African Studies

In 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...

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...

Indigenous 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...

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...

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...

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...

This 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...

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...

This 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...

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

Coming 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...

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

South 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...

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)...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 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,...

In 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? 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...

A 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

First 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...

Zambia 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...

This 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 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...

This 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 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...

Apologies 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 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...

First 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...

Apologies 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