AFRICAN

AFRICAN
STUDIES
2014
New Ngugi
An essential new
essay collection
South Africa
Mandela’s
kinsmen, indirect
rule and the
roots of power
Nyerere
First president of
Tanzania
Re-launched
Western Africa
Series

highlights
NEW
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
In the Name of the Mother
Reflections on Writers and Empire
NGUGI WA THIONG’O
A major new essay collection.
Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist,
Ngugi wa Thiongo’s contributions to the body of
critical writing on African literature, politics and
society have been highly significant. His best known
critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since
publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other
writers, critics, scholars and students.
These latest essays reflect Ngugi’s continuing
interests and enthusiasms. His choice of writers is
original. He makes us look again at their novels to
address his lifelong concerns with the ways to independence, the meanings
of colonialism and the takeover by neo-colonialism, and the functions of
literature in political as well as literary terms.
NGUGI WA THIONG’O is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is renowned for his
essays, plays, and novels – the most recent being The Wizard of the Crow
(2007, translated into English from Gikuyu) and his memoirs Dreams in a
Time of War and In the House of the Interpreter.
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East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda): EAEP
NEW IN THE WESTERN AFRICA SERIES
Commercial Agriculture, the Slave
Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa
Edited by R OB I N L AW,
SUZANNE SCHWARZ
& SILKE STRICKRODT
Commercial African agriculture and slavery,
both international and domestic.
From the beginnings of European trans-Atlantic
maritime trade, the export of agricultural produce
from Africa represented a potential alternative to the
slave trade.
The idea gained greater currency in the context of
the movement for the abolition of the slave trade
from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the
promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was
seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave
trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions
for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also
linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in
agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of
export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often
employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial
period.
ROBIN LAW is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling;
SUZANNE SCHWARZ is Professor of History, University of Worcester; SILKE
STRICKRODT is Research Fellow in Colonial History, German Historical
Institute London.
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Western Africa Series
New
Mandela’s Kinsmen
Nationalist Elites and Apartheid’s First Bantustan
TIMOTHY GIBBS
Gives insight into the complex connections
between nationalist leadership of the ANC and
their kinsmen inside the Transkei Bantustan
state.
Mandela’s Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught
relationships between the ANC leadership and their
relatives who ruled apartheid’s foremost “tribal”
Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the
chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political
leadership. In the Transkei, political leaders, such
as Mandela, used regionally rooted clan, schooling
and professional connections to vault to leadership; they crafted expansive
nationalisms woven from these “kin” identities. But from 1963 the apartheid
government turned South Africa’s chieftaincies into self-governing, tribal
Bantustans in order to shatter African nationalism.
Gibbs uncovers the institutions and networks that connected the nationalist
leadership on Robben Island and in exile to their kinsmen inside the Transkei
Bantustan state – relationships that calmed the ethnic conflicts that almost
derailed South Africa’s political transition.
TIMOTHY GIBBS is Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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978 1 84701 089 6
222pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana: Jacana
New
Enchanted Calvinism
Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian
Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
ADAM MOHR
Argues that Ghanaian Presbyterian communities
have become more enchanted as they have
become more integrated into capitalist modes of
production.
Adam Mohr draws on a specific Weberian concept
of religious enchantment to frame the discussion of
spiritual affliction and spiritual healing within the
Presbyterian Church of Ghana, particularly under
the conditions of labor migration: first, in the early
twentieth century during the cocoa boom in Ghana
and second, at the turn of the twenty-first century in
the context of the healthcare migration from Ghana to North America.
Relying on extensive archival research, oral historical interviews, and
participant-observation group interviews conducted in North America,
Europe, and West Africa, the study provides evidence that the more these
Ghanaian Calvinists became dependent on capitalist modes of production,
the more enchanted their lives, and, subsequently, their church became,
although in different ways within these two migrations.
ADAM MOHR is a Senior Writing Fellow in Anthropology with the Critical
Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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A History of Malawi
1859-1966
JOHN MCCRACKEN
The first full account of
Malawi’s colonial history.
Using a wide range of
primary and secondary
sources, John McCracken
has written the
comprehensive history
of Malawi during the
colonial period. Central
themes are the shaping
of the colonial economy,
the influence of Christianity, resistance to colonial
occupation and the rise of a powerful nationalist
movement that contained within it the seeds of a
new authoritarianism.
JOHN MCCRACKEN is Honorary Senior Research
Fellow, Stirling University.
[A] magisterial account [and] a landmark event in
the country’s historiography.
THE SOCIETY OF MALAWI JOURNAL
$34.95/£19.99 September 2012
978 1 84701 064 3
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Foundations of an
African Civilisation
Aksum and the northern
Horn, 1000 BC – AD 1300
DAVID W. PHILLIPSON
A single coherent
narrative of Aksumite
civilisation.
Focusing on the
pre-Aksumite and
Aksumite states of the
first millennium AD
in northern Ethiopia
and southern Eritrea,
their development,
florescence and eventual
transformation into the so-called medieval
civilisation of Christian Ethiopia, this is a major
re-interpretation of a key development in Ethiopia’s
past. It also discusses methodological issues of
the relationship between archaeology and other
historical disciplines; these issues, which have
theoretical significance extending far beyond
Ethiopia, are discussed in full.
DAVID W. PHILLIPSON is the former Director,
Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology and Professor of African
Archaeology.
Published in association with the British Institute in
Eastern Africa
$29.95/£16.99 April 2014
978 1 84701 088 9
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Eastern Africa Series
The Fante and the
Transatlantic Slave Trade
REBECCA SHUMWAY
Examines the history of
the Fante people of
southern Ghana during
the transatlantic slave
trade, 1700 to 1807.
Rebecca Shumway
brings to life the survival
experiences of southern
Ghanaians as they
became both victims of
continuous violence and
successful brokers of enslaved human beings. The
era of the slave trade gave birth to a new culture
in this part of West Africa, just as it was giving
birth to new cultures across the Americas. Her
book pushes Asante scholarship to the forefront
of African diaspora and Atlantic World studies
by showing the integral role of Fante middlemen
and transatlantic trade in the development of the
Asante economy prior to 1807.
REBECCA SHUMWAY is Assistant Professor of
History at the University of Pittsburgh.
An elegantly written masterpiece of a crucial period
in West African history.
