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Film 7 

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cAMbridge ceNtre of AfricAN 

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Southern Africa 12 

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Sudan 14 

Eritrea/Ethiopia 15 

Kenya 15 

Tanzania 16 

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The series builds on the significant achievements of social 

historians over the past two decades, while pushing the 

boundaries of African social history in exciting new directions—theoretically, 

methodologically, and conceptually. 

New African Histories promotes continued research on 

the lived experiences of Africans in their households, communities, 

workplaces, and classes, as well as in the clubs, 

associations, and social movements they have created. It 

insists on the centrality of gender, generation, and social 

identity to African historiography, while it seeks to expose 

the constraints at local, national, and transnational levels 

that structure the daily lives of the poor and disadvantaged. 

Social historians have long maintained that there 

can be no social history without economic history. We contend 

that it is increasingly imperative that politics, environment, 

and culture receive far greater attention in the 

exploration of daily life. 

Books in this series are published with support from the 

Ohio University National Resource Center for African 

Studies. 

NEW 

Emily Lynn Osborn 

Our New Husbands Are Here 

Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African 

State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule 

“Original and stimulating, Our New Husbands Are Here 

challenges traditional historical accounts of gender and 

tests new concepts and frameworks that promise insightful 

openings in African studies.” 

—Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University 

“Emily Osborn gives us a deep and fascinating insight into 

the important inland center of Kankan which has been 

sadly and strangely neglected in the historiography and 

anthropology of West Africa. She makes an enduring contribution 

to African history with ripples into the political science 

and anthropology of household and gender.” 

—David Robinson, Michigan State University 

“Pathbreaking in its findings and approach, this elegantly 

written study explores the intimate relationship between 

household-building and state-building in West Africa over 

a span of three centuries. Through a sophisticated interrogation 

of oral and archival sources, Osborn has produced a 

new understanding of statecraft that bridges the artificial 

divide between the precolonial and colonial and anchors 

women firmly at the core.”—Elizabeth Schmidt, Loyola 

2011 288 pages 

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NEW 

Robert Trent Vinson 

The Americans are Coming! 

Dreams of African American Liberation 

in Segregationist South Africa 

For more than half a century before World War II, black 

South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that 

included African Americans and black West Indians— 

established close institutional and personal relationships 

that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful 

South African and American antiapartheid movements. 

Many African Americans, regarded initially by the South 

African government as “honorary whites” exempt from 

segregation, also saw their activities in South Africa as a 

divinely ordained mission to establish “Africa for Africans,” 

liberated from European empires. Though these liberation 

prophecies went unfulfilled, black South Africans continued 

to view African Americans as inspirational models and 

as critical partners in the global antiapartheid struggle. The 

Americans Are Coming! is a rare case study that places 

African history and American history in a global context 

and centers Africa in African Diaspora studies. 

2011 236 pages 

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Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts, 

and Elizabeth Thornberry, eds. 

Domestic Violence and the Law in 

Colonial and Postcolonial Africa 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Domestic Violence and the 

Law in Africa by Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts, and 

Elizabeth Thornberry. 

PART I Domestic Violence, Relationships of Servitude, 

and the Family Domestic Violence, Colonial 

Courts, and the End of Slavery in French Soudan, 1905– 

12 by Emily S. Burrill and Richard L. Roberts • Domestic 

Violence and Child Circulation in the Southeastern Gold 

Coast, 1905–28 by Cati Coe • Continuum of Gendered 

Violence: The Colonial Invention of Female Desertion as a 

Customary Criminal Offense, French Soudan, 1900–49 by 

Marie Rodet • Violated Domesticity in Italian East Africa, 

1937–40 by Martina Salvante 

PART II Narrating Domestic Violence Sex, Violence, 

and the Family in South Africa’s Eastern Cape by Elizabeth 

Thornberry • Child Marriage and Domestic Violence: 

Islamic and Colonial Discourses on Gender Relations and 

Female Status in Zanzibar, 1900–1950s by Elke E. Stockreiter 

• Fatal Families: Narratives of Spousal Killing and 

Domestic Violence in Murder Trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, 

c. 1930–56 by Stacey Hynd • Domestic Dramas and 

Occult Acts: Witchcraft and Violence in the Arena of the 

Intimate by Katherine Luongo 

PART III Domestic Violence, Conjugal Relationships, 

and the Politics of the State in Postcolonial Africa “I 

killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new 

hairstyle.”: Gender-Based Violence, Laws, and Impunity in 

Senegal by Codou Bop • The Logics of Controversy: Gender 

Violence as a Site of Frictions in Ghanaian Advocacy by 

Saida Hod˘zić • Constructing Law, Contesting Violence: 

The Senegalese Family Code and Narratives of Domestic 

Abuse by Scott London • Domestic Violence as a Human 

Rights Violation: The Challenges of a Regional Human 

Rights Approach in Africa by Benedetta Faedi 

AFTERWORD Finding Gendered Justice in the Age of 

Human Rights by Pamela Scully 

2010 336 pages 

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spriNg 2012 

Benjamin N. Lawrance and 

Richard R. Roberts, eds. 

Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake 

Law and the Experience of Women 

and Children in Africa 

James R. Brennan 

Taifa 

Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania 

nEw african historiEs 

Daniel R. Magaziner 

The Law and the Prophets 

Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977 

“Among the many threads woven together by the Black 

Consciousness movement, Magaziner convincingly shows 

the absolute centrality of Christian theology, of the revolutionary 

‘Black Christ.’ This is an astonishing book. It is intellectual 

history of the first order, and the best treatment 

so far of the most important anti-Apartheid movement of 

1970s South Africa.”—Paul S. Landau, author of Popular 

Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400 –1948 

“Scholars and students of African and South African liberation 

history, theology, and intellectual history will find The 

Law and the Prophets provocative and enlightening. The 

prose is a pleasure to read and the book is skilfully woven 

together. . . . More importantly, Magaziner challenges us 

to more seriously consider the implications of Black Consciousness 

in history.”—South African Historical Journal 

2010 280 pages 

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Moses E. Ochonu 

Colonial Meltdown 

Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression 

“This book is well researched, elegantly written, and 

bound to reshape the debate on British imperialism in 

Africa.”—Elias Mandala, author of Work and Control in 

a Peasant Economy 

“An informative, well-argued . . . historical narrative that 

invites further, comparative investigation of the impact of 

the great depression on colonial economies.”—Journal of 

Colonialism and Colonial History 

2009 272 pages 

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Jan Bender Shetler 

Imagining Serengeti 

A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania 

from Earliest Times to the Present 

“This remarkable work on the Serengeti area in Tanzania 

will be of great value to Africans and non-Africans alike. 

. . . Highly recommended.”—Choice 

“Shetler’s book provides a completely new analysis of the 

Serengeti debate by adding the voices of a forgotten population, 

the peoples of the western Serengeti. . . . The centrality 

of the landscape to Serengeti peoples’ identitites, 

the complexity of local environmental knowledge, and the 

deep historical and emotional attachments to place are 

thus illustrated in vivid detail.”—African Studies Review 

2007 392 pages, illus. 

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Marc Epprecht 

Heterosexual Africa? 

The History of an Idea from the Age 

of Exploration to the Age of AIDS 

Finalist, African Studies Association 

MELVILLE J. HERSkOVITS AWARD 

“Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries 

and blind spots in the history of African scholarship.” 

—T. Dunbar Moodie 

“Epprecht’s own interview material and his close reading 

of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the continent 

reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied 

HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they 

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have been told and have read that there is no homosexuality 

in Africa. . . . the assumption that Africa is a continent of 

heterosexual sex has been deadly for too many people for 

too long.”—Bulletin of the History of Medicine 


11. hc 978-0-8214-1798-0 $39.95 SPECIAL $32 

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Jacob A. Tropp 

Natures of Colonial Change 

Environmental Relations in 

the Making of the Transkei 

“Jacob A. Tropp has written an impressive history of the 

state’s capture of forest resources in the Transkei, between 

1880 and 1930. . . . His book’s central question is how a 

reading of the social interactions surrounding environmental 

access can reshape historical understanding.” 

—American Historical Review 


13. hc 978-0-8214-1698-3 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

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Karen E. Flint 

Healing Traditions 

African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and 

Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948 



“An extremely timely book that will have immediate 

impact on the heated current debates across several 

fields of study, forming part of a new and exciting 

debate emerging around new South African history.” 

—Catherine Burns, University of KwaZulu-Natal 

2008 296 pages 

15. hc 978-0-8214-1849-9 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

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Marissa J. Moorman 

Intonations 

A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, 

Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times 

“Through extensive interviews with singers and musicians 

and archival materials that survived civil wars, this well-written, 

engaging, and innovative study filled with illustrations, 

informative footnotes, and an audio CD is an outstanding 

contribution to the literature of independence movements. 

Summing Up: Highly recommended.”—Choice 

2008 320 pages, includes CD compilation of music 

17. hc 978-0-8214-1823-9 $52.95 SPECIAL $42 

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Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola, eds. 

Recasting the Past 

History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Homespun Historiography 

and the Academic Profession by Derek R. Peterson and 

Giacomo Macola 

PART I Creative Lives, Creative Writing I.B. Akinyele 

and Early Yoruba Print Culture by Karin Barber • The War 

of the Books: Petros Lamula and the Cultural History of 

African Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Natal by Paul la 

Hausse de Lalovière • “When you Shake a Tree”: The 

Precolonial and the Postcolonial in Northern Namibian 

History by Patricia Hayes • Imagining the Nation: Harry 

Mwaanga Nkumbula between Politics and History by Gia- 

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PART II Historical Entanglements Law, Politics, and 

Inference by Richard Rathbone • Asante Origins, Egypt, 

and the Near East: An Idea and Its History by T.C. McCaskie 

• In Pursuit of the “Higher Medievalism”: Local History 

and Politics in Kilimanjaro by Emma Hunter 

PART III Dissident History States of Mind Political History 

and the Rwenzururu Kingdom in Western Uganda by 

Derek R. Peterson • A Community of Suffering: Narratives 

of War and Exile in the Zambian Lumpa Church by 

David M. Gordon 

PART IV Democracy and Historical Argument Merging 

Ethnic Histories in Senegal: Whose Moral Community? 

by Etienne Smith • The King of the Mijikenda and Other 

Stories about the Kaya Heritage, Politics, and Histories in 

Multiparty Kenya by Justin Willis • Writing Competitive 

Patriotisms in Eastern Africa by John Landsdale 

2009 280 pages 

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Stephanie Newell 

The Forger’s Tale 

The Search for Odeziaku 

“This ‘experiment in biography’ illuminates dynamics of 

race, sexuality, and power in a particular colonial Nigerian 

setting from multiple viewpoints. . . . The intriguing 

narrative at its center will appeal to a wide range of readers, 

while specialists in the history of colonialism, West 

Africa, and sexuality should find this study provocative and 

insightful.”—American Historical Review 


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David William Cohen and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo 

The Risks of knowledge 

Investigations into the Death of the 

Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in kenya, 1990 

“This book will become a classic. . . . It is a historical investigation 

of the highest caliber. And, while not raising a political 

banner, it keeps alive the memory of Robert Ouko.” 

—African Studies Review 

2004 392 pages 

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Cheikh Anta Babou 

Fighting the Greater Jihad 

Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the 

Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913 

“In a time when the term jihad has entered our contemporary 

political lexicon in a variety of simplifications, Cheikh 

Anta Babou provides a deeply researched analysis of the 

place of the Greater Jihad in the spiritual, intellectual, and 

political life of a major West African Sufi movement, the 

Muridiyya in Senegal. Babou takes seriously the Murids’ 

own perspectives on their history and religious practices. 

He uses Wolof and Arabic sources as well as oral histories 

rarely used by academic historians and brings these 

internal sources into a conversation with external archival 

and interpretive sources.”—Richard Roberts, Stanford 

University 


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Belinda Bozzoli 

Theatres of Struggle and 

the End of Apartheid 

A CHOiCE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 

“[Bozzoli] draws upon thousands of archived interviews 

with actors to create a rich and cohesive story . . . . [Her 

book] accomplishes the task of raising questions quite 

relevant today to the region concerning relationships 

between nationalism and civic-ness, space and struggle, 

violence and crime, and elder and youth identities.” 

—Kenly Greer Fenio, African Studies Quarterly 

2004 208 pages 

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Gary Kynoch 

We Are Fighting the World 

A History of the Marashea Gangs 

in South Africa, 1947–1999 

“Gary Kynoch’s engaging book examines how gangs of 

Basotho migrants used violence and crime to survive under 

the harsh conditions of everyday life in apartheid South 

Africa. . . . Kynoch’s well-researched study expands our 

knowledge of the history of Basotho migrancy to South 

Africa’s gold mines. . . . Kynoch must be applauded.” 

—International Journal of African Historical Studies 

2005 240 pages 

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africa in world history 

SEriES EDitOrS: DAviD rObinSOn 

& JOSEPh c. millEr 

The books in this series draw attention to the parallels 

in human experience in Africa and in other parts 

of the world and present local documentation—oral, 

cultural, and written—where available. Intended for 

undergraduate survey courses, the volumes in the 

Africa in World History series speak to current (and 

future) images of Africa in the popular culture and in 

educated, but nonspecialist, circles. 

Published with support from the Ohio University 

National Resource Center for African Studies. 

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Peter Alegi 

African Soccerscapes 

How a Continent Changed the World’s Game 

“Alegi’s concise and ingenious book is a timely reminder 

about the impact African players have had on global football 

and an affirmation of Africa’s mounting stature as a 

football powerhouse. . . . Alegi writes in a language that 

is accessible to non-specialists and casual readers. . . . For 

academia, instructors teaching undergraduate courses 

about global sports or sports in Africa could assign the 

book or selected chapters to students, who most likely will 

appreciate the material for its informative strength, brevity, 

and lucidity.”—African Studies Quarterly 

2010 184 pages 

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James C. McCann 

Stirring the Pot 

A History of African Cuisine 

WORLD WINNER IN THE BEST AFRICAN CUISINE 

BOOk CATEGORy, GOURMAND WORLD 

COOkBOOk AWARDS AT PARIS BOOk FAIR, 2010 

“A lively and engaging history of African food, cooking, 

and culinary cultures found within the continent and 

beyond. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in 

African history, the African diaspora, food studies, and 

women’s contributions to culinary history.”—Judith Carney, 

Department of Geography, University of California 

“In this compelling study, James C. McCann provides a 

profound and novel way to examine history and historical 

change not only in Africa but also in the Atlantic basin. . . . 

This book allows readers to peek into the African cooking 

pot in order to better understand the constituent parts and 

nuances of African cuisine, as shaped by geography, history, 

trade across ecological zones, and migration (forced 

and voluntary) across oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, and the 

Mediterranean).”—American Historical Review 

“Highly recommended.”—Choice 

2008 280 pages 

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Catherine Higgs 

Chocolate Islands: Cocoa and 

Slavery in Colonial Africa 

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NEW 

James Kilgore 

We Are All Zimbabweans Now 

A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa 

“Too few writers have Kilgore’s wide-angle vision. This 

promising first book, vividly rooted in his own experience, 

leaves me eager to read more by him.”–Adam Hochschild, 

author of King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, 

and Heroism in Colonial Africa 

“In We Are All Zimbabweans Now, James Kilgore has 

given us an intimate view of one man’s journey into Zimbabwe’s 

often horrific recent past. I’m so pleased the book will 

now be available to American readers. Not only is the novel 

an essential contribution to our understanding of what 

went so wrong in Zimbabwe (as well as allowing us to see 

what went right in the early days), We Are All Zimbabweans 

Now is wonderfully written, humane, and mysterious 

from start to finish.” —Peter Orner, author of The Second 

Coming of Mavala Shikongo 

2011 272 pages 

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NEW 

Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth Myers, eds. 

Environment at the Margins 

Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa 

“Ecocritical studies have long neglected the postcolonial 

regions of the world, so it’s refreshing and timely to see a 

collection of essays focused entirely on Africa. This collection 

is the first of its kind and as such is positioned to make 

a vital intervention in postcolonial, ecocritical, and African 

studies.” —Elizabeth DeLoughrey, author of Postcolonial 

Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment 

Contributors: Jane Carruthers, Mara Goldman, Amanda 

Hammar, David McDermott Hughes, Roderick P. Neumann, 

Rob Nixon, Anthony Vital, Laura Wright 

2011 304 pages 

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Harold Scheub 

The Uncoiling Python 

South African Storytellers and Resistance 

The Uncoiling Python is the first in-depth study of 

how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival 

against European colonialism. They participated in open 

insurrections and other subversive activities in order to 

withstand the daily humiliations of colonial rule. Perhaps 

the most effective and least apparent expression of 

subversion was through indigenous storytelling and 

poetic traditions. Scheub has collected the stories and 

poetry of the Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, and Ndebele peoples 

to present a fascinating analysis. 

2010 216 pages 

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Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi 

and Tuzyline Jita Allan, eds. 

Twelve Best Books by African Women 

Critical Readings 

Contents: PROLEPSIS Twelve Telling Tales by African 

Women by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi 

PART I Reconfiguration: Rewriting the Script Modernity, 

Gender, and Agency in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa by 

Nana Wilson-Tagoe • Charting the Nation/Charting History: 

The Power of Language in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An 

Algerian Cavalcade by Nada Halloway 

PART II Waves of Resistance: The Causalities of Difference 

Nawal El Saadawi’s Women at Point Zero within 

the Context of Arab Feminist Discourse by Amira Nowaira 

• Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter: Consciousness, 

Identity, and Autonomy by Nobantu L. Rasebotsa • 

Dreams of (Dis)order: Competing Visions of Colonial Nigeria 

in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood by Tuzyline 

Jita Allan • In the Pauses of the Histotian’s Narrative: 

Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning by V. M. (Sisi) Maqagi 

PART III Regeneration: Labor Pains and Tentative 

Steps toward Independence Mapping a Female Mind: 

Bessie Head’s A Question of Power and the Unscrambling 

of Africa by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi • A Drama of 

Power: Aminata Sow Fall’s The Beggar’s Strike by Chioma 

Opara • Aesthetics, Ethics, Desire, and Necessity in Mariama 

Bâ’s So Long a Letter by Modupe Olaogun • Reading 

Masculinities in a Feminist Text: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous 

Conditions by Helen Nabasuta Mugambi • Sindiwe 

Magona: Writing, Remembering, Selfhood, and Community 

in Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night by M.J. 

Diamond • Every Choice Is a Renunciation: Cultural Landmarks 

in Ken Bugul’s Riwan ou le chemin de sable by Aissata 

Sidikou • Coda: African Women’s Writing, Prospectively 

by Tuzyline Jita Allan 

2008 304 pages 

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africa in world history • literature 

James Currey 

Africa Writes Back 

The African Writers Series & the Launch 

of African Literature 

“[The book] is full of the drama of that enterprise, the 

drama of dealing with the mother house, the drama of 

dealing with the often intractable political constraints 

dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and not 

least of all dealing with the writers themselves—with 

their ambitions, their temperaments, their financial needs 

and, at times, their perception of a colonial relationship 

between themselves and a European publishing house.” 

—Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, 

University of Kent at Canterbury 

2008 320 pages 

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Anthonia C. Kalu 

Broken Lives and Other Stories 

Foreword by Emmanuel Obiechina 

“An important contribution to the rich literature of the 

Nigerian civil war. . . . Kalu invites us to see a blueprint for 

Nigeria’s future. Embedded in those blueprints are equal 

measures of hope and angst.”—International Journal of 

African Historical Studies 

2003 212 pages 

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RIS AFRICA SERIES, No. 79 

Jacques Bourgeacq and Liliane Ramarosoa, eds. 

Voices from Madagascar/ 

Voix de Madagascar 

An Anthology of Contemporary 

Francophone Literature / 

Anthologie de Littérature Francophone 

Contemporaine 

“This anthology is a clear testimony to the vitality of 

the literary culture of Madagascar. . . .The quality of the 

English translations, by a variety of authors is excellent. 

. . . This is a rich, varied and most welcome anthology.” 

