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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
2018
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C ONTENT S
Achebe and Friends at Umuahia OCHIAGHA 10
African Diaspora FALOLA 4
African Garrison State TRONVOLL & MEKONNEN 6
African Theatre 13 BANHAM, GIBBS & OSOFISAN 11
African Theatre 14 BANHAM, GIBBS & OSOFISAN 11
African Theatre 15 BANHAM, GIBBS & OSOFISAN 11
African Theatre 16 PLASTOW & BANHAM 11
Africa’s Land Rush HALL, SCOONES & TSIKATA 7
Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World STRICKRODT 4
ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives EMENYONU, NWANKWO 12
ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story EMENYONU 12
ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice EMENYONU 12
ALT 33 Children’s Literature & Story-telling EMENYONU 12
ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction EMENYONU, COUSINS & DODGSON-KATIYO 12
ALT 35: Focus on Egypt EMENYONU 12
Beyond Religious Tolerance NOLTE, OGEN & JONES 8
Blood on the Tides OKPEWHO 9
Blue Stain BETTAUER 9
Christopher Okigbo 1930-67 NWAKANMA 3
Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EMENYONU 9
Companion to Mia Couto HAMILTON & HUDDART 9
Cotton and Race across the Atlantic ROBINS 4
Creed & Grievance MUSTAPHA & EHRHARDT 8
Death Retold in Truth and Rumour MUSILA 10
Electricity in Africa GORE 3
Eritrean National Service KIBREAB 6
Faith, Power and Family WALKER-SAID 8
Gay Guerrilla PACKER & LEACH 10
Gender, Home & Identity GRABSKA 6
Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa HOUSE-SOREMEKUN & FALOLA 7
Guardians of the Tradition DE LORENZI 4
Hawks and Doves in Sudan’s Armed Conflict MUSA 5
In the Name of the Mother THIONG’O 11
Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855 LINDFORS 11
Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855-1867 LINDFORS 11
Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin SARR 8
Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda BRUNER 8
Lost Nationalism VEZZADINI 5
Markets on the Margins PHILIP 7
Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital MARK-THIESEN 5
Narrating War and Peace in Africa FALOLA & HAAR 6
Nation as Grand Narrative ADEBANWI 10
New Black Middle Class in South Africa SOUTHALL 7
Nyerere MOLONY 5
On Durban’s Docks CALLEBERT 7
Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia 1300-1700 HASSEN 5
Ploughing New Ground BEKELE 7
Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa ADEBANWI 3
Politics of Peacemaking in Africa AFOLABI 6
Quest for Socialist Utopia ZEWDE 5
Reading Nuruddin Farah MOOLLA 9
Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World MISEVICH & MANN 4
Road to Soweto BROWN 5
Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars JOHNSON 6
Scoring Race HIGGINSON 10
Sects & Social Disorder MUSTAPHA 8
Slavery Hinterland BRAHM & ROSENHAFT 4
Tuning the Kingdom KAFUMBE 10
Violent Conversion VAN DE KAMP 8
War Within MORIER-GENOUD, CAHEN & DO ROSÁRIO 3
Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War FALOLA & EZEKWEM 9
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century OMOJOLA 10
Cover: “Hack Down the Enemy. Acrylic and charcoal on paper, 12” x 8 1/2”, 2009, Aderonke Adesanya, used with her kind permission. From Narrating War and Peace in Africa edited by Toyin Falola and Hetty ter Haar (see page 6).
Our new African Studies catalogue collects together all our new, recent and forthcoming titles from University of Rochester Press and our James Currey imprint. Full details including lists of contents and contributors can be found online at www.boydellandbrewer.com, where you can also sign up for our free biannual newsletter, The African Griot.E-Books: Most of our titles are available as e-books, either to download directly to your own digital device or via library platform aggregators like JSTOR and University Publishing Online. In Africa our library e-book editions are also available from Baobab Ebooks, the new platform for African academic libraries and institutions.Course Adoption: Since so many of our paperbacks make ideal additions to course reading lists, we understand the importance of inspection copies. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected] or [email protected] in North America.
