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AFRICAN
STUDIES
A HISTORY OF MALAWI
John McCracken’s
magnum opus
DANGER: GOLD MINE
The hidden threat to
South African miners
WRITING REVOLT
Terence Ranger’s
memoir

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CONTENTS
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be available through JSTOR and University Publishing Online.
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Literature, theatre and film
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– Sonia Kane (sonia.kane@rochester.edu)
African Classical Age EHRET 7
African Diaspora FALOLA 3
African Garrison State TRONVOLL 14
African Hosts and their Guests Van BEEK / SCHMIDT 8
African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe STAPLETON 10
African Theatre 10 KERR 4
African Theatre 11 GIBBS 4
Alliance of the Colored Peoples CALVITT CLARKE III 10
ALT 29 Teaching African Literature Today EMENYONU 5
ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives NWANKWO 5
Angels of Mercy or Development Diplomats TVEDT 13
Approaching African History BRETT 3
Between War and Peace in Sudan and Sri Lanka SHANMUGARATNAM 15
Breaking the Silence GRUNKEMEIER 5
Business of Black Power WARREN HILL / RABIG 12
Charitable Impulse NGOs and Development BARROW / JENNINGS 13
China’s Aid and Soft Power in Africa KING 14
Colonial Rule and Crisis GR AY 11
Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe SCHMIDT 10
Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone KEEN 15
Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya BERMAN 11
Dealing with Government in South Sudan LEONARDI 12
Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique HANLON / SMART 13
Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History
KJEKSHUS 13
Economics of Ethnic Conflict DAFINGER 12
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination Tibebu 9
Empire State-building LEWIS 11
Empire, Development and Colonialism DUFFIELD / HEWITT 13
Ethiopia MARKAKIS 3
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa FUKUI / MARKAKIS 15
Ethnicity in Zimbabwe MSINDO 8
Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade SHUMWAY 9
Fighting for Britain KILLINGRAY / PLAUT 10
Foundations of an African Civilisation PHILLIPSON 9
Freetown Bond JONES / JONES 9
From the Pit to the Market FROST 14
From Wilderness Vision to Farm Invasions WOLMER 13
Germany’s Genocide of the Herero SARKIN 11
Ghosts of Kanungu VOKES 8
Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa
HOUSE-SOREMEKUN / FALOLA 12
Growing up with HIV in Zimbabwe PARSONS 8
History of Malawi M CCRACKEN 3
In Search of a Nation MADDOX / GIBLIN 7
Indirect Rule in South Africa MYERS 11
Interconnections FAULKNER / PARKER 6
Ira Aldridge LINDFORS 4
Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
SCHLEE / SHONGOLO 8
Islam Between Globalization and Counter-terrorism MAZRUI 15
Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan KOMEY 15
Liberation Movements in Power SOUTHALL 12
Making Headway BARNES 11
Manhood Enslaved MARSHALL 6
Modern History of the Somali LEWIS 7
Narrating War and Peace in Africa FALOLA / TER HAAR 15
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa ALAO 13
Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History FALOLA / ADERINTO 7
No Peace, No War RICHARDS 15
Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
SCHLEE / SHONGOLO 8
Photography in Africa VOKES 8
Political History of The Gambia, 1816-1994 HUGHES / PERFECT 7
Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954 GOSNELL 11
Radio in Africa GUNNER / LIGAGA / MOYO 5
Reading Marechera HAMILTON 5
Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa
MENGISTEAB / BEREKETEAB 12
Remembering Africa GOETTSCHE 5
Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History REID-MARONEY 6
Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars JOHNSON 15
Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique ARNFRED 6
Slaves of Fortune LAMOTHE 10
South Africa and the World Economy MARTIN 10
South Africa’s Gold Mines M CCULLOCH 10
Sudan Looks East LARGE / PATEY 14
Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights RIDARSKY / HUTH 6
Themes in West Africa’s History AKYEAMPONG 7
Thomas Pringle VIGNE 9
UNESCO General History of Africa various 7
United States and West Africa JALLOH / FALOLA 11
Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist GARRETSON 9
Violence, Political Culture and Development in Africa KAARSHOLM 15
Western Frontiers of African Art OKEDIJI 4
White Chief, Black Lords M CCLENDON 11
Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba FRANKLIN 6
Women’s Land Rights and Privatization in Eastern Africa
ENGLERT / DALEY 13
Writing African History PHILIPS 3
Writing Revolt RANGER 3
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century OMOJOLA 4
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform SCOONES et al 13
Cover: Stone-carved frieze of facing ibex, currently built into the west wall of the church at Yeha, © David W. Phillipson,
from his book Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300 (see page 9).
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HIGHLIGHTS
The African Diaspora
Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
TOYIN FALOLA
A definitive study of the diaspora in North America.
The diaspora is the most important event of
African history in the modern age. From the
fifteenth century to the present, millions of
Africans have been dispersed—forcibly and
voluntarily—to other continents, creating large
communities of African origin living outside their
native land, mostly in North America. Slavery,
colonialism, racism, poverty, underdevelopment,
and migration are all known legacies of the
diaspora, yet how they worked in history to spur
this scattering of people is not widely understood.
In this definitive study of the diaspora in North
America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history
of the western dispersion of Africans and its
effect on the modern world. Reengaging old and
familiar debates and framing new ones that enrich
the discourse on the continent, Falola isolates the
thread, running nearly six centuries, that connects
this history of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade,
and contemporary migrations.
TOYIN FALOLA is the Frances Higginbotham
Nalle Centenial Professor in History and
University Distinguished Teaching Professor at
the University of Texas–Austin.
$85.00/£55.00(s) July 2013
978 1 58046 452 9
21 colour & 48 b/w illus.;
480pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Writing Revolt
An Engagement with African
Nationalism, 1957-1967
TERENCE RANGER
A deeply felt and engaging personal account of
Zimbabwe’s political awakening by one of its bestknown
historians.
This is Terence Ranger’s memoir of the years
between 1957, when he first went to Southern
Rhodesia, and 1967 when he published his first
book. Both history and historiography, Writing
Revolt is an intimate record of the African
awakening which Ranger witnessed as well as
a reflection on the ways in which politics and
history interacted during that turbulent decade.
TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor
of Race Relations, University of Oxford.
$34.95/£19.99(s) February 2013
978 1 84701 071 1
12 b/w illus.; 232pp, 21 x 14.5 (8.25 x 5.75 inches), PB
Weaver Press: Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South
Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia)
Approaching African History
MICHAEL BRETT
Explores how the
conception of Africa and its
history has changed over
time and narrates the story
of this vast continent over
the past 10,000 years.
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 from
archaeological, ethnographic, written, scriptural,
and European dimensions, and finally the present
dimension, it also looks at how the history of such
a vast region over such a length of time has been
presented, and how this history is to be conceived
of as well as investigated. The problem itself is
historical and an integral part of the history with
which it is concerned is the changing awareness
over the centuries of what Africa might be. Michael
Brett thus traces the history of Africa not only on
the ground, but also in the mind, in order to make
its own historical contribution to the debate.
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
366pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
ALSO AVAILABLE
Writing African History
Edited by JOHN EDWARD PHILIPS
A comprehensive evaluation of
how to read African history.
Writing African History is an
essential work for anyone who
wants to write, or even seriously
read, African history. It will
replace Daniel McCall’s classic
Africa in Time Perspective as
the introduction to African history for the next
generation and as a reference for professional
historians, interested readers, and anyone who
wants to understand how African history is written.
JOHN EDWARDS PHILIPS is professor of
international society, Hirosaki University.
Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.
African history has clearly come of age with
this monumental, comprehensive guide.
Merrick Posnansky, Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology at UCLA
$34.95/£19.99 October 2007
978 1 58046 256 3
12 b/w illus.; 546pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
A History of Malawi
1859-1966
JOHN MCCRACKEN
A distinguished scholar’s
magnum opus and the first
full account of Malawi’s
colonial history.
This is the first
comprehensive history
of Malawi during the
colonial period. Using a
wide range of primary
and secondary sources,
it places this history
within the context of the pre-colonial past. The
book examines the way in which British people,
starting with David Livingstone and including
soldiers, speculators, colonial officials and
politicians, played an influential part in shaping
Malawi. But even more important is the story of
how Malawian people responded to the intrusion
of colonialism and imperialism and the role they
played in the dissolution of the colonial state.