ANTHROPOLOGY OF THIS CENTURY
$34.95/£19.99 January 2014
978 1 58046 478 9
15 b/w illus.; 244pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe
and Mozambique
ELIZABETH MACGONAGLE
Shows how the Ndau of southeast Africa
actively shaped their own identity over a fourhundred-year
period.
With this first comprehensive history of the Ndau
of eastern Zimbabwe and central Mozambique,
Elizabeth MacGonagle moves beyond national
borders to show how cultural identities are
woven from historical memories that predate
the arrival of missionaries and colonial officials
on the African continent. Drawing on archival
records and oral histories from throughout the
Ndau region, her study analyzes the complex
relationships between social identity and political
power from 1500 to 1900.
ELIZABETH MACGONAGLE is assistant professor
of African History at the University of Kansas.
[A] smoothly written, concise, and exhaustively
documented account. […] For anyone working
on the history of the Zimbabwe-Mozambique
borderlands, this is an excellent place to start
reading. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
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978 1 58046 365 2
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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Afro-Cuban Diasporas
in the Atlantic World
SOLIMAR OTERO
A study of the
interchange between
Cuba and Africa of
Yoruban people and
culture during the
nineteenth century.
Afro-Cuban Diasporas
in the Atlantic World
explores Yorubabased
constructions of
Diaspora and home in
Cuba and Nigeria. Drawing on archival sources,
original ethnographic fieldwork done in Lagos,
and literary texts from Cuba, Otero reveals and
probes the histories and contemporary legacies
of connected Afro-Cuban-Yoruba communities
moving back and forth between Lagos and
Havana from the nineteenth century on.
SOLIMAR OTERO is associate professor of English
and a folklorist at Louisiana State University.
An innovative study. WESTERN FOLKLORE
Completely changes the understanding of the idea
of the African diasporas. Lucas BULLETIN
$29.95/£19.99 July 2013
978 1 58046 473 4
12 b/w illus.; 260pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Ethiopia
The Last Two Frontiers
JOHN MARKAKIS
Ethiopia’s transformation
from a multicultural
empire into a modern
nation state.
Ethiopia has been
undergoing a centurylong
effort to integrate a
multicultural empire into
a modern nation state.
There are two frontiers
that need to be crossed
to reach the desired goal: the monopoly of power
inherited from the empire builders and zealously
guarded by a ruling class; and the arid lowlands
on the margins of the state, where the process of
integration has not yet reached.
JOHN MARKAKIS is a political historian who has
devoted a professional lifetime to the study of
Ethiopia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa.
Essential reading for all who want to understand
how the Ethiopian empire arrived at its present
configuration. LucaS BULLETIN
$34.95/£19.99 August 2013
978 1 84701 074 2
399pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), PB
Eastern Africa Series
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Ghosts of Kanungu
Fertility, Secrecy & Exchange in
the Great Lakes of East Africa
RICHARD VOKES
Shortlisted for the
Herskovits Award.
Richard Vokes examines
the Kanungu fire of
March 2000, when several
hundred members of
a Christian sect, the
Movement for the
Restoration of the Ten
Commandments of God
(MRTC) burnt to death
in Southwestern Uganda. His research reveals
the history of this sect, the colonial history of the
region, the current AIDS epidemic and the effects
of globalization in the Great Lakes region.
RICHARD VOKES is Senior Lecturer in
Anthropology and Development Studies at the
University of Adelaide.
A tour de force in historical ethnography and
anthropological detective work.
ETHNOS: JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY
$34.95/£18.99 September 2013
978 1 84701 072 8
18 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
African Anthropology
Uganda: Fountain Publishers (PB)
The Urban Roots of
Democracy and Political
Violence in Zimbabwe
Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964
TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA
A timely examination of African politics
during the formative years of Zimbabwean
nationalism.
Providing biographical sketches of key
personalities within the genealogy of nationalist
politics, Timothy Scarnecchia weaves an intricate
narrative that traces the trajectories of earlier
democratic traditions in Zimbabwe, including
women’s political movements, township
organizations, and trade unions. He suggests
that intense rivalries for control of the nationalist
leadership after 1960 and Cold War funding for
rival groups contributed to a unique political
impasse, ultimately resulting in the largely
autocratic and violent political state today.
TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA is assistant professor of
African history at Kent State University in Kent,
Ohio.
An important and provocative work.
AFRICAN HISTORY
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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Indirect Rule in South Africa
Tradition, Modernity, and the
Costuming of Political Power
J. C. MYERS
The ways in which
South African leaders
struggle to legitimize
themselves through the
costuming of political
power.
Indirect rule – the
British colonial policy of
employing indigenous
tribal chiefs as political
intermediaries – has
typically been understood by scholars as little more
than an expedient solution to imperial personnel
shortages. A re-examination of the history of
indirect rule in South Africa reveals it to have been
much more: an ideological strategy designed to
win legitimacy for colonial officials and the basic
template from which segregation and apartheid
emerged during the twentieth century.
J. C. Myers is Associate Professor of Political
Science at California State University, Stanislaus.
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978 1 58046 362 1
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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Empire, Development
and Colonialism
The Past in the Present
Edited by MARK DUFFIELD
& VERNON HEWITT
A unique contribution
to the renewed debate
about empire and
imperialism.
The parallels between
the language of
nineteenth-century
liberal imperialism
and the humanitarian
interventionism of the
post-Cold War era are
striking. The American military, both in Somalia
in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the
Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information
compiled by British colonial administrators. Are
these interconnections, which are capable of
endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or
more elemental?
A thought-provoking collection.
POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW
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Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC Press
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Sexuality and Gender
Politics in Mozambique
Re-thinking Gender in Africa
SIGNE ARNFRED
Winner of the 2012
gender research award
KRAKA-prisen.
Current and historic
gender policies share
certain basic assumptions
about women, men and
gender relations - but
to what extent do such
assumptions fit the
ways in which rural
Mozambican men and women see themselves?
This acclaimed study provides a discussion of
Mozambican gender policies with a focus on
the post-Independence years, but it is also a
conceptual discussion – facilitated by African
feminist thinking – of how to understand
gender and sexuality, with the lives and views
of Mozambican men and women as the point of
departure.
SIGNE ARNFRED is Associate Professor,
Department of Society & Globalization, and Centre
for Gender, Power & Diversity, Roskilde University.
