African Studies

Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the...

The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies,...

Legacies of Passed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power proffers varied perspectives of the invaluable contributions of ten deceased African writers from all across Africa who have cleared the path to a vibrant African feminist arena...

A Companion to African Rhetoric, edited by Segun Ige, Gilbert Motsaathebe, and Omedi Ochieng, presents the reader with different perspectives on African rhetoric mostly from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. The African, Afro-Caribbean, and...

Based on interrogation and review of historical and current cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive curriculum and classroom analysis, this book identifies how indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more gender...

Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery. The contributors explore the...

Originally published in 1959, this book charts the journey made by the author and a Creole journalist from Sierra Leone across West Africa at a time when a political, economic and cultural revolution was taking place. It was not so much the exotic tribal...

The right to development (RTD) seeks to address global inequities hidden in world politics and global institutions through the game of influences played by powerful actors. The negative impacts of the Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, and the...

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this pioneering study-the first to cover ransoming, or the release of a prisoner prior to enslavement for...

Originally published in 1975, this book was something of a pioneering study. It examines the three main traditions of African educational development - indigenous, Islamic and 'Western' - and the resulting harmonies and conflicts that arise from these...

A decade-long study of young adulthood in Malawi that demonstrates the impact of widespread HIV status uncertainty, laying bare the sociological implications of what is not known.An Epidemic of Uncertainty advances a new framework for studying social...

The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa's mental health system. The author interrogates how reforms shaped public, community-based services for people living with severe mental illness, and how...

Examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe. In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268205065Author Ludovic LadoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams) 152g

A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and experience managing these assets. Despite natural resource advantages, many African countries have failed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648250255Author Timothy StapletonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Rochester PressPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472054824Author Naomi AndreFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa. In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongole examines what it means to be both an African and a Christian in a continent that is often riddled with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268205072Author Ludovic LadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams) 152g

In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top levels of industry, they have become a demographic minority, politically subordinate to the black South...

Risk, anxiety and moral panic are endemic to contemporary societies and media forms. How do these phenomena manifest in a place like South Africa, which features heightened insecurity, deep inequality and accelerated social change? What happens when...

In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of...

This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world.Africa's Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where...

The humanitarian movement against Leopold's violent colonisation of the Congo emerged out of Europe, but it depended at every turn on African input. Individuals and groups from throughout the upper Congo River basin undertook journeys of daring and...

In An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision: Afrocentric Essays, Molefi Kete Asante, engages the age-old debate on Pan Africanism by providing an innovative orientation to the established discourse developed during the twentieth century. Asante opens an...

This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have...

In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from the African continent. However, an increasing number of Africans and Africanists have voiced their...

Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentration on the Nigerian experience in postcolonial...

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor's volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the...

This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia.The Routledge Handbook of Queer...

Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it,...

Facing Two Ways explores the interaction between European and African cultures within the setting of Ghana's main coastal communities. Roger S. Gocking focuses on the emergence of a distinctive ethno-cultural constellation that arose from the interaction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865430785Author Albert B. CleageFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World Press

A study of African intellectual traditions as a resource to decolonize African Studies, this book argues that indigenous methods and knowledge are essential for studying Africa's diverse peoples and histories.

A study of African intellectual traditions as a resource to decolonize African Studies, this book argues that indigenous methods and knowledge are essential for studying Africa's diverse peoples and histories.

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First published in 1978, Africa Today provides an introduction to understanding events in Africa during the late 1970s. The book stimulates informed interest in the complex governance, development, and identity challenges that African nations were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032889597Author Sylvia Leith-RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. As Africa stands at the threshold of rapid global and technological change, Transforming Africa offers a timely, agenda-setting response to the urgent call for bold,...

First published in 1939, Principles of Economic Sociology has a two-fold object: first, to develop an economic theory of primitive life, secondly, to show the social principles behind the making of economic decisions, whether among primitive or advanced...