—Modern and Contemporary France 

Contributors: Jean-Joseph Rabeariveol • Jacques Rabemananjara 

• Flavien Ranaivo • Dox • L.-X.M. Andrianarahinjaka 

• David Jaomanoro • Jean-Luc Raharimanana 

• Christine Ramanantsoa • Narcisse Randriamirado 

• Serge Henri Rodin • Bao Ralambo • Jean-Claude Fota 

• Lila Ratsifandriamanana • Alice Ravoson • Ester Nirina 

• Henri Rahaingoson • Lila • Rado 

2003 339 pages 

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Alamin Mazrui 

Swahili beyond the Boundaries 

Literature, Language, and Identity 

“Confidently traversing a vast territory and deftly combining 

sociolinguistics with postcolonial theory. . . . Highly 

recommended.”—Choice 

“Mazrui challenges the longstanding claim of Swahili identity 

as dependent on ethnicity and historical specificity; 

instead, he shows the hybrid, multicultural, and transnational 

nature of Swahili identity.”—African Studies Review 

2007 216 pages 

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Makuchi 

The Sacred Door and Other Stories 

Cameroon Folktales of the Beba 

Foreword by isidore Okpewho 

The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales 

of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales 

infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, 

using various narrative techniques that capture the 

vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. 

The collection of thirty-four folk-tales of the Beba showcases 

a wide variety of stories that capture the richness 

and complexities of an agrarian society’s oral literature and 

traditions. 

2007 176 pages 

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Makuchi 

your Madness, Not Mine 

Stories of Cameroon 

introduction by Eloise Brière 

“In a span of nine short stories, Makuchi guides us through 

the contours of her native African land. . . . Superb pieces 

of fiction.”—Nilofar Khan 

“Makuchi’s stories ebb and flow like waves, gradually 

building up to the massive tides of feeling that 

is one of their enduring attributes. Makuchi is definitely 

a significant new voice in African literature 

who will provide engaging reading to all those who 

are interested in serious, but enjoyable, fiction.” 

—South African Historical Journal 

“A rich, beautifully written collection of stories about real 

human drama.”—Choice 

1999 181 pages 

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modern african writing 

The Modern African Writing series will bring the best 

African writing to an international audience. These 

groundbreaking novels, memoirs, and other literary 

works will showcase the most talented writers of the 

African continent. The series will also feature works of 

significant historical and literary value translated into 

English for the first time. Moderately priced, the books 

chosen for the series will be well-crafted, original, and 

ideally suited for African studies classes, world literature 

classes, or any reader looking for compelling voices 

of diverse African perspectives. 

NEW 

Niq Mhlongo 

After Tears 

“Niq Mhlongo is one of the most highspirited 

and irreverent new voices of South 

Africa’s postapartheid literary scene.” 

—Rachel Donadio, New York Times 

“A uniquely South African story, told in 

a fast, hip, and happening style that is 

synonymous with Soweto, where the 

author’s witty, dodgy, plain and simple 

characters play out their daily drama.” 

—Lucas Ledwaba, City Press 

2011 224 pages 

47. pb 978-0-8214-1984-7 $18.95 

SPECIAL $15 


Jane Poyner, ed. 

J. M. Coetzee and the Idea 

of the Public Intellectual 


“Poyner succinctly situates Coetzee in biographical, sociocultural, 

and literary contexts, and her brief interview with 

him effectively dramatizes the challenges of trying to pin 

him down.”—Choice 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Jane Poyner 

Chapters: J. M. Coetzee in Conversation with Jane Poyner 

• The Life and Times of Elizabeth Costello: J. M. Coetzee 

and the Public Sphere by David Attwell • The Writer, the 

Critic, and the Censor: J. M. Coetzee and the Question of 

Literature by Peter D. McDonald • Against Allegory: Waiting 

for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K and the 

Question of Literary Reading by Derek Attridge • Death 

and the Space of the Response to the Other in J. M. Coetzee’s 

The Master of Petersburg by Michael Marais • A 

Belief in Frogs: J. M. Coetzee’s Enduring Faith in Fiction by 

Dominic Head • J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and 

the Limits of Sympathetic Imagination by Sam Durrant • 

Sorry, Sorrier, and Sorriest: The Gendering of Contrition in 

J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Elleke Boehmer • Going to the 

Dogs: Humanity in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, The Lives of 

Animals, and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission 

by Rosemary Jolly • What is it Like to be a Nonracist? 

Costello and Coetzee on the Lives of Animals and 

Men by Michael Bell • A Feminist-Vegetarian Defense of 

Elizabeth Costello: A Rant from an Ethical Academic on J. 

M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals by Laura Wright • Textual 

Transvestism: The Female Voices of J. M. Coetzee by 

Lucy Graham 

2006 264 pages 

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forthcomiNg 

spriNg 2012 

Niq Mhlongo 

Dog Eat Dog 

Chika Unigwe 

On Black Sisters Street 

David Attwell 

Rewriting Modernity 

Studies in Black South African Literary History 


“For those of us who often teach aspects of South African 

literature, this is the book we have been waiting for.” 

—Zakes Mda 

“David Attwell gives a strikingly fresh and illuminating 

reading of a century of black South African writing. 

Lively, probing, theoretically sure-footed, generous 

in spirit, this book represents the very best of the 

new wave of South African scholarship and criticism.” 

—J. M. Coetzee 

2006 248 pages 

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forthcomiNg 

spriNg 2012 

Gail Fincham 

Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes 

Mda in Post-Apartheid South Africa 

Laura Murphy 

Metaphor and the Slave Trade 

in West African Literature 

Stephanie Newell, The Forger’s Tale See Page 4. 

Phaswane Mpe 

Welcome to Our Hillbrow 

A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa 

introduction by Ghirmai Negash 

Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing 

ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow— 

microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in 

the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the 

shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable 

costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence 

that often cuts short the promise of young people, and the 

Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does 

not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. 

Infused with the rhythms of the inner city pulsebeat, this 

courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its 

broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong and 

Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow—living with 

the same energy and intimate knowledge with which 

the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being. 

2011 150 pages 

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Andrée Chedid 

From Sleep Unbound. 

From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an 

Egyptian woman, taken at age 15 from her Catholic 

boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating 

marriage. 

1983 157 pages 

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film 

transnational & 

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comparative 

Mahir Şaul and Ralph A. Austen, eds. 

Viewing African Cinema in 

the Twenty-First Century 

Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Ralph A. Austen and 

Mahir Şaul 

PART I The “Problem” of Nollywood What is to be 

Done?: Film Studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian Videos by 

Jonathan Haynes • Nollywood and Its Critics by Onookome 

Okome • Ghanaian Popular Video Movies between 

State Film Policies and Nollywood: Discourses and Tensions 

by Birgit Meyer • Islam, Hausa Culture, and Censorship 

in Northern Nigerian Video Film by Abdalla Uba Adamu 

• Nollywood Goes East: The Localization of Nigeria Video 

Films in Tanzania by Matthias Krings 

PART II Imported Films and Their African Audiences 

Commentary and Orality in African Film Reception by Vincent 

Bouchard • Songs, Stories, Action!: Audience Preferences 

in Tanzania, 1950s–1980s by Laura Fair 

PART III Fespaco/Art Film in the Light of Nollywood 

Art, Politics, and Commerce in Francophone African Cinema 

by Mahir Şaul • Outside the Machine?: Donor Values 

and the Case of Film in Tanzania by Jane Bryce • Emitaï: 

Basic Stylistic Elements: Shot Length, Camera Movement, 

and Character Movement by Peter Rist • Curses, Nightmares, 

and Realities: Cautionary Pedagogy in FESPACO 

Films and Igbo Videos by Stefan Sereda • The Return 

of the Mercedes: From Ousmane Sembene to Kenneth 

Nnebue by Lindsey Green-Simms • U.S. Distribution of 

Afican Films: California Newsreel’s Library of African Cinema: 

A Case Study by Cornelius Moore 

2010 248 pages 

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50. pb 978-0-8214-1931-1 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

J. M. Burns 

Flickering Shadows 

Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe 

Foreword by Peter Davis 

“Burns has assembled an impressive amount of evidence—visual, 

written, and verbal. . . . This is an informative 

work which offers a model for historically 

informed scholarship on African film.” 

—Modern African Studies 

“This deeply researched, well-written, and provocative 

volume is the first full-length examination of the history of 

the impact of film in Africa. It will not only stimulate debate 

on African film history but should shape the parameters 

of this debate. This book represents a critical contribution 

to the film history of Africa and to African media studies.” 


2002 306 pages 

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NEW 

Valérie K. Orlando 

Screening Morocco 

Contemporary Depictions in Film 

of a Changing Society 

“This is a book to be cherished, applauded, and honored by 

the cinema community. Valérie Orlando immersed herself in 

the cinema of Morocco to write this book, and her commit- 

ment to the material, and to the filmmakers themselves, is 

apparent on every page.” 

—Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of A Short History of 

Film 

2011 208 pages 

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Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn, eds. 

Black and White in Colour 

African History on Screen 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Vivian Bickford-Smith and 

Richard Mendelsohn. 

Chapters: History as cultural redemption in Gaston 

Kabore’s precolonial-era films by Mahir Şaul • Beyond 

‘history’: two films of the deep Mande past by Ralph A. 

Austen • Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene’s 

films Emitai and Ceddo by Robert Baum • The transatlantic 

slave trade in cinema by Robert Harms • ‘What are we?’: 

Proteus and the problematising of history by Nigel Worden 

• The public lives of historical films: the case of Zulu 

and Zulu Dawn by Carolyn Hamilton and Litheko Modisane 

• Breaker Morant: an African war through an Australian 

lens by Richard Mendelsohn • From Khartoum to Kufrah: 

filmic narratives of conquest and resistance by Shamil Jeppie 

• Cheap is not always cheerful: French West Africa in 

the world wars in Black and White in Colour and Camp de 

Thiaroye by Bill Nasson • Whites in Africa: Kenya’s colonists 

in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and 

White Mischief by Nigel Penn • Beholding the colonial 

past in Claire Denis’s Chocolat by Ruth Watson • The Battle 

of Algiers: between fiction, memory and history by Patrick 

Harries • Raoul Peck’s Lumumba: history or hagiography? 

by David Moore • Flame and the historiography of armed 

struggle in Zimbabwe by Teresa Barnes • Picturing apartheid: 

with a particular focus on ‘Hollywood’ histories of the 

1970s by Vivian Bickford-Smith • Hotel Rwanda: too much 

heroism, too little history-or horror? By Mohamed Adhikari 

• Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye: The Truth and 

Reconciliation Commission on film by David Phillips 

2007 400 pages 

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Jonathan Haynes, ed. 

Nigerian Video Films 

Contents: INTRODUCTON by Jonathan Haynes 

Chapters: From Film to Video by Afolabi Adesanya • 

Evolving Popular Media: Nigerian Video Films by Jonathan 

Haynes and Onookome Okome • From Folk Opera to 

Soap Opera: Improvisations and Transformations in Yoruba 

Popular Theater by Wole Ogundele • The Igbo Video Film: 

A Glimpse into the Cult of the Individual by Hyginus Ozo 

Ekwuazi • Onome: Ethnicity, Class, Gender by Onookome 

Okome • Women, Melodrama, and Political Critique: A 

Feminist Reading of Hostages, Dust to Dust, and True Confessions 

by Carmela Garritano • The Rhetoric of Nigerian 

Christian Videos: The War Paradigm of the Great Mistake 

by Obododimma Oha • Culture and Art in Hausa Video 

Films by Dul Johnson • Hausa Dramas and the Rise of 

Video Culture in Nigeria by Brian Larkin 

2000 287 pages 

54. pb 978-0-89680-211-7 $28.00 SPECIAL $22 


film • transnational & comparative 

Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller, eds. 

Trustee for the Human Community 

Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and 

the Decolonization of Africa 

“The essays collectively situate Bunche as a pioneering 

scholar of Africa, a tireless advocate of self-determination, 

and an engaged and determined peace-seeker. . . . 

whose analysis of how international oversight can assist 

disadvantaged peoples achieve real self-determination is 

still applicable today.”—H-Human Rights 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. 

Keller. Centenary Memory Beads for Mr. Bunche by Abena 

P. A. Busia PART I Bunche the Africanist Intellectual 

Ralph Bunche: African American Intellectual by Martin 

Kilson • Ralph Bunche and the Dawn of Africanist 

Scholarship by David Anthony • The Making of an 

Africanist: Ralph Bunche in South Africa, 1937 by Robert 

Edgar • Ralph Bunche and the Decolonization of African 

Studies: The Paradox of Power, Morality, and Scholarship 

by Elliott P. Skinner • Ralph Bunche the Africanist: 

Revisiting Paradigms Lost by Pearl T. Robinson 

PART II Bunche the Statesman for Africa Decolonization 

through Trusteeship: The Legacy of Ralph Bunche by Neta 

C. Crawford • An Unexpected Challenge: Ralph Bunche 

as Field Commander in the Congo, 1960 by John Oliver • 

Ralph Bunche and Patrice Lumumba: The Fatal Encounter 

by Crawford Young • Ralph Bunche, Patrice Lumumba, 

and the First Congo Crisis by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja 

PART III Reflections on Bunche’s Legacy in Global Perspective 

Africa in the Global Decolonization Process: The 

Road to Postcoloniality by Ralph A. Austen • Epilogue by 

Charles P. Henry • Appendix: United Nations Charter: The 

Trusteeship System 

2010 264 pages 

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Karl ittmann, Dennis D. Cordell, and 

Gregory H. Maddox, eds. 

The Demographics of Empire 

The Colonial Order and the Creation of knowledge 


Contents: INTRODUCTION Counting Subjects: Demography 

and Empire by Dennis D. Cordell, Karl Ittmann, and 

Gregory H. Maddox. 

Chapters: African Historical Demography in the Postmodern 

and Postcolonial Eras by Dennis D. Cordell • “Where 

Nature Dominates Man”: Demographic Ideas and Policy in 

British Colonial Africa, 1890-1970 by Karl Ittmann • How 

to Count the Subjects of Empire? Steps toward an Imperial 

Demography in French West Africa before 1946 by Raymond 

R. Gervais and Issiaka Mandé • Makwerekwere: 

Separating Immigrants and Natives in Early Colonial Natal 

by Thomas V. McClendon • Counting and Recounting: 

Dislocation, Colonial Demography, and Historical Memory 

in Northern Gabon by John M. Cinnamon • The Discourse 

of Overpopulation in Western Kenya and the Creation 

of the Pioneer Corps by Meshack Owino • Disease 

and Reproductive Health in Ujiji, Tanganyika: Colonial and 

Missionary Discourses Regarding Islam and a “Dying Population” 

by Sheryl A. McCurdy • Disease and Environment 

in Africa: Imputed Dynamics and Unresolved Issues 

by Gregory H. Maddox • Reproducing Labor: Colonial 

Government Regulation of African Women’s Reproductive 

Lives by Meredith Turshen • African Population: Projections, 

1850–1960 by Patrick Manning 

2010 352 pages 

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58. pb 978-0-8214-1933-5 $28.95 SPECIAL $23 

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transnational & comparative 

NEW 

Henry Trotter 

Sugar Girls & Seamen 

A Journey into the World of Dockside 

Prostitution in South Africa 

Sugar Girls & Seamen illuminates the shadowy world 

of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the 

women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality 

to foreign sailors. Based on fifteen months of research 

at the seamen’s nightclubs, plus countless interviews with 

sugar girls, sailors, club owners, cabbies, bouncers, and 

barmaids, this book provides a comprehensive account of 

dockside sex work at the southern tip of Africa. Through 

stories, analysis, and first-hand experiences, it reveals this 

gritty world in all its raw vitality and fragile humanity, 

simultaneously racy and light, critical and profound. 

2011 242 pages 

59. hc 978-0-8214-1963-2 $28.95 SPECIAL $22 

NEW 

Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brinmes, 

Niklas Thode Jensen, and Karen Oslund, eds. 

Cultivating the Colonies 

Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Getting Our Hands Dirty 

by Karen Oslund 

PART I Perceiving the Colonial Environment The Prospective 

Colonist and Strange Environments: Advice on 

Health and Prosperity by Andrew Wear • Carved Out 

of Nature: Identity and Environment in German Colonial 

Africa by Daniel Rouven Steinbach • The Science of 

Nature and the Nature of Science in the Spanish and American 

Philippines by Greg Bankoff • Aerial Photography 

and Colonial Discourse on the Agricultural Crisis in Late- 

Colonial Indochina, 1930–1945 by David Briggs 

PART II Managing the Colonial Environment Wetland 

Colonies: Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal 

by Christopher Morris • Colonization of the Russian 

North: A Frozen Frontier by Julia Lajus • Recasting Disease 

and Its Environment: Indigenous Medical Practitioners, the 

Plague, and Politics in Colonial India, 1898-1910 by Kavita 

Sivaramakrishnan • Changing Times, Changing Palates: 

The Dietary Impacts of Basuto Adaptation to New Rules, 

Crops, and Markets, 1830s–1966 by Phia Steyn 

PART III The Legacy of Colonialism State Rationality, 

Development, and the Making of State Territory: From 

Colonial Extraction to Postcolonial Conservation in Southern 

Mozambique by Elizabeth Lunstrum • Ecological 

Communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute by 

Peder Anker • Colonial Experts, Developmental and Environmental 

Doctrines, and the Legacies of Late British Colonialism 

by Joseph M. Hodge 

2011 344 pages 

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RIS GlObAl AnD cOmPArAtivE StUDiES StUDiES, 

no. 12 

Andrew Burton and Hélène Charton-Bigot, eds. 

Generations Past 

youth in East African History 

“This is a rich collection of essays about the concepts of 

generations and youth in East Africa from the nineteenth 

century until the present. The chronological reach, the 

originality of the sources, the clarity of presentation and 

excellent writing all make it an attractive college text.” 

—Lidwien Kapteijns, Kendall/Hodder Professor of History 

at Wellesley College 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by G. Thomas Burgess and 


Anthony Burton Chapters: Arms and Adolescence: Male 

Youth, Warfare, and Statehood in Nineteenth-Century 

Eastern Africa by Richard Reid • Youth, Cattle Raiding, and 

Generational Conflict along the Kenya-Uganda Border by 

Dave Eaton • Setting a Moral Economy in Motion: Youth 

in Tanzania’s “Age of Improvement” by James L. Giblin • 

Colonial Youth at the Crossroads: Fifteen Alliance “Boys” 

by Hélène Charton-Bigot • Raw Youth, School-Leavers, 

and the Emergence of Structural Unemployment in Late 

Colonial Urban Tanganyika by Andrew Burton • Bad Boys 

in the Bush? Disciplining Murran in Colonial Maasailand by 

Richard Waller • Youth, Elders, and Metaphors of Political 

Change in Late Colonial Buganda by Carol Summers 

• Youth, the TANU Youth League, and Managed Vigilantism 

in Dar es Salaam, 1925–73 by James R. Brennan • To 

Differentiate Rice from Grass: Youth Labor Camps in Revolutionary 

Zanzibar by G. Thomas Burgess • Premarital 

Sexuality in Great Lakes Africa 1900–1980 by Shane Doyle 

• “Ruined Lives”: An Analysis of Gender Relations, Youth 

Sexual Behavior, and HIV and AIDS in Early Twenty-First- 

Century Kenya by Joyce Nyairo and Eunice Kamaara • Protecting 

Young People: Alcohol, Advertising, and Youth in 

Kenya by Justin Willis 


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Christopher J. Lee, ed. 

Making a World after Empire 

The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives 

WINNER OF THE 2010 

ALI SASTROAMIDJOJO AWARD FROM 

THE ASIA-AFRICA ACADEMy IN INDONESIA 

“This important collection of essays points to a phenomenon 

that has been lost in the common assumption of a 

worldwide movement from colonial empires to nationstates: 

the richer imagination of people in those empires 

and their quest for alternative modes of political connection.”—Frederick 

Cooper, author of Colonialism in Question: 

Theory, Knowledge, History 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Between a Moment and an 

Era: The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung by Christopher 

J. Lee. 

PART I Framings: Concepts, Politics, History The Legacies 

of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture 

by Dipesh Chakrabarty • Contested Hegemony: The 

Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission 

by Michael Adas • Modeling States and Sovereignty: 

Postcolonial Constitutions in Asia and Africa by Julian Go 

PART II Alignments and Nonalignments: Movements, 

Projects, Outcomes Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in 

the Age of Bandung: Third World Women in the Egyptian 

Women’s Press by Laura Bier • Radio Cairo and the Decolonization 

of East Africa, 1953–64 by James R. Brennan • 

Mao in Zanzibar: Nationalism, Discipline, and the (De)Construction 

of Afro-Asian Solidarities by G. Thomas Burgess 

• Working Ahead of Time: Labor and Modernization during 

the Construction of the TAZARA Railway, 1968–86 by 

Jamie Monson • Tricontinentalism in Question: The Cold 

War Politics of Alex La Guma and the African National 

Congress by Christopher J. Lee 

PART III The Present: Predicaments, Practices, Speculation 

China’s Engagement with Africa: Scope, Significance, 

and Consequences by Denis M. Tull • Superpower 

Osama: Symbolic Discourse in the Indian Ocean Region 

after the Cold War by Jeremy Prestholdt • The Sodalities 

of Bandung: Toward a Critical 21st-century History by 

Antoinette Burton 


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no. 11 

Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers 

and Joseph C. Miller, eds. 