A unique and immensely valuable anthropological
and historical study. LUCAS BULLETIN
$34.95/£19.99 February 2014
978 1 84701 087 2
18 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Manhood Enslaved
Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early
Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
KENNETH E. MARSHALL
Examines the lives of
enslaved people and
ideas of gender.
Manhood Enslaved
reconstructs the lives of
three male captives to
bring greater intellectual
and historical clarity to the
lives of enslaved peoples
in eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century central
New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage
for nearly two centuries. It argues that the lives of
bondpeople in America were shaped not only by
the powerful forces of racial oppression, but also by
their own notions of gender.
KENNETH E. MARSHALL is assistant professor
of history at the State University of New York at
Oswego.
A richly detailed portrayal of the many-faceted
daily lives of enslaved people
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
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978 1 58046 435 2
222pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Gender and Race in American History
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A UNIVERSE OF THOUGHT
As novelist,
poet,
playwright
and essayist,
Dambudzo
Marechera
stands alone
– which given
AFRICA & GERMAN COLONIALISM
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the events of
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REMEMBERING AFRICA
That eventful life arced from birth in
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SOUTH AFRICA’S NEW PLACE IN THE WORLD
FROM STRUGGLE TO POWER TO…FAILURE?
Once an international pariah,
South Africa has emerged in
the 21st-century as a respected
and influential African state,
projecting its economic and
political power across the
continent.
South Africa and the World
Economy (University of
Rochester Press), the new
book from William G. Martin,
chronicles the volatile history of
this resurgence and offers clear
yet contentious lessons for the
present.
As is clear from the following
discussion, it’s a fascinating and
absorbing topic. read more
Roger Southall has studied
Southern African politics for over
30 years and can view the long
trajectories of the Zimbabwean,
Namibian and South African
liberation movements in their
entirety, from opposition and
struggle to the assumption of
power and, it’s often claimed,
eventual disappointment and
failure.
His new book, Liberation
Movements in Power (James
Currey), studies and compares
all three movements in detail,
as never before. The picture,
as he admits in this exclusive
interview, “is complicated”….
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ANTHROPOLOGY / GENDER STUDIES
NEW
African Local Knowledge
& Livestock Health
Diseases & Treatments in South Africa
WILLIAM BEINART & KAREN BROWN
A much needed
examination of
contemporary
approaches to animal
healing in South Africa,
informed by a strong
understanding of
history.
This book argues that
African approaches to
animal health rest largely
in environmental and nutritional explanations.
The authors explore the widespread use of plants
as well as biomedicines for healing. While rural
populations remain concerned about supernatural
threats, and many men think that women can
harm their cattle, the authors challenge current
ideas on the modernisation of witchcraft. They
examine more ambient forms of supernatural
danger expressed in little-known concepts such as
mohato and umkhondo. They take the reader into
the homesteads and kraals of rural black South
Africans and engage with a key rural concern –
vividly reporting the ideas of livestock owners.
This is groundbreaking research which will have
important implications for analyses of local
knowledge more generally as well as effective state
interventions and animal treatments in South
Africa.
WILLIAM BEINART is Rhodes Professor of Race
Relations, African Studies Centre, University of
Oxford; KAREN BROWN is Research Associate at
the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
University of Oxford.
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African Hosts and
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Cultural Dynamics of Tourism
Edited by WALTER VAN BEEK
& ANNETTE SCHMIDT
Africa is a ‘theme park’
for Western tourists to
experience untouched
wilderness, untamed
nature, and truly
‘authentic’ cultures,
where the hosts, too, are
part of a discourse
about the ‘other’.
For Western tourists
Africa embodies the Romantic ideal of ‘nature’,
where they go to have adventures in the game
parks and encounters with colourful cultures and
picturesque people. In the long list from slavery to
colonialism and from liberation to globalisation,
international tourism is one of the latest global
dynamics engaging the people on the continent,
but the agency of the receiving partners is much
larger than it was in the colonies. The differences
stand out in what constitutes the heart of this
book, the encounter in the field between ‘hosts’
and ‘guests’.
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Photography in Africa
Edited by RICHARD VOKES
An ethnographic
account of the
complexities of the use
of photography in
Africa, both historically
and in contemporary
practice.
This collection of
studies in African
photography examines,
through a series of empirically rich historical
and ethnographic cases, the variety of ways in
which photographs are produced, circulated,
and engaged across a range of social contexts.
It critically engages current debates in African
photography and visual anthropology and makes
an important contribution to our understanding
of the relationship between photography and
ethnographic research methods.
These essays and Richard Vokes’s presentation offer
fascinating examples of photography’s intersection
with ethnography. AFRICAN AFFAIRS
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Also by Richard Vokes: Ghosts of Kanungu.
See page 4.
The Reverend Jennie Johnson
and African Canadian
History, 1868-1967
NINA REID-MARONEY
A unique and powerful
view of nearly one
hundred years of the
struggle for freedom in
North America.
After her conversion at a
Baptist revival at sixteen,
Jennie Johnson followed
the call to preach. Raised
in an African Canadian
abolitionist community
in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to
attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary
at Wilberforce University. On an October evening
in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will
Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville,
Michigan, and was received into ordained ministry.
She was the first ordained woman to serve in
Canada and spent her life building churches and
working for racial justice on both sides of the
national border.
NINA REID-MARONEY is Associate Professor in
the Department of History at Huron University
College at Western (London, Ontario).
$90.00/£60.00(s) April 2013
978 1 58046 447 5
6 b/w illus.; 196pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Gender and Race in American History
Women and Slavery in
Nineteenth-Century
Colonial Cuba
SARAH L. FRANKLIN
How patriarchy operated
in the lives of the women
of Cuba, from elite
women to slaves.
Based on a variety of
archival and printed
primary sources, this
book examines how
patriarchy functioned
outside the confines
of the family unit by
scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenthcentury
Cuban patriarchy rested. It investigates
how patriarchy operated in the lives of the
women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves.
Through chapters on motherhood, marriage,
education, public charity, and the sale of slaves,
insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both
as a guiding ideology and lived history in the
Caribbean’s longest lasting slave society.
SARAH L. FRANKLIN is assistant professor of
history at the University of North Alabama.
