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The first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language....more
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Black Odysseys explores creative works by artists of ultimately African descent, which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. C......more
Provides the gist of one scholar’s knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works......more
A timely examination of African politics during the formative years of Zimbabwean nationalism. The Urban Roots of Democr......more
Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa activel......more
A groundbreaking new study of the ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the cost......more
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring intellectual and historical clarity to our under......more
Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer. Dere......more
Gives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contempo......more
There is a growing interest in books by writers of African origin. These authors have often grown up or passed their ear......more
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the p......more
A collection of poetry and amusing short stories taken from Susan Cook-Jahme’s blog, http: //barefootwhiteafrican.blogsp......more
Explores various aspects of chiefly authority in South Sudan from its historical origins and evolution under colonial, p......more
China’s increasing role as an education donor in Africa, and the significance of this both economically and politically.......more
Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of demo......more
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In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regi......more
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This family has always been in the background of the South s history. They have sweated and pushed themselves to help ot......more
Angola is a land of contrasts: equal to its turbulent history of Portuguese colonization and a civil war that spanned th......more
After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in ......more
A highly original treatment of significant topics in African Studies and beyond: violence, colonialism, landscape, memor......more
A deeply felt and engaging personal account of Zimbabwe’s political awakening by one of its best-known historians. I did......more
Studies of gender in African Christianity have usually focused on women. This book draws attention to men and constructi......more
Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera’s work as novelist......more
Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continen......more
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First Harvests are expressions of impressions on a variety of local and universal phenomena and states of being. It is t......more
This book is a powerful contribution to the genre of the prison memoir in Africa. Jack Mapanje represents the moving acc......more
The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theoris......more
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledg......more
**2019 B.R.A.G. MEDALLION WINNER** " Excellent coming-of-age, historical novel... I highly recommend this book." Janice ......more
A focus on some of the pioneers of African literary creation. This special issue of African Literature Today is devoted ......more
Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economi......more
Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of......more
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One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write. In November 20......more
Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculos......more
Examines how regional integration can resolve the crises of the Greater Horn of Africa, exploring how it can be used as ......more
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A distinguished scholar’s magnum opus and the first full account of Malawi’s colonial history. This is the first compreh......more
Africa is a ’theme park’ for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly ’authentic’ ......more
A fine biography. [It] is a most satisfying book and an important contribution to South African scholarship. CAPE TIMES ......more
A comparative study of identity shifts in two large ethnic groups in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Tran......more
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Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria’s independence, Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus ......more
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We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic......more
Psychotherapy and ethnography are jointly employed to produce an account of HIV-positive children’s lives (and deaths) i......more
The second novel by the author of the highly praised Giraffe. In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa......more
Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves Scholars have long re......more
Gives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contempo......more
Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. She dressed like a man so she co......more
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The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who served with the British ar......more
WARNING: Enter This Book At Your Own Risk - For Some Of It s Ghosts May Follow You Home ROB TOMB S REALTY specializes in......more
We must focus on the whole child and find productive ways to include them in our society. The author provides classroom ......more
Africa Inside Out is an anthology of stories, tales, and testimonies that challenges the daily global newscast of an Afr......more
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A study of the longue durée of a marginalized part of northern Kenya, examining the process of territorialization and th......more
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Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard s world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient......more
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Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mu......more
The impact of the African Diaspora in Spanish America is far greater than is understood or acknowledged in the English s......more
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L opold S dar Senghor (1906-2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of t......more
Christopher Okemwa’s Chubot, the Cursed & Other Stories is a collection that captures society’s realities as played by c......more
Exposes the ’blind spot’ in popular and academic histories about the role of African soldiers in the creation of Britain......more
A detailed examination of Ethiopian-Japanese relations from their beginnings in the interwar period through the Italo-Et......more
Brings together experiences of teachers of African literature from around the world in the context of technological chan......more
Western Frontiers of African Art navigates the problems and prospects of prometheusis in creative cultural productions. ......more
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Superb...a series of masterly drawn glimpses into the storymaking art of one of Africa s great modern literary geniuses.......more
This is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organize......more
Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe’s anti-colonial struggl......more
Demonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking ......more
Written by a talented and diverse group of South African women, this collection conveys love in its various forms: roman......more
A new anthology of writings, this collection contains stories with varying themes from 21 different writers. Including a......more
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