Child Slaves in the Modern World 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne 

Miers and Joseph C. Miller, eds. 

SECTION I: Child Slaves in the Era of Abolition: “All 

we want is make us free”: The Voyage of La Amistad’s 

Children through the Worlds of the Illegal Slave Trade by 

Benjamin N. Lawrance • Children and Bondage in Imperial 

Madagascar, ca. 1790–18952 by Gwyn Campbell • 

Youthful Rebels: Young People, Agency, and Resistance 

against Colonial Slavery in the British Caribbean Plantation 

World by Cecily Jones • Family Strategies: Slave Parents 

and Children in the Caracas Courts, 1750–1854 by Sue 

Taylor • Degrees of Bondage: Children’s Tutelary Servitude 

in Modern Latin America by Nara Milanich • Children and 

Slavery in the Western Sudan by Martin Klein • Slavery 

and Guardianship in Postemancipation Senegal: Colonial 

Legislation and Minors in Tutelle, 1848–1905 by Bernard 

Moitt • British Magistrates and Unfree Children in Early 

Colonial Gold Coast, 1874–1899 by Trevor R. Getz • The 

Redemption of Child Slaves by Christian Missionaries in 

Central Africa, 1878–1914 by William G. Clarence-Smith 

SECTION II: Child Slaves in the Modern Era: “This is 

nothing but slavery”: Child Domestic Labor in the Modern 

Context by Jonathan Blagbrough • Girls as Domestic 

Slaves in Contemporary France by Philip Whalen and 

Malika Id’ Salah • Strategic Agents: Adolescent Prostitutes 

in Cape Town, South Africa by Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki • 

Children, Slavery, and Soldiering by Sarah Maguire • Contemporary 

Child Slavery by Mike Dottridge 


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Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers 


Children in Slavery through the Ages 

“This anthology epitomized the strengths of the new history 

of slavery: a world-wide perspective that cuts across 

space and time”—Steven Mintz author of Huck’s Raft: A 

History of American Childhood 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne 

Miers, and Joseph C. Miller. 

SECTION I The Trades in Slave Children Child Slaves 

in the Early North Atlantic Trade in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth 

Centuries by António de Almeida Mendes • Children 

and European Slave trading in the Indian Ocean during 

the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries by 

Richard B. Allen • Small Change: Children in the Nineteenth-Century 

East African Slave Trade by Fred Morton • 

The Brief Life of ‘Ali, the Orphan of Kordofan: The Egyptian 

Slave Trade in the Sudan, 1820–35 by George Michael 

La Rue • Traded Babies: Enslaved Children in America’s 

Domestic Migration, 1820–60 by Susan Eva O’Donovan 

SECTION II: The Treatment and Uses of Slave Children 

through the Ages, Part A: Children Acquired for 

Social, Political, and Domestic Roles Singing Slave Girls 

(Qiyan) of the ‘Abbasid Court in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries 

by Kristina Richardson • Becoming a Devşirme: The 

Training of Conscripted Children in the Ottoman Empire 

by Gulay Yilmaz • The Third Gender: The Palace Eunuchs 

by Bok-Rae Kim • The Well-Being of Purchased Female 

Domestic Servants (Mui Tsai) in Hong Kong in the Early 

Twentieth Century by Pauline Pui-Ting Poon • Part B: 

Children in Commercial Slaveries Slave and Other Nonwhite 

Children in Late Eighteenth-Century France by Pierre 

H. Boulle • The Struggle for Survival: Slave Infant Mortality 

in the British Caribbean in the Late Eighteenth and Nine-

teenth Centuries by Kenneth Morgan • Left Behind but 

Getting Ahead: Antebellum Slavery’s Orphans in the Chesapeake, 

1820–60 by Calvin Schermerhorn 

2009 248 pages 

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Paul Tiyambe Zeleza 

Barack Obama and African Diasporas 

Dialogues and Dissensions 

An active blogger on The Zeleza Post, from which these 

essays are drawn, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza provides a genuinely 

critical engagement with Africa’s multiple worlds. With a 

blend of erudition and lively style, Zeleza writes about the 

role of Africa and Africans in the world and the interaction of 

the world with Africa. 

“Exploring the complex cultural and political forces behind 

the election of Barack Obama, Zeleza provides an exciting 

springboard to examine the economies of knowledge and 

the politics of representation in Africa. He is endowed with 

the gift of tracing Africa and its Diaspora’s various conversations 

and confrontations across geographies, languages, religions, 

wars, leisures, poetics, and politics.” 

—Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University 

2009 240 pages 

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Richard Reid 

War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa 

The Patterns and Meanings of State-Level 

Conflict in the 19th Century 

This work examines the nature and objectives of violence in 

the region in the 19th century. It is particularly concerned 

with highland Ethiopia and the Great Lakes. 

Contents: I THEORy & CONTEXT • African 

war in historical & theoretical perspective • Antiquity 

& inheritance • Restorative violence & the weight 

of history II ARMIES • Tools & tactics • Organisation 

& function III PROCESS, IMPACT & CULTURE 

• Cost & profit • War & economic change • Violence 

& society • The resolution & avoidance of conflict 

• The culture of conflict IV CONCLUSIONS • War & the 

making of state & society 

2007 256 pages 

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Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, eds. 

The Roots of African Conflicts 

The Causes and Costs 

Contents: INTRODUCTION The Causes & Costs of War in 

Africa: From Liberation Struggles to the ‘War on Terror’ by 

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza • Prologue: Conflict in Africa by Ali 

A. Mazrui 

Chapters: When states implode: Africa’s civil wars, 1950– 

92 by Errol A. Henderson • Multiple Complexity & Prospects 

for Reconciliation & Unity: The Sudan Conundrum by 

Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed • ‘You Don’t Belong Here’: Citizenship, 

the State & Africa’s Conflicts: Reflections on Ivory 

Coast by John Akokpari • The Terrible Toll of Postcolonial 

Rebel Movements: Towards an Explanation of the Violence 

against the Peasantry by Thandika Mkandawire • Fanon & 

the African Woman Combatant: Updating Fanon’s Psychological 

perspectives on Anti-Colonial & Postcolonial Wars by 

Aaronette M. White • Fighting locally, Connecting Globally: 

Inside & Outside Dimensions of African Conflict by Sandra J. 

Maclean • Legislative Responses to Terrorism & the Protection 

of Human Rights: A Survey of Selected African Practice 

by Cephas Lumina • Conflicts & Implications for Poverty & 

Food Security Policies in Africa by Fondo Sikod • Two Africas? 

Two Ugandas? An African ‘Democratic Developmental 

State’? Or another ‘Failed State’? by Timothy M. Shaw and 

Pamela K. Mbabaz 

2008 288 pages 

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Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, eds. 

The Resolution of African Conflicts 

The Management of Conflict Resolution and 

Post-conflict Reconstruction 

Contents: The Resolution of African Conflicts by Alfred 

Nhema • The Role of Sub-Regional Integration Schemesin 

Conflict Prevention & Management in Africa: A Framework 

for a Working Peace System by Victor A.O. Adetula • 

Conflict Resolution in Africa: The Role of the OAU by Carolyn 

M. Shaw • The Continental Early Warning System of 

the African Union : What Role for Civil Society? By Jakkie Cilliers 

• The International Criminal Court & the Lord’s Resistance 

Army Insurgency in Northern Uganda by Kasaija Philip 

Apuuli • How to Make Democracy Work? Local Government 

& the Beneficial & Destructive Potential of Social Capital in 

Post-Apartheid South Africa by Ursula Scheidegger • Local 

Government & the Management of Conflict in Fragmented 

Societies South Africa, Namibia & Mauritius Compared by 

Christof Hartmann • Managing the Process of Conflict Resolution 

in the Sudan by Idris Salim El Hassan • Elections & 

Conflict in Southern Africa by Khabele Matlosa • The Somali 

Peace Process from Arta to Eldoret to Mbagathi: Opportunities 

& Challenges by Kizito Sabala , Aisha Ahmad & Edwin 

Rutto • Peace & War in Post-Conflict Mozambique by Brazáo 

Mazula with Eduardo Sitoe, Obede Baloi & Guilherme Mbilana 

• Post-1990 Constitutional Reforms in Africa: A Preliminary 

Assessment of the Prospects for Constitutional Governance 

& Constitutionalism by Charles Manga Fombad 

2008 224 pages 

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Muna Ndulo, ed. 

Democratic Reform in Africa 

Its Impact on Governance & Poverty Alleviation 

Contents: Good governance: The rule of law & poverty 

alleviation by Muna Ndulo • Democratic reform in Africa 

by Johann Kriegler • Democracy in Africa : What Future? 

by Joel Barkan • Legal drafting for democratic social 

change & development by Ann & Robert Seidman • The 

South African constitution as a mechanism for redressing 

poverty by Penelope Andrews • Civil society in governance 

& poverty alleviation: A human rights perspective 

by Peter Takirambudde & Kate Fletcher • Decentralization: 

challenges of inclusion & equity in governance by Muna 

Ndulo • Challenges of economic reform & democratization: 

Some lessons from Ghana by Tsatsu Tsikata • Legal 

techniques & agencies of accountability: Human rights 

commisions in commonwealth Africa by John Hatchard • 

Are Africa’s economic reforms sustainable? Bringing governance 

back in by Brian Levy • From rhetoric to reality; 

Governance and gender equality by Colleen Lowe-Morna 

• Realizing rights through advocacy: The role of legal service 

organizations in promoting human rights & attacking 

poverty by Daniel Manning • The media & information 

for democracy by Thomas Lansner • Constitution making, 

peace building & national reconciliation: Zimbabwe by 

Reginald Austin • African peer review of political governance: 

Precedents, problematics & prospects by Douglas 

Anglin 

2006 311 pages 

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Jeremy Sarkin, ed. 

Human Rights in African Prisons 

“(T)his is a lucid, well-informed and compelling overview 

of the critical issues in African correctional institutions. . . . 

essential reading for African scholars, legal experts, human 

rights workers, and even informed, socially-conscious general 

readers, and thus is a must for any academic library.” 

—African Studies Quarterly 

Chapters: An overview of human rights in prisons worldwide 

by Jeremy Sarkin • A brief history of human rights 

in the prisons in Africa by Stephen Peté • Challenges 

to good prison governance in Africa by Chris Tapscott • 

Overcrowding in African prisons by Victor Dankwa • Pretrial 

detention and human rights in Africa by Martin Schönteich 

• Children in African prisons by Julia Sloth-Nielsen 

• The imprisonment of women in Africa by Lisa Vetten 

• Rehabilitation and reintegration in African prisons by 

Amanda Dissel • Alternative sentencing in Africa by Lukas 

Muntingh • The African Commission’s approach to prisons 

by Rachel Murray 

2008 256 pages 

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Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, 


Women and Slavery 

“Women and Slavery: Africa, the indian Ocean World, 

and the Medieval North Atlantic offers an exciting 

addition to the scholarship on gender and slavery. Students 

and professors alike will find this volume provocative and 

useful in examining the role of women in slavery and slave 

trades. . . . This collection, and its sister publication, Women 

and Slavery: The Modern Atlantic, by the same editors, 

work masterfully together and could serve as the basis for an 

entire course on women and slavery.”—International Journal 

of African Historical Studies 

Volume 1: Africa and the Indian Ocean World 

and the Medieval North Atlantic 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Women as Slaves and Owners of 

Slaves: Experiences from Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and 

the Early Atlantic by Joseph C. Miller 

PART I Women in Domestic Slavery across Africa and 

Asia Women, Marriage, and Slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa 

in the Nineteenth Century by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 

• Sex, Power, and Family Life in the Harem: A Comparative 

Study by Martin A. Klein • The Law of the (White) Father: Psychoanalysis, 

“Paternalism,” and the Historiography of Cape 

Slave Women by Shafira Ahjum 

PART II Women in Islamic Households Mjakazi, Mpambe, 

Mjoli, Suria Female Slaves in Swahili Sources by Katrin Bromber 

• Prices for Female Slaves and Changes in Their Life Cycle: Evidence 

from German East Africa by Jan-Georg Deutsch 

PART III Women in Households in the Fringes of Christianity 

and Commerce Thralls and Queens: Female Slavery in 

the Medieval Norse Atlantic by Kirsten A. Seaver • African 

Slave Women in Egypt, ca. 1820 to the Plague of 1834–35 by 

George Michael La Rue • Female Inboekelinge in the South 

African Republic, 1850–80 by Fred Morton 

PART IV Women in Imperial African Worlds Women, 

Gender History, and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Ethiopia 

by Timothy Fernyhough • Female Bondage in Imperial Madagascar, 

1820–95 by Gwyn Campbell • Internal Markets or an 

Atlantic-Sahara Divide? How Women Fit into the Slave Trade 

of West Africa by Paul E. Lovejoy • Women, Household Instability, 

and the End of Slavery in Banamba and Gumbu, French 

Soudan, 1905–12 by Richard Roberts 

PART V Women in Commercial Outposts of Modern 

Europe From Pariahs to Patriots: Women Slavers in Nineteenth-Century 

“Portuguese” Guinea by Philip J. Havik • It 

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All Comes Out in the Wash: Engendering Archeological Interpretations 

of Slavery by Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan • Free 

Women of Color and Socioeconomic Marginality in Mauritius, 

1767–1830 by Richard B. Allen 

Volume 2: The Modern Atlantic 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Strategies of Women and 

Constraints of Enslavement in the Modern Americas by 

Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller 

PART I The Reproductive Biology of Sugar Slavery 

Slave Women and Reproduction in Jamaica, ca. 1776– 

1834 by Kenneth Morgan • Gloomy Melancholy: Sexual 

Reproduction among Louisiana Slave Women, 1840–60 by 

Richard Follett 

PART II Women’s Initiatives under Slavery Can Women 

Guide and Govern Men?: Gendering Politics among African 

Catholics in Colonial Brazil by Mariza de Carvalho 

Soares • A Particular Kind of Freedom: Black Women, 

Slavery, Kinship, and Freedom in the American Southeast 

by Barbara Krauthamer • Enslaved Women and the Law: 

Paradoxes of Subordination in the Postrevolutionary Carolinas 

by Laura F. Edwards 

PART III Rebuilding Lives in the Caribbean: Emancipation 

and Its Aftermath Pricing Freedom in the French 

Caribbean: Women, Men, Children, and Redemption from 

Slavery in the 1840s by Bernard Moitt • Slave Women, 

Family Strategies, and the Transition to Freedom in Barbados, 

1834–41 by Lawrence Brown and Tara Inniss • Free 

but Minor: Slave Women, Citizenship, Respectability, and 

Social Antagonism in the French Antilles, 1830–90 by Myriam 

Cottias 

PART IV Representing Women Slaves: Masters’ Fantasies 

and Memories in Fiction Deviant and Dangerous: 

Proslavery Representation of Jamaican Slave Women’s Sexuality, 

ca. 1780/1834 by Henrice Altink • The Condition 

of the Mother: The Legacy of Slavery in African American 

Literature of the Jim Crow Era by Felipe Smith 

PART V Historiographical reflections on Slavery and 

Women Re-modeling Slavery as If Women Mattered by 

Claire Robertson and Marsha Robinson • Domiciled and 

Dominated: Slaving as a History of Women by Joseph C. 

Miller 

2007 Volume I 392 pages 

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2007 Volume II 312 pages 

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Preben Kaarsholm, ed. 

Violence, Political Culture, and 

Development in Africa 

“The notion of a “collapsed state” has much vogue in Western 

appraisals of Africa . . . These examples should prompt 

a re-examination of what is meant by a “failed state” [and] 

raise many questions about what motivates and drives the 

politicians and power brokers of Africa.”—North-South 

“Many of these contributions demonstrate the immense 

value of careful fieldwork and meticulous micropolitical 

understanding in the study of violence—methods and 

approaches all too often neglected in favor of theories that 

may appear parsimonious and appealing, but which often 

lack empirical foundations.”—African Studies Review 

Chapters: States of Failure, Societies in Collapse?: Understandings 

of Violent Conflict in Africa by Preben Kaarsholm 

• Insurgencies in the Shadow of State Collapse by William 

Reno • A Societal View on Violence & War: Conflict & 

Militia Formation in Eastern Congo by Koen Vlassenroot 

• Debating the Rwandan Genocide by Nigel Eltringham 

• Darfur: Peace, Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity in 

Sudan by Douglas H. Johnson • Legacies of Violence in 


Matabeleland, Zimbabwe by Jocelyn Alexander • The Past 

as Contested Terrain: Commemorating New Sites of Memory 

in War-Torn Ethiopia by Alessandro Triulzi • Violence as 

Signifier: Politics & Generational Struggle in KwaZulu-Natal 

by Preben Kaarsholm • War, Violence & Videotapes: Media 

& Localised Ideoscapes of the Liberian Civil War by Mats 

Utas • Forced Labour & Civil War: Agrarian Underpinnings 

of the Sierra Leone Conflict by Paul Richards 

2006 224 pages 

80. pb 978-0-89680-251-3 $24.00 SPECIAL $19 

Paul Richards, ed. 

No Peace, No War 

An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts 

Contents: Obituary of Bernhard Helander by Ioan Lewis 

• New War: An ethnographic approach by Paul Richards 

• Political Violence in Cambodia & the Khmer Rouge 

‘genocide’ by Jan Ovesen • Dealing with dilemmas: Violent 

farmer-pastoralist conflicts in Burkina Faso by Sten 

Hagberg • Sarajevan soldier story; Perceptions of war & 

morality in Bosnia by Ivana Macek • Silence & the politics 

of representing rebellion: On the emergence of the 

neutral Maya in Guatemala by Staffan Löfving • ‘For my 

God & my Life’: War & cosmology in Northern Uganda by 

Sverker Finnström • Making war, crafting peace: Militia 

solidarities & demobilization in Sierra Leone by Casper 

Fithen & Paul Richards • Building a future?: The reintegration 

& remarginalisation of youth in Liberia by Mats Utas • 

Memories of violence: Recreation of ethnicity in post-colonial 

Zimbabwe by Björn Lindgren • Belonging in nowhere 

land: The Tibetan diaspora as conflict by Asa Tiljander 

Dahlström • Who needs a state?: Civilians, security, & 

social services in North-East Somalia by Bernhard Helander 

2004 288 pages 

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David Birmingham, Portugal and Africa See Page 22. 

David Birmingham, Empire in Africa See Page 22. 

David Birmingham 

The Decolonization of Africa 

This concise introductory text on postwar Africa examines 

the complex themes of nationalism, liberation, and independence 

with clarity and insight. 

“The work is tightly written and must be closely read, 

but is an excellent introduction to the topic. . . A readily 

accessible introduction to one of the major themes of 

twentieth-century world history.”—Historian 

1996 117 pages 

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John iliffe 

The African AIDS Epidemic 

A History 

LISTED IN SiGNiFiCANT UNiVERSiTy PRESS TiTLES 

FOR UNDERGRADUATES, 2005–2006—CHOiCE 

“I hope this book will become a staple in schools of public 

health, business, and medicine in addition to being 

read by undergraduates and non-academics. The African 

AiDS Epidemic: A History is a well-crafted and 

carefully researched book. It is impressive that more 

than twenty-five years of AIDS history in Africa has 

been condensed into 160 extremely readable pages.” 


2005 210 pages 

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Helen yanacopulos and Joseph Hanlon, eds. 

