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Iron Technology in East Africa - Symbolism, Science and Archaeology by Peter R. Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £33.77Through a cross-cultural and comparative approach, it reveals both changes and significant continuities in the symbolism that conferred meaning to iron smelting over two thousand years in East and... -
ALT 6 Poetry in Africa: African Literature Today - A review by Eldred Durosimi Jones
Booksplease Price: £29.68First published in 1973, this volume of the series includes a tribute from the Editor to the poet Christopher Okigbo who died fighting in the Biafran War in 1967, and two articles on his poetry. Also... -
Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s – 1960s by Stephanie Newell 9781847013828
Booksplease Price: £81.75Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century, which adds an African perspective to transatlantic Black... -
Sol Plaatje's Mhudi: History, criticism, celebration by Sabata-mpho Mokae 9781847012760
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Sol Plaatje's Mhudi is the first full-length novel in English to have been written by a black South African and is widely regarded as one of Africa's most important literary works. Drawing upon both... -
Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya by Hauke-Peter Vehrs 9781847013767
Booksplease Price: £27.60Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects. In East Africa and beyond, pastoral groups find... -
Public and Private Universities in Kenya - New Challenges, Issues and Achievements by Kilemi Mwiria 9780852554425
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort... -
ALT 12 New Writing, New Approaches: African Lite - A review by Eldred Durosimi Jones 9781847011237
Booksplease Price: £24.14In his Editorial to African Literature Today 12, first published in 1982, Eldred Jones laments the death of Camara Laye and gives tribute to him as one of the pioneers of African literature. The... -
They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir by Flora Veit-Wild 9781847013293
Booksplease Price: £91.38How shall I tell our story? I hear your voice ringing in mine. I struggle to disentangle a dense tapestry of memories. One thread will be caught up in another. Early images will embrace later ones... -
Fighting for Britain - African Soldiers in the Second World War by David Killingray 9781847010476
Booksplease Price: £27.80During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the... -
Sects and Social Disorder - Muslim Identities and Conflict in Northern Nigeria by Abdul Raufu Mustapha 9781847011077
Booksplease Price: £82.05Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population... -
Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging by Constance Smith 9781847013262
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.93What does it mean to make a life in an African city today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by collapsing urban infrastructures and amid fantastical promises of hypermodern, globalised futures,... -
FGM/C in Africa and the Diaspora: Issues, Debates, and Challenges Lotte Hughes 9781847014245
Booksplease Price: £95.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847014245Author Lotte HughesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint James CurreyPublisher James Currey -
Village Matters - Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia, Algeria by Judith Scheele
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24Kabylia is a Berber-speaking, densely populated mountainous region east of Algiers, that has played an important part in Algerian pre- and post-independence politics, and continues to be troublesome... -
ALT 25 New Directions in African Literature by Ernest N. Emenyonu
Booksplease Price: £29.90Contributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first century? What are the... -
Labor and Democracy in Namibia, 1971-1996 by Gretchen Bauer
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Chronicles the origins and evolution of the history of Namibia's organized labor movement. Explains how, despite the structural limitations of the Namibian economy, a colonial legacy of repression... -
Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia by Dr Katrin Bromber 9781847012920
Booksplease Price: £82.05Sport in Ethiopia was always more than a means of useful recreation. It was also a way to enjoy and define fun, as new modes of behaviour emerged that showed what it meant to be a modern man or woman... -
ALT 7 Focus on Criticism: African Literature Tod - A review by Eldred Durosimi Jones 9781847011206
Booksplease Price: £25.91First published in 1975, this volume of the series continues in more depth the debate on the role of critics and the purpose of criticism. As Eldred Jones reminds the reader in his Editorial:... -
Marikana: A People's History by Julian Brown 9781847013736
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22In-depth account of the Marikana massacre, based on the voices of the miners and their families themselves, from the build up to the strike to attempts to hold the state to account and its lasting... -
Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills: Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest by Dr Léa Lacan 9781847013811
Booksplease Price: £91.08Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by the species-rich diversity they contain. This book explores human-sylvan relations in the Katimok forest, Baringo... -
African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880 by Mariana P. Candido 9781847012647
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It... -
Patrick Duncan - South African and Pan-Africanist by C. J. Driver 9780852557730
Booksplease Price: £38.93Born son of a Governor-General of South Africa, Patrick Duncan rejected the attitudes of his privileged background to follow the Gandhian way of passive reistance, even to jail. This biography traces... -
