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History The African Diaspora Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization TOYIN 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. The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed – many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution – to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in North America. This historic displacement has meant that Africans are irrevocably connected to economic and political developments in the West and globally. Among the known legacies of the diaspora are slavery, colonialism, racism, poverty, and underdevelopment, yet the ways in which these same factors worked to spur the scattering of Africans are not fully understood–by those who were part of this migration or by scholars, historians, and policymakers. In this definitive study, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. Reengaging old and familiar debates and framing new ones that enrich the discourse surrounding Africa, Falola isolates the thread, running nearly six centuries, that connects the history of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and current migrations. A boon to scholars and policymakers and accessible to the general reader, the book explores diverse narratives of migration and shows that the cultures that migrated from Africa to the Americas have the capacity to unite and create a new pan-Africanist movement within the globalized world. 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. This tour de force shows mastery of the literature and the themes that connect Africa to its diaspora. A gift that will be well appreciated by both academics and nonacademics. EDMUND ABAKA, associate professor of history, University of Miami Students of African history and economics, Africana migration, critical race theory, and development studies will find it hard to ignore this enriching contribution to global Africana scholarship. TUNDE BEWAJI, professor of philosophy, University of the West Indies $85.00/£55.00(s) July 2013 978 1 58046 452 9 21 colour illus.; 48 b/w illus.; 446pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB NEW The Quest for Socialist Utopia The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974 BAHRU ZEWDE A lively account of the rise of Ethiopia’s student movement by one of those involved. In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the Ethiopian student movement emerged from innocuous beginnings to become the major opposition force against the imperial regime in Ethiopia, contributing perhaps more than any other factor to the 1974 revolution that brought about the end of Haile Sellassie’s reign. The movement would be of fundamental importance in the shaping of the future Ethiopia, instrumental in both its political and social development. Bahru Zewde, himself one of the students involved, describes the steady radicalisation of the movement that culminated in the ascendancy of Marxism- Leninism by the early 1970s. BAHRU ZEWDE is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University and Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. $90.00/£50.00(s) January 2014 978 1 84701 085 8 13 b/w illus.; 320pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), HB Eastern Africa Series Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe A History of Suffering HEIKE I. SCHMIDT A highly original treatment of significant topics in African Studies and beyond: violence, colonialism, landscape, memory and religion. Historian Heike Schmidt challenges the apparently inseparable twin pairing of Africa and suffering. Even in situations of great distress, she argues, individuals and groups may articulate their social desires and political ambitions, and reforge their identities – as long as the experience of violence is not one of sheer terror. She emphasizes the crucial role women, chiefs, and youths played in the renegotiation of a sense of belonging during different periods of time. Based on sustained fieldwork, Colonialism and Violence offers a compelling history of suffering in a small valley in Zimbabwe over the course of 150 years. HEIKE SCHMIDT is a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. $95.00/£55.00(s) February 2013 978 1 84701 051 3 16 b/w illus.; 303pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB NEW South Africa – The Present as History From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana JOHN S. SAUL & PATRICK BOND An analysis of the historic roots of power in contemporary South Africa. Here is a major history of South Africa from earliest times, with today’s post-apartheid society interpreted in light of its earlier history. The authors track the course of South African history from its origins to apartheid in the 1970s; through the crisis and transition of the 1970s and 1980s to the historic deal-making of 1994 that ended apartheid; to its recent history from Mandela to Marikana, with increasing signs of social unrest and class conflict. Finally, the authors reflect on the present situation in South Africa with reference to the historical patterns that have shaped contemporary realities and the possibility of a ‘next liberation struggle’. JOHN S. SAUL is Professor Emeritus at York University (Canada). PATRICK BOND is Senior Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban). $70.00/£40.00(s) April 2014 978 1 84701 092 6 302pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana South Africa and the World Economy Remaking Race, State, and Region WILLIAM G. MARTIN Chronicles the volatile history of the resurgence of South Africa as a respected and influential African state Once an international pariah, South Africa now projects its economic and political power across the continent. This volume chronicles its rise as an industrialized, white state and subsequent decline as a newly under-developing country to its current standing as a leading member of the Global South. Contrasting with much of the latest scholarship, the book places the country in the global social system, analyzing its relationships with the colonial powers and white settlers of the early twentieth century, the costs of the neoliberal alliances with the North, and the more recent challenges from the East. WILLIAM G. MARTIN is chair of the Department of Sociology at Binghamton University. $75.00/£50.00(s) May 2013 978 1 58046 431 4 282pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 6 www.boydellandbrewer.com