There is much here on resistance to colonial
occupation, including religious-inspired revolt,
on the shaping of the colonial economy, on the
influence of Christian missions and on the growth
of a powerful popular nationalism that contained
within it the seeds of a new authoritarianism. But
space is also given to less mainstream activities:
the creation of dance societies, the eruption
of witchcraft eradication movements and the
emergence of football as a popular national sport.
In particular, the book seeks to demonstrate the
interrelationship between environmental and
economic change and the impact these forces
had on a poverty-stricken yet resilient Malawian
peasantry.
JOHN MCCRACKEN is Honorary Senior Research
Fellow, Stirling University. He was awarded
ASAUK’s Distinguished Africanist Award in 2008.
$99.00/£60.00(s) September 2012
978 1 84701 050 6
10 b/w illus.; 503pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
ALSO AVAILABLE
Ethiopia
The Last Two Frontiers
JOHN MARKAKIS
An historical overview of
Ethiopia’s transformation from
a multicultural empire into a
modern nation state.
Precisely because of the debates it
will spark, it is vitally important
that people who are engaged with
Ethiopia, both Ethiopians and
international aid workers, diplomats and others,
read and discuss it. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
$70.00/£40.00(s) June 2011
978 1 84701 033 9
400pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB
Eastern Africa Series
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Performing Arts
AFRICAN THEATRE SERIES
African Theatre 11
Festivals
Volume edited by JAMES GIBBS
Contributors examine how
international theatre
festivals have been
organised and how they
have affected the evolution
of sustainable theatre.
During the last fifty years,
large sums of money,
huge resources of labour
and vast amounts of
creative energy have
been invested in international theatre festivals in
Africa. Under banners such as ‘Reclaiming the
African Past’ and ‘African Renaissance’, the festival
participants have used the performing arts to
address a variety of topical issues and to confront
images embedded by a century of patronising
colonial expositions. The themes indicate the
desire to take history by the forelock, challenge
perceptions and transform communities.
$34.95/£18.99 November 2012
978 1 84701 057 5
176pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Theatre
ALSO AVAILABLE
African Theatre 10
Media and Performance
Guest edited by DAVID KERR
Examines the impact of new
media (such as video and
YouTube) and the use of
multi-media on live and
recorded performance in Africa.
Focuses on the ways African
theatre and performance relate
to various kinds of media.
Includes contributions on dance; popular video,
with an emphasis on video drama and soaps
from Eastern and Southern Africa, and the
Nigerian ‘Nollywood’ phenomenon; the interface
between live performance and video (or still
photography), and links between on-line social
networks and new performance identities. As a
group the articles raise, from original angles, the
issues of racism, gender, identity, advocacy and
sponsorship.
$29.95/£17.99 November 2011
978 1 84701 038 4
10 b/w illus.; 174pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), PB
African Theatre
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Yorùbá Music in the
Twentieth Century
Identity, Agency, and
Performance Practice
BODE OMOJOLA
Drawing on extensive field
research conducted over
the course of two decades,
Bode Omojola examines
traditional and
contemporary Yorùbá
genres of music.
Yorùbá musical traditions
have been shaped by
individual performers:
drummers, dancers,
singers, and chanters, who express self-mediated
visions of their social and cultural environment.
This book explores the role of the performer and
the performing group in creating these traditions,
contributing to the ongoing reorientation of
scholarship on African music towards individual
creativity within a larger social network.
The author examines both traditional and
contemporary Yorùbá genres and addresses a
spectrum of social issues, ranging from gender
inequality to the impact of Christianity and Islam
on Yorùbá musical practice. Throughout, Omojola
emphasizes the interrelatedness of the different
components of the Yorùbá musical landscape, as
well as the role of specific individuals and groups
of musicians, who have continued to draw from
indigenous Yorùbá musical resources to create new
musical forms in the process of engaging the social
dynamics of a rapidly changing environment.
$85.00/£55.00 December 2012
978 1 58046 409 3
28 b/w & 86 line illus.;
296pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
ALSO AVAILABLE
Western Frontiers of African Art
MOYO OKEDIJI
Navigates the problems and
prospects of prometheusis in
creative cultural productions.
Artists share icons, ideas
and images across cultures,
mediums, and disciplines
in many ways. Once shared
these artistic materials become
links and crossroads that complicate creativity
and culture with prometheusis. But what is
prometheusis How does it work and how is it
evaluated Examples focus on the intersections and
frontiers of western modernity and African art.
MOYO OKEDIJI is director of the Center for Art of
Africa and its Diasporas at the University of Texas
at Austin.
$85.00/£55.00 November 2011
978 1 58046 370 6
80 colour illus.; 360pp, HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Ira Aldridge
The Early Years, 1807-1833
BERNTH LINDFORS
The first widely available
biography of this
important black
Victorian-age actor details
the early life and career of
this New York-born
thespian. Exhaustively
researched and accessibly
written, this volume
covers the first 26 years of
the life of one of the most
significant theatrical figures of the nineteenth
century. The pattern of his career, its vicissitudes,
setbacks and triumphs are seamlessly narrated
here; its trajectory emerges with great clarity.
Winner of the 2012 Errol Hill Award from the
American Society for Theatre Research
$55.00/£35.00 October 2011
978 1 58046 381 2
12 b/w illus.; 408pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Ira Aldridge
The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852
BERNTH LINDFORS
The second volume covers
the latter 19 years of
Aldridge’s life as he toured
throughout the United
Kingdom impressing
audiences with his
virtuosity and versatility
as an interpreter not only
of tragic and comic black
roles but also eventually as
an actor of classic white
Shakespearean parts: Shylock, Macbeth, Richard
III, even Iago. In dealing with Aldridge’s emergence
as a professional actor in the UK, Lindfors here
records in detail the ups and downs of his itinerant
existence in a world where no theatergoer had ever
seen anyone like him on stage before. Aldridge was
genuinely a unique phenomenon in Britain at a
pivotal point in history.
$55.00/£35.00 October 2011
978 1 58046 394 2
17 b/w illus.; 264pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
The Two Volume Set
$99.00/£65.00 October 2011
978 1 58046 401 7
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LITERARY & MEDIA STUDIES
African Literature today
ALT 30 Reflections &
Retrospectives in African
Literature Today
Guest edited by CHIMALUM NWANKWO
A focus on some of the
pioneers of African literary
creation.
This special issue is
devoted to some of
the pioneer voices of
African fiction in the
twentieth century:
Bessie Head, Cyprian
Ekwensi, Dennis Brutus,
Ezekiel Mphahlele, Flora
Nwapa, Ousmane Sembène and Zulu Sofola.
The contributors explore the development of
these influential writers and their impact on
the continent and beyond, through a study of
their writing, sources and influences. Some
also focus on case studies of specific works
which are particularly important in the creative
development of the author.
$34.95/£18.99 November 2012
978 1 84701 056 8
200pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Literature Today
Nigeria: HEBN
ALSO AVAILABLE
ALT 29 Teaching African
Literature Today
Edited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU
Brings together experiences of
teachers of African literature
from around the world in the
context of technological change.
This special issue of African
Literature Today examines
the diverse experiences of
teachers of African Literature
across regional, racial, cultural
and national boundaries. It explores such issues
as student responses, productive pedagogical
innovations, the impact of modern technology,
case studies of online teaching, teaching Criticism
of African Literature, and teaching African
Literature in an age of multiculturalism. It is
intended as an invaluable teacher’s handbook
and essential student companion for the effective
study of African Literature.
$29.95/£17.99 November 2011
978 1 84701 511 2
17 b/w illus.; 173pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), PB
African Literature Today
Nigeria: HEBN
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Reading Marechera
Edited by GRANT HAMILTON
Variously understood as
literary genius and enfant
terrible of African
literature, Dambudzo
Marechera’s work as
novelist, poet, playwright
and essayist is discussed
here in relation to other
free-thinking writers.