Civil War, Civil Peace 

More than two hundred wars have been fought in the past 

half century. Nearly all have been civil wars. The “rules” of 

interstate war do not apply; each atrocity provokes retribution, 

and civil war takes on a brutal dynamic of its own. 

Prepared as a textbook, Civil War, Civil Peace challenges 

common simplistic explanations of war, including greed, 

gender, and long-standing religious or ethnic hatreds, 

which ignore that these groups have lived together in 

peace for centuries. 

Contributors: Joseph Hanlon, Tony Addison, S. Mansoob 

Murshed, Christopher Cramer, Alan Thomas, Judy El- 

Bushra, Jonathan Goodhand, and Helen Yanacopulos 

2005 321 pages 

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Basil Davidson 

The African Genius 

“Mr. Davidson cuts through jungles of ignorance to reveal 

a very old, very sophisticated African culture. This is a lucid 

history of a society and culture shattered by the slave traders 

and the imperialists and only now painfully reconstructing 

itself.”—Newsday 

“[The] most effective popularizer of African History and 

archaeology outside Africa.”—Roland Oliver in New York 

Review of Books 

2005 277 pages 

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Timothy H. Parsons 

Race, Resistance, and the Boy Scout 

Movement in British Colonial Africa 

“Situating the Boy Scout Movement within the contradictions 

of colonial rule in British east and southern Africa, Parsons 

argues that Africans embraced the Boy Scout Movement 

because it challenged colonial rulers to treat African 

scouts as equal to settler scouts, and because scouting lent 

‘respectability and legitimacy’ to African boys. . . . Parson’s 

book is an excellent introduction to colonial anxieties.” 


2004 424 pages 

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Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh, and Will Kymlicka, eds. 

Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa 

Contents: Part I Ethnicity & Democracy in Historical & 

Comparative Perspective INTRODUCTION Ethnicity & 

the Politics of Democratic Nation-Building in Africa by Bruce 

Berman, Dickson Eyoh & Will Kymlicka • Individuals’ Basic 

Security Needs & the Limits of Democratization in Africa by 

Peter Ekeh • Ethnicity, Bureaucracy & Democracy: The Politics 

of Trust by Bruce Berman • Nation-Building & Minority 

Rights: Comparing Africa & the West by Will Kymlicka 

PART II The Dynamic of Ethnic Development in Africa 

Moral & Political Argument in Kenya by John Lonsdale • 

Contesting Local Citizenship: Liberalization & Politics of Difference 

in Cameroon by Dickson Eyoh • The Burden of 

the Past & the Challenges of the Present: Coloured Identity 

& the Rainbow Nation by Cheryl Hendricks • Reaching 

the Limits of Universal Citizenship: ‘Minority’ Struggles 

in Botswana by Jacqueline S. Solway • Ethnicity & Nigerian 

Politics” The Past in the Yoruba Present by Toyin Falola 

PART III Ethnicity & the Politics of Democratization 

Hegemonic Enterprises & Instrumentalities of Survival: Ethnicity 

and Democracy in Kenya by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo •

‘The dog that did not bark, or why Natal did not take off’: 

Ethnicity & Democratization in South Africa-KwaZulu Natal 

by Shula Marks • Jomo Kenyatta & the Rise of the Ethno- 

Nationalist State in Kenya by Githu Muigai • Between Ethnic 

Memories & Colonial History in Senegal: The MFDC & 

the Struggle for Independence in Casamance • Ethnicities 

as ‘First nations’ of the Congolese Nation-State: Some 

Preliminary Observations by Bogumil Jewsiewicki & Leonard 

N’Sanda Buleli • Ethnicity & the Politics of Democratization 

in Nigeria by A. Raufu Mustapha 

PART IV Ethnicity & Institutional Design in Africa Multi- 

Level Governance in South Africa by Richard Simeon & 

Christina Murray • Liberal Multiculturalism & the Problems 

of Institutional Instability by John Boye Ejobowah • Conclusion: 

African Ethnic Politics & the Paradoxes of Democratic 

Development by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh & Will 

Kymlicka 

2004 352 pages 

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Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels, eds. 

The History of Islam in Africa 


Contents: INTRODUCTION Patterns of Islamization and 

Varieties of Religious Experience among Muslims of Africa 

by Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels 

PART I Gateways to Africa Egypt and North Africa by 

Peter von Sivers • The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea by 

M.N. Pearson 

PART II West Africa and the Sudan Islam in the Bilad 

al-Sudan to 1800 by Nehemia Levtzion • The Juula and 

the Expansion of Islam into the Forest by Ivor Wilks • Precolonial 

Islam in the Eastern Sudan by Jay Spaulding • 

Revolutions in the Western Sudan by David Robinson • 

The Eastern Sudan, 1822 to the Present by John O. Voll • 

Islam in Africa under French Colonial Rule by Jean-Louis 

Triaud • Islam in West Africa: Radicalism and the New 

Ethic of Disagreement, 1960–90 by Lansiné Kaba • Religious 

Pluralisms in Northern Nigeria by William F. S. Miles 

PART III Eastern and Southern Africa Ethiopia and the 

Horn of Africa by Lidwien Kapteijns • The East African 

Coast , c. 780–1900 c.e. by Randall L. Pouwels • The 

Coastal Hinterland and Interior of East Africa by David C. 

Sperling, with additional material by Jose H. Kagabo • 

East Central Africa by Edward A. Alpers • Islam in Southern 

Africa, 1652–1998 by Robert C.H. Shell • Radicalism 

and Reform in East Africa by Abdin Chande 

PART IV General Themes Islamic Law in Africa by 

Allan Christelow • Muslim Women in African History by 

Roberta Ann Dunbar • Islamic Education and Scholarship 

in Sub-Saharan Africa by Stefan Reichmuth • Sufi Brotherhoods 

in Africa by Knut S. Vikør • Prayer, Amulets, and 

Healing by David Owusu-Ansah • Islamic Art and Material 

Culture in Africa by René A. Bravmann • Islamic Literature 

in Africa by Kenneth W. Harrow • Music and Islam 

in Sub-Saharan Africa by Eric Charry 

2000 640 pages 

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A. L. Beier and Paul R. Ocobock 

Cast Out 

A History of Vagrancy and Homelessness 

in Global Perspective 

“This impressive collection of essays on vagrancy, homelessness, 

and poverty has truly global historical dimensions. 

It covers seven centuries and five continents, has 

a superb introductory overview, and is comparative social 

history at its best. It deserves to have a wide readership.” 

—Robert Tignor, author of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart 


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Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss, 

and Earline Rae Ferguson, eds. 

Stepping Forward 

Black Women in Africa and the Americas 

Chapters: British Colonial Policy toward Education and the 

Roots of Gender Inequality in Sierra Leone, 1896–1961 by 

Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley • Agency and Constructions of 

Professional Identity: African American Women Educators 

in the Rural South by Valinda W. Littlefield • In Search 

for Anna Erskine: African American Women in Ninteenth- 

Century Liberia by Nemata Blyden • Image and Representation: 

Black Women in Historical Accounts of Colonial 

Jamaica by Verene A. Shepherd • Helping Ourselves: 

Black Women and Grassroots Activism in Segregated 

South Africa, 1922–52 by Catherine Higgs • African 

American Clubwomen and the Indianapolis NAACP, 1912– 

14 by Earline Rae Ferguson • Witchcraft, Women, and 

Taxes in the Transkei, South Africa, 1930–63 by Sean Redding 

• “Mwen na rien, Msieu”: Jamaica Kincaid and the 

Problem if a Creole Gnosis by Rhonda Cobham • No Place 

to Call Home: Refugee and Internally Displaced Women in 

Kenya by Cassandra R. Veney • “The Sisters and Mothers 

are called to the City”: African American Women and an 

Even Greater Migration by Leslie Brown • Mai Chaza and 

the Politics of Motherhood in Colonial Zimbabwe by Barbara 

A. Moss • Standing Their Ground: Black Women’s 

Sacred Daily Life by Fayth M. Perks • Gender and Political 

Struggle in Kenya, 1948–98 by Cora Presley • “The lady 

folk is a doer”: Women and the Civil Rights Movement in 

Clairborne County, Mississippi by Emilye Crosby • Strategies 

for Survival by Luo Female Artsits in the Rural Environment 

in Kenya by Patricia Achieng Opondo • Wild 

and Holy Women in the Poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey by 

Andrea Benton Rushing • Owning What We Know: Racial 

Controversies in South African Feminism, 1991–98 by 

Teresa Barnes • Decolonizing Culture: The Media, Black 

Women, and Law by Deseriee Kennedy 

2002 368 pages 

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Dorothy L. Hodgson, ed. 

Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa 

Gender, Culture, and the Myth 

of the Patriarchal Pastoralist 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Gender, Culture, & the Myth 

of the Patriarchal Pastoralist by Dorothy L. Hodgson 

PART I Making Culture Gender & Material Culture in 

West Pokot, Kenya by Barbara Bianco • Gender, Ethnicity 

& Social Aesthetics in Maasai & Okiek Beadwork by 

Corinne Kratz and Donna Pido • Women & Men of the 

Khoekhoen of Southern Africa by Andrew B. Smith & Lita 

Webley 

PART II Domains of Power Pastoralism, Patriarchy & History 

among Maasia in Tanganyika, 1890–1940 by Dorothy 

L. Hodgson • Women’s Roles in Peacemaking in Somali 

Society by Asha Hagi Elmi, Dekha Ibrahim & Janice Jenner 

• Gender, Ethnographic Myths & Community-Based 

Conservation in a Former Namibian ‘Homeland’ by Sian 

Sullivan 

PART III Social Relations The Fertility of the Houses & 


Herds: Producing Kinship & Gender among Turkana Pastoralists 

by Vigdis Broch-Due • Exalted Mothers: Gender, 

Aging & Post-childbearing Experience in a Tuareg Community 

by Susan Rasmussen 

PART IV Negotiating Development and Modernity 

Milk Selling among the Fulani Women in Northern Burkina 

Faso by Solveig Buhl & Katherine Homewood • Development 

Ideologies & Local Knowledge aong Samburu 

Women in Northern Kenya by Bilinda Straight • Pastoral 

Disruption & Cultural Continuity in a Pastoral Town by 

Mario I. Aguilar 

2001 270 pages 

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William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray, eds. 

Hanging by a Thread 

Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa 

“Moseley and Gray have assembled a uniquely comprehensive 

picture of the way cotton connects poor farmers, 

wealthy consumers, activist organizations, industrial 

giants, and agronomic laboratories. Contributors use commodity 

chain analysis, national case histories, community 

scale studies, household production research, and examples 

of both successes and failures to point to ongoing 

changes among people, soil, crops, and companies in the 

global economy. This is more than a book for specialists on 

Africa; it provides a kaleidoscopic window into the pressing 

complexities of environment and development.” 

—Paul Robbins, University of Arizona 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Cotton, Globalization, and 

Poverty in Africa by William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray 

PART I Global Cotton, Local Crisis Producing Poverty: 

Power Relations and Price Formation in the Cotton Commodity 

Chains of West Africa by Thomas J. Bassett • Cotton 

Production in Burkina Faso: International Rhetoric 

versus Local Realities by Leslie C. Gray • Mali’s Cotton 

Conundrum: Commodity Production and Development on 

the Periphery • The Decline of Bt Cotton in KwaZulu- 

Natal; Technology and Institutions by Marnus Gouse, Bhavani 

Shankar, and Colin Thirtle 

PART II Organizing Cotton: National-Level Reforms 

and Rural Livelihoods The Many paths of Cotton Sector 

Reform in East and Southern, Africa: Lessons from a 

Decade of Experience by David Tschirely, Colin Poulton, 

and Duncan Boughton • Cotton Production, Poverty, 

and Inequality in Rural Benin: Evidence from the 1990s 

by Corinne Siaens and Quentin Wodon • Rural Development 

is More Than Commodity Production: Cotton in the 

Farming System of Kita, Mali by Dolores Koenig • Cotton 

Casualties and Cooperatives: Reinventing Farmer, Collectives 

at the Expense of Rurual Malian Communities? by 

Scott M. Lacy 

PART III Alternative Futures: Genetically Engineered 

and Organic Cotton Genetically Engineered Cotton: Politics, 

Science, and Power in West Africa by Jim Bingen • 

Organic Cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Development 

Paradigm? by Brian M. Dowd 

CONCLUSION Hanging by a Thread: The Future of Cotton 

in Africa by Leslie C. Gray and William G. Moseley 


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Hölger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle, eds. 

Christian Missionaries and the 

State in the Third World 

PART I INTRODUCTION Christian Missions & Third 

World States by Michael Twaddle 

PART II The Caribbean Diaspora at the End of the 

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Slave Era The Colonial State, Religion & the Control of 

Labour in Jamaica by Mary Turner • A Slave Missionary 

& Worldly Powers: John Wray in Guiana by Donald Wood 

PART III Mission & State in West & East Africa in Pre- 

Colonial Era The Moravians, the Basel Mission & the 

Akuapem State in the Early Nineteenth Century by Daniel 

Antwi & Paul Jenkins • Mutesa & Missionaries: Church & 

State in Pre-Colonial Buganda by John Rowe 

PART IV Christian Missionaries & Early Colonial State 

in Southern Africa Converts or Convicts? The Gospel 

of Liberation & Subordination in Early Nineteenth Century 

South Africa by Doug Stuart • Cape Colonial Officials & 

Christian Missionaries in the Early Nineteenth Century by 

Roger B. Beck • Zulu Responses to Norwegian Missionaries 

by Torstein Jorgensen 

PART V Christian Missionaries & Education Ploughs & 

Needles: State and Mission Approaches to African Girls’ 

Education in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell • Missionaries, 

Education & the State in the Italian Colony of 

Eritrea by Jonathan Miran 

PART VI Mainstream Missionaries & the Colonial 

State Christian Missionaries & the Emergent Colonial 

State in Northern Nigeria by Niels Kastfelt • Christian 

Church, ‘Native State’ & African Culture: The Presbyterian 

Mission in Akim Abuakwa, Ghana by Jarle Simensen 

• The Colonial State’s Policy Towards Foreign Missions in 

Uganda by Holger Bernt Hansen • Church & State in 

Malawi: The Role of the Scottish Presbyterian Missions 

1875 –1965 by John McCracken • Mission Christianity 

& Settler Colonialism in Eastern Africa by John Lonsdale 

PART VII Complications with Non-Mainstream Missionaries 

in Central & Southern Africa Joseph Booth— 

God’s Law & Man’s Law by Harry Langworthy • African 

American Missionaries & the Colonial State: The AME 

Church in South Africa by James Campbell • Ethiopianism 

& Colonialism: The African Orthodox Church in Zimbabwe, 

1924–34 by Michael O. West 

PART VIII Christian Missionaries & Politics after Independence 

in the Atlantic & African Worlds 

Religion & the Search for Identity: Campaigning Against 

Voodoo & Illiteracy in Haiti, 1939–43 by Leslie Griffiths • 

Protestant Missionaries in a Catholic State: Colombia in 

the 1940s & 1950s by Christopher Abel • From Mission 

to Church in an Islamizing State: The Case of Sudan, 

1946–64 by Andrew C. Wheeler 

2002 320 pages 

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SEriES EDitOrS: 

DErEk r. PEtErSOn, 

hArri EnGlUnD & 

chriStOPhEr WArnES 

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Derek R. Peterson, ed. 

Abolitionism and Imperialism in 

Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Abolition and Political 

Thought in Britain and East Africa by Derek R. Peterson 

Chapters: African Political Ethics and the Slave Trade by 

John Thornton • 1807 and All That: Why Britain Outlawed 

Her Slave Trade by Boyd Hilton • Empire without 

America: British Plans for Africa in the Era of the American 

Revolution by Christopher Leslie Brown • Ending the 

Slave Trade: A Caribbean and Atlantic Context by Philip 

D. Morgan • Emperors of the World: British Abolitionism 

& Imperialism by Seymour Drescher • Abolition & Impe- 


rialism: International Law and the British Suppression of 

the Atlantic Slave Trade by Robin Law • Racial Violence, 

Universal History, and Echoes of Abolition in Twentiethcentury 

Zanzibar by Jonathon Glassman 

2010 280 pages 

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NEW 

by Harri Englund, ed. 

Christianity and Public Culture 

in Africa 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Rethinking African Christianities: 

Beyond the Religion-Politics Conundrum by Harri 

Englund 

PART I Missionary and Nationalist Encounters Christian 

Mission Stations in South-Central Africa: Eddies in the 

Flow of Global Culture by James A. Pritchett • Debating 

the Secular in Zambia: The Response of the Catholic 

Church to Scientific Socialism and Christian Nation, 1976– 

2006 by Marja Hinfelaar • Rejection or Reappropriation?: 

Christian Allegory and the Critique of Postcolonial Public 

Culture in the Early Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o by Nicholas 

Kamau-Goro 

PART II Patriarchy and Public Culture The Implications 

of Reproductive Politics for Religious Competition in Niger 

by Barbara M. Cooper • Public Debates about Luo Widow 

Inheritance: Christianity, Tradition, and AIDS in Western 

Kenya by Ruth Prince • “Arise, Oh Ye Daughters of Faith”: 

Women, Pentecostalism, and Public Culture in Kenya by 

Damaris Parsitau 

PART III A Plurality of Pentecostal Publics Going and 

Making Public: Pentecostalism as Public Religion in Ghana 

by Birgit Meyer • From Spiritual Warfare to Spiritual Kinship: 

Islamophobia and Evangelical Radio in Malawi by 

Harri Englund • Believing Practically and Trusting Socially 

in Africa: The Contrary Case of the Universal Church of the 

Kingdom of God in Durban, South Africa by Ilana Van Wyk 

• The Gospel of Public Image in Ghana by Michael Perry 

Kweku Okyerefo 

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2011 240 pages 

102. hc 978-0-8214-1945-8 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

Anna Bohlin, Cherryl Walker, 

Ruth Hall and Thembela Kepe, eds. 

Land, Memory, Reconstruction, 

and Justice 

Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa 

“An outstanding and timely collection, Land, Memory, 

Reconstruction, and Justice is the most comprehensive 

treatment of land restitution in South Africa. It brings 

together a wealth of thematic and case study material 

from across the country and provides a rounded view of 

the multiple meanings of land restitution in postapartheid 

South Africa.”—Ben Cousins, Institute for Poverty, Land 

and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western 

Cape 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Anna Bohlin, Cherryl 

Walker, Ruth Hall and Thembela Kepe, 

PART I Contextual, Comparative, and Legal Perspectives 

Reconciling the Past, Present, and Future: The Parameters 

and Practices of Land Restitution in South Africa by 

Ruth Hall • Giving Land Back or Righting Wrongs: Com- 

parative issues in the Study of Land Restitution by Derick 

Fay and Deborah James • Changes through Jurisprudence: 

The Role of the Courts in Broadening the Scope of 

Restitution by Hanri Mostert 

PART II Restitution Voices: Memory, Contestation, 

Reconstruction Urban Restitution Narratives: Black River, 

Cape Town by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie • The Right to 

Land Restitution as Inspiration for Mobilization by Marc 

Wegerif • Choosing Cash over Land in Kalk Bay and 

Knysna: The Time Factor un Urban Land Claims by Anna 

Bohlin • Securing Postsettlement Support toward Sustainable 

Restitution: Lessons from Covie by Angela Conway 

and Tim Xipu 

PART III Restituting Community: Politics, Identity, 

Development Acrimonious Stakeholder Politics: Reconciliation 

and Redevelopment in District Six by Christiaan Beyers 

• “Model Tribes” and Iconic Conservationists? Tracking the 

Makuleke Restitution Case in Kruger National Park by Steven 

Robins and Kees van der Waal • The ≠ Khomani San 

Land Claim against the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park: 

Requiring and Acquiring Authenticity by William Ellis • The 

Ambiguities of Using Betterment Restitution as a Vehicle 

for Development: An Eastern Cape Case Study by Chris de 

Wet and Eric Mgujulwa • Land Restitution and Community 

Policies: The Case of Roosboom in KwaZulu-Natal by 

Chizuko Sato 

PART IV Restitution Policy: Limits and Possibilities Land 

Claims and Comanagement of Protected Areas in South 

Africa: Exploring the Challenges by Thembela Kepe • Restitution 

in Default: Land Claims and the Redevelopment 

of Cato Manor, Durban by Cherryl Walker • Unfinished 

Business: The Role of Governmental Institutions after the 

Restitution of Land Rights by Alan Dodson • Restitution, 

Agriculture, and Livelihoods: National Debates and Case 

Studies from Limpopo Province by Michael Aliber, Themba 

Malukeke, Mpfariseni Thagwana, and Tshililo Manenzhe • 

Strategic Questions about Strategic Partners: Challenges 

and Pitfalls in South Africa’s New Model of Land Restitution 

by Bill Derman, Edward Lahiff, and Epsen Sjaastad 

2010 352 pages 

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Cherryl Walker 

Landmarked 

Land Claims and Restitution in South Africa 

“This is a highly readable and deeply reflective personal 

assessment. . . . Landmarked is most certainly 

not a dry, academic text and this reviewer would recommend 

this book to anyone who wants to approach 

the study of land restitution without any prior, detailed 

knowledge of South Africa’s recent history or the politics 

and economics of loss and restoration of land.” 

