African Studies

The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white...

By balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people. Drawing from a number of academic disciplines and original research that...

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...

An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe's unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual...

Why hasn't polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous...

In There Used to Be Order, Patience Mususa considers social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large state mining conglomerate, the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), in the mid-1990s. As the copper...

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...

An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the...

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are especially disadvantaged by the global land grab:...

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are especially disadvantaged by the global land grab:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055005Author Joshua D. RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779295996Author Zvikomborero KapuyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Mwanaka Media and PublishingPublisher Mwanaka Media and PublishingWeight(grams)...

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

This monograph of Muslim life focuses on young male migrants of rural origin who move to build better lives in Bougouni, a provincial town of southwest Mali. Describing themselves as 'simply Muslims' and 'adventurers', these migrants aim to be both...

A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz's innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays...

Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter...

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...

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...

Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu: Capturing Cultural Capital propels Sudanese intellectuals into the global intellectual milieu and argues for their place in world intellectual history. The contributors posit that Sudan is currently in its...

In The Trial of Hissein Habre: The International Crimes of a Former Head of State, Emmanuel Guematcha recounts the trial of Hissein Habre, the former Head of State of Chad. Accused of committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture while he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615995745Author Nancy Daniel WessonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Modern History PressPublisher Modern History PressWeight(grams) 156g

In The Black Subaltern, Shauna Knox revolts against the construct of the decontextualized self, electing instead to foreground the complex and problematic lived experience of the Black subaltern. Knox offers an account in which Black humanity is...

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 9789914743029Author Steven Were OmamoFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Richardson-Omamo BooksPublisher Richardson-Omamo BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920850326Author Shin-Ichiro IshidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793638564Author Veronica Fynn BrueyFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

In the Dogon funeral proceedings, a major song cycle called baja ni is performed in a session of at least seven hours. The texts of the chants are attributed to a legendary figure called Abire, who as a blind singer in the nineteenth century roamed the...

Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian Ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. Erik Gilbert argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social life of colonial Zanzibar...

Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control by forging adaptive economic relationships. During a transformative era in the first half of the...

In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the Indian Ocean city of Durban. Through long-term historical...

This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920850104Author Shinya KonakaFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M'Baye, contributors explore the application of ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical...

Travel and the Pan African Imagination explores the African Atlantic world as a productive theater or space where modernity, racialized dominance, and racialized resistance took form. The book stresses the importance of placing three Atlantic figures-the...

Contemporary Healthcare Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives discusses contemporary healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify deficiencies in the system and provide workable recommendations for strengthening...

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are...

This monograph of Muslim life focuses on young male migrants of rural origin who move to build better lives in Bougouni, a provincial town of southwest Mali. Describing themselves as 'simply Muslims' and 'adventurers', these migrants aim to be both...

The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem. From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellectual and cultural center of the black world. The Harlem Renaissance movement brought together black...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088182598Author Ph D I U Tanimu-SaminakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 313g