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Masculinity Meets Humanity: An Adapted Model of Masculinised Psychotherapy by Shahieda Jansen 9781032628110
RRP: $263.25$228.70In this book the author, a clinical psychologist, reflects on her psychotherapy experiences with male clients as she debunks the myth of male alexithymia, the inability to recognise and express emotions. Men are apparently disengaged from wellness... -
Conflict and Harmony in Education in Tropical Africa by Godfrey N. Brown 9781032153025
RRP: $62.38$56.02Originally 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... -
Bahlabelelelani – Why Do They Sing?: Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songs by Nompumelelo Zondi 9781032630601
RRP: $263.25$228.70Indigenous societies, steeped in patriarchy, have various channels through which they deal with abusive characteristics of relations in some of these communities. One such route is through songs, which sanction women to voice that which, bound by... -
An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi by Jenny Trinitapoli 9780226825540
RRP: $156.00$149.39A 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... -
An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi Jenny Trinitapoli 9780226825717
RRP: $46.80$44.91A 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... -
Female and Male in West Africa by Christine Oppong 9781032515298
RRP: $234.00$202.04In 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... -
The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa Andre J van Rensburg (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) 9780367683290
RRP: $77.98$68.37The 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... -
Indigenous Elites in Africa: The Case of Kenya's Maasai by Serah Shani 9781032025780
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book investigates the formation, configuration and consolidation of elites amongst Kenya’s Maasai. The Maasai ethnic group is one of the world’s most anthropologized populations, but research tends to focus on what appears to be their dismal... -
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe by Apostolos Andrikopoulos 9780226822600
RRP: $156.00$149.39Examines 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... -
Social Memory as a Force for Social and Economic Transformation by Muxe Nkondo 9781032434445
RRP: $243.75$210.33This volume of essays is a reflection on social memory as a force for social and economic transformation. Written by scholars and organic intellectuals, it focuses on the uses of social memory, in particular the conflict between the legacies of... -
The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa: Family, Religion, and the State by Ludovic Lado 9780268205065
RRP: $161.85$140.61Apologies 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 -
Inequality in Zambia by Caesar Cheelo 9781032147772
RRP: $263.25$228.70Coming together from across several disciplines, the contributors to this book reflect on the considerable problem of inequality in Zambia, comparing it with other countries both in the region and more broadly. The World Bank consistently ranks Zambia... -
Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa: Understanding the Role of Foreign Investment Actors by Hany Gamil Besada 9780228005438
RRP: $241.80$180.67A 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... -
West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960 by Timothy Stapleton 9781648250255
RRP: $214.50$204.24Apologies 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 -
Migrant Labour After Apartheid: The Inside Story by Leslie J. Bank
$70.49South Africa is a rapidly urbanising society. Over 60% of the population lives in urban areas and this will rise to more than 70% by 2030. However, it is also a society with a long history of labour migration, rural home-making and urban economic and... -
African Performance Arts and Political Acts by Naomi Andre
$55.50Apologies 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)... -
Dialectics of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement Paperback by Abdul Alkalimat
RRP: $48.65$32.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569027790Author Abdul AlkalimatFormat PaperbackImprint Red Sea PressPublisher Red Sea Press -
Scarlet and Black (3 Volume Set) by Kendra Boyd
RRP: $107.25$94.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978827899Author Kendra BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 662Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Reflections on the 2019 South African General Elections: Quo Vadis? by Narnia Bohler-Muller
RRP: $263.25$228.70Reflections 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,... -
Understanding Africa's Rural Households And Farming Systems by Joyce Lewinger Moock
RRP: $54.58$47.35In this book, the difficult problems of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa are examined by the farming systems approach, which aims to improve food production under adverse conditions through agronomic and social science research conducted on the farm... -
Who Are My People?: Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa by Emmanuel Katongole
RRP: $54.58$47.07Who 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... -
The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa: Family, Religion, and the State by Ludovic Lado
RRP: $54.58$47.07Apologies 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 -
Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness by Jacob R. Boersema
RRP: $177.45$153.89In 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... -
Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa by Nicky Falkof
RRP: $165.75$117.33A wide-ranging investigation of cultures of fear in South Africa, this book reveals how fear and its various features manifest in contemporary media forms and the people they serve, and how these are impacted by race, class, gender, space and identity... -
Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience by Jeremiah I. Dibua
RRP: $62.38$55.24In 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... -
The Black Subaltern: An Intimate Witnessing by Shauna Knox
RRP: $97.48$84.83In 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... -
Africa's Elite Football: Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges Chuka Onwumechili 9781032239651
RRP: $77.98$68.37This 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... -
African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform: The Burden of Proof by Robert Burroughs
RRP: $81.88$71.66The 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... -
An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision: Afrocentric Essays by Molefi Kete Asante
RRP: $165.75$145.29In 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... -
Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities Under Colonial Rule by Roger S. Gocking 9780761813545
RRP: $185.25$162.86Facing 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... -
International Nationalism: The Extra-territorial Relations of Southern Rhodesian African Nationalists John Day 9781032898100
RRP: $165.75$140.89First published in 1967, International Nationalism discusses the Southern Rhodesian Nationalist Movement and explores how nationalists tried to combine internal with international pressure for self-government. The author provides a well-researched and... -
Employment and Income Distribution in the African Economy James Fry 9781032812663
$159.14Zambia is one African country which has evolved from being a classic example of a colonial economy to become an independent state with a large export enclave. The economy has had to face structural problems that have at one time or another, characterised... -
Intellectual Decolonisation: Critical Perspectives George Hull 9781032853598
RRP: $263.25$223.76This book puts contemporary calls for decolonisation in context. Featuring an interdisciplinary team of scholars from around the world, the book explores and critically assesses the diverse theoretical visions which inform calls for decolonisation of the... -
Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy: Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives Joseph C. A. Agbakoba 9781032683461
RRP: $263.25$223.76Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia (Africa’s better future) from leading African philosophers... -
From History to Herstory: Culture, Gender and Religion in Archival Material in Southern Africa Paul Leshota 9783031669163
RRP: $253.48$215.46This book seeks to contribute to reflections done on the gender equality agenda by combing through oral and written resources to unearth and document heroic displays of leadership by women of Africa in general and of Southern Africa in particular, that... -
Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy: Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives Joseph C. A. Agbakoba 9781032683447
RRP: $72.13$61.31Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia (Africa’s better future) from leading African philosophers... -
Media Diversity in South Africa: New Concepts from the Global South Julie Reid 9781032101866
RRP: $77.98$68.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032101866Author Julie ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g -
Water into Bones: Birth Rituals, Ancestors, and Religious Hybridity in Northern Madagascar Erin K. Nourse 9780253072399
RRP: $175.50$149.18Water into Bones explores the spiritual importance of water in Madagascar. Families in northern Madagascar conceptualize water as a spiritual realm where magical creatures and some ancestors live, and believe that infants are born with a special... -
The Political Nature of a Ruling Class: Capital and Ideology in South Africa 1890–1933 Belinda Bozzoli 9781032899329
RRP: $224.25$190.61First published in 1981, The Political Nature of a Ruling Class is a study of the role played by the ‘organic intellectuals’, who were attached to the capitalist class in South Africa, in shaping the processes of state and class formation in the crucial... -
Corporate Governance in Zimbabwe's Public Entities: Comparisons with South Africa and Australia Nomsa Jane Moyo 9781032228037
RRP: $77.98$68.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032228037Author Nomsa Jane MoyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g