—Journal of Southern African History 

“Landmarked is a wonderful book because it reflects 

so well and so strongly all these aspects of [Walker’s] life 

and work in South Africa. Her practical experience of the 

problems about which she writes is unrivalled. Her analysis 

is incisive and extremely well informed. Her writing 

style is humanely engaged in the best possible sense.” 

—Colin Murray 

2008 288 pages 

105. pb 978-0-8214-1870-3 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Aninka Claassens and Ben Cousins, eds. 

Land, Power, and Custom 

Controversies Generated by South Africa’s 

Communal Land Rights 

“Land, Power, and Custom brings together a rich combination 

of critical reflection and historical and ethnographic

evidence to elucidate the challenges of securing land rights 

in post-apartheid South Africa. The authors … make clear 

the relevance of South Africa’s experiments and dilemmas 

for land rights reform in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole.” 

—Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University 

Land tenure rights are a burning issue in South Africa, as in 

Africa more widely. Land, Power, and Custom explores 

the implications of the controversial 2004 Communal Land 

Rights Act (CLRA), criticized for reinforcing the apartheid 

power structure and ignoring the interests of the common 

people. A DVD accompanying the book contains the affidavits 

of four communities challenging the Act, pleadings, 

hearings, and submissions as well as the entire body of 

South African legislation involved in this challenge, dating 

back to the late nineteenth century. 

2009 408 pages 

106. pb 978-0-8214-1873-4 $34.95 SPECIAL $28 

NEW 

Mohamed Adhikari 

The Anatomy of a South 

African Genocide 

The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples 

“The Anatomy of a South African Genocide provides a 

succinct and accessible summary of a large body of scholarship 

on San colonial history. This makes it useful to both 

academic and lay readers. The book is a high-quality contribution 

to public education about the colonial history of 

the San.”—Mathias Guenther, Wilfrid Laurier University, 

Canada 

2011 392 pages 

107. pb 978-0-8214-1987-8 $16.95 SPECIAL $14 

Pippa Skotnes 

Claim to the Country 

The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd 

“Skotnes has created a hauntingly beautiful, deeply 

informed, and poignantly moving book on this archive. 

. . . This remarkable book and accompanying DVD is a 

treasure well worth its surprisingly modest price. Highly 


2007 392 pages 

108. hc 978-0-8214-1778-2 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

Pippa Skotnes 

Unconquerable Spirit 

George Stow’s History Paintings of the San 

Unconquerable Spirit reveals the scope and the beauty 

of the labors of George Stow, a Victorian man of many 

parts—geologist, poet, historian, ethnographer, artist, cartographer, 

and prolific writer—who explored and interpreted 

the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the 

caves and shelters of the South African interior created by 

the San. 


109. hc 978-0-8214-1869-7 $44.95 SPECIAL $36 

Nick Shepherd and Steven Robins, eds. 

New South African keywords 

Contents: INTRODUCTION New African Keywords by 

Nick Shepherd and Steven Robins 

Chapters: AIDS by Deborah Posel • Crime by Jonny 

Steinberg • Culture by Harry Garuba and Sam Raditlh- 

alo • Democracy and Citizenship by Bettina von Lieres 

and Steven Robins • Development by Kees van der Waal 

• Empowerment by Edgar Pieterse • Ethnicity by John 

L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff • Faith by Jean Comaroff 

and John L. Comaroff • Gender by Helen Moffett • 

Heritage by Nick Shepherd • Indigenous Knowledge Pt. 

1 by Kai Horsthemke and Pt.2 by Leslie J.F. Green • Land 

by Thembela Kepe, Ruth Hall, and Ben Cousins • Market 

and Economy by Thomas Koelble • Race by Zimitri Erasmus 

• Rights by Steve Robins • Tradition by Emile Boonzaier 

and Andrew D. Spiegel • Transformation by Thiven 

Reddy • Trauma by Christopher J. Colvin • Truth and 

Reconciliation by Fiona Ross • Writing Africa by Achille 

Mbembe in conversation with Isabel Hofmeyr • Xenophobia 

by Owen Sichone 

2009 278 pages 

110. pb 978-0-8214-1868-0 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Dan Wylie 

Myth of Iron 

Shaka in History 

“Wylie locates what we can know or reasonably surmise 

about Shaka in the broader context of local and 

global historical factors, which is immensely valuable. 

That, combined with his detailed unweaving of the 

Shaka myth, makes for a deeply fascinating volume.” 

—Shaun de Waal, Mail & Guardian 

Myth of iron is the first book-length scholarly study of the 

famous Zulu leader Shaka to be published. It lays out, as 

far as possible, all the available evidence—mainly hitherto 

underutilized Zulu oral testimonies, supported by other 

documentary sources—and decides, item by item, legend 

by legend, what exactly we can know about Shaka’s reign. 

2008 640 pages 

111. pb 978-0-8214-1848-2 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Wayne Dooling 

Slavery, Emancipation, and 

Colonial Rule in South Africa 

“This is a major work of South African history, putting 

economics and exploitation back where they 

belong, in the centre of the country’s historiography.” 

—Robert Ross, Leiden University 

2008 256 pages 

112. pb 978-0-89680-263-6 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Patrick Harries 

Butterflies & Barbarians 

Swiss Missionaries and Systems of 

knowledge in South-East Africa 

“Harries points out in detail the intellectual heritage 

of the missionaries in terms of their anthropological, 

religious, geographical, scientific, and linguistic 

beliefs. . . . The book is deeply researched and gives 

the reader a strong sense of the ferment out of which 

missionaries tried to make sense of their vocations.” 



113. hc 978-0-8214-1776-8 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 

114. pb 978-0-8214-1777-5 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Sean Redding 

Sorcery and Sovereignty 

Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 

1880–1963 

“[A] richly detailed and long-awaited book. . . . Based on 

southErn africa 

extensive archival research and written in clear and accessible 

prose, Redding’s work offers insight into how people 

have understood and contested colonial rule in South 

Africa. Where most authors have concentrated on particular 

regions during short periods of upheaval, Redding 

ranges over nearly a century of change and across the 

Transkei and Natal and Zululand.”—Clifton Crais, Journal 

of Southern African Studies 


115. hc 978-0-8214-1704-1 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

116. pb 978-0-8214-1705-8 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Jocelyn Alexander 

The Unsettled Land 

State-making & the Politics of Land 

in Zimbabwe, 1893–2003 

“Anglo-American scholars have produced a spate 

of books on Zimbabwe, but none dissects the state 

and makes sense of its transformation more competently 

and completely than Alexander’s The Unsettled 

Land. . . . This careful treatment is sure to set a 

new standard for histories of state-making in Africa.” 


2007 230 pages 

117. hc 978-0-8214-1735-5 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

118. pb 978-0-8214-1736-2 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

J. E. Davies 

Constructive Engagement? 

Chester Crocker & American Policy in South 

Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981–1988 

Davies offers a critique of one of the best-known examples 

of constructive engagement—the Reagan administration’s 

policy toward South Africa. 

2007 256 pages 

119. hc 978-0-8214-1781-2 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 

120. pb 978-0-8214-1782-9 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Lynda Schuster 

A Burning Hunger 

One Family’s Struggle Against Apartheid 

“A compelling story of a South African family that became 

deeply involved in this deadly, seemingly unending battle 

between black Africans and whites . . . the accounts 

impressively combine to form one intensely felt narrative of 

life in apartheid South Africa.”—The Historian 

“A major contribution to the history of the struggle era, 

giving a human face to a family that was idolized by black 

South Africans and demonized in white South Africa.” 

—Business Day 

2006 472 pages 

121. hc 978-0-8214-1651-8 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

122. pb 978-0-8214-1652-5 $19.95 SPECIAL $16 

Wilmot James and Linda van de Vijver, eds. 

After the TRC 

Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Wilmot James and Linda 

van de Vijver 

PART I Historical and Comparative Perspectives The 

Beast of the Past: History and the TRC by Colin Bundy • 

On the Limitations of Academic History: The Quest for 

Truth and Demands Both More and Less by Charles Villa- 

Vicencio • The Politics of Memory in Divided Societies by 

Heribert Adams and Kanya Adam 

PART II Reflections The Right to Truth by Patricia Valdez 

• A Diminished Truth by Mahmood Mamdani • Truth 

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southern africa • sudan 

without Reconciliation, Reconciliation without Truth by 

Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert • The Language of Potential by 

Alex Boraine • Reconciliation in Africa? By Jan van Eck 

• Neither Dull nor Tiresome by Kaizer Nyatsumba • His 

Name was Henry by Albie Sachs • A Lot More to Live For 

by Dumisa Ntsebeza 

PART III Unfinished Business Reparation, Amnesty and 

a National Archive by Mary Burton • Burying and Memorialising 

the Body of Truth: The TRC and National Heritage by 

Ciraj Rassool, Lesle Witz and Gary Minkley • The Amnesty 

Process by Linda van de Vijver 

PART IV After the TRC Of Lions and Rabbits: Thoughts 

on Democracy and Reconciliation by Njabulo Ndebele • 

The Rule of Law by Richard Goldstone • Fighting Corruption 

by Willem Heath • The TRC and the Building of a 

Moral Culture by John de Gruchy • Law, Corruption and 

Morality by Mamphela Ramphele 

PART V Building the Assets of the Nation Addressing 

Poverty and Inequality by Francis Wilson • Educating the 

Nation by Grace Naledi Pandor • The Second Republic by 

Jeffrey Lever and Wilmot James 

2001 238 pages 

123. pb 978-0-8214-1385-2 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

David Maxwell 

African Gifts of the Spirit 

Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean 

Transnational Religious Movement 

“In combining an ethnography of contemporary church 

life with the analysis of historical data, Maxwell presents 

a wide-ranging account of the history of Pentecostalism 

in southern Africa as well as a fascinating case study of an 

African Pentecostal movement involved in “recasting the 

shape and character of world Christianity.” This book is an 

excellent work and will be of special interest for scholars in 

the fields of religious studies, history, and anthropology as 

well as African studies.”—African Studies Review 

2007 272 pages 

124. hc 978-0-8214-1737-9 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

125. pb 978-0-8214-1738-6 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

James Barber 

Mandela’s World 

The International Dimension of South Africa’s 

Political Revolution, 1990–99 

“In this meticulously crafted book, James Barber adds a 

rich vein to the analytical coalface of South Africa’s transitional 

dynamics. . . . This is a very satisfying work: it is well 

written, cogently argued, neatly structured and thematically 

coherent. . . . It should be of abiding interest to students 

of South African politics and international affairs.” 

—South African Historical Journal 

2004 224 pages 

126. hc 978-0-8214-1565-8 $46.95 SPECIAL $38 

127. pb 978-0-8214-1566-5 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

Nigel Penn 

The Forgotten Frontier 

Colonist and khoisan on the Cape’s Northern 

Frontier in the 18th Century 


“Penn’s study transforms our understanding of this region 

and in doing so adds considerably to our grasp of the 

dynamics that motored South African History. . . . Scrupulously 

and meticulously researched. . . . Well presented, 

well researched, well argued and very well written. He con- 


tributes significantly to our understanding of South African 

History.”—Stanley Trapido 

2006 264 pages 

128. pb 978-0-8214-1682-2 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

Steven L. Robins, ed. 

Limits to Liberation after Apartheid 

Citizenship, Governance, & Culture 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Steven L. Robins 

PART I Culture & Limits of Liberation Marginalization & 

Citizenship in post-Apartheid South Africa by Bettina von 

Lieres • Reflections on Liberalism, Policulturalism & IDology 

: Citizenship & Difference in South Africa by John 

Comaroff & Jean Comaroff • The Demands of Recognition 

& the Ambivalence if Difference: Race, Culture & Afrikanerness 

in post-Apartheid South Africa by Suren Pillay 

• Traditional Leaders & Democracy: Cultural Politics in the 

Age of Globalization by Thomas A. Koelble & Ed Lipuma 

PART II Rethinking Citizenship & Governance in 

Urban South Africa Nodal Governance, Denizenship & 

Communal Space: Challenging the Westphalia Ideal by 

Clifford Shearing & Jennifer Wood in collaboration with 

John Cartwright and Madeline Jenneker • Political Inventions 

& Interventions: A Critical review of the Proposed City 

Development Strategy Partnership in Cape Town by Edgar 

Pieterse • ‘Functional’ & ‘Dysfunctional’ Communities: 

The Making of Ethical Citizens by Ivor Chipklin • Mediating 

Manenberg in the post-Apartheid Public Sphere: 

Media, Democracy & Citizenship in South Africa by Sean 

Jacobs & Ron Krabill 

PART III Cultural Plurality & Cultural Politics after 

Apartheid Negotiating Gender & Personhood in the New 

South Africa: Adolescent Women & Gangsters in Manenberg 

Township on the Cape Flats by Elaine Salo • Refracting 

an Elusive South African Urban Citizenship: Problems 

with Tracking Spaza by Andrew Spiegel • Coloureds don’t 

Toyi-Toyi: Gesture, Constraint & Identity in Cape Town by 

Shannon Jackson • Palaces of Desire: Century City & the 

Ambiguities of Development by Rafael Marks 

2005 320 pages 

129. hc 978-0-8214-1665-5 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

130. pb 978-0-8214-1666-2 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

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East africa 

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David Newbury 

Foreword by Jan Vansina 

The Land beyond the Mists 

Essays on Identity & Authority in 

Precolonial Congo and Rwanda 

The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s did not 

occur in a historical vacuum. The case studies presented 

in The Land beyond the Mists illustrate the significant 

advances to have taken place since decolonization in our 

understanding of the precolonial histories of Rwanda, 

Burundi, and eastern Congo. 

“The Land Beyond the Mists serves as a fitting testament 

to a distinguished career of scholarship devoted to 

unearthing overlooked perspectives into the deep past of 

an often neglected area of the continent.”—Journal of 

African History 

“This collection is a fitting survey of a career dedicated to 

understanding the history of a place that came to dominate 

the world’s attention for a short period and the 

drifted back under the radar. The Land beyond the 

Mists showcases some of the most innovative work in the 

field of African History in essays that explore the history of 

Rwanda, most importantly its western marches, and other 

pre-twentieth century states of the Great Lakes region.” 

—Gregory Maddox 

2009 512 pages 

131. hc 978-0-8214-1874-1 $69.95 SPECIAL $56 

132. pb 978-0-8214-1875-8 $32.95 SPECIAL $26 

Henri Médard and Shane Doyle, eds. 

Slavery in the Great Lakes 

Region of East Africa 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Henri Médard 

Chapters: Language Evidence of Slavery to the Eighteenth 

Century by David Schoenbrun • The Rise of Slavery & 

Social Change in Unyamwezi 1860–1900 by Jan-Georg 

Deutsch • Slavery & Forced Labour in the Eastern Congo 

1850–1910 by David Northrup • Legacies of Slavery in 

North West Uganda ‘The One-Elevens’ by Mark Leopold 

• Human Booty in Buganda: The Seizure of People 

in War, c. 1700–c. 1900 by Richard Reid • Stolen People 

& Autonomous Chiefs in Nineteenth-Century Buganda by 

Holly Hanson • Women’s Experiences of Slavery in Nineteenth- 

& Early Twentieth-Century Uganda by Michael W. 

Tuck • Slavery & Social Oppression in Ankole 1890 –1940 

by Edward I. Stein • The Slave Trade in Burundi & Rwanda 

at the Beginning of German Colonisation 1890 –1906 by 

Jean-Pierre Chretien • Bunyoro & the Demography of 

Slavery Debate by Shane Doyle 

2007 288 pages 

133. hc 978-0-8214-1792-8 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 

134. pb 978-0-8214-1793-5 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Justin Willis 

Potent Brews 

A Social History of Alcohol in East Africa, 

1850–1999 

“Potent Brews breaks new ground in analyzing the very 

different functions of alcohol in precolonial, colonial, and 

postcolonial contexts. Willis focuses particularly on alcohol’s 

role in the making of authority, contending that “for 

people across East Africa, talking about ‘proper’ drinking 

and contrasting past drinking with present drinking, have 

been ways of arguing about proper behavior within their 

own societies.”—African Studies Review 

2002 288 pages 

135. hc 978-0-8214-1475-0 $44.95 SPECIAL $36 

136. pb 978-0-8214-1476-7 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

Andrew Burton and Hélène Charton-Bigot, eds., 

Generations Past See Page 8. 

Richard Reid, Natures of Colonial Change See Page 4. 

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sudan 

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David Keen 

The Benefits of Famine 

A Political Economy of Famine & Relief 

in Southwestern Sudan, 1983–89 

“This thoroughly researched and well-written book is 

essential reading not only for all who deal with famine 

relief and disaster management but also for students 

of public health, the social sciences, and rural

development.”—Lancet 

The conflict in Darfur had a precursor in Sudan’s famines 

of the 1980s and 1990s. The Benefits of Famine presents 

a new and chilling interpretation of the causes of warinduced 

famine. 

2008 320 pages 

137. pb 978-0-8214-1822-2 $28.95 SPECIAL $23 

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David Pool 

From Guerrillas to Government 

The Eritrean People’s Liberation Front 

“In this analytically rich volume, Pool has done a commendable 

job of tracing the evolution of the Eritrean Liberation 

Front from its inception in the early 1970s to its 

victory and ascension to state power in 1991. . . . Highly 

recommended for scholars and students of African development, 

revolution, and Third World politics.”—Choice 

“Pool offers one of the finest analyses of Eritrean prenationalist 

relations and postcolonial policies available. He 

deftly deconstructs the complexities of lowland communities 

in particular, and illustrates the shifting tensions 

between ethnolinguistic, religious, kinship, and regional 

identities in an illuminating and engaging manner.” 


2001 222 pages 

138. hc 978-0-8214-1386-9 $42.95 SPECIAL $34 

139. pb 978-0-8214-1387-6 $22.95 SPECIAL $18 

David Turton, ed. 

Ethnic Federalism 

The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative 

Perspective 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by David Turton 

Chapters: Emerging Western Models of Multination Federalism: 

Are They Relevant in Africa? by Will Kymlicka • 

Federalism & the Management of Ethnic Conflict: The 

Nigerian Experience by Rotimi Suberu • The Evolution 

& Distinctiveness of India’s Linquistic Federalism by Rajeev 

Bhargava • Contradictory Interpretations of Ethiopian History: 

The Need for a New Consensus by Merera Gudina 

• Theory versus Practice in the Implementation of Ethiopia’s 

Ethnic Federalism by Assefa Fisheha • The Development 

of Regional & Local Languages in Ethiopia’s Federal 

System by Gideon Cohen • Responses to Ethnic Federalism 

in Ethiopia’s Southern Region by Sarah Vaughn • The 

Experience of Gambella Regional State by Dereje Feyissa • 

Afterword by Christopher Clapham 

2006 320 pages 

140. hc 978-0-8214-1696-9 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

141. pb 978-0-8214-1697-6 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

Donald L. Donham and Wendy James, eds. 

Southern Marches of 

Imperial Ethiopia 

Essays in History and Social Anthropology 

“This book . . . remains the standard by which to measure 

analyses of social history in Greater Ethiopia.” 