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NEW
The Political Economy of Everyday Life in AfricaBeyond the MarginsEdited by WALE ADEBANWI
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 2017978 1 84701 165 7, eBook 978 1 78744 105 7, Library eBook 978 1 78744 051 715 b/w illus.; 384pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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NEW
Electricity in AfricaThe Politics of Transformation in UgandaCHRISTOPHER 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 5Paperback: $25.95/£19.99 August 2017, 978 1 84701 168 8eBook 978 1 78744 107 1, Library eBook 978 1 78744 057 95 b/w illus.; 200pp, 21.6 x 14, HBAfrican Issues
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Christopher Okigbo 1930-67Thirsting for SunlightOBI NWAKANMA
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 2017978 1 84701 179 4, Library eBook 978 1 84615 798 112 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Nigeria: HEBN (PB)
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The War WithinNew Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992 Edited by ERIC MORIER-GENOUD, MICHEL CAHEN & D OMINGOS M. D O ROSÁRIO
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 2018978 1 84701 180 02 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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HISTORy
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Cotton and Race across the AtlanticBritain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920JONATHAN 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 2016978 1 58046 567 011 b/w illus.; 312pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
OF REL ATED INTEREST
Slavery HinterlandTransatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850Edited by FELIX BRAHM & EVE ROSENHAFT
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 2016978 1 78327 112 2, eBook 978 1 78204 811 4Library eBook 978 1 78204 703 212 b/w illus.; 276pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PBPeople, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
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Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic WorldThe Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885SILKE STRICKRODT
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 at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. $29.95/£19.99 August 2017978 1 84701 178 7280pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PBWestern Africa Series
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic WorldEdited 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.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 2016978 1 58046 560 16 b/w illus.; 376pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
ALSO AVAIL ABLE
Guardians of the TraditionHistorians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and EritreaJAMES DE LORENZI
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. AETHIOPICA
$110.00/£90.00(s) September 2015978 1 58046 519 912 b/w illus.; 232pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
OF REL ATED INTEREST
The African Diaspora Slavery, Modernity, and GlobalizationTOYIN FALOLA
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. AFRICA 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 AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN
$39.95/£19.99 October 2014978 1 58046 453 621 colour illus.; 48 b/w illus.; 454pp, 9 x 6, PBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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HISTORy / POLITICS
NEW
Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial CapitalMechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909CASSANDRA MARK-THIESEN
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 (Marie-Heim Vögtlin Grant) in the history department of the University of Basel.$110.00/£90.00(s) March 2018978 1 58046 918 03 b/w illus.; 234pp, 9 x 6Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
NyerereThe Early YearsTHOMAS 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. AFRICA AT LSE BLO G
A major contribution to the field. THE ROUND TABLE
$25.95/£19.99 October 2016978 1 84701 150 316 b/w illus.; 302pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
NEW
Hawks and Doves in Sudan’s Armed ConflictAl-Hakkamat Baggara Women of DarfurSUAD M.E. MUSA
Analyses the involvement of the agro-pastoral al-Hakkamat Baggara women of Darfur in Sudan’s recent civil wars and the implications of this for conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
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.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 2018978 1 84701 175 63 b/w illus.; 204pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBEastern Africa Series
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Lost NationalismRevolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in SudanELENA VEZZADINI
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 2015978 1 84701 115 2, Library eBook 978 178204 528 16 b/w illus.; 333pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBEastern Africa Series
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The Quest for Socialist Utopia The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974BAHRU ZEWDE
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 Marxism-Leninism by the early 1970s. BAHRU ZEWDE is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University. $25.95/£19.99 April 2017978 1 84701 164 0, 13 b/w illus.; 317pp, 21.6 x 14, PBEastern Africa Series
Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press