ALT 22 Exile and African Literature by Eldred Durosimi Jones 9780852555224
Booksplease Price: £29.68This volume explores the recurring theme of exile in African literature, both as physical and mental alienation. It focuses on the writings of Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head, Dennis Brutus, Ayi Kwei... -
African Women in the Atlantic World - Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880 by Mariana P. Candido 9781847012135
Booksplease Price: £57.66While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its... -
ALT 11 Myth & History: African Literature Today by Eldred Durosimi Jones 9781847011220
Booksplease Price: £24.14This volume, first published in 1980, provides an overview of the way myth and history have influenced both the literature of Africa and individual writers. Isidore Okpewho, Solomon O. Iyasere and... -
The New Black Middle Class in South Africa by Roger Southall 9781847011435
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.672016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The "rise of the black middle class" is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor... -
Isizwe esinembali: Xhosa histories and poetry (1873–1888) Jeff Opland 9781847014429
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £110.72Edition and translation of all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings in isiXhosa and English, with a comprehensive introduction William Wellington Gqoba (1840-88) was prominent... -
Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-2025: A Political Historical Reassessment by Professor Corrado Tornimbeni 9781847014290
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £79.49Is democracy surviving in Africa? Despite the continuance of multiparty elections, in the face of unmet expectations for greater freedom, social justice, and inclusive development, an increasing... -
Markets on the Margins - Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development by Kate Philip
Booksplease Price: £82.05In 1987, workers in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike, and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them, the NUM set up a job creation... -
The State of Post-conflict Reconstruction - Land, Urban Development and State-building in Juba, Southern Sudan by Naseem Badiey
Booksplease Price: £81.75Naseem Badiey examines the local dynamics of the emerging capital city of Juba, Southern Sudan, during the historically pivotal transition period following the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement... -
Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya by Hauke-Peter Vehrs 9781847012968
Booksplease Price: £91.08In East Africa and beyond, pastoral groups find themselves and their livelihoods under increasing threat when dealing with rapid environmental change. On the one hand, they contemplate major upheaval... -
Chiefs Know their Boundaries - Essays on Property, Power and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996 by Sara Berry 9780852556443
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14This text explores the changes and continuities in the ways people have made and exercised claims on the land in Asante, Ghana, during the colonial and postcolonial era. North America:... -
Labour & Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926 by Dr Michelle Liebst 9781847013712
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers. The important role missions played as places of work has... -
Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict by Professor Marloes Janson 9781847013903
Booksplease Price: £91.08Grounded in ethnographic and historiographic research and taking a cross-regional approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and... -
Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon by Charlotte Walker-Said 9781847013279
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22Between the two World Wars, the radical innovations of African Catholic and Protestant evangelists repurposed Christianity to challenge local and foreign governments operating in the... -
Creed & Grievance - Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria by Abdul Raufu Mustapha 9781847012197
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.10In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have resulted in acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens... -
ALT 13 Recent Trends in the Novel: African Liter - A review by Eldred Durosimi Jones 9780852555132
Booksplease Price: £24.14First published in 1983, this volume looks at new developments in the African novel and also at those aspects of more established works that received less critical attention, such as writing from... -
ALT 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics Ernest N Emenyonu 9781847013910
Booksplease Price: £81.75Examines the state of African poetry today, the continuing influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation of poets, and their work in written poetry and in the spoken word, continuing... -
At the Crossroads - Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English by Rebecca Jones 9781847012227
Booksplease Price: £91.38Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within Nigeria using a variety of media and forms, from serialised newspaper travelogues to personal diaries,... -
Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel by Madhu Krishnan 9781847013231
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.93From the "imaginative geographies" of conquest identified by Edward Said to the very real and material institution of territorial borders, regions and geographical amalgamations, the... -
Limits to Liberation After Apartheid - Citizenship, Governance and Culture in South Africa by Steven L. Robins
Booksplease Price: £27.60The post-apartheid public sphere in South Africa has been characterised by race tensions and distrust. Socio-economic inequalities and structural unemployment are contributing to widespread crises...