—Africa Today 

Contents: PART I The Making of an Imperial State 

Old Abyssinia and the new Ethiopian Empire: themes in 

social history by Donald Donham 

PART II Renegotiating power and authority Neke- 

mte and Addis Abeba: dilemmas of provincial rule by Alessandro 

Triulzi • From ritual kings to Ethiopian landlords 

in Maale by Donald Donham • Institutionalizing a fringe 

periphery: Dassanetch-Amhara relations by Uri Almagor 

PART III Reorienting kinship and identity Lifelines: 

Exchange marriage among the Gumuz by Wendy James • 

A problem of domination at the periphery: the Kwegu and 

the Mursi by David Turton 

PART IV Expanding tribute and trade Coffee in centreperiphery 

relations: Gedeo in the early twentieth century 

by Charles W. McClellan • Vicious cycles: ivory, slaves, 

and arms on the new Maji frontier by Peter P. Garretson 

• On the Nilotic frontier: imperial Ethiopia in the southern 

Sudan. 1898 –1936 by Douglas H. Johnson • Epilogue by 

Wendy James 

2002 320 pages 

142. pb 978-0-8214-1449-1 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Bahru Zewde 

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia 

The Reformist Intellectuals of 

the Early Twentieth Century 

A collective biography of a remarkable group of Ethiopians 

who studied in universities around the world and returned 

to establish a new literature and political philosophy, compiled 

by one of the foremost historians of Ethiopia. 

“A major work by a distinguished Ethiopian historian 

as well as a pioneer of present-day scholars writing 

about African History . . . impressive study.” 

—Africa Today 

2002 288 pages 

143. hc 978-0-8214-1445-3 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

144. pb 978-0-8214-1446-0 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Ezekiel Gebissa 

Leaf of Allah 

khat & Agricultural Transformation 

in Harerge, Ethiopia, 1875–1991 

“The first social and economic history of khat in Ethiopia 

and surrounding lands. . . . Gebissa . . . writes with a fluency 

that comes from a vivid interest in the subject. The khat 

producers and traders of the Harerge highlands come to 

life in his hands, often in their own words. He has done 

them proud. . . . A book that is constantly fascinating.” 

—Times Literary Supplement 

2004 224 pages 

145. hc 978-0-8214-1559-7 $44.95 SPECIAL $36 

146. pb 978-0-8214-1560-3 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

Tekaste Negash and Kjetil Tronvoll 

Brothers at War 

Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War 

“The authors have succinctly presented a fuller inside view 

of the political and economic dynamics in both countries 

than any other study, paying specific attention to their 

leadership elites. . . . Innovative and perceptive approach. 

. . . This book is essential reading and very helpful in elucidating 

much of the background to this tragic conflict 

and the peculiar autocratic leaderships that led to it.” 

—African Affairs 

2001 192 pages 

147. hc 978-0-8214-1371-5 $42.95 SPECIAL $34 

148. pb 978-0-8214-1372-2 $19.95 SPECIAL $16 

eritrea ethiopia • kenya 

Bahru Zewde 

A History of Modern 

Ethiopia, 1855–1991 

Second Edition 

Bounded by Sudan to the west and north, Kenya to the 

south, Somalia to the southeast, and Eritrea and Djibouti 

to the northeast, Ethiopia is a pivotal country in the geopolitics 

of the region. Yet it is important to understand this 

ancient and often splintered country in its own right. In 

A History of Modern Ethiopia, Bahru Zewde, one of 

Ethiopia’s leading historians, provides a compact and comprehensive 

history of his country, particularly the last two 

centuries. A History of Modern Ethiopia, now with 

additional material taking it up to the last decade, is the 

preeminent overview of present-day Ethiopia. 

2002 254 pages 

149. pb 978-0-8214-1440-8 $16.95 SPECIAL $14 

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kenya 

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Edward i. Steinhart 

Black Poachers, White Hunters 

A Social History of Hunting in Colonial kenya 

“This is a long-researched, well organized, and seasoned 

book about one of those perennial “silences” in African 

environmental history and social life. . . . Edward Steinhart 

demonstrates the variety and values, local knowledge, 

and efficient techniques that rural Africans adaptively cultivated 

about wildlife for food, for trade, and for sport.” 


2005 320 pages 

150. hc 978-0-8214-1663-1 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

151. pb 978-0-8214-1664-8 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and John Lonsdale, eds. 

Mau Mau and Nationhood 

Arms, Authority, and Narration 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by John Lonsdale & E. S. Atieno 

Odhiambo 

Chapters: Mau Mau & Nationhood: The Untold Story by 

Bethwell A. Ogot • Matunda ya Uhuru, Fruits of Independence: 

Seven Themes on Nationalism in Kenya by E. 

S. Atieno Odhiambo • Authority, Gender & Violence: The 

War within Mau Mau’s fight for land & freedom by John 

Lonsdale • Writing in Revolution: Independent schooling 

& Mau Mau in Nyeri by Derek Peterson • Complementary 

or Contending Nationhoods? Kikuyu pamphlets & Songs, 

1945–52 by Christiana Pugliese • Mau Mau & Arming 

of the State by David A. Percox • The Battle of Dandora 

Swamp: Reconstructing the Mau Mau Land Freedom 

Army, October 1954 by David M. Anderson • ‘Impossible 

to Ignore their Greatness’: Survival craft in the Mau Mau 

forest movement by Kennel Jackson, Jr. • Detention, Rehabilitation 

& the Destruction of Kikuyu Society by Caroline 

Elkins • ‘Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Mau Mau’: The British 

popular press & the demoralization of empire by Joanna 

Lewis • Mau Mau & the Contest for Memory by Marshall 

S. Clough • The Nation & Narration: ‘The truths of the 

nation’ & the changing image of Mau Mau in Kenyan literature 

by James Ogude 

2003 320 pages 

152. hc 978-0-8214-1483-5 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

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Tabitha Kanogo 

African Womanhood in 

Colonial kenya, 1900–1950 

“In this compelling history . . . Kanogo uses archival 

research and oral interviews to explore the debates over 

clitoridectomy and bridewealth; the changing nature of 

childbirth and motherhood; the impact of mission education; 

the evolution of women’s legal status; and the struggle 

for control of African women by African men, European 

missionaries, and the colonial administration. She 

argues that while women were restricted in their choices 

by community, kin, and the wider colonial order, they also 

demonstrated agency. They took advantage of new openings 

in the system, running away to mission stations and 

urban areas. They challenged male elders and so-called 

customary law through the colonial legal system, and they 

sought Western education and entrance into new professions. 

In short, while all Africans suffered constraints and 

limitations under colonial rule, African women in some 

instances were able to negotiate beneficial new arrangements. 

. . . This is an important contribution to Kenyan 

historiography and women’s studies as a whole. Highly 


2000 288 pages 

154. hc 978-0-8214-1567-2 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

155. pb 978-0-8214-1568-9 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

David William Cohen and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo 

Siaya 

The Historical Anthropology of an African 

Landscape 

“This is a highly innovative book. . . . It offers a new 

approach to ethnography, melding history, anthropology 

and sociology with a range of concerns from the domain 

of popular culture that are not normally treated by the Africanist 

academic . . . a hugely enjoyable success.”—Africa 

1989 160 pages 

156. pb 978-0-8214-0902-2 $16.95 SPECIAL $14 

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tanzania 

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G. Thomas Burgess, ed. 

Race, Revolution, and the Struggle 

for Human Rights in Zanzibar 

The Memoirs of Ali Sultan Issa 

and Seif Sharif Hamad 

Ali Sultan Issa was an early Zanzibari nationalist. As a minister 

in the first revolutionary government he became one of 

Zanzibar’s most controversial figures, responsible for some 

of the government’s most radical policies. Later imprisoned, 

he has re-emerged as one of Zanzibar’s most successful 

property developers. Seif Shariff Hamad came of age during 

the revolution, becoming disenchanted with its broken 

promises and excesses. Having served in Tanzania’s ruling 

party, he is a leading figure in Zanzibar’s opposition. These 

two memoirs trace Zanzibar’s post-independence trajectory 

and reveal how Zanzibaris continue to dispute their revolutionary 

heritage and issues of ethnic identity. 

2009 320 pages 

157. hc 978-0-8214-1851-2 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

158. pb 978-0-8214-1852-9 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 


Jan-Georg Deutsch 

Emancipation without Abolition in 

German East Africa, c. 1884–1914 

“[T]he end of slavery in German East Africa presents a 

special and rather unexplored case, familiar only to a 

few experts. . . . Deutsch is able to argue in a convincing 

way that the end of slavery in East Africa depended to a 

great extent ‘on the persistent attempts of slaves to gain 

more meaningful control over their lives and day-to-day 

affairs.’”—International History Review 

2006 320 pages 

159. hc 978-0-8214-1719-5 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

160. pb 978-0-8214-1720-1 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Gregory H. Maddox and James L. Giblin, eds. 

In Search of a Nation 

Histories of Authority Dissidence in Tanzania 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Gregory H. Maddox and 

James L. Giblin 

PART I Politics & knowledge On Socially Composed 

Knowledge: Reconstructing a Shambaa Royal Ritual by 

Steven Feierman • Kingalu Mwana Shaha & Political Leadership 

in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Tanzania by Edward 

A. Alpers 

PART II Politics, Culture & Dissent in Colonial Tanganyika 

Colonial Boundaries & African Nationalism: The Case 

of the Kagera Salient by Ralph A. Austen • Indirect Rule, 

the Politics of Neo-Traditionalism & the Limits of Invention 

in Tanzania by Thomas Spear • Narrating Power in Colonial 

Ugogo: Mazengo of Mvumi by Gregory H. Maddox • 

The Tribal Past & the Politics of Nationalism in Mahenge 

District, 1940–60 by Jamie Monson • The Landscapes of 

Memory in Twentieth-Century Africa by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo 

• Some Complexities of Family & State in Colonial 

Njombe by James L. Giblin • Local, Regional & National: 

South Rukwa in the 1950s by Marcia Wright 

PART III The Nation & Its Dissidents Breaking the 

Chain at its Weakest Link: TANU & the Colonial Office by 

John Iliffe • Censoring the Press in Colonial Zanzibar: An 

Account of the Seditious Case against Al-Falaq by Lawrence 

E.Y. Mbogoni • An Imagined Generation: Umma 

Youth in Nationalist Zanzibar by Thomas Burgess • The 

Short History of Political Opposition & Multi-Party Democracy 

in Tanganyika, 1958–64 by James R. Brennan 

PART IV The Nation Reconsidered Engendering & Gendering 

African Nationalism: Rethinking the Case of Tanganyika 

(Tanzania) by Susan Geiger • Between the ‘Global’ 

& ‘Local’ Families: The Missing Link in School History Teaching 

in Postcolonial Tanzania by Yusuf Q. Lawi • Jack-of- 

All-Arts or Ustadhi?: The Poetics of Cultural Production in 

Tanzania by Kelly M. Askew 

2005 320 pages 

161. hc 978-0-8214-1670-9 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

162. pb 978-0-8214-1671-6 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

James L. Giblin 

A History of the Excluded 

Making Family a Refuge from State 

in Twentieth-Century Tanzania 

The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern 

Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up 

as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe was marginalized 

even as it was incorporated into the colonial economy. 

Njombe’s people came to see themselves as excluded from 

agricultural markers, access to medical services, schooling-—in 

short, from all opportunity to escape the impoverishing 

trap of migrant labor. 

2005 320 pages 

163 hc 978-0-8214-1668-6 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

164. pb 978-0-8214-1669-3 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Laura Fair 

Pastimes and Politics 

Culture, Community, and Identity in Post- 

Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945 

FINALIST, AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 


“This book is a masterpiece. . . . If ever a work was tailor-made 

for graduate seminars to introduce recent trends 

in African cultural and colonial history, this is it. . . . This 

book is excellent. Dazzling and joyful writing conveys 

the author’s love and enthusiasm for her subjects. . . . 

You can show this book to those unfamiliar with colonial 

Africa and they will be captivated rather than daunted.” 

—African Studies Quarterly 

“With exquisite detail, each . . . chapter demonstrates the 

manner in which this process was both thought and carried 

out. The overall result is a model of contemporary relevant 

scholarship.”—Choice 

2001 384 pages 

165. hc 978-0-8214-1383-8 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 

166. pb 978-0-8214-1384-5 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Andrew Burton 

African Underclass 

Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial 

Order in Dar es Salaam 

“One of the best and most stimulating accounts 

of urbanization in eastern Africa to have been produced 

in recent years . . . an excellent introductory 

account of recent approaches to the study of urbanization 

in eastern and southern Africa. . . . The greatest 

strength of the manuscript lies in the light it throws 

on the nature and activities of that section of the population 

labeled by the authorities as wahuni (‘vagrants’).” 

—John McCracken 

2005 320 pages 

167. hc 978-0-8214-1635-8 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

168. pb 978-0-8214-1636-5 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Erik Gilbert 

Dhows and the Colonial Economy 

of Zanzibar, 1860–1970 

“Clearly this volume is an excellent resource for scholars as 

well as a useful, thought provoking text for any graduate 

or undergraduate seminar.”—Itinerario 

“Thoroughly researched, and beautifully written. . . . 

Beautifully illustrated, with nearly twenty-five full pages 

devoted to photographs and maps, the book is essential 

reading for anyone interested in Indian Ocean trade 

or the limits of ‘modernization’ during the colonial era.” 

—The International History Review 

2005 192 pages 

169. hc 978-0-8214-1557-3 $44.95 SPECIAL $36 

170. pb 978-0-8214-1558-0 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Gregory Maddox, James L. Giblin, 

and isaria N. Kimambo, eds. 

Custodians of the Land 

Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Custodians of the Land: Ecology 

& Culture in the History of Tanzania by James Giblin & 

Gregory Maddox 

PART I Environmental & Demographic Change Population: 

A Dependent Variable by Juhani Koponen • Environment 

& Population Growth in Ugogo, Central Tanzania 

by Gregory Maddox

PART II Environmental Change & Economic History in 

Tanzania’s Northern Highlands: Environmental Control 

& Hunger In the Mountains & Plains of Northeastern Tanzania 

by Isaria N. Kimambo • Nature Recognized: Ecological 

History in the Plateau Forests of the West Usambara Mountains, 

1850–1935 by Christopher Conte 

PART III Politics & Environmental Change: The Precolonial 

Politics of Disease Control in the Lowlands of Northeastern 

Tanzania By James L. Giblin • ‘We Don’t Want 

Terraces!’: Protest & Identity under the Uluguru Land Usage 

Scheme by Pamela A. Maack 

PART IV Environment & Morality Environment, Community 

& History: ‘Nature in the Mind’ in Nineteenth and Early 

Twentieth-Century Buha, Western Tanzania by Michele 

Wagner • Canoe-building under Colonialism: Forestry 

& Food Politics in the Inner Kilombero Valley, 1920–40 

by Jamie Johnson • Struggles for the Land: The Political 

& Moral Economies of Land on Mount Meru by Thomas 

Spear • Conclusion by Isaria N. Kimambo 

1996 285 pages Print on Demand 

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somalia 

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i. M. Lewis 

A Modern History of the Somali 

Nation and State in the Horn of Africa 

Fourth edition 

“By far the most penetrating of the works on Somali 

history and contemporary events. . . . Lewis is probably 

the only foreign social scientist ever to have won 

acknowledgement, if not always approval, among the 

critically minded Somali intellectuals and politicians.” 

—Bernard Helander 

2003 368 pages 

173. pb 978-0-8214-1495-8 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

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uganda 

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Grace Carswell 

Cultivating Success in Uganda 

kigezi Farmers and Colonial Policies 

Kigezi, a district in southwestern Uganda, is exceptional in 

many ways. In contrast to many other parts of the colonial 

world, this district did not adopt cash crops. Soil conservation 

practices were successfully adopted, and the 

region maintained a remarkably developed and individualized 

land market from the early colonial period. Grace 

Carswell presents a comprehensive study of livelihoods in 

Kigezi. Following the lead of groundbreaking studies by 

Tiffen, Fairhead, and Leach, her case study confirms recent 

research suggesting that the usual assumptions about 

population pressure, environment, and long-term land-use 

change need to be questioned. Her findings are particularly 

exciting for all those involved in the ongoing key debates in 

natural resource management, development studies, and 

environmental history. 

2007 272 pages 

174. hc 978-0-8214-1779-9 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 

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somalia • western africa • western africa 

Heike Behrend 

Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits 

War in Northern Uganda, 1985–97 

In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young woman in Northern 

Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian 

spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called Holy 

Spirit Mobile Forces. With it she waged a war against perceived 

evil, not only an external enemy, represented by the 

National Resistance Army of the government, but internal 

enemies in the form of “impure” soldiers, witches, and 

sorcerers. She came very close to overthrowing the government 

and fled to Kenya. This remarkable book concludes 

with an account of the successor movements into 

which Alice’s forces fragmented, including the Lord’s Resistance 

Army, actively involved in the civil wars of the Sudan 

and Uganda. 

2000 224 pages 

176. hc 978-0-8214-1310-4 $42.95 SPECIAL $34 

177. pb 978-0-8214-1311-1 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo and 

Marjorie Keniston Mcintosh 

Women, Work, and Domestic 

Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003 

AIDOO-SNyDER SCHOLARLy BOOk PRIZE 

This book offers a complete historical picture of women’s 

work in Uganda, tracing its development from precolonial 

times to the present and future. Setting these economic 

activities into a broader political, social, and cultural 

context, it provides the first general account of women’s 

experiences amidst the changes that shaped the country. 

Women, Work, and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 

1900–2003 traces the origins of the current situation, 

highlighting the challenges working women now face, 

and recommending strategies that will improve their circumstances 

for the future. 

2007 308 pages 

178. hc 978-0-8214-1733-1 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

179. pb 978-0-8214-1734-8 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Shane Doyle 

Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro 

Population & Environment in 

Western Uganda, 1860–1955 

The Kingdom of Bunyoro’s story demonstrates convincingly 

that environmental change there was not a uniform, 

statewide process. In one of the first studies of the political 

ecology of a major African kingdom, Crisis & Decline 

in Bunyoro addresses state capacity, ideology, and government 

legitimacy as crucial issues. Shane Doyle focuses 

on the interplay between levels of environmental activity 

within a highly stratified society. Political ecology was as 

much about the differential impact of conflict on society as 

about the uneven extraction and distribution of resources. 

2006 276 pages 

180 hc 978-0-8214-1633-4 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

181. pb 978-0-8214-1634-1 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Richard Reid 

Political Power in 

Pre-Colonial Buganda 

Economy, Society, and Warfare 

in the Nineteenth Century 

“This is an impressive study. Reid marshals a wealth 

of evidence and original argument on material conditions 

in late nineteenth-century Buganda, and the ways 

that those conditions shaped the nature and workings of 

the Ganda state. . . . Reid asks important questions and 

provides bold answers. His book breaks new ground that 

advances not only the study of precolonial Buganda, but 

also of precolonial Ugandan and East African History more 

generally.”—Journal of African History 

2003 288 pages 

182. hc 978-0-8214-1477-4 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

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wEst africa 

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Elizabeth Schmidt 

Cold War and Decolonization 

in Guinea, 1946–1958 

“Supported by clear and strong historical evidence, (Elizabeth 

Schmidt) shows that political decision making in 

Guinea was far more influenced by the bottom rather than 

the top.... (Cold War and Decolonization in Africa) is rich 

with data and empirical examples that illustrate some of 

the major themes in the history of decolonization, African 

nationalism, and the rise of one-party states in Africa.” 


“A compelling narrative of the history of nation building 

in Guinea . . . Schmidt deftly portrays the events from 

an African perspective, using colonial archives, interviews 

with activists, the era’s popular political songs, and photographs. 

. . . What simultaneously emerges in this nuanced 

treatment is a richer understanding of the pragmatic rather 

than purely visionary leadership of the famous Sékou 

Touré.”—Choice 

“By shifting the focus from elite to grassroot politics, 

Schmidt paints a picture of French decolonization 

in sub-Saharan Africa that is a welcome corrective to 

those earlier studies that appeared to view decolonization 

as the outcome of an essentially linear and orderly 

process, rather than the product of political struggle.” 

—Journal of African History 

2007 320 pages 

184. hc 978-0-8214-1763-8 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 

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Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, ed. 

