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December 09

Featured Title December 09

International Migration within, to and from Africa in a Globalised World Edited by Aderanti Adepoju

International Migration within, to and from Africa in a Globalised World adresses the main issues concerning international migration from an African perspective. This timely book encompasses migration as a global phenomenon and considers African migration in all of its dimensions: within, from and to Africa. The book also addresses the very important 21st century political issue of migration management in regional perspectives and

considers the crucial issue of the brain drain along with the role of the diaspora and remittances.

African Literature: Fiction

Press Lake Varsity Girls. The Freshman YearVivian Sihshu Yenika

Twelve-year-old Bridget and her friends are excited when they get admitted into one of the most prestigious boarding secondary schools in Kumba, Cameroon. Passing exams is the least of their worries. But surviving the new academic and social culture with hormone driven adolescent boys and unscrupulous seniors remain a challenge. Can the ground rules for survival Bridget and her new girlfriends adopt protect them from the threats they face constantly from the seniors, teachers and the adults in the local community? Can they handle all the distractions in addition to the changes their

pubescent bodies are undergoing?

Vivian Sihshu Yenika, an associate professor at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, has published extensively. Originally from Cameroon, she lives with her family in the United States. She enjoys reading and watching foreign movies.

ISBN 9789956615490 | 112 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2009 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95

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The Trek and Other StoriesLawrence Hoba

Much has been said over the last decade about the forcible eviction of the white farmers in Zimbabwe, less about the plight of the farm-workers, while the voice of the new settlers, and militia manipulated for a cause, has remained virtually unheard. This short but powerful anthology, The Trek and Other Stories, provides sensitive and illuminating, wry and comic perspectives on those people who occupied the land believing their future was golden, only for it to crumble in front of their faces.

Lawrence Hoba was born in 1983 in Masvingo. He studied Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Zimbabwe. He represents a new generation of budding writers who are determined to have their voices heard but recognizes that writing is more art than impulse. Hoba’s short stories and poetry have appeared in the Mirror, the magazine of the Budding Writers of Zimbabwe, and various blogsites including www.zimbablog.com. Lawrence was published in Writing Now (2005) and Laughing Now (2007) and has currently completed working on a collection of his short stories.

ISBN 9781779221001 | 60 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2009 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95

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African Literature: History and CriticismWar and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean PoetryCharles Cantalupo

War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry focuses on Eritrean written poetry from roughly the last three decades of the twentieth century. The poems appear in the anthology Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic from which a selection is offered here in their original scripts of Ge’ez or Arabic, and in English translation. Who Needs a Story? is the fi rst anthology of contemporary poetry from Eritrea ever published, and War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry

is the fi rst book on the subject. Therefore, the groundbreaking effort of the former warrants a discussion of its means of cultural production. All of the poets in Who Needs a Story? participated in the Eritrean struggle for independence (1961-91) as freedom fi ghters and/or as supporters in the Eritrean diaspora. Thus, contemporary Eritrean poetry divides itself between experiences of war and peace, although one can contain the other as well. War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry also includes an extended analysis of one of Eritrea’s most famous contemporary poets Reesom Haile, as an example of the kind of extended analysis that many of the poets of Who Needs a Story? should stimulate and, last but not least, a meditation on how the author, a non-native speaker, personally becomes involved in Eritrean poetry translation.

“Charles Cantalupo has amazingly traversed the threshold of the once solitary land, where oblivious Eritrean poets, all on their own, wrestled with gods and demons to grope for meaning in the heat of war and in the burning desire for peace. The uniquely creative translation discloses a vibrant poetry rendered in languages hardly resembling English, yet all the same allied to the family of world literature.”

