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History<br />
Approaching African History<br />
MICHAEL BRETT<br />
Explores how the<br />
conception of Africa<br />
and its history has<br />
changed over time.<br />
This book takes as its<br />
subject the last 10,000<br />
years of African history,<br />
and traces the way in<br />
which human society on<br />
the continent has evolved<br />
from communities of<br />
hunters and gatherers to the complex populations<br />
of today. Approaching that history through its<br />
various dimensions: archaeological, ethnographic,<br />
written, scriptural, European and contemporary,<br />
it looks at how the history of such a vast region<br />
over such a length of time has been conceived and<br />
presented, and how it is to be investigated. The<br />
problem itself is historical, and an integral part of<br />
the history with which it is concerned, beginning<br />
with the changing awareness over the centuries of<br />
what Africa might be.<br />
MICHAEL BRETT is Emeritus Reader in the<br />
History of North Africa at SOAS.<br />
$90.00/£50.00(s) January 2013<br />
978 1 84701 063 6<br />
368pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB<br />
Writing Revolt<br />
An Engagement with African<br />
Nationalism, 1957-67<br />
TERENCE RANGER<br />
An engaging personal<br />
account of Zimbabwe’s<br />
political awakening.<br />
Terence Ranger’s memoir<br />
of the years between 1957,<br />
when he first went to<br />
Southern Rhodesia, and<br />
1967 when he published<br />
his first book, is both<br />
an intimate record of<br />
the African awakening which he witnessed, and<br />
of the process which led him to write Revolt in<br />
Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and<br />
as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the<br />
ways in which politics and history interacted. The<br />
men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean<br />
history were the leaders of African nationalism;<br />
his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into<br />
restricted areas.<br />
TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor<br />
of Race Relations, University of Oxford.<br />
A remarkable work and one I would urge anyone<br />
with an interest in this period to read.<br />
NEW LEFT PROJECT<br />
$34.95/£19.99 February 2013<br />
978 1 84701 071 1<br />
6 b/w illus.; 218pp, 21 x 14.5 (8.25 x 5.75 inches), PB<br />
Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana,<br />
Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia): Weaver Press<br />
Regional Integration, Identity<br />
and Citizenship in the<br />
Greater Horn of Africa<br />
Edited by KIDANE MENGISTEAB<br />
& REDIE BEREKETEAB<br />
Examines how regional<br />
integration can resolve<br />
the crises of the Greater<br />
Horn of Africa.<br />
The Greater Horn<br />
of Africa (GHA) is<br />
engulfed by wars,<br />
debilitating poverty<br />
and environmental<br />
degradation. The<br />
contributors to this<br />
volume address the need for regional integration<br />
in the GHA in order to tackle this three-pronged<br />
crisis. They identify those factors that can foster<br />
integration as well as those that impede it;<br />
explain how regional integration can mitigate the<br />
conflicts; and examine how integration can help<br />
to energise the region’s economy.<br />
$50.00/£30.00(s) November 2012<br />
978 1 84701 058 2<br />
280pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB<br />
Eastern Africa series<br />
Ethnicity in Zimbabwe<br />
Transformations in Kalanga and<br />
Ndebele Societies, 1860-1990<br />
ENOCENT MSINDO<br />
A comparative study of<br />
identity shifts in two<br />
large ethnic groups in<br />
Matabeleland,<br />
Zimbabwe.<br />
Beginning in 1860, a year<br />
after the establishment<br />
of the Inyati mission<br />
station in the Ndebele<br />
Kingdom, and ending in<br />
the postcolonial period, Enocent Msindo’s book<br />
asserts that the creation of ethnic identity in<br />
Matabeleland was not solely the result of colonial<br />
rule and the new colonial African elites, but that<br />
African ethnic consciousness existed prior to this<br />
time, formed and shaped by ordinary members<br />
of these ethnic groups. It demonstrates the ways<br />
in which debates around ethnicity and other<br />
identities in Zimbabwe relate to wider issues in<br />
both rural and urban Zimbabwe past and present.<br />
ENOCENT MSINDO is Senior Lecturer in History at<br />
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.<br />
$99.00/£65.00(s) September 2012<br />
978 1 58046 418 5<br />
8 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB<br />
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora<br />
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the<br />
Racial Nationalist Imagination<br />
TESHALE TIBEBU<br />
A critical study of<br />
intellectual and writer,<br />
Edward Wilmot Blyden.<br />
This study of one of<br />
the most prolific and<br />
knowledgeable blackworld<br />
intellectuals of<br />
the nineteenth and early<br />
twentieth centuries<br />
shows the contradictions,<br />
ambiguities, complexities,<br />
and paradoxes in Blyden’s powerful black racial<br />
nationalism. His voluminous writings laid the<br />
groundwork for some of the most important<br />
ideas of African and black diasporic thinkers of<br />
the twentieth century, including Frantz Fanon,<br />
Amilcar Cabral, Chiekh Anta Diop, Leopold<br />
Sedar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney.<br />
TESHALE TIBEBU is professor of history at Temple<br />
University.<br />
A classic example of intellectual history...this clearly<br />
written, jargon-free study will be the definitive<br />
history of his ideas for decades to come. CHOICE<br />
$90.00/£60.00(s) December 2012<br />
978 1 58046 428 4<br />
230pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB<br />
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora<br />
The Freetown Bond<br />
A Life under Two Flags<br />
ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES<br />
with MARJORIE JONES<br />
Eldred Durosimi Jones’<br />
vivid autobiography.<br />
Eldred Durosimi Jones<br />
is known internationally<br />
as central to the<br />
establishment of the<br />
study of African writing<br />
in the new universities of<br />
Africa, Britain and North<br />
America. The annual<br />
African Literature Today<br />
which he set up in 1968, is a key marker of this<br />
growth.<br />
Born in 1925, this account of his early years<br />
gives a vivid picture of growing up in Freetown<br />
in the latter days of British colonial rule. After<br />
completing his education at Oxford, Eldred<br />
Jones committed himself to his own country,<br />
Sierra Leone, and over the next thirty years was<br />
successively Lecturer, Professor, Principal and<br />
Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Fourah Bay College in<br />
Freetown.<br />
ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES is Emeritus Professor<br />
of English Language and Literature and a Fellow<br />
of the Royal Society of Arts.<br />
$50.00/£30.00(s) November 2012<br />
978 1 84701 055 1<br />
16 b/w illus.; 188pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), HB<br />
www.boydellandbrewer.com<br />
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