Considered one of
Africa’s most innovative
and subversive writers, the Zimbabwean novelist,
poet, playwright and essayist Dambudzo
Marechera is read today as a significant voice
in contemporary world literature. Marechera
wrote ceaselessly against the status quo, against
unqualified ideas, against expectation. He was
an intellectual outsider who found comfort only
in the company of other free-thinking writers -
Shelley, Bakhtin, Apuleius, Fanon, Dostoyevsky,
Tutuola. It is this universe of literary thought
that one can see written into the fiction of
Marechera that this collection of essays sets out to
interrogate.
$34.95/£19.99 January 2013
978 1 84701 062 9
200pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
OF RELATED INTEREST
Remembering Africa
The Rediscovery of Colonialism in
Contemporary German Literature
DIRK GOETTSCHE
A groundbreaking treatment of the themes of
colonialism and Africa in German literary fiction
as presented in some fifty novels from the past three
decades.
In the late 1990s a surge of historical novels about
German colonialism in Africa and its previously
neglected legacies hit the German literary scene.
This development has continued to the present,
making colonialism an established literary theme
alongside Germany’s dominant memory themes -
National Socialism and the Holocaust, the former
GDR and its demise, and “1968.” This is the first
comprehensive study of this intense literary
engagement with German colonialism and with
Germany’s wider involvement in European
colonialism. It brings the hitherto neglected
German case to the international debate in
postcolonial literary studies.
DIRK GÖTTSCHE is Professor of German at the
University of Nottingham.
$90.00/£60.00(s) May 2013
978 1 57113 546 9
520pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Radio in Africa
Publics, Cultures, Communities
Edited by LIZ GUNNER, DINA LIGAGA &
DUMISANI MOYO
Radio is ‘Africa’s medium’,
with an ability to
transcend barriers to
access, facilitate political
debate and shape
identities.
Contributors investigate
the multiple roles of radio
in the lives of African
listeners across the
continent. Some essays
turn to the history of radio and its part in culture
and politics. Others show how radio throws up new
tensions, yet endorses social innovation and the
making of new publics. A number of contributors
look at radio’s current role in creating listening
communities that radically shift the nature of the
public sphere. Yet others cover radio’s central role
in the emergence of informed publics in fragile
national spaces, or in failed states. The book also
highlights radio’s links to the new media, its role
in resistance to oppressive regimes, and points
in several cases to the importance of African
languages in building modern communities that
embrace both local and global knowledge.
$80.00/£45.00(s) September 2012
978 1 84701 061 2
336pp, 23.5 x 15.5, HB
Wits University Press: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana,
Lesotho, Zimbabwe & Swaziland.
Breaking the Silence
South African Representations
of HIV/AIDS
ELLEN GRÜNKEMEIER
Examines the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic
through creative texts such as novels, photographs,
films, cartoons and paintings.
South Africa is one of the countries in the
world most affected by HIV/AIDS, and yet,
until recently, the epidemic was barely visible
in South African texts. Much can be gained
from approaching the South African epidemic
through creative texts because they produce and
circulate meanings of HIV/AIDS and its various
facets such as its ‘origin’, ‘transmission routes’ and
‘physical manifestations’. Other aspects explored
are the denial of HIV/AIDS, its stigmatisation,
discriminatory practices, modes of disclosure,
access to anti-retroviral medication, as well as the
role of alternative treatment.
ELLEN GRÜNKEMEIER is Lecturer and Researcher,
English Department, Leibniz University of
Hanover. She is co-editor of Postcolonial Studies
across the Disciplines: ASNEL Papers 19.
$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2013
978 1 84701 070 4
8 colour & 15 b/w illus.;
280pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), HB
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GENDER STUDIES & CIVIL RIGHTS
Women and Slavery in
Nineteenth-Century
Colonial Cuba
SARAH L. FRANKLIN
Investigates how patriarchy
operated in the lives of the
women of Cuba, from elite
women to slaves.
Cuban elites recognized
that creating and
maintaining the Cuban
slave society required
a rigid social hierarchy
based on race, gender,
and legal status. The
consequent patriarchy
placed both women and slaves among the lower
ranks. Based on a variety of archival and printed
primary sources, this book investigates how
patriarchy operated in the lives of the women
of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through
chapters on motherhood, marriage, education,
public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight
is gained into the role of patriarchy both as
a guiding ideology and lived history in the
Caribbean’s longest lasting slave society.
SARAH L. FRANKLIN is assistant professor of
history at the University of North Alabama.
$90/£60 June 2012
978 1 58046 402 4
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Sexuality and Gender
Politics in Mozambique
Rethinking Gender in Africa
SIGNE ARNFRED
Demonstrates shortcomings in
Western feminist
conceptualizations, and shows
how insights from African
feminist thinking may enhance
understandings of gender, both
in and beyond Africa.
Gender policies from
Portuguese colonialism, through Frelimo
socialism, to later neo-liberal economic regimes
share certain basic assumptions about women,
men and gender relations - but to what extent
do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural
Mozambican men and women see themselves
SIGNE ARNFRED is Associate Professor, Dept of
Society & Globalization, and Centre for Gender,
Power & Diversity, Roskilde University.
Winner of the 2012 gender research award
KRAKA-prisen.
$70/£40 October 2010
978 1 84701 035 3
39 b/w illus.; 328pp, HB
Interconnections
Gender and Race in American History
Edited by CAROL FAULKNER
& ALISON M. PARKER
Explores gender and race
as principal bases of
identity and locations of
power and oppression in
American history.
This collection
builds on decades
of interdisciplinary
scholarship by African
American women and
gender historians and
feminist scholars, bridging the gap between welldeveloped
theories of race, gender, and power and
the practice of historical research. It reveals the
interdependent construction of racial and gender
identity in individuals’ lived experiences in specific
historical contexts, such as westward expansion,
civil rights movements, or economic depression
as well as national and transnational debates over
marriage, citizenship and sexual mores. All of
these essays consider multiple aspects of identity,
including sexuality, class, religion, and nationality,
among others, but the volume emphasizes gender
and race – the focus of our new book series – as
principal bases of identity and locations of power
and oppression in American history.
$75.00/£50.00(s) October 2012
978 1 58046 421 5
7 b/w illus.; 298pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Gender and Race in American History
ALSO AVAILABLE
Manhood Enslaved
Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early
Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
KENNETH E. MARSHALL
Provides revealing evidence about
the various elements of “slave
manhood” that gave real meaning
to the oppressed lives of bondmen.
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs
the lives of three male captives
to bring greater intellectual
and historical clarity to the
muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and
early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, the
Somerset County area, where blacks were held in
bondage for nearly two centuries. It contributes to
an evolving body of historical scholarship arguing
that the lives of bondpeople in America were
shaped not only by the powerful forces of racial
oppression, but also by their own notions of gender.
KENNETH E. MARSHALL is assistant professor
of history at the State University of New York at
Oswego.
$75.00/£50.00(s) November 2011
978 1 58046 393 5, eISBN 978 1 58046 740 7
2 b/w illus.; 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Gender and Race in American History
Susan B. Anthony and the
Struggle for Equal Rights
Edited by CHRISTINE L. RIDARSKY &
MARY M. HUTH
Explores the diversity of
thought and action in
women’s involvement in
19th-century reform
movements.
Though Susan B. Anthony
is best remembered for
leading the campaign
for women’s suffrage,
she worked in multiple
movements for equality
including antislavery and Native American
rights. In doing so she forged alliances with
other activists seeking to forward a broad social
justice agenda. For Anthony and other women
activists of the nineteenth century, the fight for
equal rights in one social arena was linked to the
struggle for those in all others.
This book explores the diversity of women’s
activism in nineteenth-century American reform
movements, focusing on how Anthony and other
women reformers shaped those movements and
our memories of them. The essays here chart
the long career of Anthony in this rich historical
context of women’s activism and display the
efforts of a wide variety of women, and the
challenges they faced, in the continued struggle
for equality.
$75.00/£50.00(s) December 2012
978 1 58046 425 3
3 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Gender and Race in American History
The Reverend Jennie Johnson
and African Canadian
History, 1868-1967
NINA REID-MARONEY
The first scholarly treatment of this fascinating and
understudied figure.
Jennie Johnson was a black Baptist preacher and
the first ordained woman to serve in Canada.