- Beyene Haile, Author of Abidu’do Tibluwo (Madness), Dukan Tibereh (Tibereh’s Shop) ISBN 9789987080533 | 178 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2009 | Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania | Paperback | $24.95/£18.95

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African StudiesChercheurs et décideurs d’Afrique Quelles synergies pour le développement?Edited by Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Éclairer et infl uencer le processus de prise de décision politique par la recherche est une préoccupation de plus en plus importante pour les chercheurs d’Afrique et le Centre de Recherche pour le Développement International. Cependant, la collaboration entre chercheurs et décideurs est complexe, multiforme et souvent diffi cile à mettre en oeuvre. Les cloisonnements et la frilosité des acteurs, une recherche souvent produite

sans considération pour ses utilisateurs potentiels, expliquent en partie la faiblesse de l’utilisation par les acteurs du développement économique et industriel des résultats de la recherche.

Comment sont développés les agendas de recherche ? Quel est le rôle du secteur privé dans la recherche pour le développement ? Quels sont ces acteurs qui interviennent dans la production et l’utilisation de connaissances ? Comment améliorer le dialogue chercheurs/décideurs ? Cette publication élaborée dans un style accessible à tous, rassemble l’essence des réfl exions et des propositions qui ont émergé d’un cycle de six ateliers nationaux organisés entre 2004 et 2007 en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre sur la thématique de la synergie entre chercheurs et décideurs.

ISBN 9782869782617 | 108 pages | 234 x 156 mm | 2009 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95

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Biography/Autobiography/MemoirGrace SufficientDavid J. Randall

This biography of Elizabeth Mantell helps to fill a major gap in the literature on church and mission in Malawi. Women missionaries have been numerous and influential. Yet, on the whole, they have done their work without seeking or receiving much in the way of public recognition. The book will hold particular interest because of the period which it covers. Much has been written about the pioneering days of missionary work in Malawi, the 1875-1914 period. The book also makes an original contribution to the

story of one of the famous centres of mission work in Malawi. Ekwendeni was among the first mission stations to be established and has continued to be prominent in the work of Livingstonia Synod right up to the present day. It has had a particular orientation to medical mission, the sphere in which Elizabeth found her forte.

ISBN 9789990887594 | 96 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | Kachere Series, Malawi | Paperback | $20.95/£16.95

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Economics and DevelopmentDevelopment as Modernity, Modernity as Development Lwazi Lushaba

This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of ‘modernity’ on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity.

The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides an outline of the theory of modernity in the Enlightenment project. In the second section, an attempt is made to trace the genealogy of the idea of development as modernity and how the African development process gets entangled with it. Here, its evolution is mapped through three periods: early modernity, capitalist modernity and late modernity. Zeroing in on the current era of late or hypermodernity, the book contests the idea that there is something new in globalisation and its neo-liberal development paradigm. The third section turns to the complex but pertinent question of how, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Africa can transcend the impasse of modernity. The fourth and final section sums up the argument and points the way forward.

Lwazi Siyabonga Lushaba is from South Africa. He currently teaches Political Science at the University of Fort Hare. He has previously been a Visiting Fellow at the African Studies Centre, Leiden – Netherlands.

ISBN 9782869782525 | 78 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2009 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback | $20.95/£16.95

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Environmental Issues and EcologyEcology and Natural Resource Development in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. Issues in Natural Resource ManagementCornelius Mbifung Lambi and Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba

The densely populated Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon remains one of the regions with the greatest land degradation problems in the country. Factors responsible for this include climate change, the hilly nature or topographic layout of the land, and human interference through overgrazing, destructive agricultural practices and the impact of deforestation. This detailed study of resource management and its ecological challenges in the Bamenda Highlands, stresses an important link between falling food output and soil deterioration. While most areas in this predominantly

agricultural region enjoy food abundance, the inhabitants of high-density infertile, rugged mountainous areas are forced to resort to double cropping and intensified land exploitation that leave little room for soil regeneration. The population problem in relation to land degradation is infinitely more complicated than the region’s sheer ability to produce enough food supply. The authors make a strong case for a delicate balance between human agency and environmental protection in this highly populated and physically challenging region where land is a precious resource and land conflicts are common.