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The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia 1300-1700MOHAMMED HASSEN
[A] carefully argued book that challenges us to reevaluate Ethiopian and Oromo history through a different lens. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW$25.95/£19.99 May 2017978 1 84701 161 9400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PBEastern Africa Series
OF REL ATED INTEREST
The Road to SowetoResistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976JULIAN BROWN
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 LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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POLITICS / PEACE & CONFLICT
NEW
The Politics of Peacemaking in AfricaNon-State Actors’ Role in the Liberian Civil WarBABATUNDE TOLU AFOLABI
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). $80.00/£45.00(s) July 2017978 1 84701 158 9, eBook 978 1 78744 109 5Library eBook 978 1 78744 052 4215pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBWestern Africa Series
Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, July 2017, 978 1 84701 157 2
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil WarsOld Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition]D OUGLAS 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. SUDAN STUDIES
$25.95/£19.99 November 2016978 1 84701 151 0, eBook 978 1 78204 890 9Library eBook 978 1 78204 834 3272pp, 21.6 x 14, PBAfrican Issues
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The Eritrean National ServiceServitude for “the common good” and the Youth ExodusGAIM KIBREAB
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.The Eritrean National
Service (ENS) lies at the core of the post-independence 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. 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 2017978 1 84701 160 2, Library eBook 978 1 78744 020 3230pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBEastern Africa Series
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Gender, Home & IdentityNuer Repatriation to Southern SudanKATARZYNA GRABSKA
Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014Analyses 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. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLO GICAL INSTITUTE
$80.00/£45.00(s) October 2014978 1 84701 099 5, eBook 978 1 78204 381 2Library eBook 978 1 78204 380 510 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBEastern Africa Series
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Narrating War and Peace in AfricaEdited by TOYIN FALOLA & HET T Y TER HAAR
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 2017978 1 58046 913 5, 3 b/w illus.; 342pp, 9 x 6, PBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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The African Garrison StateHuman Rights & Political Development in Eritrea - REVISED & UPDATEDKJETIL TRONVOLL & DANIEL R . MEKONNEN
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 2017978 1 84701 167 1, 232pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PBEastern Africa Series
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POLITICS / ECONOMICS / DEvELOPMENT
NEW
Ploughing New GroundFood, Farming & Environmental Change in EthiopiaGETNET BEKELE
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 2017978 1 84701 174 9, eBook 978 1 78744 053 1Library eBook 978 1 78744 058 6224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBEastern Africa Series
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Africa’s Land RushRural Livelihoods and Agrarian ChangeEdited by RUTH HALL, IAN SCO ONES & DZODZI TSIKATA
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. AFRICAN AFFAIRS
$25.95/£19.99 July 2015978 1 84701 130 5, Library eBook 978 1 78204 558 8224pp, 21.6 x 14, PBAfrican Issues
NEW
On Durban’s DocksZulu Workers, Rural Households, Global LaborRALPH CALLEBERT
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.$99.00/£80.00(s) December 2017978 1 58046 907 43 b/w illus.; 252pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, December 2017, 978 1 58046 911 1
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The New Black Middle Class in South AfricaRO GER SOUTHALL
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleProvides 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. AFRICA SPECTRUM
ROGER SOUTHALL is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.$34.95/£25.00 May 2016978 1 84701 143 5317pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Jacana
NEW
Markets on the MarginsMineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development KATE PHILIP
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. $80.00/£60.00(s) April 2018978 1 84701 176 315 b/w illus.; 248pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
OF REL ATED INTEREST
Globalization and Sustainable Development in AfricaEdited by BESSIE HOUSE-SOREMEKUN & TOYIN FALOLA
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. CHOICE
$45.00/£19.99 January 2016978 1 58046 550 27 b/w illus.; 484pp, 9 x 6, PBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Faith, Power and FamilyChristianity and Social Change in French CameroonCHARLOT TE WALKER-SAID
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 2018978 1 84701 182 410 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBReligion in Transforming Africa
Africa-only paperback edition £9.99, July 2018, 978 1 84701 183 1
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Beyond Religious ToleranceMuslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African TownEdited by INSA NOLTE, OLUKOYA O GEN & REBECCA 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.