$90.00/£60.00(s) June 2012
978 1 58046 402 4
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History
The African Diaspora
Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
TOYIN FALOLA
In this definitive study
of the African diaspora
in North America,
Toyin Falola offers a
causal history of the
western dispersion of
Africans and its effects
on the modern world.
The African diaspora
is arguably the most
important event in modern African history. From
the fifteenth century to the present, millions
of Africans have been dispersed – many of
them forcibly, others driven by economic need
or political persecution – to other continents,
creating large communities with African origins
living outside their native lands. The majority of
these communities are in North America. This
historic displacement has meant that Africans
are irrevocably connected to economic and
political developments in the West and globally.
Among the known legacies of the diaspora
are slavery, colonialism, racism, poverty, and
underdevelopment, yet the ways in which these
same factors worked to spur the scattering of
Africans are not fully understood–by those
who were part of this migration or by scholars,
historians, and policymakers.
In this definitive study, Toyin Falola offers a causal
history of the western dispersion of Africans and its
effects on the modern world. Reengaging old and
familiar debates and framing new ones that enrich
the discourse surrounding Africa, Falola isolates
the thread, running nearly six centuries, that
connects the history of slavery, the transatlantic
slave trade, and current migrations. A boon to
scholars and policymakers and accessible to the
general reader, the book explores diverse narratives
of migration and shows that the cultures that
migrated from Africa to the Americas have the
capacity to unite and create a new pan-Africanist
movement within the globalized world.
TOYIN FALOLA is the Jacob and Frances Sanger
Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University
Distinguished Teaching Professor at the
University of Texas at Austin.
This tour de force shows mastery of the literature
and the themes that connect Africa to its diaspora.
A gift that will be well appreciated by both
academics and nonacademics.
EDMUND ABAKA, associate professor of
history, University of Miami
Students of African history and economics,
Africana migration, critical race theory, and
development studies will find it hard to ignore
this enriching contribution to global Africana
scholarship. TUNDE BEWAJI, professor of
philosophy, University of the West Indies
$85.00/£55.00(s) July 2013
978 1 58046 452 9
21 colour illus.; 48 b/w illus.;
446pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
NEW
The Quest for Socialist Utopia
The Ethiopian Student
Movement, c. 1960-1974
BAHRU ZEWDE
A lively account of the
rise of Ethiopia’s student
movement by one of
those involved.
In the late 1960s and the
early 1970s, the Ethiopian
student movement
emerged from innocuous
beginnings to become
the major opposition
force against the imperial
regime in Ethiopia, contributing perhaps more
than any other factor to the 1974 revolution that
brought about the end of Haile Sellassie’s reign. The
movement would be of fundamental importance
in the shaping of the future Ethiopia, instrumental
in both its political and social development. Bahru
Zewde, himself one of the students involved,
describes the steady radicalisation of the movement
that culminated in the ascendancy of Marxism-
Leninism by the early 1970s.
BAHRU ZEWDE is Emeritus Professor of History at
Addis Ababa University and Vice President of the
Ethiopian Academy of Sciences.
$90.00/£50.00(s) January 2014
978 1 84701 085 8
13 b/w illus.; 320pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), HB
Eastern Africa Series
Colonialism and
Violence in Zimbabwe
A History of Suffering
HEIKE I. SCHMIDT
A highly original
treatment of significant
topics in African Studies
and beyond: violence,
colonialism, landscape,
memory and religion.
Historian Heike Schmidt
challenges the apparently
inseparable twin pairing
of Africa and suffering.
Even in situations of
great distress, she argues, individuals and groups
may articulate their social desires and political
ambitions, and reforge their identities – as long as
the experience of violence is not one of sheer terror.
She emphasizes the crucial role women, chiefs, and
youths played in the renegotiation of a sense of
belonging during different periods of time. Based
on sustained fieldwork, Colonialism and Violence
offers a compelling history of suffering in a small
valley in Zimbabwe over the course of 150 years.
HEIKE SCHMIDT is a Research Associate at the
African Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
$95.00/£55.00(s) February 2013
978 1 84701 051 3
16 b/w illus.; 303pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB
NEW
South Africa – The
Present as History
From Mrs Ples to Mandela
and Marikana
JOHN S. SAUL & PATRICK BOND
An analysis of the historic roots of power in
contemporary South Africa.
Here is a major history of South Africa from
earliest times, with today’s post-apartheid society
interpreted in light of its earlier history. The
authors track the course of South African history
from its origins to apartheid in the 1970s; through
the crisis and transition of the 1970s and 1980s
to the historic deal-making of 1994 that ended
apartheid; to its recent history from Mandela to
Marikana, with increasing signs of social unrest
and class conflict. Finally, the authors reflect
on the present situation in South Africa with
reference to the historical patterns that have
shaped contemporary realities and the possibility
of a ‘next liberation struggle’.
JOHN S. SAUL is Professor Emeritus at York
University (Canada). PATRICK BOND is Senior
Professor of Development Studies and Director
of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal (Durban).
$70.00/£40.00(s) April 2014
978 1 84701 092 6
302pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB
Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho,
Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana
South Africa and
the World Economy
Remaking Race, State, and Region
WILLIAM G. MARTIN
Chronicles the volatile
history of the resurgence
of South Africa as a
respected and
influential African state
Once an international
pariah, South Africa now
projects its economic and
political power across the
continent. This volume
chronicles its rise as
an industrialized, white state and subsequent
decline as a newly under-developing country to
its current standing as a leading member of the
Global South. Contrasting with much of the latest
scholarship, the book places the country in the
global social system, analyzing its relationships
with the colonial powers and white settlers of the
early twentieth century, the costs of the neoliberal
alliances with the North, and the more recent
challenges from the East.
WILLIAM G. MARTIN is chair of the Department
of Sociology at Binghamton University.
$75.00/£50.00(s) May 2013
978 1 58046 431 4
282pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Approaching African History
MICHAEL BRETT
Explores how the
conception of Africa
and its history has
changed over time.
This book takes as its
subject the last 10,000
years of African history,
and traces the way in
which human society on
the continent has evolved
from communities of
hunters and gatherers to the complex populations
of today. Approaching that history through its
various dimensions: archaeological, ethnographic,
written, scriptural, European and contemporary,
it looks at how the history of such a vast region
over such a length of time has been conceived and
presented, and how it is to be investigated. The
problem itself is historical, and an integral part of
the history with which it is concerned, beginning
with the changing awareness over the centuries of
what Africa might be.
