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Village Matters - Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia, Algeria by Judith Scheele
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.58Kabylia 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: $38.57Contributors 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: $25.79Booksplease Price: $14.58Chronicles 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
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $106.15Sport 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: $33.42First 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: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.24In-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
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.87Forests 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: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.24An 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: $50.22Born 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: $38.29This 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
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $74.38While 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
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.14This 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: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.252016 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: $167.70Booksplease Price: $142.83Edition 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: $109.65Booksplease Price: $102.54Is 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
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $106.15In 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
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Naseem 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
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.87In 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: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.14This 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: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15Important 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
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.87Grounded 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: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.24Between 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: $42.56Booksplease Price: $37.54In 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
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.14First 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
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Examines 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
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.25Throughout 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: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.29From 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: $35.60The 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... -
Alt 39: Speculative & Science Fiction by Ernest Emenyonu
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847012852Author Ernest EmenyonuFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint James CurreyPublisher James... -
Kenya's and Zambia's Relations with China 1949-2019 by Jodie Yuzhou Sun
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.87Examines the history of post-colonial Kenya's and Zambia's relations with the People's Republic of China from ideological, political, economic and social perspectives. Africa has become a major... -
Decolonising State & Society in Uganda: The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life by Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.45Decolonization of knowledge has become a major issue in African Studies in recent years, brought to the fore by social movements from #RhodesMustFall to #BlackLivesMatter. This timely book explores... -
The Kenyan Cut Flower Industry & Global Market Dynamics by Dr Andreas Gemahlich 9781847012951
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77From a macro-perspective, it appears that the cut flower industry has changed into a buyer-driven value chain with corporate retailers as the new lead firms. Yet, as this book shows, this is... -
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights Volume 2: The Political Process by Dr Nat Rubner 9781847013545
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.25Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the... -
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress Christopher Conz 9781847013309
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.87Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable... -
Politics in South Africa - From Mandela to Mbeki by Tom Lodge 9780852558706
Booksplease Price: $35.60This insightful study, now completely revised and in its second edition, examines the pattern of politics that has emerged in South Africa under the Mandela and Mbeki administrations. In considering... -
Sheng - Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular by Chege Githiora 9781847012081
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.14The city of Nairobi is a rich context for the study of sociolinguistic phenomena. The coexistence of speakers of many different languages, further differentiated by socio-economic status, age and... -
The African Garrison State - Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea by Kjetil Tronvoll 9781847010698
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $73.99When Eritrea gained independence in 1991, hopes were high for its transformation. In two decades, however, it became one of the most repressive in the world, effectively a militarised "garrison... -
Turning Points in African Democracy by Abdul Raufu Mustapha 9781847013163
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $21.87Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy... -
Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique - 1945-1975 by Jeanne Marie Penvenne 9781847011282
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $74.38JOINT RUNNER-UP FOR THE 2017 AIDOO-SNYDER BOOK PRIZE Between the late 1940s and independence in 1975, rural Mozambican women migrated to the capital, Lourenco Marques, to find employment in the... -
Tanzanian Development - A Comparative Perspective by David Potts 9781847011978
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.84Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania has experienced a period of painful adjustment followed by relatively rapid and stable economic...