Themes in West Africa’s History 

Contents: Introduction by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong 

• The Holocene prehistory of West Africa: 10,000– 

1000 BP by Susan Keech McIntosh • Ecology & culture 

in West Africa by James L. A. Webb Jr. • Linguistics 

& history in West Africa by M. E. Kropp Dakubu • 

Oral tradition & perceptions of history from the Manding 

peoples of West Africa by David C. Conrad • Slavery & 

slave trade in West Africa, 1450–1930 by Patrick Manning 

• Class, caste & social inequality in West African history 

by Ismail Rashid • Religious interactions in pre-twentiethcentury 

West Africa by Pashington Obeng • Poverty in 

pre-colonial & colonial West Africa: Perception, causes & 

alleviation by Ogbu U. Kalu; Disease in West African history 

by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong • Urbanization 

in colonial & post-colonial West Africa by Andreas Eckert 

• Commodities, Mercedes-Benz and structural adjustment: 

An episode in West African economic history 

by Célestin Monga • Ethnicity, conflict & the 

state in contemporary West Africa by Cyril K. Daddieh 

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• Pentecostalism, Islam & culture: New religious movements 

in West Africa by Brian Larkin and Birgit Meyer 

Emmanuel 

2006 288 pages 

186. hc 978-0-8214-1640-2 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

187. pb 978-0-8214-1641-9 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

Robin Law 

Ouidah 

The Social History of a West African 

Slaving Port, 1727–1892 



Finalist, FREDERICk DOUGLASS BOOk PRIZE 

“Robin Law’s social history of Ouidah during the period 

of the Dahomian overrule represents a major milestone 

in the historiography of the so-called Slave Coast. . . . 

Within this narrative framework Robin Law has crafted an 

erudite, detailed account of eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury 

Ouidah with an analytical focus resting firmly on 

the town’s middleman role in the Atlantic economy . . . an 

important book.”—African History 

2005 320 pages 

188. hc 978-0-8214-1571-9 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

189. pb 978-0-8214-1572-6 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Edmund Abaka 

kola Is God’s Gift 

Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives, 

and the kola Industry in Asante and the 

Gold Coast, c.1820–1950 

Kola is a “food-drug,” used to induce “flights of fancy,” 

and is incorporated into rites of passage and ceremonies. 

First recognized in the twelfth century, kola is a legal and 

popular stimulant among West African Muslims. This study 

details the legends and lore; social, religious, medicinal, 

and economic importance of kola nuts; the place of kola in 

the political economy of Asante and the Gold Coast; and 

its contribution to the economic initiatives of the Hausa 

diaspora. 

2005 256 pages 

190. hc 978-0-8214-1573-3 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

George E. Brooks 

Eurafricans in Western Africa 

Commerce, Social Status, Gender, 

and Religious Observance from the 

Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 

“The work is a detailed examination of the changing 

nature of coastal trade and its consequences upon the 

peoples, societies, and states of both the coastal, riverine, 

and interior trading networks. . . . Brooks . . . understands 

both the limits and biases of these materials, yet from them 

distills a great deal of information concerning Eurafricans 

and successfully integrates them into the wider history of 

change in Western Africa.”—Itinerario 

2003 392 pages 

191. hc 978-0-8214-1485-9 $65.00 SPECIAL $52 

192. pb 978-0-8214-1486-6 $32.95 SPECIAL $26 


kwame Nkrumah 

The Father of African Nationalism 

“This is a revised edition of a biography first published 

in 1990. It tells, in relatively few words (given 

the seminal importance of Nkrumah) and easy-to-read 


prose, the life story of the man who initiated independence 

and democracy in Africa south of the Sahara, 

and who attempted to convince other African leaders 

of the necessity for a pan-African approach to 

the defeat of colonialism and then neocolonialism.” 


1998 153 pages 

193. pb 978-0-8214-1242-8 $14.95 SPECIAL $12 

Trevor R. Getz 

Slavery and Reform in West Africa 

Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century 

Senegal and the Gold Coast 

As a classroom text, Getz’s book has value in that it helps 

to explain how colonialism “happened” and “functioned” 

by focusing on the period during which Senegal and the 

Gold Coast gradually transitioned from regions with independent 

polities to colonial states. Slavery and Reform 

in West Africa demonstrates the way actors—African and 

European—interacted in a process that culminated in formal 

annexation. This innovative study explores how European 

administrators in West Africa strove to satisfy the 

abolitionist pressure while placating or duping the slave 

owners, resulting in an alliance between colonial officials, 

company agents, and slave owners that undermined slavery 

reform. 

“All in all, this is an excellent book.” —African History 

2004 280 pages 

194. hc 978-0-8214-1520-7 $65.00 SPECIAL $52 

195. pb 978-0-8214-1521-4 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Ruth Watson 

“Civil Disorder Is the Disease 

of Ibadan” 

Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a yoruba City 

“Civil Disorder is a path-breaking book that re-interprets 

Ibadan and its influence will transcend Yoruba studies. It is, 

in the metaphor of the author’s subject, a ‘model of historical 

writing’ for subsequent interpretive studies. . . . Watson 

is at her interdisciplinary best drawing data and analytical 

tools from history and other disciplines. The literary style is 

lucid and most engaging.”—Modern African Studies 

“This is a brilliant and original reinterpretation of Ibadan’s 

political past, addressing for the first time the question 

of how the city’s civic culture was constituted and how it 

changed between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth 

centuries. . . . Watson shows apparently effortless mastery 

of highly complex data. . . . A really beautifully crafted and 

lucidly written book.”—Karin Barber 

2003 256 pages 

196. hc 978-0-8214-1450-7 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 

197. pb 978-0-8214-1451-4 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 

Mahir Şaul and Patrick Royer 

West African Challenge to Empire 

Culture and History in the Volta-Bani 

Anticolonial War 

Winner of the AMAURy TALBOT PRIZE 

FOR AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGy 

Mahir Şaul was awarded the DISTINGUISHED 

AFRICANIST AWARD by the Association 

for Africanist Anthropology 

“This book is an outstanding example of how two scholars 

from the distinct disciplines of history and anthropology 

can join talents to produce an excellent study, one 

that adequately combines dense narratives with insightful 

theories. . . . [It] presents us with not only a dense politi- 

cal narrative about men and motives, but also a cultural 

history, with the magic and supernatural dimensions of 

war.”—Historian 

“A must-read for any scholar interested in the military 

and social history of colonial rule in Africa.” 


2002 440 pages 

198. hc 978-0-8214-1413-2 $65.00 SPECIAL $52 

199. pb 978-0-8214-1414-9 $29.95 SPECIAL $24 

Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong 

Between the Sea and the Lagoon 

An Eco-Social History of the Anlo of 

Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to Recent Times 

“An outstanding study that deserves to be read by scholars 

and non-scholars alike interested in the history of 

African relations with the aquatic environment of ocean 

and lagoon.”—International Journal of African Historical 

Studies 

“Certainly this will be an important source for students of 

Ghanaian history, society, and culture, and for ecologists 

everywhere. The publishers are to be congratulated for recognizing 

the original quality of this work, and on producing 

it impeccably.”—Progress in Developmental Studies 

2002 256 pages 

200. hc 978-0-8214-1408-8 $44.95 SPECIAL $36 

201. pb 978-0-8214-1409-5 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 

Sylviane A. Diouf, ed. 

Fighting the Slave Trade 

West African Strategies 

“Fighting the Slave Trade . . . challenges the view that 

Africans passively accepted slavery, but also broadens the 

study of the Atlantic World.”—Western Journal of Black 

Studies 


Contents: INTRODUCTION by Sylviane A. Diouf 

PART I Defensive Strategies Lacustrine Villages in South 

Benin as Refuges from the Slave Trade by Elisée Soumonni 

• Slave-Raiding and Defensive Strategies South of Lake 

Chad from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century by Thierno 

Mouctar Bah • The Myth of Inevitability and Invincibility: 

Resistance to Slavers and the Slave Trade in Central 

Africa, 1850–1910 by Dennis D. Cordell • The Impact 

of the Slave Trade on Cayor and Baol: Mutations in Habitat 

and Land Occupancy by Adama Guèye • Defensive 

Strategies: Wasulu, Masina, and the Slave Trade by Martin 

A. Klein 

PART II Protective Strategies The Last Resort: Redeeming 

Family and Friends by Sylviane A. Diouf • Anglo- 

Efik Relations and Protection against Illegal Enslavement 

at Old Calabar, 1740–1807 by Paul E. Lovejoy and David 

Richardson 

PART III Offensive Strategies Igboland, Slavery, and the 

Drums of War and Heroism by John N. Oriji • “A Devotion 

to the Idea of Liberty at Any Price”: Rebellion and 

Antislavery in the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth 

and Nineteenth Centuries by Ismail Rashid • Strategies 

of the Decentralized: Defending Communities from Slave 

Raiders in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450–1815 by Walter 

Hawthorne • The Struggle against the Transatlantic 

Slave Trade: The Role of the State by Joseph E. Inikori • 

Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Transatlantic 

Slave Trade by David Richardson • Epilogue: Memory as 

Resistance: Identity and the Contested History of Slavery 

in Southeastern Nigeria, and Oral History Project by Carolyn 

A. Brown 

2003 288 pages 

202. hc 978-0-8214-1516-0 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 

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Paul Nugent 

Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal 

Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier 

The Life of the Borderlands since 1914 

“This book is a major contribution to Ghanaian historiography 

and African boundary studies, especially 

in its detailed study of land ownership and disputes 

across colonial boundaries. It presents one 

of the most fascinating discussions of smuggling that I 

have read.”—Journal of African History 

“This book is an important contribution to our knowledge 

of the creation of African frontier zones and the role 

of frontiers in the evolution of border-land communities, 

about which so little is known. Nugent’s conclusions are 

as striking as they are original.”—African Studies Review 

2003 302 pages 

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David Robinson 

Paths of Accommodation 

Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities 

in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880–1920 

“Robinson provides valuable insights into the relationship 

between knowledge and power, the transferability of symbolic, 

economic and social capital, and the concepts of civil 

society and hegemony in Francophone West Africa. . . . 

The book is not only wellresearched, clearly illustrated, and 

well written, but it also gives a good example of the interdisciplinary 

approach to the reconstruction of African history. 

It represents a significant addition to our knowledge 

of Islamic West Africa and French colonialism, and deserves 

the widest possible circulation.”—H-NET Reviews 

“Robinson deserves kudos for clarifying so effectively 

the muddled and complex process of transition that led 

to adjustment and compromise between the various 

parties. Written in clear and accessible prose, this work 

will be of enormous interest to historians of west Africa 

and other scholars of African colonialism and Islam.” 

—Religious Studies in Review 

2000 377 pages 

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sEriEs in 

ecology and history 

EDitOr: JAmES l. A. WEbb, Jr. 

This series publishes important regional and subregional 

studies of global and comparative environmental history. 

The editor seeks to publish the best of emerging literature 

on the environmental history of the wider world. 

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Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke, eds. 

Environmental Imaginaries of the 

Middle East and North Africa 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Imperialism, Orientalism, 

and the Environment in the Middle East: History, Policy, 

Power, and Practice by Diana K. Davis 

Chapters: ‘A Rebellion of Technology’: Development, 

Policing, and the British Idea of Arabia by Priya Satia • 

western africa • ecology and history series 

Restoring Roman Nature: French Identity and North African 

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the Nation, Critiquing the State: Environmental Narratives 

and Desert Land Reclamation in Egypt by Jeannie Sowers 

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of Environmental Change in Southeastern Turkey by 

Leila M. Harris • Hydro-Imaginaries and the Construction 

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2011 280 pages 

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Healing the Herds 

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Chapters: Epizootic Diseases in the Netherlands, 1713– 

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Response by Peter A. Koolmees • The Now-Opprobrious 

Title of “Horse Doctor”: Veterinarians and Professional Identity 

in Late Nineteenth-Century America by Ann N. Greene • 

Breeding Cows, Maximizing Milk: British Veterinarians and 

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Epizootics: Legislation and Administration during Outbreaks 

of Cattle Plague in Eighteenth-Century Northern Germany 

as Continuous Crisis Management by Dominik Hünniger 

• For Better of Worse?: The Impact of the Veterinarian 

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• Fighting Rinderpest in the Philippines, 1886–941 

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Indigenous knowledge and 

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Mark Cioc 

The Game of Conservation 

International Treaties to Protect 

the World’s Migratory Animals 

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and the skies of North America, to the frigid waters of the 

Antarctic. 


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Mad Dogs and Meerkats 

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readable book is the first study of rabies in Africa, tracing 

its history in South Africa and neighboring states from 

1800 to the present and showing how environmental and 

economic changes brought about by European colonialism 

and global trade have had long term effects. 

Contents: INTRODUCTION A Modern Plague: Rabies in 

South Africa, Past and Present 

Chapters: Travelers and Doctors: The Mystery of Rabies 

in Colonial South Africa • Death in “Little Bess”: The 

Port Elizabeth Rabies Epidemic • Crossing the Zambezi: 

The Southern Rhodesian Epidemic • Beware of the Wild 

“Cats”: Indigenous Rabies in South Africa • Rabid Dogs 

and Frenzied Jackals: The Return of Canine Rabies • Terror 

Hits the Streets: The Urbanization of Rabies in KwaZulu- 

Natal • The Virus Lives On: New Problems, Old Challenges 

for Rabies Control 

2011 228 pages 

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Thaddeus Sunseri 

Wielding the Ax 

State Forestry and Social Conflict 

in Tanzania, 1820–2000 


2010 MELVILLE J. HERSkOVITS AWARD 

Sunseri explores some of the most profound transformations 

in Tanzania from the nineteenth century to the present. 

He explores anticolonial rebellions, the World Wars, 

the depression, the Cold War, oil shocks, and nationalism 

through their intersections with and impacts on Tanzania’s 

coastal forests and woodlands. Wielding the Ax is a story 

of changing constellations of power over forests, beginning 

with African chiefs and forest spirits, both known as 

“ax-wielders,” and ending with international conservation 

experts who wield scientific knowledge as a means to 

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over tropical deforestation cannot be understood without 

an understanding of the long-term history of these forest 

struggles. 


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Stephen Dovers, Ruth Edgecombe, 

and Bill Guest, eds. 

South Africa’s Environmental History 

Causes and Comparisons 

“A worthwhile and rewarding read for anyone interested in 

environmental history, and not only that of South Africa.” 


Contents: Part I: INTRODUCTION Environmental history 

in southern Africa: An overview by Jane Carruthers 

PART II Essays in South African Environmental History 

The colonial ecological revolution in South Africa: 

The Case of Kuruman by Nancy Jacobs • White settlers’ 

impact on the environment in Durban, 1845–70 by Beverly 

Ellis • ‘The titihoya does not cry here anymore’: The crisis 

in the homestead economy in colonial Natal by John Lambert 

• ‘I can see my umuzi where I now am…I had fields 

over there but now I have none’: An ecological context for 

izimpi zemibango in the Pinetown district in South Africa, 

1920–36 by Jabulani Sitole • Environmental origins of the 

Pondoland revolt by William Beinart • The emergence of 

privately grown industrial tree plantations by Harald Witt • 

Technology and Ecology in the Karoo: A century of windmills, 

wire and changing farming practice by Sean Archer 

• ‘Our irrepressible fellow colonist’: The biological invasion 

of Prickly Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) in the Eastern Cape, 

c. 1890–c. 1910 by Lance van Sittert • Fire and the South 

African Grassland Biome by John McAllister • Wakkerstroom: 

Grasslands, fire and war – past perspectives, present 

issues by Elna Kotze • The dynamics of ecological 

change in an era of political transformations: An environmental 

history of the Eastern Shores of Lake St. Lucia by 

Georgina Thompson 

PART III Commentaries and Comparisons South African 

environmental history in the African context by William 

Beinart • Commonalities and contrasts, pasts and 

presents: An Australian view by Stephen Dovers • Environment 

and history in South America and South Africa 

by John McNeill • ‘Degradation narratives’ and ‘population 

time bombs’: Myths and realities about African environments 

by Gregory Maddox • The colonial eco-drama: 

resonant themes in the environmental history of southern 

Africa and South Asia by Ravi Rajan 

2003 329 pages 

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Diana K. Davis 

Resurrecting the Granary of Rome 

Environmental History and French 

Colonial Expansion in North Africa 

Winner of the GEORGE PERkINS MARSH PRIZE 

& the MERIDIAN BOOk AWARD 

“Resurrecting the Granary of Rome integrates the local 

knowledge of the social scientist with a historian’s examination 

of the colonial archives to provide a remarkably 

sure-handed reinterpretation of the ecohistorical aims of 

French colonialism in North Africa and its lasting legacy.” 

—Edmund Burke III, coeditor of Orientalism’s Histories 

“Diana Davis has provided an outstanding contribution to 

the field of comparative environmental history. Informed 

by history, political philosophy, anthropology, forestry, and 

strikingly, art history—as well as Davis’s own field of geography—Resurrecting 

the Granary of Rome will provide a 

crucial touchstone for comparison to works on sub-Saharan 

Africa and South Asia.” 

African Studies Review 

2007 312 pages 

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Christopher A. Conte 

Highland Sanctuary 

Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara 

Mountains 


“In this truly groundbreaking study, Conte provides a temporal 

vision of the area that, in the author’s words, ‘joins 

natural and human history in a way that illuminates the 

paradoxes inherent in landscapes.’ He demonstrates that 

in the precolonial millennia, indigenous agriculturalists and 

pastoralists adapted to the rich environment, while a brief 

colonial and immediate postcolonial era ravaged the forest 

through massive logging operations, resulting in deforestation. 

This destructive period was followed by the inevitable 

onset of conservation efforts to preserve what now 

remains. As Conte wisely observes, the local communities 

will now have to bear the burden of these latest efforts to 

affect the environment. This fascinating study deserves the 

attention of a wide variety of scholars and development 

experts. Highly recommended.”—Choice 

2004 256 pages 

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David M. Anderson 

Eroding the Commons 

The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, kenya, 

1890s–1963 

“This book is a most important addition to the field of African 

history and related thematic fields of environmental 

history, political history, and (but to a lesser degree) the 

history of science. [It] is a brilliantly researched and written 

book . . . an ample demonstration of the value of local stories 

to illuminate global trends.”—Jim McCann 

2003 352 pages 

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Kate B. Showers 

Imperial Gullies 

Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho 

“Showers shows how local people understood that colonial 

contour conservation methods and road building actually 

stimulated gully erosion, something colonial scientists 

failed to realize. Overall it is undoubtedly one of the most 

important books written to date on any part of the environmental 

history of Africa. Moreover it stands out in the 

discipline of environmental history in general as an unusually 

sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory 

power.”—Richard H. Grove 

“This is a first-of-a-kind book as the author has taken a 

historical approach to the subject, and has combined data 

from archival research, oral histories, and extensive fieldwork. 

This book makes it clear that rural people must 

be involved in soil conservation decisions in the future. 

It should interest soil scientists and conservationists, as 

well as social scientists and those interested in African 

history.”—Choice 

2005 376 pages 

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Jacob A. Tropp, Natures of Colonial Change See Page 4. 

Joseph Morgan Hodge 

Triumph of the Expert 

Agrarian Doctrines of Development and 

the Legacies of British Colonialism 

Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial policy 

and thinking and its contribution to the emergence of 

rural development and environmental policies in the late 

colonial and postcolonial period. Joseph Morgan Hodge 

examines the way that development as a framework of 

ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the strategic 

engagement between science and the state at the 

climax of the British Empire. Hodge looks at the structural 

constraints, bureaucratic fissures, and contradictory imperatives 

that beset and ultimately overwhelmed the late colonial 

development mission in sub-Saharan Africa, south and 

southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. 

2007 408 pages 

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William Beinart and JoAnn McGregor, eds. 