MICHAEL BRETT is Emeritus Reader in the
History of North Africa at SOAS.
$90.00/£50.00(s) January 2013
978 1 84701 063 6
368pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Writing Revolt
An Engagement with African
Nationalism, 1957-67
TERENCE RANGER
An engaging personal
account of Zimbabwe’s
political awakening.
Terence Ranger’s memoir
of the years between 1957,
when he first went to
Southern Rhodesia, and
1967 when he published
his first book, is both
an intimate record of
the African awakening which he witnessed, and
of the process which led him to write Revolt in
Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and
as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the
ways in which politics and history interacted. The
men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean
history were the leaders of African nationalism;
his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into
restricted areas.
TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor
of Race Relations, University of Oxford.
A remarkable work and one I would urge anyone
with an interest in this period to read.
NEW LEFT PROJECT
$34.95/£19.99 February 2013
978 1 84701 071 1
6 b/w illus.; 218pp, 21 x 14.5 (8.25 x 5.75 inches), PB
Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana,
Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia): Weaver Press
Regional Integration, Identity
and Citizenship in the
Greater Horn of Africa
Edited by KIDANE MENGISTEAB
& REDIE BEREKETEAB
Examines how regional
integration can resolve
the crises of the Greater
Horn of Africa.
The Greater Horn
of Africa (GHA) is
engulfed by wars,
debilitating poverty
and environmental
degradation. The
contributors to this
volume address the need for regional integration
in the GHA in order to tackle this three-pronged
crisis. They identify those factors that can foster
integration as well as those that impede it;
explain how regional integration can mitigate the
conflicts; and examine how integration can help
to energise the region’s economy.
$50.00/£30.00(s) November 2012
978 1 84701 058 2
280pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB
Eastern Africa series
Ethnicity in Zimbabwe
Transformations in Kalanga and
Ndebele Societies, 1860-1990
ENOCENT MSINDO
A comparative study of
identity shifts in two
large ethnic groups in
Matabeleland,
Zimbabwe.
Beginning in 1860, a year
after the establishment
of the Inyati mission
station in the Ndebele
Kingdom, and ending in
the postcolonial period, Enocent Msindo’s book
asserts that the creation of ethnic identity in
Matabeleland was not solely the result of colonial
rule and the new colonial African elites, but that
African ethnic consciousness existed prior to this
time, formed and shaped by ordinary members
of these ethnic groups. It demonstrates the ways
in which debates around ethnicity and other
identities in Zimbabwe relate to wider issues in
both rural and urban Zimbabwe past and present.
ENOCENT MSINDO is Senior Lecturer in History at
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
$99.00/£65.00(s) September 2012
978 1 58046 418 5
8 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the
Racial Nationalist Imagination
TESHALE TIBEBU
A critical study of
intellectual and writer,
Edward Wilmot Blyden.
This study of one of
the most prolific and
knowledgeable blackworld
intellectuals of
the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries
shows the contradictions,
ambiguities, complexities,
and paradoxes in Blyden’s powerful black racial
nationalism. His voluminous writings laid the
groundwork for some of the most important
ideas of African and black diasporic thinkers of
the twentieth century, including Frantz Fanon,
Amilcar Cabral, Chiekh Anta Diop, Leopold
Sedar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney.
TESHALE TIBEBU is professor of history at Temple
University.
A classic example of intellectual history...this clearly
written, jargon-free study will be the definitive
history of his ideas for decades to come. CHOICE
$90.00/£60.00(s) December 2012
978 1 58046 428 4
230pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
The Freetown Bond
A Life under Two Flags
ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES
with MARJORIE JONES
Eldred Durosimi Jones’
vivid autobiography.
Eldred Durosimi Jones
is known internationally
as central to the
establishment of the
study of African writing
in the new universities of
Africa, Britain and North
America. The annual
African Literature Today
which he set up in 1968, is a key marker of this
growth.
Born in 1925, this account of his early years
gives a vivid picture of growing up in Freetown
in the latter days of British colonial rule. After
completing his education at Oxford, Eldred
Jones committed himself to his own country,
Sierra Leone, and over the next thirty years was
successively Lecturer, Professor, Principal and
Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Fourah Bay College in
Freetown.
ELDRED DUROSIMI JONES is Emeritus Professor
of English Language and Literature and a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts.
$50.00/£30.00(s) November 2012
978 1 84701 055 1
16 b/w illus.; 188pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), HB
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NEW
Civic Agency in Africa
Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century
Edited by EBENEZER OBADARE
& WENDY WILLEMS
Examines the variety of
mostly unorganized and
informal ways in which
Africans exercise agency
and resist state power in
the 21st century.
The recent wave of popular
protests across North
Africa and the Middle
East has stimulated debate
on the meaning and strategies of resistance in
the 21st century. This book examines the modes
and practices of resistance in Africa today, how
they impinge on the state, and the kinds of state
formations that are emerging as a response to citizen
action. Firmly grounded in recent conceptual
debates in African Studies on agency, resistance, civil
society and the post-colonial state, it contributes to
a better understanding of processes of social change
taking place across the continent.
EBENEZER OBADARE is Associate Professor,
Department of Sociology, University of Kansas;
WENDY WILLEMS is Assistant Professor,
Department of Media and Communications,
London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE).
$80.00/£45.00(s) February 2014
978 1 84701 086 5
238pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Liberation Movements in Power
Party and State in Southern Africa
ROGER SOUTHALL
Asks to what extent
liberation movements
have fulfilled promises of
democracy.
The liberation movements
of Southern Africa arose to
combat racism, colonialism
and settler capitalism. After
victory they moved into
government embodying
the hopes and aspirations of their supporters and
international solidarity movements. But what
happens to them once they take power? This book
explores the experiences of ZANU-PF, SWAPO and
the ANC in government and analyses their evolution
into political machines. The author concludes that
their essence as progressive forces is dying, and that
hopes of a genuine liberation throughout the region
will depend upon political realignments alongside
moral and intellectual regeneration.
ROGER SOUTHALL is Professor Emeritus in
Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.
