African Studies

Cabo 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...

Originally 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...

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...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, there was a lack of contemporary, readily available studies of the informal relationships between the sexes; their day to day activities and expectations and how these were altering; especially in contexts in which there...

In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569027790Author Abdul AlkalimatFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

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...

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)...

Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the...

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...

Forests of Gold is a collection of essays on the peoples of Ghana with particular reference to the most powerful of all their kingdoms: Asante. Beginning with the global and local conditions under which Akan society assumed its historic form between the...

In this book, Oyewumi extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yoruba society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of...

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 9789987753819Author Msia Kibona Clark Kibona ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota...

By tracing U.S. involvement in South African political and economic development since the late 1800s, this book analyzes U.S. corporate and government motives for maintaining the political status quo in South Africa. In recent decades, according to the...

Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s to the present. Spanning the dynamic periods of colonialism, national independence, socialism, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785961171Author Kome Erubu OtoboFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world. The Kruger National Park is South Africa's most iconic nature reserve, renowned for its rich flora and fauna. According to author Jacob Dlamini,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956553587Author Kathryn ToureFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

"...engaging, richly illustrated, and well-reserached .... Part anthology, cultural studies, history, journalism and political science, it... manages to consistently engage the reader..." - African Studies Review"Lindfors's book shows how 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 book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by the Western approach to the discourse of knowledge. This book however shines a...

Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by...

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...

Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in its own right. Customs, beliefs, conventional usages,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785997910Author Pat OyelolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Safari Books LtdPublisher Safari Books LtdWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Imperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history.Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa, Imperialism, Race and Resistance charts the growth of anti-colonial resistance...

The main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa's development agenda. Planned urbanization can improve living conditions for the majority, help in the expansion of the middle class, and create conditions for...

While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture...

This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around...

A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds. The picaresque hero of this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con...

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 book examines the conception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Africa, expanding it's frontiers beyond corporate reporting, voluntary corporate charity and community development projects.Taking a corporate law perspective on CSR, the...

This volume explores how the people of littoral East Africa imagined and reimagined their communities over two millennia of engagement with Indian Ocean transformations-from the settlement of Bantu speakers near the coast around the first century CE to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956553990Author Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-GyampahFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789994281251Author Ruba El MelikFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint AndariyaPublisher AndariyaWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788888934730Author Rhoda Aideed RagehFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ponte Invisible (Redsea Cultural Foundation)Publisher Ponte Invisible (Redsea...

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...