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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. $24.95/£14.99 September 2013 978 1 84701 084 1 158pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB 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. $90.00/£50.00(s) October 2013 978 1 84701 075 9 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB 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. $80.00/£45.00(s) March 2014 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. $80.00/£55.00(s) November 2013 978 1 58046 462 8 24 b/w illus.; 252pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Cover image: a detail from Birdcall 1 by Victor Ekpuk, used with his kind permission. Copyright Victor Ekpuk. 2 www.boydellandbrewer.com
NEW PAPERBACKS 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 10 b/w illus.; 503pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB 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 52 b/w illus.; 304pp, 21.6 x 14 (8.5 x 5.5 inches), PB 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 $24.95/£16.99 August 2013 978 1 58046 365 2 8 b/w illus.; 205pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PB 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 Course Adoption: All our paperbacks are available for academic inspection, just e-mail courseadoption@boydell.co.uk or, in North America, marketing@boydellusa.net www.boydellandbrewer.com 3
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