$80.00/£45.00(s) May 2013
978 1 84701 066 7
400pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Southern Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Dealing with Government
in South Sudan
Histories of Chiefship, Community and State
CHERRY LEONARDI
Explores chiefly
authority in South
Sudan, from its
historical origins to its
current roles in the
newly independent
country.
Chiefs in South Sudan
have become the focus
of much attention in
recent years as national
and international policy-makers attempt to build
peace and design structures of government in the
newly independent nation. This book addresses
a significant paradox in African studies more
widely: if chiefs were the product of colonial
states, why have they survived or revived in
recent decades? This study will be of particular
importance not only to scholars of Sudan, of
Africa and of local governance, but also to policymakers
and practitioners working in South Sudan.
CHERRY LEONARDI is a Lecturer in African
History at Durham University.
Published in association with the British Institute in
Eastern Africa.
$80.00/£45.00(s) June 2013
978 1 84701 067 4
8 b/w illus.; 271pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), HB
Eastern Africa Series
Conflict and Security in Africa
Edited by RITA ABRAHAMSEN
Spans the period from
the cold war to the ‘war
on terror’ and examines
the political economy
dynamics of security
and insecurity on the
continent.
More than any other
part of the globe, Africa
has become associated
with conflict, insecurity
and human rights atrocities. In the popular
imagination and the media, overpopulation,
environmental degradation and ethnic hatred
dominate accounts of African violence,
epitomized in Robert Kaplan’s nightmare vision of
‘the coming anarchy’ (Kaplan, 1993). This Review
of African Political Economy Reader provides a
critical contribution to contemporary debates
about conflict and security on the continent.
RITA ABRAHAMSEN is Professor in the Graduate
School of Public and International Affairs,
University of Ottawa, Canada.
Published in association with ROAPE
$34.95/£19.99 September 2013
978 1 84701 078 0
240pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
ROAPE African Readers
NEW
Nyerere
The Early Years
THOMAS MOLONY
A uniquely detailed portrayal of the formative
years of Tanzania’s first president and the
influences that led him to enter politics.
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999), former
Prime Minister and then President of Tanganyika,
and the first President of Tanzania, was a man
whose political life was uniquely and inextricably
bound into the history of the nation he created.
Yet, though known in Tanzania as ‘Baba wa Taifa’,
Father of the Nation, there is still no adequate
biography.
This book presents the first truly rounded portrait
of Nyerere’s formative early life, helping us to
see his later political achievements in a new
light. The focus is from his birth in 1922, until
his graduation from Edinburgh in 1952. It was
after returning to Tanganyika from Edinburgh
that ‘Mwalimu’ (the teacher) left teaching,
formally entered politics, and led efforts to deliver
Tanganyika territory to independence.
Drawing on interviews with his contemporaries
and those he knew, from village elders to staff
at the University of Edinburgh and Nyerere’s
devoted personal assistant, as well as archival
sources, including his letters as a student and files
that the colonial authorities kept on him, this
revelatory and engaging account allows us to see
Nyerere afresh.
THOMAS MOLONY is Lecturer in African Studies
and Programme Director of the African Studies
Centre’s MSc in African Studies at the University
of Edinburgh.
$45.00/£25.00 June 2014
978 1 84701 090 2
16 b/w illus.; 250pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
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fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant
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Places Sudan’s oil industry, its economy,
external relations and changing politics
under the impact of the Darfur conflict
Politics / economics
China’s Aid and Soft
Power in Africa
The Case of Education and Training
KENNETH KING
The significance of
China’s role as education
donor in Africa.
While China’s dramatic
economic and trade
impact, particularly on
Africa, has caught global
attention, little focus has
yet been given to its role
as an education donor
– and especially to the
critical role of China’s support for training and
development for Africans in China and within
Africa itself. It is vital that we understand what is
going on, and why education is so important in
China-Africa relations. Here is hard evidence from
Ethiopia, South Africa and Kenya of the dramatic
growth of China’s soft power and increasing impact
in capacity-building, and of the implications of this
for Africa, China and the world.
KENNETH KING is Professor Emeritus, University
of Edinburgh.
$34.95/£19.99 May 2013
978 1 84701 065 0
256pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Issues
South Africa’s Gold Mines
and the Politics of Silicosis
JOCK MCCULLOCH
Examines the 20 th -
century silicosis crisis in
the South African
mining industry.
This book reveals how
the South African mining
industry, abetted by a
minority state, hid a
pandemic of silicosis for
almost a century, and
allowed workers infected
with the potentially fatal tuberculosis to spread
disease to rural communities in South Africa
and to labour-sending states. The first crisis of
1896-1912, which focused on minority white
workers, resulted in dramatic improvements and
South Africa becoming renowned for its mine
safety. The second began in 2000 with mounting
scientific evidence that the disease rate among
black migrant miners is more than a hundred
times higher than officially acknowledged.
JOCK MCCULLOCH was a Legislative Research
Specialist for the Australian parliament and has
taught at various universities. His books include
Asbestos Blues.
$34.95/£19.99 October 2012
978 1 84701 059 9
2 b/w illus.; 202pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Issues
From the Pit to the Market
Politics and the Diamond
Economy in Sierra Leone
DIANE FROST
Argues that corporate
neo-colonialism in the
diamond trade of Sierra
Leone has served to
restrict its social and
economic growth.
Diamonds have played
an important role in the
political economy of Sierra
Leone, as was highlighted
by the use of ‘conflict’ or
‘blood’ diamonds in the decade-long civil war. Yet
their role is larger than this. Exploited by global
business interests, whose corporate neo-colonialist
predation has led to continued deprivation and
reliance on aid, Sierra Leone’s diamonds have also
been used to finance factions in Lebanon’s civil
war, criminal networks in the US and Russia, and
al-Qaeda. This study will be of importance not only
for scholars of African studies, but for NGOs and
those with a wider interest in development.
DIANE FROST is Lecturer in the Department
of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology,
University of Liverpool.
$34.95/£19.99 November 2012
978 1 84701 060 5
6 b/w illus.; 248pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
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POWER IN AFRICA
The Case of Education and Training
KENNETH KING
China’s role as a re-emerging aid donor in Africa, and in
particular its support in education, training and human
resource development.