$80.00/£45.00(s) January 2017978 1 84701 153 4, Library eBook 978 1 78204 999 915 b/w illus.; 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBReligion in Transforming Africa
Nigeria: Adeyemi College Academic Press (paperback)
NEW
Living Salvation in the East African Revival in UgandaJASON BRUNER
Reexamines the East African revival movement in Uganda, 1935-1955, arguing that through the movement African Christians developed a unique spiritual lifestyle.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 2017978 1 58046 584 7204pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
OF REL ATED INTEREST
Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River BasinThe Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940ASSAN SARR
An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa.$49.95/£30.00(s) December 2016978 1 58046 569 42 b/w illus.; 258pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Violent ConversionBrazilian Pentecostalism and Urban Women in MozambiqueLINDA VAN DE KAMP
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 2016978 1 84701 152 7 eBook 978 1 78204 845 910 b/w illus.; 248pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBReligion in Transforming Africa
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Creed & GrievanceMuslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern NigeriaEdited by ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA & DAVID EHRHARDT
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 2018978 1 84701 106 0320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBWestern Africa Series
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Sects & Social DisorderMuslim Identities & Conflict in Northern NigeriaEdited by ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA
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 2017978 1 84701 159 6eBook 978 1 78204 970 8, Library eBook 978 1 78204 473 4256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PBWestern Africa Series
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LITERATURE
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieEdited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU
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. AFRICA IN WORDS
$90.00/£25.00(s) April 2017978 1 84701 162 6, eBook 978 1 78744 090 6Library eBook 978 1 78204 950 0312pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, April 2017, 978 1 84701 163 3
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
A Companion to Mia CoutoEdited by GRANT HAMILTON & DAVID HUDDART
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. ERIC
M. B. BECKER , translator of Mia Couto and editor of Words without Borders
$90.00/£45.00(s) September 2016978 1 84701 145 9, eBook 978 1 78204 889 3Library eBook 978 1 78204 821 3255pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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Writing the Nigeria-Biafra WarEdited by TOYIN FALOLA & O GECHUKWU EZEKWEM
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. AFRICA IN WORDS
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; OGECHUKWU EZEKWEM is a PhD student in the Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2016978 1 84701 144 2eBook 978 1 78204 773 5511pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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Reading Nuruddin FarahThe individual, the novel & the idea of homeF. FIONA MO OLLA
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. RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES
$80.00/£45.00(s) March 2014978 1 84701 091 9, eBook 978 1 78204 319 5Library eBook 978 1 78204 238 9216pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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The Blue StainA Novel of a Racial OutcastHUGO BET TAUER Translated and intro by PETER HöYNG Translated by CHAUNCEY J. MELLOR Afterword by KENNETH R . JANKEN
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.
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 twentieth-century 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 2017978 1 57113 982 5182pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Blood on the TidesThe Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic NarratologyISID ORE OKPEWHO
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
$99.00/£80.00(s) May 2014978 1 58046 487 1292pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Achebe and Friends at UmuahiaThe Making of a Literary Elite TERRI O CHIAGHA
Winner of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2016The 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. 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. TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
Supplementary material is available online of some of the original sources. See: http://boybrew.co/9781847011091_2TERRI 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.$24.95/£17.99 April 2018978 1 84701 196 1, eBook 978 1 78204 518 2 Library eBook 978 1 78204 465 910 b/w illus.; 216pp, PBAfrican Articulations
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A Death Retold in Truth and RumourKenya, Britain and the Julie Ward MurderGRACE A. MUSILA
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. JOHANNESBURG REVIEW OF B O OKS
$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2015978 1 84701 127 5, Library eBook 978 1 78204 590 81 b/w illus.; 233pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBAfrican Articulations
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Nation as Grand NarrativeThe Nigerian Press and the Politics of MeaningWALE ADEBANWI
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. AFRICAN JOURNALISM STUDIES
$125.00/£95.00(s) May 2016978 1 58046 555 73 b/w illus.; 406pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Gay GuerrillaJulius Eastman and His MusicEdited by RENÉE LEVINE PACKER & MARY JANE LEACH
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 AREA REPORTER
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
$34.95/£25.00 December 2015978 1 58046 534 218 b/w illus.; 284pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music