She spent her life, spanning from Reconstruction
to the modern civil rights movement, building
churches and working for racial justice on both
sides of the Canadian border. This first scholarly
treatment of a fascinating and understudied figure
offers a unique and powerful view of nearly one
hundred years of the struggle for freedom in
North America.
NINA REID-MARONEY is associate professor in
the Department of History at Huron University
College at Western (London, Ontario).
$90.00/£60.00(s) April 2013
978 1 58046 447 5
6 b/w illus.; 234pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Gender and Race in American History
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SELECTED BACKLIST: NATIONAL & REGIONAL HISTORIES
UNESCO General History of Africa
SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century.
All volumes 21 x 14.8, abridged PB
Volume 1: Methodology
and African Prehistory
Edited by J. KI-ZERBO
£17.99 1990, 978 0 85255 091 5, 368pp
Volume 2: Ancient
Civilizations of Africa
Edited by G. MOKHTAR
£17.99 January 1990,
978 0 85255 092 2, 440pp
Volume 3: Africa from the
7 th to the 11 th Century
Edited by I. HRBEK
£17.99 January 1992,
978 0 85255 093 9, 416pp
Volume 4: Africa from the
12 th to the 16 th Century
Edited by J. KI-ZERBO
& D.T. NIANE
£17.99 January 1997,
978 0 85255 094 6, 320pp
Volume 5: Africa from the
16 th to the 18 th Century
Edited by
BETHWELL A. OGOT
£17.99 January 1999,
978 0 85255 095 3, 1072pp
Volume 6: Africa in the
Nineteenth Century
until the 1880s
Edited by J.F. ADE AJAYI
£17.99 January 1998,
978 0 85255 096 0, 384pp
Volume 7: Africa under
Colonial Domination
1880-1935
Edited by A. ADU BOAHEN
£17.99 January 1990,
978 0 85255 097 7, 380pp
Volume 8: Africa since
1935. Unabridged
Edited by ALI A. MAZRUI
£17.99 January 1999,
978 0 85255 098 4, 1072pp
An African Classical Age
Eastern and Southern Africa in World
History, 1000 B.C. to A.D.400
CHRISTOPHER EHRET
A major work that provides
many new and deeper insights
into the lives of people in early
eastern and southern Africa and
will shape future scholarship in
this area for many years to come.
CHOICE
£17.99 January 1998
978 0 85255 788 4
384pp, 21.8 x 14.3, PB
A Modern History of the Somali
Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
I.M. LEWIS
£16.99 December 2002
978 0 85255 483 8
34 b/w illus.; 384pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB
Eastern African Studies
I.M. Lewis’s classic text
on the history of the Somali
peoples.
Somalia’s most definitive history
updated. AFRICA TODAY
A Political History of the
Gambia, 1816-1994
ARNOLD HUGHES & DAVID PERFECT
The only complete study of
modern Gambian politics from
the establishment of British rule
to the overthrow of the Jawara
government.
$45.00/£30.00 August 2008
978 1 58046 126 9
549pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Uganda: Fountain Publishers
In Search of a Nation
Histories of Authority and
Dissidence in Tanzania
Edited by GREGORY H. MADDOX &
JAMES L. GIBLIN
Examines the contradictions of
nationalism, focusing on the
experience of Tanzania.
£17.99 October 2005
978 0 85255 487 6
352pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB
Eastern African Studies
Nigeria, Nationalism,
and Writing History
TOYIN FALOLA & SAHEED ADERINTO
Traces the history of writing
about Nigeria since the
nineteenth century, with an
emphasis on the rise of
nationalist historiography and
the leading themes.
$75.00/£50.00(s) January 2011
978 1 58046 358 4, eISBN 978 1 58046 708 7
350pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Themes in West Africa’s History
Edited by EMMANUEL KWAKU
AKYEAMPONG
A valuable addition to the
teaching repertoire of those
teaching West African history at
both the undergraduate and
graduate level. Students will find
the scholarship sophisticated but
accessible, and admirably topical
in the historical issues engaged.
AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW
£17.99 March 2006
978 0 85255 995 6
4 b/w illus.; 336pp, 22.8 x 15, PB
Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services
Tanzania: Kapsel
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ANTHROPOLOGY / ETHNOGRAPHY
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Photography in Africa
Ethnographic Perspectives
Edited by RICHARD VOKES
Gives an ethnographic
account of the complexities
of the use of photography in
Africa, both historically and
in contemporary practice.
This collection of studies
in African photography
examines, through a
series of empirically
rich historical and
ethnographic cases, the
variety of ways in which photographs are produced,
circulated, and engaged across a range of social
contexts. In so doing, it elucidates the distinctive
characteristics of African photographic practices
and cultures, vis-à-vis those of other forms of
‘vernacular photography’ worldwide. In addition,
these studies develop a reflexive turn, examining
the history of academic engagement with these
African photographic cultures, and reflecting
on the distinctive qualities of the ethnographic
method as a means for studying such phenomena.
The volume critically engages current debates in
African photography and visual anthropology.
First, it extends our understanding of the variety
of ways in which both colonial and post-colonial
states in Africa have used photography as a means
for establishing, and projecting, their authority.
Second, it moves discussion of African photography
away from an exclusive focus on the role of the
‘the studio’ and looks at the circulations through
which the studios’ products – the photographs
themselves – later pass as artefacts of material
culture. Last, it makes an important contribution
to our understanding of the relationship between
photography and ethnographic research methods, as
these have been employed in Africa.
$29.95/£17.99(s) July 2013
978 1 84701 053 7
110 b/w illus.; 288pp, 25.4 x 17.8 (10 x 7 inches), PB
ALSO AVAILABLE
Photography in Africa
Ethnographic Perspectives
Edited by RICHARD VOKES
$70.00/£40.00(s) June 2012
978 1 84701 045 2
110 b/w illus.; 288pp, 25.4 x 17.8 (10 x 7 inches), HB
NEW LOW PRICE
Ghosts of Kanungu
Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in
the Great Lakes of East Africa
RICHARD VOKES
$45.00/£25.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84701 009 4
27 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
African Anthropology
Uganda: Fountain Publishers (PB)
African Hosts and their Guests
Cultural Dynamics of Tourism
Edited by WALTER VAN BEEK &
ANNETTE SCHMIDT
Africa is a ‘theme park’ for
Western tourists to
experience untouched
wilderness, untamed
nature, and truly
‘authentic’ cultures, where
the hosts, too, are part of a
discourse about the ‘other’
and ourselves.
For Western tourists
Africa embodies the Romantic ideal of ‘nature’,
where they go to have adventures in the game
parks and encounters with colourful cultures and
picturesque people. In the long list from slavery to
colonialism and from liberation to globalisation,
international tourism is one of the latest global
dynamics engaging the people on the continent,
but the agency of the receiving partners is much
larger than it was in the colonies. The differences
stand out in what constitutes the heart of this
book, the encounter in the field between ‘hosts’
and ‘guests’.
$90.00/£50.00(s) September 2012
978 1 84701 049 0
32 b/w illus.; 352pp, 25.4 x 17.8 (10 x 7 inches), HB
ALSO AVAILABLE
Pastoralism and Politics
in Northern Kenya and
Southern Ethiopia
GÜNTHER SCHLEE &
ABDULLAHI A. SHONGOLO
Examines how the lives of
pastoralists are affected by the
creation of mutually exclusive
ethnic territories and proposes
ways to reverse this trend.
$50.00/£30.00(s) February 2012
978 1 84701 036 0
9 b/w illus.; 191pp,
21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB
Eastern Africa Series
Islam and Ethnicity in Northern
Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
GÜNTHER SCHLEE &
ABDULLAHI A. SHONGOLO
A study of the longue durée of a
marginalized part of northern
Kenya, examining the process of
territorialization and the role of
Islam in politicizing ethnicity.
$70.00/£40.00(s) March 2012
978 1 84701 046 9
22 b/w illus.; 196pp,
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.