Cornelius Mbifung Lambi is Professor of Geography at the University of Buea, where he has served as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, and also as Vice-Chancellor. Dr. Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Yaounde 1 (E.N.S. Annex Bambili). He has authored several books on the environment and resource management in the North West Region of Cameroon.

ISBN 9789956615483 | 220 pages | 216 x 140 mm | B/W Illustrations and Maps | 2009 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback | $29.95/£19.95

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Gender StudiesGender, Discourse and Power in the Cameroonian Parliament Lilian Lem Atanga

This book investigates gender and power relations in the Cameroonian parliament using a critical discourse analytical approach, which focuses on social issues and seeks to expose unequal relations within institutions. The study identifies different gendered discourses within the speeches of Members of Parliament and government ministers. Consciously or unconsciously, these participants within parliamentary debates draw on topics that construct women and men in specific ways, sometimes sustaining gender stereotypes or challenging existing conditions. The way men and women are constructed using language also is indicative of gender and power

relations within this particular community. The study also looks at the way men and women are constructed using traditional discourses of gender differentiation and how some of these discourses get challenged, appropriated or subverted using progressive gendered discourses that advocate equal opportunities, gender equality and gender partnership in development.

“This book is a pioneering study … and major contribution not only to the study of social change in Africa, but also to gender and political linguistics.” - Dr. Piet Konings

ISBN 9789956615469 | 278 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback | $32.95/£22.95

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History

Resilience of a Nation. A History of the Military in RwandaFrank K. Rusagara

It is the aim of Resilience of a Nation: A History of the Military in Rwanda to examine the role that the military has played throughout the history of Rwanda to date. We look at the different phases the Rwandan military has undergone, from the traditional, the colonial and immediate post-independence military to the present. It is the premise of this book that, not precluding any political expediencies, it is the military that played the most central sociopolitical role in what became of Rwanda during its heydays when no slave trader could tread its soil, to its lowest moment during the 1994 genocide. It

is also the military that led the way in re uniting a shattered people and the country to becoming a democratic state of reputable international standing. It takes stock of the history that led to the rise of the Inyenzi guerrilla movement in the 1960s, and then the Rwanda Patriotic Front and Army in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to the pragmatism of the current Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF). Borrowing from the Ingabo z’u Rwanda of old, the RDF today not only ensures security for all, but provides a model of national unity and integration that continues to inform Rwanda’s socio-political and economic development.

Brig. Gen. Frank Rusagara was born in Rwanda, but exiled to Uganda at the age of six where he lived, studied and worked, before a brief sojourn in Kenya where he taught for a while. He was involved in the RPF struggle and has held several portfolios in policy formulation and implementation with Rwanda’s Ministry of Defense. He is currently the Military Historian with the Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF).

ISBN 9789970190010 | 244 pages | 229 x 152 mm | B/W Illustrations and Maps | 2009 | Fountain Publishers, Uganda | Paperback | $29.95/£19.95

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Language and Linguistics

Samburtaab Ng’aleekaab Kaleenchin. Kalenjin DictionaryKibny’aanko Seroney

The Kalenjin/Kaleenchin language is spoken by close to 6 million people in Kenya with substantial numbers also in Uganda and Tanzania. The Kalenjin linguistic family in Kenya includes the Marakwet, Nandi, Sabaot, Kibsikiis, Terik, Keyyo,Tuken, Seng’wer, Ogiek and Pokot. These groups are mutually intelligible despite their variants of the Kalenjin language.

This dictionary, the product of 15 years research activity is the first Kalenjin/English dictionary. It includes 13703 entries and is the hope of the author that the dictionary get improved and expanded. As words die or fall out of use, new words are created and given new meaning. The first edition is a system of that process.