History Approaching African History MICHAEL BRETT Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time. This book takes as its subject the last 10,000 years of African history, and traces the way in which human society on the continent has evolved from communities of hunters and gatherers to the complex populations of today. Approaching that history through its various dimensions: archaeological, ethnographic, written, scriptural, European and contemporary, it looks at how the history of such a vast region over such a length of time has been conceived and presented, and how it is to be investigated. The problem itself is historical, and an integral part of the history with which it is concerned, beginning with the changing awareness over the centuries of what Africa might be. MICHAEL BRETT is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS. $90.00/£50.00(s) January 2013 978 1 84701 063 6 368pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB Writing Revolt An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67 TERENCE RANGER An engaging personal account of Zimbabwe’s political awakening. Terence Ranger’s memoir of the years between 1957, when he first went to Southern Rhodesia, and 1967 when he published his first book, is both an intimate record of the African awakening which he witnessed, and of the process which led him to write Revolt in Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the ways in which politics and history interacted. The men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean history were the leaders of African nationalism; his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into restricted areas. TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford. A remarkable work and one I would urge anyone with an interest in this period to read. NEW LEFT PROJECT $34.95/£19.99 February 2013 978 1 84701 071 1 6 b/w illus.; 218pp, 21 x 14.5 (8.25 x 5.75 inches), PB Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia): Weaver Press Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa Edited by KIDANE MENGISTEAB & REDIE BEREKETEAB Examines how regional integration can resolve the crises of the Greater Horn of Africa. The Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is engulfed by wars, debilitating poverty and environmental degradation. The contributors to this volume address the need for regional integration in the GHA in order to tackle this three-pronged crisis. They identify those factors that can foster integration as well as those that impede it; explain how regional integration can mitigate the conflicts; and examine how integration can help to energise the region’s economy. $50.00/£30.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84701 058 2 280pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB Eastern Africa series Ethnicity in Zimbabwe Transformations in Kalanga and Ndebele Societies, 1860-1990 ENOCENT MSINDO A comparative study of identity shifts in two large ethnic groups in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Beginning in 1860, a year after the establishment of the Inyati mission station in the Ndebele Kingdom, and ending in the postcolonial period, Enocent Msindo’s book asserts that the creation of ethnic identity in Matabeleland was not solely the result of colonial rule and the new colonial African elites, but that African ethnic consciousness existed prior to this time, formed and shaped by ordinary members of these ethnic groups. It demonstrates the ways in which debates around ethnicity and other identities in Zimbabwe relate to wider issues in both rural and urban Zimbabwe past and present. ENOCENT MSINDO is Senior Lecturer in History at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. $99.00/£65.00(s) September 2012 978 1 58046 418 5 8 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination TESHALE TIBEBU A critical study of intellectual and writer, Edward Wilmot Blyden. This study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable blackworld intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in Blyden’s powerful black racial nationalism. His voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important ideas of African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century, including Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Chiekh Anta Diop, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney. TESHALE TIBEBU is professor of history at Temple University. A classic example of intellectual history...this clearly written, jargon-free study will be the definitive history of his ideas for decades to come. CHOICE $90.00/£60.00(s) December 2012 978 1 58046 428 4 230pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora The Freetown Bond A Life under Two Flags ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES with MARJORIE JONES Eldred Durosimi Jones’ vivid autobiography. Eldred Durosimi Jones is known internationally as central to the establishment of the study of African writing in the new universities of Africa, Britain and North America. The annual African Literature Today which he set up in 1968, is a key marker of this growth. Born in 1925, this account of his early years gives a vivid picture of growing up in Freetown in the latter days of British colonial rule. After completing his education at Oxford, Eldred Jones committed himself to his own country, Sierra Leone, and over the next thirty years was successively Lecturer, Professor, Principal and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Fourah Bay College in Freetown. ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. $50.00/£30.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84701 055 1 16 b/w illus.; 188pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), HB www.boydellandbrewer.com 7
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