The study begins in 1860, a year after the
establishment of the Inyati mission station in the
Ndebele Kingdom, and ends in the postcolonial
period. Enocent Msindo asserts that – despite
what many social historians have argued – 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. During this period, the
interaction of the Kalanga and Ndebele fed the
development of complex ethnic, regional, cultural,
and subnationalist identities. By examining the
complexities of these identities, Msindo uncovers
hidden, alternative, and unofficial histories;
contested claims to land and civic authority; the
politics of language; the struggles of communities
defined as underdogs; and the different ways by
which the dominant Ndebele have dealt with the
Kalanga. The book ultimately demonstrates the
ways in which debates around ethnicity and other
identities in Zimbabwe relate to issues in its 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
Growing up with HIV
in Zimbabwe
One day this will all be over
ROSS PARSONS
An account of HIV-positive
children’s lives (and deaths)
in Zimbabwe.
This study explores the
lives of children growing
up HIV-positive in the
eastern Zimbabwean
town of Mutare at a
time of severe crisis
in the state, marked
by impoverishment,
organized violence and mass death. It examines
children’s experiences through the institutional
domains of family and kin, clinics and other
forms of healing, churches and religious practices,
and experiences of dying and bereavement.
ROSS PARSONS teaches anthropology and
psychology at Africa University.
$70.00/£40.00(s) July 2012
978 1 84701 048 3
7 b/w illus.; 207pp, 21 x 14.5, HB
Weaver Press: Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South
Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia).
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR / HISTORY
Thomas Pringle
South African pioneer,
poet and abolitionist
RANDOLPH VIGNE
Reveals the role this key
Enlightenment figure played
in Africa and Britain.
Honoured in South
Africa as the ‘father of
South African poetry’
and for achieving a free
press, as one of the early
settlers of Cape Colony
and as a fighter for their
democratic rights, in Scotland as the founding
editor of Blackwood’s Magazine and a key figure in
the Enlightenment, and in England as Secretary
of the Anti-Slavery Society and as instrumental in
bringing in abolition, Thomas Pringle (1789-1834)
has not yet had the attention he deserves. This
full biography, drawing on new research, reveals
the important part he played in the literary and
political world across two continents, and in
championing the Khoisan Nguni.
RANDOLPH VIGNE is an author and editor of
European and African historical studies.
$80.00/£45.00(s) September 2012
978 1 84701 052 0
10 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
UCT Press: Southern Africa PB
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
A Victorian Gentleman and
Ethiopian Nationalist
The Life and Times of Hakim
Wärqenäh, Dr. Charles Martin
PETER P. GARRETSON
The biography of a
significant figure in early
20 th century Ethiopian
society
This is the first full
biography of Hakim
Wärqenäh Eshäté, or Dr
Charles Martin (1865-
1952), who was Ethiopia’s
first western trained
physician as well as a
statesman, administrator, diplomat, author and
a major progressive force in modern Ethiopian
history. Yet he had overlapping identities as a world
citizen, citizen of the British empire and Ethiopian
nationalist, living in many different countries but
never wholly belonging in any one. First employed
in the Indian civil service he subsequently served
as a physician to three Ethiopian emperors. The
climax of his long career came when, as ambassador
to England, he was a key figure in mobilizing world
opinion against Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia.
PETER GARRETSON is Associate Professor of
History and Director of the Middle East Center.
$95.00/£55.00(s) June 2012
978 1 84701 044 5
8 b/w illus.; 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
The Freetown Bond
A Life under Two Flags
ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES
with MARJORIE JONES
Eldred Durosimi Jones is
known internationally as
having helped establish the
study of African writing in
the new universities of
Africa, Britain and North
America.
Born in 1925, the account
of his early years gives a
vivid picture of growing up
in Freetown in the latter days of British colonial
rule. After studying at the historic CMS Grammar
School and Fourah Bay College, with further
studies at Oxford, Eldred Jones committed himself
to his own country and it was appropriate that
for over thirty years he was successively Lecturer,
Professor, Principal and Pro-Vice-Chancellor
of Fourah Bay College in Freetown. He was
founding editor of African Literature Today, and
his book Othello’s Countrymen introduced Africa
into Shakespeare studies. He lost his sight in
his middle years and this book, like all his later
written work, has been brought to the page by his
wife Marjorie Jones.
ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES is Emeritus Professor
of English Language and Literature, recipient of
the Royal Society of Arts Silver Medal, Honorary
Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and joint
winner (with MARJORIE JONES) of the African
Studies Association of the UK Distinguished
Africanist Award.
$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
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the
Racial Nationalist Imagination
TESHALE TIBEBU
A critical study of one of the most prolific black-world
intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Focusing on his writings, this book shows the
contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and
paradoxes in Edward Wilmot Blyden’s powerful
black racial nationalism. Blyden was a modernist
who called upon African Americans to “uplift”
Africa; yet he was a defender of Africa’s culture
and customs. He was a sophisticated critic of
Eurocentrism; yet he was an avid Anglophile. He
was a Protestant who admired Islam’s “civilizing”
role in Africa. Blyden was the first black intellectual
to advocate for the symbiosis of Africa’s “triple
heritage”: indigenous, Islamic, and Western. 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, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney.
TESHALE TIBEBU is professor of history at Temple
University.
$90.00/£60.00(s) December 2012
978 1 58046 428 4
224pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Foundations of an
African Civilisation
Aksum and the northern
Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300
DAVID W. PHILLIPSON
A single coherent narrative
of Aksumite civilisation
revealing the roots of
medieval Christian Ethiopia.
This book focuses on
the pre-Aksumite and
Aksumite states of the
first millennium AD
in northern Ethiopia
and southern Eritrea,
their development, florescence and eventual
transformation into the so-called medieval
civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. It applies a
common methodology, utilising archaeology, art
history, written documents and oral tradition from
a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater
emphasis on continuity than previous studies
have revealed. It is thus a major re-interpretation
of a key development in Ethiopia’s past, while
raising and discussing methodological issues of
the relationship between archaeology and other
historical disciplines; these issues, which have
theoretical significance extending far beyond
Ethiopia, are discussed in full.
DAVID W. PHILLIPSON is currently an Emeritus
Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
and an Hon. Professor, University College, London.
$70.00/£40.00(s) August 2012
978 1 84701 041 4
52 b/w illus.; 304pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB
Eastern Africa Series
Published in association with the British Institute in
Eastern Africa.
ALSO AVAILABLE
The Fante and the
Transatlantic Slave Trade
REBECCA SHUMWAY
The first book-length history of
the Fante people of southern
Ghana during the transatlantic
slave trade, 1700 to 1807.
A finalist for the African Studies
Association’s 2012 Melville J.
Herskovits Award, this volume
provides a historical framework
for the relationship between Ghana’s coastal forts
and castles and local African societies during this
complex period.
REBECCA SHUMWAY is assistant professor of
history at the University of Pittsburgh.
This is a rich study, carefully conceived and argued.
H-AFRICA
$85.00/£55.00(s) October 2011
978 1 58046 391 1, eISBN 978 1 58046 739 1
15 b/w illus.; 244pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
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MILITARY HISTORY / COLONIALISM / ECONOMICS
RECENT MILITARY HISTORIES
Fighting for Britain
African Soldiers in the Second World War
DAVID KILLINGRAY, with MARTIN PLAUT
The first major study of
the experiences of the
hundreds of thousands of
African soldiers who
served with the British
army during the Second
World War.
An important scholarly contribution, but which,
with its sweeping introduction and engaging style,
can be read by all for pleasure and profit.
BBC HISTORY
$24.95/£14.99 April 2012
978 1 84701 047 6
19 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Slaves of Fortune
Sudanese Soldiers and the
River War, 1896-1898
RONALD M. LAMOTHE
Exposes the ‘blind spot’ in
popular and academic
histories about the role of
African soldiers in the
creation of Britain’s
empire, through a
re-telling of one of the best
known episodes in British
imperial military history.
Thorough, extensive and well documented.
SUDAN STUDIES
$80.00/£45.00(s) December 2011
978 1 84701 042 1
28 b/w illus.; 245pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Alliance of the Colored Peoples
Ethiopia and Japan before World War II
J. CALVITT CLARKE III
A detailed examination of
Ethiopian-Japanese
relations from their
beginnings in the
interwar period through
the Italo-Ethiopian War
of 1935-6, drawing on
Japanese, Russian, Italian,
French and English
sources.