£19.99/$34.95 May 2013
978 1 84701 065 0
FROM THE PIT TO THE MARKET
£19.99/$34.95 November 2012
978 1 84701 060 5
Politics and the Diamond
Economy in Sierra Leone
DIANE FROST
Argues that corporate neocolonialism
in the diamond trade of
Sie ra Leone has served to restrict
its social and economic growth,
excluding and marginalizing it from
the club of wealthier nations, and
causing i to continue to rely on
international aid.
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AFRICAN ISSUES
A groundbreaking series that provokes debate on
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JOCK MCCULLOCH
Examines the twentieth-century silicosis
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THE FRONT LINE RUNS
THROUGH EVERY WOMAN
Women and Local Resistance
in the Zimbabwean
Liberation War
ELEANOR O’GORMAN
Theorizes the experiences of women in
wartime, and specifica ly of African women
during Zimbabwe’s anti-colonial struggle.
£17.99/$29.95 October 2011
978 1 84701 040 7
Zimbabwe: Weaver Pre s
THE ROOT CAUSES OF SUDAN’S
CIVIL WARS (Revised Edition)
DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON
Revised with an analysis of the
escalation of the Darfur war,
implementation of the peace
agreement and implications of the
Southern referendum.
£16.99/$29.95, June 2011
978 1 84701 029 2
Uganda: Fountain Publishers
SUDAN LOOKS EAST
China, India and the Politics
of Asian Alternatives
Eds. DANIEL LARGE
& LUKE A. PATEY
Disrupting Territories
Land, Commodification
and Conflict in Sudan
Edited by JÖRG GERTEL,
RICHARD ROTTENBURG
& SANDRA CALKINS
Examines the commodification of land
rights, the effect of international licences for
resource extraction and how they are actually
experienced by the pastoral communities of
the two Sudans.
This book explores the new dynamics of landgrabbing
in the two Sudans, as territorial claims to
land and resources are challenged by small-scale
and international actors, the structural conditions
that mould pastoral livelihoods in the two Sudans
and the different conditions that obtain in local
regions. Through a political economy of the
region, and a diverse collection of case studies, it
shows how pastoral livelihoods are increasingly
being differentiated, regrouped in new clusters
and exposed to new risks.
JÖRG GERTEL is Professor of Economic
Geography at Leipzig University; RICHARD
ROTTENBURG is Chair of Anthropology at
the University of Halle; SANDRA CALKINS is a
research associate in Social Anthropology at the
University of Leipzig.
$90.00/£50.00(s) April 2014
978 1 84701 054 4
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Eastern Africa Series
The Economics of Ethnic Conflict
The Case of Burkina Faso
ANDREAS DAFINGER
Investigates
development practice,
civil organization
formation and the
increase of ethnically
motivated conflicts over
the past two decades in
Western Africa.
This richly detailed
anthropological
account of the policies
and practices of Burkina Faso, set against the
background of the region’s developing economies
and ethnic diversity, examines the social,
economic and political transformation of Western
Africa. Behind the screen of ethnic conflicts, lie
vibrant ‘concealed economies’ that have led to
new economic and political practices at almost all
levels of national and civil administration.
ANDREAS DAFINGER is Associate Professor of
Social Anthropology at the Central European
University, Budapest.
$80.00/£45.00(s) August 2013
978 1 84701 068 1
224pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
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Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana
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Literary Studies
NEW
Reading Nuruddin Farah
The individual, the novel
& the idea of home
F. FIONA MOOLLA
A close analysis of
Farah’s novels tracks the
contradictions implicit
in the notion of the
modern, disengaged self.
Moolla’s analysis of one of
Africa’s most important
writers, Nuruddin Farah,
traces his work through
the history of the novel
as a form and its progressive investigations into
modern identities. She examines his writing
within the framework of Somali society, Islamic
traditions and changing political contexts – most
significantly the nature and condition of exile – a
major theme in his novels. She also explores
Nuruddin Farah’s engagement with women’s lives
– female characters and their quest for identity
being central rather than peripheral to his stories
– something that has always distinguished him
from many other male African writers.
F. FIONA MOOLLA is a lecturer in the Faculty of
Arts at the University of Western Cape in South
Africa.
$80.00/£45.00(s) March 2014
978 1 84701 091 9
220pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Reading Marechera
Edited by GRANT HAMILTON
Dambudzo Marechera’s
work as novelist, poet,
playwright and essayist
is discussed in relation
to other free-thinking
writers.
Considered one of
Africa’s most innovative
and subversive writers,
the Zimbabwean writer
Dambudzo Marechera is read today as a significant
voice in contemporary world literature. Marechera
wrote ceaselessly against the status quo, against
unqualified ideas, against expectation. He was an
intellectual outsider who found comfort only in the
company of other free-thinking writers – Shelley,
Bakhtin, Apuleius, Fanon, Dostoyevsky, Tutuola.
It is this universe of literary thought that one can
see written into the fiction of Marechera that this
collection of essays sets out to interrogate.
GRANT HAMILTON is Assistant Professor of
English Literature at the Chinese University of
Hong Kong.
$34.95/£19.99 January 2013
978 1 84701 062 9
1 b/w illus.; 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
NEW
ALT 31 Writing Africa
in the Short Story
African Literature Today
Edited by ERNEST N. EMENYONU
The short story and its
place within the study
and criticism of African
literature.
African writers have, much
more than the critics,
recognized the beauty and
potency of the short story.
Always the least studied
in African literature
classrooms and the most critically overlooked
genre in African literature today, the African
short story is now given the attention it deserves.
Contributors here take a close look at the African
short story to re-define its own peculiar pedigree,
chart its trajectory, critique its present state and
examine its creative possibilities.
ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of Africana
Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA;
the editorial board is composed of scholars from
US, UK and African universities.
$34.95/£18.99 November 2013
978 1 84701 081 0
191pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Literature Today
Nigeria: HEBN
Breaking the Silence
South African Representations
of HIV/AIDS
ELLEN GRüNKEMEIER
Examines the South
African HIV/AIDS
epidemic through
creative texts and their
impact.
South Africa is one of the
countries most affected
by HIV/AIDS, and much
can be gained from
approaching its epidemic
through creative texts such as novels, photographs,
films, cartoons and murals because they produce
and circulate meanings of HIV/AIDS and its various
facets such as its ‘origin’, ‘transmission routes’ and
‘physical manifestations’. Other aspects explored
are the denial of HIV/AIDS, its stigmatisation,
discriminatory practices, modes of disclosure, access
to anti-retroviral medication, as well as the role of
alternative treatment.
