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Black and White: Healing Racial Divide by C L Holley 9781087948775
RRP: £8.55£6.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087948775Author C L HolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 140g -
Apartheid Remains by Sharad Chari 9781478030416
RRP: £27.99£24.95In 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... -
Fragmented Identities of Nigeria: Sociopolitical and Economic Crises by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji 9781666905830
RRP: £92.00£85.24Fragmented Identities of Nigeria: Sociopolitical and Economic Crises explores the historiogenesis and ontological struggles of Nigeria as a geographical expression and a political experiment. The transdisciplinary contributions in Fragmented Identities... -
Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies by Martha Donkor 9781793628442
RRP: £81.00£73.23Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of... -
African Development Perspectives: A Holistic Reflection by T A Ngwana 9781398494558
RRP: £10.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398494558Author T A NgwanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Diaspora Dilemma by Kyle Powell 9781398482241
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398482241Author Kyle PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 295g -
Scarlet and Black (3 Volume Set) by Kendra Boyd 9781978827905
RRP: £134.00£114.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978827905Author Kendra BoydFormat HardbackPage Count 662Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining: Strangers, Aliens, Spirits by Fenda Akiwumi 9781839988097
RRP: £80.00£75.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839988097Author Fenda AkiwumiFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Kakaamotobe: Fancy Dress Carnival in Ghana by Courtnay Micots 9781793643094
RRP: £97.00£89.14Kakaamotobe, meaning to scare, is known across southern Ghana, West Africa, as Fancy Dress performance. Masqueraders dress in colorful costumes and wear fancy and fierce masks; they dance energetically to drums or brass band music through the main... -
Nation Women Negotiating Islam: Moving Beyond Boundaries in the Twentieth Century by C. S'thembile West 9781793642370
RRP: £77.00£68.10Nation Women Negotiating Islam: Moving Beyond Boundaries in the Twentieth Century highlights that Black women modeled diverse ways of agency and executing their roles in the nation-building project of the Nation of Islam. Informants candidly discussed... -
Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies by Egodi Uchendu 9781793642042
RRP: £97.00£89.54Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and... -
Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa by Chammah J. Kaunda 9781793618023
RRP: £81.00£74.51Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa argues that, in many African societies, ideas and practices of wellbeing and gender relations continue to be informed and shaped by religious epistemologies. The contributors affirm that for many Africans, it is... -
In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas by Susan Elizabeth Ramirez 9781496231475
RRP: £25.99£22.04Apart from collective memories of lived experiences, much of the modern world's historical sense comes from written sources stored in the archives of the world, and some scholars in the not-so-distant past have described unlettered civilizations as... -
In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas by Susan Elizabeth Ramirez 9781496230256
RRP: £89.00£75.91Apart from collective memories of lived experiences, much of the modern world's historical sense comes from written sources stored in the archives of the world, and some scholars in the not-so-distant past have described unlettered civilizations as... -
Towards an African Literature: The Emergence of Literary Form in Xhosa by A. C. Jordan 9780520307933
RRP: £34.00£26.45This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning by Kathleen Rice 9780253066176
RRP: £29.99£25.99Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape roughly twenty years after the end of Apartheid.In post-Aparatheid South Africa,... -
Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning by Kathleen Rice 9780253066169
RRP: £67.00£56.76Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape roughly twenty years after the end of Apartheid.In post-Aparatheid South Africa,... -
Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa: Understanding the Role of Foreign Investment Actors by Hany Gamil Besada 9780228005445
RRP: £28.99£22.35A 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... -
Enduring Polygamy: Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis by Bruce Whitehouse 9781978831148
RRP: £134.00£114.53Why 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... -
Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology by Molefi Kete Asante 9781793628923
RRP: £77.00£71.06Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology is a critical analysis of the ideas of Ama Mazama, a prominent and leading female theorist in Africology and African American Studies. Molefe Asante studies the creative and productive power of Mazama’s... -
Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas by Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves 9781793634917
RRP: £30.00£27.49Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo Verdean women and their experiences. The contributors... -
Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith 9780691229904
RRP: £65.00£53.34An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state power When Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the... -
British Policy in Changing Africa by Andrew Cohen 9781032605470
RRP: £81.99£71.30Originally published in 1959 by a former Governor of Uganda and Head of the Africa Division of the former Colonial Office, this book is a concise exposition of British aims and methods in colonial Africa and the extent of British influence, and the way... -
Political Institutions of West Africa by J. H. Price 9781032594552
RRP: £81.99£71.70This book, originally published in 1967 looks at political institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia a the time of the establishment of alien rule and goes on to discuss in detail constitutional developments from 1919 to the late... -
Reflections on the 2019 South African General Elections: Quo Vadis? by Narnia Bohler-Muller 9780367672799
RRP: £39.99£35.06Reflections on the 2019 South African General Elections is a critical reflection on the key lessons of Elections 2019 in South Africa, focusing on the future of the country’s electoral democracy. The volume engages questions on land, election campaigns,... -
Nigerian Administration and its Political Setting by Adebayo Adedeji 9781032588131
RRP: £81.99£71.30Originally published in 1968, this book is of unique value because it provides first-hand information on Nigerian government and administration in action during the 2nd half of the 20th Century. Themes discussed include the evolution, organisation and... -
Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas by Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves 9781793634894
RRP: £85.00£78.81Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo Verdean women and their experiences. The contributors... -
Integrating Strangers: Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast by Anaïs Ménard 9781800738409
RRP: £107.00£86.17Drawing 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... -
Who Owns Africa?: Neocolonialism, Investment, and the New Scramble by Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina 9789462703438
RRP: £41.00£33.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462703438Author Bekeh Utietiang UkelinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 445g -
Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa by Nicky Falkof 9781526171887
RRP: £20.00£14.53Risk, 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... -
Legacies of Departed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power by Helen O. Chukwuma 9781666914658
RRP: £100.00£87.82Legacies 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 by Segun Ige 9781793647658
RRP: £92.00£85.24A 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... -
African Art As Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude by Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781635423211
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423211Author Souleymane Bachir DiagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
African Science Education: Gendering Indigenous Knowledge in Nigeria by Jamaine Abidogun 9780367591953
RRP: £39.99£35.06Based 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 by Jerome C Branche 9780367593322
RRP: £39.99£35.06Post/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... -
Pagans and Politicians by Michael Crowder 9781032568515
RRP: £81.99£71.70Originally 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 in the African Human Rights System by Serges Djoyou Kamga 9780367593193
RRP: £39.99£35.06The 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... -
Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa by Professor Jennifer Lofkrantz 9781648250644
RRP: £85.00£81.30Examines 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 cash... -
Forced Labour in Colonial Africa: A. T. Nzula I. I. Potekhin and A. Z. Zusmanovich by Robin Cohen 9781032647517
RRP: £81.99£71.30Originally published for the first time in English in 1979 this book represents one of the earliest Marxist analyses of the impact that colonialism had on Africa during the first half century that followed the Scramble. Nzula’s co-authored book, together... -
Racism, Violence, Betrayals and New Imaginaries: Feminist Voices by Nadia Sanger 9781032624259
RRP: £135.00£117.28This anthology consists of academic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry and short stories on race and racism by black women from South Africa and Brazil. Through these different genres, the book engages with the complexities of race in social,...