$90.00/£50.00(s) December 2011
978 1 84701 043 8
216pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
EARLY 2013
Colonialism and Violence
in Zimbabwe
A History of Suffering
HEIKE I. SCHMIDT
A study that contributes
to three fields of
investigation: violence,
memory, and landscape.
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. At the same time, it is a highly
original treatment of significant topics in African
Studies and beyond: violence, colonialism,
landscape, memory, and religion.
HEIKE SCHMIDT is visiting professor for African
History and Society at the Department of African
Studies, Vienna University.
$95.00/£55.00(s) February 2013
978 1 84701 051 3
16 b/w illus.; 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
African Police and Soldiers in
Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80
TIMOTHY STAPLETON
A look at the ambiguous experience of black
security force personnel in white minority ruled
colonial Southern Rhodesia.
European colonial rule in Africa could not have
been maintained without African participation in
the police and army. In Southern Rhodesia, lack
of white manpower meant that blacks played an
increasingly prominent role in law enforcement
and military operations and from World War II
constituted a majority within the regular security
forces. As they were called upon to perform
more specialized tasks, they acquired greater
education and some became part of the emerging
westernized middle class. Tim Stapleton clarifies
the complicated dynamic and legacy of black
military personal who served during colonial rule
in present-day Zimbabwe.
TIMOTHY STAPLETON is professor of history at
Trent University in Ontario.
$90.00/£60.00(s) June 2011
978 1 58046 380 5, eISBN 978 1 58046 733 9
23 b/w illus.; 330pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
South Africa and the
World Economy
Remaking Race, State, and Region
WILLIAM G. MARTIN
Chronicles the volatile history of South Africa’s
economic resurgence.
Once an international pariah, South Africa has
emerged as a respected and influential African
state, projecting its economic and political power
across the continent. Contrasting with much of
the latest scholarship, which examines South
Africa as a discrete national case, this volume
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. This approach offers a bold
reinterpretation of South Africa’s developmental
successes and failures over the last century, as well
as clear yet contentious lessons for the present.
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
304pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
South Africa’s Gold Mines
and the Politics of Silicosis
JOCK MCCULLOCH
Examines the 20th century
silicosis crisis in the South
African mining industry,
and reveals how the rate of
tuberculosis among black
migrant miners was
hidden for over a century.
This book reveals how
the South African mining
industry, abetted by the
state, hid a pandemic of
silicosis for almost a century, and allowed workers
infected with the potentially fatal tuberculosis
to spread disease to rural communities in South
Africa and to labour-sending states. The first crisis
of 1896-1912, which focused on minority white
workers, resulted in the mining industry investing
heavily in reducing dust and South Africa became
renowned for its mine safety. The second began
in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that
the disease rate among black migrant miners is
more than a hundred times higher than officially
acknowledged. It has provoked class actions for
compensation.
JOCK MCCULLOCH was a Legislative Research
Specialist for the Australian parliament and has
taught at various universities. His books include
Asbestos Blues.
$34.95/£19.99 October 2012
978 1 84701 059 9
2 b/w illus.; 202pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Issues
Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho,
Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana.
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Colonial Rule and Crisis in
Equatorial Africa: Southern
Gabon, c. 1850-1940
CHRISTOPHER J. GRAY
Offers rich insights for historians
and researchers examining the
impact of early colonial rule and
the formation of ethnic categories
in Africa in the last two
centuries....A compelling study.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
$75.00/£50.00(s) August 2002
978 1 58046 048 4
304pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Germany’s Genocide
of the Herero
Kaiser Wilhelm II, His General,
His Settlers, His Soldiers
JEREMY SARKIN
This study recounts the reasons
why the order for the Herero
genocide was very likely issued
by the Kaiser himself, and why
proof of this has not emerged
before now.
$80.00/£45.00(s) March 2011
978 1 84701 032 2
40 b/w illus.; 288pp, 22.8 x 15.2 (8.9 x 5.9 inches), HB
The Politics of Frenchness in
Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954
JONATHAN GOSNELL
An examination of French
citizenship and cultural identity
in Algeria during the last
quarter-century of colonial rule.
An essential resource for
students of Algerian and French
colonial history. JOURNAL OF
COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL
HISTORY
$80.00/£55.00(s) November 2002
978 1 58046 105 4
9 b/w illus.; 248pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Control and Crisis in
Colonial Kenya
The Dialectic of Domination
BRUCE BERMAN
The first full length study of the
development of the colonial
state in Africa.
£19.99 September 1990
978 0 85255 069 4
496pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB
Eastern African Studies
Kenya: EAEP
Empire State-building
War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52
JOANNA LEWIS
Informed and lively account of
British colonial welfare policy
in Kenya.
[A] rich and stimulating study
of British colonial welfare policy.
JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL &
COMMONWEALTH HISTORY
£19.99 January 2000
978 0 85255 785 3
10 b/w illus.; 416pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB
Eastern African Studies
Kenya: EAEP
Southern Africa rights (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho,
Swaziland, Namibia and Zimbabwe): University of Cape
Town Press/Juta
Indirect Rule in South Africa
Tradition, Modernity, and the
Costuming of Political Power
J.C. MYERS
A groundbreaking new study
of the ways in which South
African leaders struggle to
legitimize themselves through
the costuming of political
power.
Recommended.
CHOICE, April 2009
$80.00/£55.00(s) August 2008
978 1 58046 278 5, eISBN 978 1 58046 742 1
1 b/w illus.; 156pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Making Headway
The Introduction of Western
Civilization in Colonial
Northern Nigeria
ANDREW E. BARNES
A thought-provoking study of
local peoples’ participation in
the process of cultural transfer
in colonial Northern Nigeria.
$95.00/£60.00(s) December 2009
978 1 58046 299 0, eISBN 978 1 58046 727 8
346pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
The United States
and West Africa
Interactions and Relations
Edited by ALUSINE JALLOH
& TOYIN FALOLA
The first volume devoted to
interrogating the complex
relationship – both historic and
contemporary – between the
United States and West Africa.
$34.95/£19.99 November 2009
978 1 58046 308 9
3 b/w illus.; 490pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
White Chief, Black Lords
Shepstone and the Colonial State in
Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878
THOMAS V. MCCLENDON
A study of colonial Natal,
focused on the contradictions
related to indirect rule, the
legacy of which continues to
inform the political and social
climate of post-apartheid South
Africa.
$75.00/£50.00(s) September 2010
978 1 58046 341 6, eISBN 978 1 58046 706 3
7 b/w illus.; 191pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
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ECONOMICS / POLITICS
The Business
of Black Power
Community Development,
Capitalism, and Corporate
Responsibility in Postwar America
Edited by LAURA WARREN HILL
& JULIA RABIG
Explores business
development in the Black
Power era and the
centrality of economic
goals to the larger black
freedom movement.
This book uniquely
emphasizes the centrality
of economic goals to the
larger black freedom
movement and explores
the myriad forms of business development in
the Black power era. In doing so it charts a new
course for Black power studies and business
history, exploring both the business ventures that
Black power fostered and the impact of Black
power on the nation’s business world. Black
activists pressed business leaders, corporations,
and various levels of government into supporting
a range of economic development ventures, from
Black entrepreneurship, to grassroots experiments
in economic self-determination, to indigenous
attempts to rebuild inner-city markets in the wake
of disinvestment. They pioneered new economic
and development strategies but were also engaged
in some fierce debates over the role of business in
strengthening the movement.
$29.95/£19.99(s) June 2012
978 1 58046 440 6
354pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
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Globalization and Sustainable
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Edited by BESSIE HOUSE-SOREMEKUN
& TOYIN FALOLA
The first comprehensive work on
globalization within the context
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This volume examines
globalization within the context
of sustainable economic
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Accessible to politicians, public policy analysts,
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$80.00/£55.00(s) October 2011
978 1 58046 392 8, eISBN 978 1 58046 738 4
7 b/w illus.; 484pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
The Economics of
Ethnic Conflict
The Case of Burkina Faso
ANDREAS DAFINGER
Investigates development practice, civil organization
formation and the increase of ethnically motivated
conflicts over the past two decades in Western
Africa.