ELLEN GRÜNKEMEIER is a lecturer and researcher
in the English Department at Leibniz University
of Hanover, Germany.
$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2013
978 1 84701 070 4
19 b/w illus.; 251pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
NEW
The Swahili Novel
Challenging the Idea of
‘Minor Literature’
XAVIER GARNIER
An overview of the
Swahili novel and a
reflection on the status
and dynamism of
Kafka’s concept of
‘minor literature’.
For more than fifty
years a dynamic
modern literature has
been developing in the
Kiswahili language. The political weight that it
carries as the emerging national and pan-national
language of many East African countries places
this literature at the centre of heated literary
debates on the social function of literature in
the context of rapid global social change. This
obsession with social issues relates to larger
political debates running through East Africa: in
its press, its streets, its public and private places.
The novels both record and provoke these debates.
XAVIER GARNIER teaches African Literature at
the Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle.
$90.00/£50.00(s) October 2013
978 1 84701 079 7
204pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
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A New Generation
of African Writers
Migration, Material Culture
and Language
BRENDA COOPER
New African writers
and ideas of migration.
Migration is a central
theme of much African
fiction written in English.
Here, Brenda Cooper
tracks the journeys
undertaken by a new
generation of African
writers and their
protagonists to depict the material realities of
their multiple worlds and languages. The writers’
challenge is to find an English that can effectively
express their many lives, languages and identities.
BRENDA COOPER is an Honorary Research
Associate at the University of Manchester and an
Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town.
A great resource for students, teachers and
researchers of African literature.
AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
$29.95/£17.99 July 2013
978 1 84701 076 6
192pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB
Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho
and Swaziland): University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
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Out in Africa
Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan
Literatures & Cultures
CHANTAL ZABUS
Traces representations of
same-sex desire in Africa
through historic and
contemporary sources.
Homosexuality was and
still is thought to be
quintessentially ‘un-
African’. Yet in this book
Chantal Zabus examines
the anthropological,
cultural and literary representations of male
and female same-sex desire from early colonial
contacts between Europe and Africa in the
nineteenth century to the present. Covering a
broad geographical spectrum, from Mali to South
Africa and from Senegal to Kenya, and adopting a
comparative approach encompassing two colonial
languages (English and French) and some African
languages, Out in Africa charts developments in
Sub-Saharan African texts and contexts through
the work of 7 colonial writers and some 25
postcolonial writers.
CHANTAL ZABUS is IUF Professor in
Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender
Studies at Université Paris 13 (now Sorbonne-
Paris-Cité).
$80.00/£45.00(s) November 2013
978 1 84701 082 7
312pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB
Remembering Africa
The Rediscovery of Colonialism in
Contemporary German Literature
DIRK GÖTTSCHE
Colonialism and Africa
as presented in some
fifty German novels
from the past three
decades.
In the late 1990s a surge
of historical novels about
German colonialism in
Africa and its previously
neglected legacies hit the
German literary scene. This development has
continued to the present, making colonialism
an established literary theme. This is the first
comprehensive study of this intense literary
engagement with German colonialism and with
Germany’s wider involvement in European
colonialism. It brings the hitherto neglected
German case to the international debate in
postcolonial literary studies.
DIRK GÖTTSCHE is Professor of German at the
University of Nottingham.
$95.00/£60.00(s) May 2013
978 1 57113 546 9
494pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6), HB
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Ira Aldridge
Performing Shakespeare in
Europe, 1852-1855
BERNTH LINDFORS
Describes the “glory
years” of Ira Aldridge’s
first Continental tour,
during which he won
more awards and
honors, often conferred
by royalty, than any
other actor of his day.
The third volume of
Bernth Lindfors’s awardwinning
biography of
Ira Aldridge traces the American-born black
classical actor’s itinerary on his first Continental
tour, recounting his performances and analyzing
audience responses to them. Audiences in
Europe wanted to see him in Shakespearean
roles rather than in the racial melodramas and
farces that were popular in the British Isles. As
a consequence, Aldridge concentrated almost
exclusively on performing as Othello, Shylock,
Macbeth, and Richard III. In the course of his
travels, he won more major international awards
and honors than any other actor of his day.
BERNTH LINDFORS is Professor Emeritus of
English and African Literatures, University of
Texas at Austin.
$55.00/£35.00(s) December 2013
978 1 58046 472 7
21 b/w illus.; 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6), HB
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Ira Aldridge
The Early Years, 1807-1833 and
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BERNTH LINDFORS
The first two volumes of Lindfors’s acclaimed
biography. Two volume set.
Volume I received the 2012 Errol Hill Award, given
by the American Society for Theatre Research
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theater, drama, and/or performance studies.
A work of monumental scholarship.
AFRICAN THEATRE
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$99.00/£65.00(s) October 2011
978 1 58046 401 7
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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
African Theatre 12
Shakespeare in and out of Africa
Edited by MARTIN BANHAM,
JAMES GIBBS & FEMI OSOFISAN
A key volume for
Shakespeare, African
theatre and postcolonial
cultural scholars,
promoting debate on
the role of Western
cultural icons in
contemporary
postcolonial cultures.
This volume takes as
its starting point an
interrogation of the African contributions to
the Globe to Globe Festival staged in London in
2012, where 37 Shakespeare productions were
offered, each from a different nation. Five African
companies were invited to perform and there are
articles on four of these productions, examining
issues of interculturalism, postcolonialism,
language, interpretation and reception. The
contributors are both Shakespeare and African
theatre scholars, promoting discourse from a
range of geographical and cultural perspectives.
The playscript in this volume is Femi Osofisan’s
Wesoo, Hamlet! or the Resurrection of Hamlet.
$34.95/£19.99 November 2013
978 1 84701 080 3
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Festivals
Edited by JAMES GIBBS
How international
theatre festivals have
been organised and
how they affect the
evolution of sustainable
theatre.
During the last fifty
years, those working
in the cultural sectors
in African countries
have attempted to write
history by organising festivals. Under banners
such as ‘Reclaiming the African Past’ and ‘African
Renaissance’, they have used the performing
arts to address a variety of topical issues and
to confront images embedded by a century of
patronising colonial expositions.
$34.95/£18.99 November 2012
978 1 84701 057 5
176pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB
African Theatre
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