ISBN 9789966769732 | 608 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2009 | Mvule Africa Publishers, Kenya | Paperback | $54.95/£44.95

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LawMagistrates’ HandbookG. Feltoe

This book covers selective aspects of criminal procedure, evidence, substantive law and sentencing in Zimbabwe. The 13 sections cover: Functions and Responsibilities of Magistrates; Pre-trial Matters; Jurisdiction; Trial; Common Problems of Evidence; Criminal Law Code; Judgment Process; Sentencing; Magistrates’ duties in regard to duties regarding undefended accused; Record of Proceedings; Appeals; Automatic Review and Scrutiny; Miscellaneous Matters. A list of cases is also included.

The Legal Resources Foundation, Zimbabwe was established to meet an expressed need to improve the accessibility of legal and information services to all sections of the population. Programmes undertaken by the LRF are based on the understanding that human rights in Zimbabwe can be advanced by facilitating access to the legal system.

ISBN 9780797439412 | 256 pages | 280 x 210 | B/W Illustrations | 2009 | Legal Resources Foundation, Zimbabwe | Paperback | $34.95/£24.95

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Politics and International Affairs

Civil Society and the Zuma Government. Opportunities for EngagementEdited by Yvette Geyer and Ivor Jenkins

A healthy democracy needs a government that understands that it has to share some of its power with civil society, the realm in which citizens acquire a voice, enabling them to ensure that government responds to their needs and is accountable to them in an ongoing representative manner beyond the ballot box. The public debate on whether there are centralist impulses evident in the ANC as the dominant electoral force raises questions about the nature of democracy and the state of South Africa. Is there a danger of government distinguishing between development and democracy and

acting as if they are mutually exclusive?

African democracy institute Idasa and the International Development Research Centre held a roundtable discussion, of which this publication is the result, on the role of civil society, the areas of involvement for civil society, the policy recommendations to be made and areas of research need to be explored.

ISBN 9781920409104 | 48 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | The Institute for Democracy in South Africa, South Africa | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95

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Healing the Wound Personal Narratives about the 2007 Post-Election Violence in KenyaEdited by Kimani Njogu

The narratives collected by Twaweza Communications in this volume tell yet another side of the story about the violence that engulfed Kenya towards the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008.

The narratives are part of a Daraja Initiative involving media monitoring, reflections and documentation of the traumatic post-election violence period often associated with the contested presidential results of 2007. The goal of the project is to contribute to the protection of constitutional rights of all Kenyans and to the development of a just and democratic country. Because violent conflicts constitute ruptures and continuities and are often preceded by tensions over the uncomfortable co-existence of political, economic, social and cultural systems and relations of power as well as what is perceived as valuable, mobilisation for violence is driven by narratives of the legality and correctness of action such that notions of history, justice and memory are functions of narrative construction, power and authority. Narratives of violent conflict, such as happened in Kenya, are not absolute: they are contested, contradictory and incomplete. But they must be told so that the multiple voices from the citizens are heard.

ISBN 9789966724458 | 332 pages | 234 x 156 mm | 2009 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback | $34.95/£24.95

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SociologyInternational Migration within, to and from Africa in a Globalised WorldEdited by Aderanti Adepoju

International Migration within, to and from Africa in a Globalised World addresses the main issues concerning international migration from an African perspective. This timely book encompasses migration as a global phenomenon and considers African migration in all of its dimensions: within, from and to Africa. The book also addresses the very important 21st century political issue of migration management in regional

perspectives and considers the crucial issue of the brain drain along with the role of the diaspora and remittances.

Professor Aderanti ADEPOJU spent several years researching issues of migration - internal and international migration - in Africa while at the Universities of Ife and Lagos in Nigeria and while working for the ILO, UN and UNFPA. He is currently Chief Executive, Human Resources Development Centre, Lagos, Nigeria and Co-ordinator of the Network of Migration Research on Africa.

ISBN 9789988647421 | 264 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2009 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback | $32.95/£22.95

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