This richly detailed anthropological account of
the policies and practices of Burkina Faso, set
against the background of the region’s developing
economies and cross-border conflicts, examines
the social, economic and political transformation
of Western Africa. Behind the screen of ethnic
conflicts, lie vibrant ‘concealed economies’
that have led to new economic and political
practices at almost all levels of national and civil
administration. In these ‘concealed economies’
individuals exploit the ethnic divide by hiding
friendly and profitable inter-ethnic relations
behind a rhetoric of ethnic tensions and staged
conflict.
ANDREAS DAFINGER is Associate Professor of
Social Anthropology at the Central European
University, Budapest, and Associated Research
Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology, Halle.
$90.00/£50.00(s) June 2013
978 1 84701 068 1
2 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Western Africa Series
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 three interrelated
crises: various inter-state
wars, civil wars, and
inter-communal conflicts;
an economic crisis
manifested in widespread
debilitating poverty, chronic food insecurity and
famines; and environmental degradation that
is ravaging the region. 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) October 2012
978 1 84701 058 2
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Eastern Africa Series
Liberation Movements in Power
Party and State in Southern Africa
ROGER SOUTHALL
Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO
in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to
what extent their promises of democracy have been
effected.
There is a widespread argument that the model of
development put forward by National Liberation
Movements reaches exhaustion once they achieve
victory over colonial regimes and take power. This
book examines the post-colonial development
of these movements and the variations in their
regimes, especially in relation to the level of
capitalist development and of representative
organizations such as trade unions and social
movements, imply for post-colonial democracy.
ROGER SOUTHALL is Professor and Head of the
Department of Sociology, Wits University.
$80.00/£45.00(s) April 2013
978 1 84701 066 7
368pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Southern Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Dealing with Government
in South Sudan
Histories in the Making of
Chiefship, Community and State
CHERRY LEONARDI
Explores various aspects of chiefly authority
in South Sudan from its historical origins and
evolution under colonial, postcolonial and military
rule, to its current roles and value in the newly
independent country.
Chiefs in South Sudan have become the focus of
much attention in recent years as national and
international policy-makers attempt to build
peace and design structures of government in
the newly independent nation. Created during
the colonial period, chiefship in South Sudan
originated out of a much longer process by
which local communities sought to mediate
with predatory external forces. Chiefship has
survived despite war and the collapse of the
state. This study will be of particular importance
not only to scholars of Sudan, of Africa and of
local governance, but also to policy-makers and
practitioners working in South Sudan.
CHERRY LEONARDI is a Lecturer in African
History at the University of Durham, a former
course director of the Rift Valley Institute’s Sudan
course, and a member of the council of the British
Institute in Eastern Africa.
An extraordinarily timely study of the political
history of what has very recently become
South Sudan. PROFESSOR CHARLES AMBLER,
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO
$34.95/£19.99 May 2013
978 1 84701 067 4
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Published in association with the British Institute in
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Angels of Mercy or
Development Diplomats
NGOs and Foreign Aid
TERJE TVEDT
Challenges many of the
dominant beliefs in the
discourse on development and
aid.
£19.99 January 2098
978 0 85255 817 1
256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Charitable Impulse NGOs
and Development in East
and North East Africa
Edited by ONDINE BARROW
& MICHAEL JENNINGS
Addresses the issues facing
NGOs as their role and remits
expand.
Essential reading and a useful
tool for teaching. AFRICAN
AFFAIRS
£16.99 January 2002
978 0 85255 855 3
224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Do Bicycles Equal Development
in Mozambique
JOSEPH HANLON & TERESA SMART
This thoughtful book strongly but
clearly puts forward its case for a
different approach to economic
development than is currently
promoted by the Western
establishment. Recommended.
CHOICE
$29.95/£17.99 March 2010
978 1 84701 318 7
25 b/w illus.; 256pp, 22.8 x 15.2 (8.9 x 5.9 inches), PB
Ecology Control and
Economic Development
in East African History
Case of Tanganyika, 1850-1950
HELGE KJEKSHUS
A founding text in the
historiography of the African
environment...worthwhile, and
further justifies making this
influential book available again
in an affordable edition. THE
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
£17.99 February 1996
978 0 85255 728 0
252pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB
Eastern African Studies
Empire, Development
and Colonialism
The Past in the Present
Edited by MARK DUFFIELD
& VERNON HEWITT
There is enough quality in this
volume to recommend this book
to scholars and students
interested in development theory
and colonization and how both
processes might be theorized as
mutually constitutive.
ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84701 011 7
223pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
From Wilderness Vision
to Farm Invasions
Conservation and Development in
Zimbabwe’s South-east Lowveld
WILLIAM WOLMER
Another outstanding recent
publication from James Currey
[…] a careful, nuanced study of
contested visions over time of
landscape and livelihoods.
INDEPENDENT REVIEWS OF
LAND ISSUES
£19.99 April 2007
978 0 85255 436 4
256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Zimbabwe: Weaver
Natural Resources and
Conflict in Africa
The Tragedy of Endowment
ABIODUN ALAO
An excellent survey bursting with
facts, figures and interesting case
studies. Its structure is
wonderful. […] It would be a
valuable addition to any
undergraduate syllabus.
AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW
$85.00/£55.00(s) October 2007
978 1 58046 267 9, eISBN 978 1 58046 696 7
1 b/w illus.; 376pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Women’s Land Rights and
Privatization in Eastern Africa
Edited by BIRGIT ENGLERT &
ELIZABETH DALEY
An important study of the
intertwined relationships among
privatization, gender relations,
and women’s land rights in
Eastern Africa. AFRICAN
STUDIES REVIEW
$34.95/£19.99(s) November 2008
978 1 84701 611 9
192pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB
Eastern Africa Series
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
Myths and Realities
IAN SCOONES et al
Destroys most popular myths
about Zimbabwe’s land reform
and rural economy. [...] An
important book for readers
interested in Africa or economic
development. Highly
recommended. CHOICE
$29.95/£16.99 November 2010
978 1 84701 024 7
304pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), PB
African Issues
Zimbabwe: Weaver Press; Southern Africa: Jacana
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224pp, PB
12 b/w illus.; 192pp, PB
NEW
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Charles Taylor. read more
tHE sEriEs
The term ‘blood
diamonds’ is
familiar to many
but what does it
actua ly mean
What are these
diamonds What
form do they
take Where
do they come
Ethiopia.
civilisation.
The next i sue of the
wi l be published in Spring 2013
AFRICAN GRIOT
they explain in their
i luminating article,
tourism in Africa has a
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ZiMBaBwE.
destinations: rather
than culture, cities,
first and foremost.
they understand and
manipulate tourists’
commonly held,
stereotypical ideas,
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tackle the most compelling and pressing issues
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CHINA’S AID AND SOFT
POWER IN AFRICA
The Case of Education and Training
KENNETH KING
China’s role as a re-emerging aid donor in Africa, and in
particular its support in education, training and human
resource development.
£19.99/$34.95 May 2013
978 1 84701 065 0
FROM THE PIT TO THE MARKET
£19.99/$34.95 November 2012
978 1 84701 060 5
Politics and the Diamond
Economy in Sierra Leone
DIANE FROST
Argues that corporate neocolonialism
in the diamond trade of
Sie ra Leone has served to restrict
its social and economic growth,
excluding and marginalizing it from
the club of wealthier nations, and
causing i to continue to rely on
international aid.
SOUTH AFRICA’S GOLD
MINES AND THE POLITICS
OF SILICOSIS
JOCK MCCULLOCH
Examines the twentieth-century silicosis
crisis in the South African mining
industry, and reveals how the rate of, often
fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant
miners was hidden for over a century.
£19.99/$34.95 October 2012
978 1 84701 059 9
AFRICAN ISSUES
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THE FRONT LINE RUNS
THROUGH EVERY WOMAN
From the Pit to the Market
Politics and the Diamond
Economy in Sierra Leone
Women and Local Resistance
in the Zimbabwean
Liberation War
ELEANOR O’GORMAN
Theorizes the experiences of women in
wartime, and specifically of African women
during Zimbabwe’s anti-colonial struggle.