OF REL ATED INTEREST
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth CenturyIdentity, Agency, and Performance PracticeB ODE OMOJOLA
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 2014978 1 58046 493 228 b/w illus.; 296pp, 9 x 6, PBEastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
NEW
Tuning the KingdomKawuugulu Music, Politics, and Storytelling in BugandaDAMASCUS KAFUMBE 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 2018978 1 58046 904 325 b/w illus.; 299pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
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Scoring RaceJazz, Fiction, and Francophone AfricaPIM HIGGINSON
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.$90.00/£50.00(s) June 2017978 1 84701 155 8, eBook 978 1 78744 094 4Library eBook 978 1 78744 037 11 b/w illus.; 247pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBAfrican Articulations
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Ira AldridgeThe Last Years, 1855-1867BERNTH LINDFORS
Winner of the Theatre Library Association’s 2015 George Freedley Award Special Jury PrizeThis 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 2015978 1 58046 538 020 b/w illus.; 364pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
THE PREVIOUS VOLUME
Ira AldridgePerforming Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855BERNTH LINDFORS
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. THEATRE SURVEY
$55.00/£35.00(s) December 2013978 1 58046 472 721 b/w illus.; 362pp, 9 x 6, HBRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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In the Name of the MotherReflections on Writers and EmpireNGUGI WA THIONG’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, plain-
spoken, intensely committed, and passionate about the values of freedom and struggle in which he still profoundly believes. ELLEKE B OEHMER , Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford
$19.95/£14.99(s) August 2013978 1 84701 084 121.6 x 14, 160pp, PB
East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEP
NEW
African Theatre 16Six Plays from East & West AfricaEdited by JANE PLASTOW & MARTIN BANHAM
A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading 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 2017978 1 84701 172 510 b/w illus.; 320pp, 21.6 x 14, HBAfrican Theatre
Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, November 2017, 978 1 84701 173 2
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African Theatre 15China, India & the Eastern WorldEdited by MARTIN BANHAM, JAMES GIBBS & FEMI OSOFISAN
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 inter-relationship 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 2016978 1 84701 146 6Library eBook 978 1 78204 859 65 b/w illus.; 264pp, 21.6 x 14, HBAfrican Theatre
Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, November 2016, 978 1 84701 147 3
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African Theatre 14Contemporary WomenEdited by MARTIN BANHAM, JAMES GIBBS & FEMI OSOFISAN
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. THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
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 SCHO OL OF ECONOMICS BLO G
Volume Editors: JANE PLASTOW & YVETTE HUTCHISON Guest Editor: CHRISTINE MATZKE$25.95/£19.99 November 2015978 1 84701 131 2Library eBook 978 1 78204 637 05 b/w illus.; 156pp, 21.6 x 14, PBAfrican Theatre
African Theatre 13Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Wole Soyinka Edited by MARTIN BANHAM, JAMES GIBBS & FEMI OSOFISAN
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 Guest Editor: KIMANI NJOGU$25.95/£19.99 November 2014978 1 84701 098 8Library eBook 978 1 78204 386 79 b/w illus.; 144pp, 21.6 x 14, PBAfrican Theatre
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AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAy
NEW
ALT 35: Focus on EgyptAfrican Literature TodayEdited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU
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 Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2017978 1 84701 171 8272pp, 21.6 x 14, HBAfrican Literature Today
Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, November 2017, 978 1 84701 170 1
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ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in FictionAfrican Literature TodayEdited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU Guest Editor HELEN COUSINS & PAULINE D OD GSON-KATIYO
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 2016978 1 84701 148 0, eBook 978 1 78204 858 9272pp, 21.6 x 14, HBAfrican Literature Today
Africa-only paperback edition: £9.99, November 2016, 978 1 84701 149 7
ALT 33 Children’s Literature & Story-tellingAfrican Literature Today Edited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU
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. AFRICA IN WORDS
$25.95/£19.99 November 2015978 1 84701 132 9, eBook 978 1 78204 638 7Library eBook 978 1 78204 602 8223pp, 21.6 x 14, PBAfrican Literature Today
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ALT 32 Politics & Social JusticeAfrican Literature TodayEdited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU
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 2014978 1 84701 097 1, eBook 978 1 78204 387 4211pp, 21.6 x 14, PBAfrican Literature Today
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ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short StoryAfrican Literature TodayEdited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU
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 2013978 1 84701 081 0Library eBook 978 1 78204 196 2191pp, 21.6 x 14, PBAfrican Literature Today
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ALT 30 Reflections & RetrospectivesAfrican Literature TodayEdited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU Guest Editor CHIMALUM NWANKWO
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
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