Social History and African Environments 

“The volume as a whole speaks to the vitality of environmental 

history in African history.” —Gregory H. Maddox in 

International Journal of African Historical Studies 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by William Beinart & JoAnn 

McGregor 

PART I African Environmental Ideas & Practices Hidden 

Fruits: The Social Ecology of Fruit Trees in Namibia & 

Angola, 1880s–1990s by Emmanuel Kreike • The Ironies 

of Plant Transfer: The Case of Prickly Pear in Madagascar 

by Karen Middleton • Environmental Data & Historical 

Process: Historical Climatic reconstruction & the Mutapa 

State, 1450–1862 by Innocent Pikirayi • Women & Environment 

in African Religion: The Case of Zimbabwe by Terence 

Ranger • Living with the River: Landscape & Memory 

in the Zambezi Valley, Northwest Zimbabwe by JoAnn 

McGregor 

PART II Colonial Science, the State & African 

Responses African Environments & Environmental Sciences: 

The African Research Survey, Ecological Paradigms 

& British Colonial Development, 1920–40 by Helen Tilley 

• Soil Conservation Policies in Colonial Kigezi, Uganda: 

Successful Implementation of an Absence of Resistance by 

Grace Carswell • Conservation & Resistance in Colonial 

Malawi: The ‘Dead North’ Revisited by John McCracken 

• Representations of Custom, Social Identity & Environmental 

Relations in Central Tanzania, 1926–50 by Ingrid 

Yngstrom 

PART III Settlers & Africans; Culture & Nature An 

Unnatural State: Tourism, Water & Wildlife Photography in 

the early Kruger National Park by David Bunn • The Ant 

of the White Soul: Popular Natural History, The Politics of 

Afrikaner Identity, & the Entomological Writings of Eugène 

Marais by Sandra Swart • Fido: Dog Tales of Colonialism 

in Namibia by Robert J. Gordon • Past & Future Landscape 

Ideology: The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park by 

Jane Carruthers 

2003 352 pages 

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ecology 

Michael J. Sheridan and Celia Nyamweru, eds. 

African Sacred Groves 

Ecological Dynamics and Social Change 

Contents: INTRODUCTION by Celia Nyamweru and 

Michael J. Sheridan • The Dynamics of African Sacred 

Groves : Ecological, Social & Symbolic Processes by Michael 

J. Sheridan 

PART I The Human Ecology of Sacred Groves The Role 

of Sacred Groves in Biodiversity Conservation in Sierra 

Leone by Aiah Lebbie & Raymond P. Guries • The Kaya 

Forests of Coastal Kenya: ‘Remnant Patches’ or Dynamic 

Entities by Celia Nyamweru, Staline Kibet, Mohammed 

Pakia & John A. Cooke 

PART II The Social Organization of Sacred Groves The 

Socio-politics of Ethiopian Sacred Groves by Tsehai Berhane-Selassie 

• Behind Sacredness in Madagascar: Rules, 

Local Interests & Forest Conservation in Bara Country by 

Nadia Rabesahala Horning • Palaver Trees Reconsidered 

in the Sengalese Landscape: Arboreal Monuments & 

Memorials by Eric S. Ross 

PART III The Symbol of Forests Loggers v. Spirits in the 

Beng Forest, Côte d’Ivoire: Competing Models by Alma 

Gottlieb • Are Sacred Forests in Northern Bénin ‘Traditional 

Conservation Area’?: Examples from the Bassila 

Region by Ute Siebert • Archeological Perspective on 

Sacred Groves in Ghana by Gérard Chouin 

PART IV The Future of African Sacred Groves Legal 

Recognition of Customary Forests in Uganda: An Approach 

to Revitalizing Sacred Groves by Abwoli Y. Banana, Joseph 

Bahati, William Gombya-Ssembajjwe & Nathan Vogt • 

Are Sacred Groves in Sub-Saharan Africa Safe?: The Legal 

Status of Forests by Liz Alden Wily 


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Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth Myers, eds., 

Environment at the Margins See page 5. 

forthcomiNg 

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David Gordon and Shepard Krech, eds. 

Indigenous knowledge and 

the Environment in Africa 

and North America 

Katherine Homewood 

Ecology of African 

Pastoralist Societies 

“A tour de force, if one considers the vast amount of material 

it covers, and the clear and balanced summaries it provides 

of recent literature and debates. A compendium of 

information about cattle-herding groups in Africa, and 

about approaches to understanding their history and ecology. 

Clear and well judged summaries of the current state 

of knowledge.”—David Turton, Senior Associate, Queen 

Elizabeth House, University of Oxford 

This study presents a comprehensive survey and analysis of 

ecology • research in internatioal studies - africa series 

the literature and debates surrounding African pastoralist 

societies by a leading anthropologist of African pastoralism. 

Homewood traces the origins and spread of pastoralism 

on the African continent and discusses herd biology, 

pastoralist demography, and the impact of developments 

and change on pastoralist systems. 

2009 320 pages 

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Grace Carswell, Cultivating Success 

in Uganda See Page 17. 

Shane Doyle, Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro See page 17. 

ivor Wilks 

Forests of Gold 

Essays on the Akan and the kingdom of Asante 

“Wilks is willing to take risks, and even make mistakes, for 

the sake of opening discussion and expanding knowledge 

. . . Forests of Gold is impressive history. One comes away 

awed at the level of historical reconstruction Wilks has 

accomplished, demonstrating a level of analysis that has 

not been achieved regarding almost any other precolonial 

African state, and which has been achieved here because 

of Wilks’s forty years of commitment, sensitivity, integrity, 

and belief in the profession of history and the history of 

African peoples.”Donna J.E. Maier, International Journal of 

African Historical Studies 

“Wilks’ contribution to our understanding of the history 

of Asante and that of other Akan-speaking peoples 

is incalculable. It is evident not only in his own work but 

in that of the published research of the many talented 

students he has directed during a long, fruitful career.” 

—Richard Rathbone, Journal of African History 

1995 405 pages 

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Nicholas M. Creary, ed. 

African Intellectuals and 

Decolonization 

African intellectuals and Decolonization addresses the 

enduring intellectual legacies of European colonialism in 

Africa while providing scholarly tools to assist in the ongoing 

processes of decolonizing the Academy and the African 

continent more broadly. 

Chapters: We Need a Mau Mau in Mississippi: Malcolm X’s 

Political Lessons for Today by George Hartley • Nkruhmah/ 

Lumumba: Representations of Masculinity by Janet Hess • 

The Emergent Self in South African Black Consciousness 

Literary Discourse by T. Spreelin MacDonald • The Public 

Life of Reason: Orchestrating Debate in Post-Apartheid 

South Africa by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton • 

Setting the Agenda for Decolonizing African Media Systems 

by Ebenezer Adebisi Olawuyi • The African Renaissance 

and Discourse Ownership: Challenging Debilitating 

Discourses in Africa by Steve Odero Ouma • Beyond Gendercentric 

Models: Restoring Motherhood to Yoruba Discourses 

of Art and Aesthetics by Oyeronke Oyewumi • 

Decolonization and the Practice of Philosophy by Tsenay 

Serequeberhan • Trauma and Narrativity in Adichie’s Half 

of a Yellow Sun: Privileging Indigenous Knowledge in Writing 

the Biafran War by Marlene De La Cruz 

2004 280 pages 

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Makuchi, The Sacred Door and Other Stories 

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Mohamed Adhikari 

Not White Enough, Not Black Enough 

Racial Identity in the South African 

Coloured Community 

“This is a welcome and important book. As with all collective 

identities, “the South African Coloured community” 

is both imagined and real, and Adhikari’s analysis of this 

complex and contested phenomenon is rigorous, nuanced, 

and perceptive. Highly recommended.”—Choice 

“Not White Enough, Not Black Enough is one of the 

few systematic studies of Coloured Identity and the history 

of the present-day Coloured people of South Africa, 

a group that has not only been marginalized in most general 

political and academic discourses, but whose history 

has also been subject to popular misconceptions 

and assumptions. . . . Its preparedness to tackle the 

hard and controversial questions, which most writers 

have decided to shy from, makes it a rare contribution.” 

—Kronos: Journal of Cape History 

2005 264 pages 

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Alamin Mazrui, Swahili beyond the 

Boundaries See Page 5. 

George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy, eds. 

Witchcraft Dialogues 

Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges 

“[The editors] provide a sharp-edged introduction that 

interrogates concepts of witchcraft and the interdisciplinary 

perspectives available for its analysis, and brilliant case 

studies provide the grist.”—Choice 

Contents: INTRODUCTION Contested Domains in the 

Dialogues of “Witchcraft” by George Clement Bond and 

Diane M. Ciekawy 

Chapters: African Witchcraft: From Ethnography to Critique 

by Elias Bongmba • “Witches” as Superior Intellects: 

Challenging a Cross-Cultural Superstition by Barry Hallen 

• Sorcery Forces of Life and Death among the Yaka of 

Congo by René Devisch • Ancestors and Witches: Explanations 

and the Ideology of Individual Power in Northern 

Zambia by George Clement Bond • Utsai as Ethical Discourse: 

A Critique of Power from Mijikenda in Coastal 

Kenya by Diane M. Cierawy • Truth-on-Balance: Knowing 

the Opaque Other in Tswapong Wisdom Divination 

by Richard Werbner • Witchcraft in Modern Africa as 

Virtualized Boundary Conditions of the Kinship Order by 

Wim van Binsbergen • Epistemological and Ideological 

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Issues about Witchcraft in African Studies: A Response to 

René Devisch, Elias Bongmba, and Richard Werbner by E. 

C. Eze • Witchcraft and Racecraft: Invisible Ontology and 

Its Sensible Manifestations by Karen E. Fields • Conclusions: 

Fabricating the Occult, Distancing the Familiar by 

George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy 

2001 344 pages 

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Philomina E. Okeke-ihejirika 

Negotiating Power and Privilege 

Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria 

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Critiquing standard theoretical and policy frameworks 

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and approached, this book offers a refreshing, 

highly focused, nuanced, insightful, and reflexive portrait 

of African professional women ignored in much of 

the literature preoccupied with rural and poor women.” 

—Paul Tiyambe Zeleza 

2004 280 pages 

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Robert R. Edgar 

African Apocalypse 

The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, 

A Twentieth-Century South African Prophet 

“African Apocalypse . . . offer[s] precious material to 

investigate more subtly and more creatively some of 

the most basic challenges to the study of South Africa’s 

modern history. And it does so with grace and empathy. 

African Apocalypse is as much a book as it is a gift.” 


“This is a fascinating book, not only for its intriguing heroine 

and the sequel of the discovery of her grave by the authors 

and the subsequent re-burial of her remains. . . . The significance 

of this book is manifold. It is a most useful contribution 

to South African and Eastern Cape regional history 

as well as the history of religious movements, gender, 

and psychiatry in South Africa. The authors foreshadow new 

paths of research and illuminate the role of female independent 

Christian and prophetic movements in rural Africa.” 

—H-NET Reviews 

1999 213 pages 

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Angola and Its Neighbors 

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past, which included for the first twenty-five years of independence, 

endemic warfare. He examines the fact that in 

the absence of a viable neocolonial referee such as Britain 

or France, the warring parties turned to Cold War superpowers 

for a supply of guns. For a decade Angola replaced 

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—Journal of African History 

2004 216 pages 

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Paulin J. Hountondji 

The Struggle for Meaning 

Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, 

and Democracy in Africa 

Translated by John Conteh-Morgan 

Foreword by K. Anthony Appiah 

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Adhikari, Mohamed 13, 21 

Akyeampong, Emmanuel 

Kwaku 17, 18 

Alegi, Peter 4 

Alexander, Jocelyn 13 

Allan, Tuzyline Jita 5 

Anderson, David M. 20 

Attwell, David 6 

Austen, Ralph A. 7 

Ax, Christina Folke 8 

Babou, Cheikh Anta 4 

Barber, James 14 

Behrend, Heike 17 

Beinart, William 20 

Beier, A. L. 11 

Berman, Bruce 10 

Bickford-Smith, Vivian 7 

Birmingham, David 10, 18, 22 

Bohlin, Anna 12, 22 

Bond, George Clement 21 

Bourgeacq, Jacques 5 

Bozzoli, Belinda 4 

Brooks, George E. 18 

Brown, Karen 19 

Brinmes, Niels 8 

Burgess, G. Thomas 16 

Burke, Edmund 19 

Burns, J. M. 7 

Burrill, Emily S. 3 

Burton, Andrew 8, 16 

Caminero-Santangelo, 

Byron 5 

Campbell, Gwyn 8, 9 

Carswell, Grace 17 

Charlton-Bigot, Heléne 8 

Chedid, Andrea 6 

Ciekawy, Diane M. 21 

Cioc, Mark 19 

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Abolitionism & Imperialism in . . . 12 

Africa Writes Back 5 

The African AIDS Epidemic 10 

African Apocalypse 22 

The African Genius 10 

African Gifts of the Spirit 14 

African Sacred Groves 21 

African Soccerscapes 4 

African Underclass 16 

African Womanhood in Col. Kenya 15 

After Tears 6 

After the TRC 13 

Alice Lakwena & the Holy Spirits 17 

The Americans Are Coming! 3 

The Anatomy of South African 

Genocide 13 

Barack Obama & African Diasporas 9 

The Benefits of Famine 14 

Between the Sea & the Lagoon 18 

Black and White in Colour 7 

Black Poachers, White Hunters 15 

Broken Lives and Other Stories 5 

Brothers at War 15 

A Burning Hunger 13 

Butterflies & Barbarians 13 

Cast Out 11 

Child Slaves in the Modern World 8 

Children in Slavery through the Ages 8 

Children of Africa Confront AIDS 22 

Christian Missionaries & the State 11 

Christianity and Public Culture . . . 12 

“Civil Disorder is the Disease of . . . 18 

Civil War, Civil Peace 10 

Claim to the Country 13 

Cold War & Decolonization . . . 17 

Colonial Meltdown 3 

Constructive Engagement? 13 

Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro 17 

Cultivating the Colonies 8 

Cultivating Success in Uganda 17 

Custodians of the Land 16 

The Decolonization of Africa 10 

Claassens, Aninka 9 

Cohen, David William 4, 16 

Conte, Christopher A. 20 

Cordell, Dennis D. 7 

Cousins, Ben 9 

Currey, James 5 

Davidson, Basil 10 

Davies, J. E. 13 

Davis, Diana K. 19, 20 

Deutsch, Jan-Georg 16 

Diouf, Sylviane A. 18 

Dooling, Wayne 13 

Donham, Donald L. 15 

Dovers, Stephen 20 

Doyle, Shane 14, 17 

Edgar, Robert R. 22 

Edgecombe, Ruth 20 

Englund, Harri 12 

Epprecht, Marc 4 

Eyoh, Dickson 10 

Fair, Laura 16 

Ferguson, Earline Rae 11 

Flint, Karen E. 4 

Gebissa, Ezekiel 15 

Getz, Trevor R. 18 

Giblin, James L. 16 

Gilbert, Erik 16 

Gilfoyle, Daniel 19 

Gray, Leslie C. 11 

Guest, Bill 20 

Hall, Ruth 12 

Hanlon, Joseph 10 

Hansen, Hölger Bernt 11 

Harries, Patrick 13 

Haynes, Jonathan 7 

Higgs, Catherine 11 

Hill, Robert A. 7 

Democratic Reform in Africa 9 

The Demographics of Empire 7 

Dhows and the Col Eco. of . . . 16 

Domestic Violence & the Law 3 

Ecology of African Pastoralist Soc. 21 

Emancipation without Abolition 16 

Empire in Africa 22 

Environmental Imagineries of . . . 19 

Environment at the Margins 5 

Eroding the Commons 20 

Ethnic Federalism 15 

Ethnicity & Democracy in Africa 10 

Eurafricans in Western Africa 18 

Fighting the Greater Jihad 4 

Fighting the Slave Trade 18 

Flickering Shadows 7 

Forests of Gold 21 

The Forger’s Tale 4 

The Forgotten Frontier 14 

From Guerrillas to Government 15 

From Sleep Unbound 6 

The Game of Conservation 16 

Generations Past 5 

Hanging by a Thread 11 

Healing the Herds 19 

Healing Traditions 4 

Heterosexual Africa? 4 

Highland Sanctuary 20 

The History of Islam in Africa 11 

A History of Modern Ethiopia 15 

A History of the Excluded 16 

Human Rights in African Prisons 9 

Imagining Serengeti 3 

Imperial Gullies 20 

In Search of a Nation 16 

Intonations 

J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the 

4 

Public Intellectual 6 

Hodge, Joseph Morgan 20 

Hodgson, Dorothy L. 11 

Homewood, Katherine 21 

Hountondji, Paulin J. 22 

Howard, Stephen W. 22 

Iliffe, John 10 

Ittmann, Karl 7 

James, Wendy 15 

James, Wilmot 13 

Jensen, Niklas Thode 8 

Kaarsholm, Preben 10 

Kalu, C. Anthonia 5 

Kanogo, Tabitha 15 

Keen, David 14 

Keller, Edmond J. 7 

Kepe, Thembela 12 

Kilgore, James 5 

Kimambo, Isaria N. 16 

Kymlicka, Will 10 

Kynoch, Gary 4 

Kyomuhendo, Grace 

Bantebya 17 

Law, Robin 18 

Lee, Christopher J. 8 

Levtzion, Nehemia 11 

Lewis, I. M. 17 

Lonsdale, John 15 

Macola, Giacomo 4 

Maddox, Gregory H. 7, 16 

Magaziner, Daniel R. 3 

Makuchi 6 

Maxwell, David 14 

Mazrui, Alamin 5 

McCann, James C. 5 

McGregor, JoAnn 20 

McIntosh, Marjorie 

Keniston 17 

Medard, Henri 14 

Mendelsohn, Richard 7 

Mhlongo,, Niq 6 

Miers, Suzanne 8, 9 

Miller, Joseph C. 8, 9 

Moorman, Marissa J. 4 

Moseley, William G. 11 

Moss, Barbara A. 11 

Mpe, Phaswane 6 

Myers, Garth 5 

Ndulo, Muna 9 

Negash, Tekaste 15 

Newbury, David 14 

Newell, Stephanie 4 

Nhema, Alfred 9 

Nugent, Paul 19 

Nyamweru, Celia 21 

Ochonu, Moses E. 3 

Ocobock, Paul R. 11 

Odhiambo, E. S. 

Atieno 4, 15, 16 

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye 

Okonjo 5 

Okeke-Ihejirika, 

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Orlando, Valerie K. 7 

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Parsons, Timothy H. 10 

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Peterson, Derek R. 4, 12 

Pool, David 15 

Pouwels, Randall L. 11 

Poyner, Jane 6 

Ramarosoa, Liliana 5 

Redding, Sean 13 

Reid, Richard 9, 17 

Kola is God’s Gift 18 

Kwame Nkrumah 18 

The Land beyond the Mists 14 

Land, Memory, Reconstruction, & . . . 12 

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Landmarked 9 

The Law and the Prophets 3 

Leaf of Allah 15 

Limits to Liberation after Apartheid 14 

Mad Dogs and Meerkats 16 

Making a World after Empire 8 

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Mau Mau and Nationhood 15 

A Modern History of the Somali 17 

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Natures of Colonial Change 4 

Negotiating Power and Privilege 19 

New South African Keywords 13 

Nigerian Video Films 7 

No Peace, No War 10 

Not White Enough, Not Black . . . 21 

Ouidah 18 

Our New Husbands Are Here 3 

Pastimes and Politics 16 

Paths of Accomodation 19 

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia 15 

Political Power in Pre-Col. Buganda 17 

Portugal in Africa 22 

Potent Brews 14 

Race, Resistance, & the Boy Scout 10 

Race, Revolution, & the Struggle... 11 

Recasting the Past 4 

The Resolution of African Conflicts 9 

Resurrecting the Granary of Rome 20 

Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa 11 

Rewriting Modernity 6 

The Risks of Knowledge 4 

The Roots of African Conflicts 9 

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Roberts, Richard L. 3 

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Robinson, David 19 

Royer, Patrick 18 

Şaul, Mahir 7, 18 

Sarkin, Jeremy 9 

Scheub, Harold 5 

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Schuster, Lynda 13 

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Shetler, Jan Bender 3 

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Singhal, Arvind 22 

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Tropp, Jacob A. 4 

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Twaddle, Michael 11 

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Trustee for the Human Community 7 

Twelve Best Books 5 

The Uncoiling Python 5 

Unconquerable Spirit 13 

The Unsettled Land 13 

Viewing African Cinema 7 

Violence, Political Culture, & Dev. . . 10 

Voices from Madagascar 5 

War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa 9 

We Are All Zimbabweans Now 5 

We Are Fighting the World 4 

Welcome to our Hillbrow 6 

West African Challenge to Empire 18 

Wielding the Ax 19 

Witchcraft Dialogues 21 

Women and Slavery, Vol. 1, Vol. II 9 

Women, Work, and Domestic Vir. 17 

Your Madness, Not Mine 6

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