£17.99/$29.95 October 2011
978 1 84701 040 7
Zimbabwe: Weaver Pre s
THE ROOT CAUSES OF SUDAN’S
CIVIL WARS (Revised Edition)
DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON
Revised with an analysis of the
escalation of the Darfur war,
implementation of the peace
agreement and implications of the
Southern referendum.
£16.99/$29.95, June 2011
978 1 84701 029 2
Uganda: Fountain Publishers
SUDAN LOOKS EAST
£16.99/$29.95 November 2011
978 1 84701 037 7
China, India and the Politics
of Asian Alternatives
Eds. DANIEL LARGE
& LUKE A. PATEY
Places Sudan’s oil industry, its economy,
external relations and changing politics
under the impact of the Darfur conflict
and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,
in the wider context of the expansion of
Asia’s global economic strength.
DIANE FROST
Argues that corporate
neo-colonialism in the
diamond trade of Sierra
Leone has served to
restrict its social and
economic growth,
continuing its reliance on
international aid.
Diamonds have played
an important role in the
political economy of Sierra
Leone, as was highlighted by the use of ‘conflict’ or
‘blood’ diamonds in the decade-long civil war. Yet
their role is larger than this. Exploited by global
business interests, whose corporate neo-colonialist
predation has led to continued deprivation and
reliance on aid, Sierra Leone’s diamonds have also
been used to finance factions in Lebanon’s civil
war, criminal networks in the US and Russia, and
al-Qaeda. This study will be of importance not only
for scholars of African studies, but for NGOs and
those with a wider interest in development.
DIANE FROST is Lecturer in the Department
of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology,
University of Liverpool.
$34.95/£19.99 November 2012
978 1 84701 060 5
6 b/w illus.; 248pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Issues
China’s Aid and Soft
Power in Africa
The Case of Education and Training
KENNETH KING
China’s increasing role as
an education donor in
Africa, and the significance
of this both economically
and politically.
Why does China run
one of the world’s largest
short-term training
programmes, with plans
to bring 30,000 Africans
to China between 2013
and 2015 Why does it give generous support
to 24 Confucius Institutes teaching Mandarin
and Chinese culture at many of Africa’s top
universities from the Cape to Cairo Why is
China one of the very few countries to increase
the number of full scholarships for Africans
to study in its universities, a total of 18,000
anticipated between 2013 and 2015. While its
dramatic economic and trade impact, particularly
on Africa, has caught global attention, little focus
has yet been given to China’s role as an education
donor - and especially to the critical role of
China’s support for training and human resource
development for Africans in China, and within
Africa itself. It is vital that we understand what
is going on, and why education is so important
in China-Africa relations. Here is hard evidence
from Egypt, Cameroon, Ethiopia, South Africa
and Kenya of the dramatic growth of China’s soft
power and increasing impact in capacity-building,
and of the implications of this for Africa, China
and the world.
KENNETH KING is Professor Emeritus, University
of Edinburgh. Since 2007, he has been international
advisor for China’s largest Institute of African
Studies. Kenneth King is joint-recipient of the
ASAUK’s 2012 Distinguished Africanist Award.
$34.95/£19.99 May 2013
978 1 84701 065 0
224pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Issues
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Sudan Looks East
China, India and the Politics
of Asian Alternatives
Edited by DANIEL LARGE & LUKE A. PATEY
Places Sudan’s oil industry,
economy, external relations and
changing politics in the wider
context of the expansion of
Asia’s global economic strength.
$29.95/£16.99 November 2011
978 1 847010 37 7
7 line illus.; 216pp, PB
African Issues
The African Garrison State
Human Rights and Political
Development in Eritrea 1991-2011
KJETIL TRONVOLL
A comprehensive study of how and why, despite
bright prospects in 1991, Eritrea has turned into
one of the world’s most authoritarian, militarised,
isolated, and human rights-abusing states.
Twenty-odd years after Eritrea gained
independence, here is an examination of how the
prospects for democracy in the new state have
turned to ash. A comprehensive and detailed
analysis of the militarised ‘garrison state’, this book
examines Eritrea’s development, and in particular
the loss of human rights and the state’s political
organisation. Beginning with judicial development
in independent Eritrea, chapters scrutinise the
rule of law and the court system; the hobbled
process of democratisation, and the curtailment
of civil society; the Eritrean prison system and
everyday life of detention and disappearances; and
the situation of minorities in the country, first in
general terms and then through exploration of a
case study of the Kunama ethnic groups.
KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor in Human Rights,
Peace and Conflict Studies at the Norwegian
Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo.
$80.00/£45.00(s) August 2013
978 1 84701 069 8
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our authors and unique
insight into their work.
Diane Frost is Lecturer in the
Department of Sociology, Social Policy
and Criminology a the University of
Liverpool, and author of From the
Pi to the Market: Politics and the
diamond Economy in sierra leone
(James Cu rey). In our interview,
Dr Frost provides a concise introduction
to an issue that’s had profound
repercussions not just for Sie ra Leone
but also across the Middle East, where
the diamonds are used as a form of
easily transportable and untraceable
cu rency, and into the West - think of
a certain supermodel and the recently
convicted former president of Liberia,
aFrican issuEs
James Currey’s African Issues is a groundbreaking
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published this winter - From the Pit to
the Market and south africa’s gold
Mines - it’s more relevan than ever.
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Blood diaMonds
and rEsourcE PrEdation
FroM
tHE Pit
to tHE
MarKEt
from And, most crucia ly, whose blood is
upon them
aKsuM, tHE anciEnt caPital
oF EtHioPia
Foundations oF an
aFrican civilisation
The state of Aksum covered northern
Ethiopia and southern Eritrea and
eventua ly transformed into the soca
led medieval civilisation of Christian
Published in August, David W.
Phi lipson’s Foundations of an african
civilisation: aksum and the northern
Horn, 1000 Bc - ad 1300 (James
Cu rey) is a majo re-interpretation of
this key development in Ethiopia’s past.
Utilising archaeology, art history, wri ten
documents and oral tradition from a wide
variety of sources, his book provides a
single coherent na rative of Aksumite
We are extremely grateful to Prof.
Phi lipson (cu rently an Emeritus Fe low
of Gonvi le and Caius Co lege, Cambridge
and an Hon. Professor, University
Co lege, London) for this article in which
he gives a brief outline of Askum’s
history and its wider relevance to African
studies. read more
wildnEss, tourisM and aFrica
In their fascinating new
co lection of essays,
african Hosts and
their guests: cultural
dynamics of tourism
(James Cu rey), Walter
van Beek (professor of
anthropology at Tilburg
University) and Anne te
Schmidt (archaeologist
and curator of the
African department at
the National Museum
of Ethnology in Leiden)
discuss tourism in Africa
with specific emphasis on
the interaction between
hosts and guests. As
Issue V, Autumn 2012
tHE Kalanga
and ndEBElE
EtHnicity in
Dr Enocent Msindo is Senior
Lecturer in History at Rhodes
University, Grahamstown,
South Africa. His new book,
Ethnicity in Zimbabwe:
transformations in Kalanga
and ndebele societies,
1860-1990 (University of
Rochester Press), examines
the development of ethnic
identity in Matabeleland and,
contrary to much received
opinion, finds that it wasn’t
solely shaped by colonial rule.
Indeed, many other factors
played their part. In this
interview Dr Msindo explains
the background to his work,
his findings and his early
interest in history.
very specifi character,
di feren to a l other
monuments or beaches,
it is “Wildness” that is
They explain who fulfils
the role of hos to the
tourists, what their
agendas may be, how
and the importance of
viewing these encounters
as dynamic examples of
cultural change.
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Between War and Peace
in Sudan and Sri Lanka
Deprivation and Livelihood Revival
Edited by N. SHANMUGARATNAM
Sudan and Sri Lanka are two
countries that have experienced
protracted internal wars.
Islam Between Globalization
and Counter-terrorism
ALI A. MAZRUI
This book ranges from the
creation of the state of Israel to
the aftermath of September 11,
and the historical forces which
led to both those momentous
events.
No Peace, No War
An Anthropology of Contemporary
Armed Conflicts
Edited by PAUL RICHARDS
The proliferation of ‘new wars’
since the end of the Cold War
has forced scholars to re-open
the debate about ‘what is war’
$34.95/£19.99 January 2008
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