African history Books
University of Wisconsin Press Shaping Tradition Womens Roles in Ceremonial
Book SynopsisUsing the Agwagune community in southeastern Nigeria as a case study, David Uru Iyam asserts that women are not stereotypically submissive, oppressed, or passive. Though women are often misrepresented in studies that fail to ask about their agency, Iyam highlights the overlooked contributions of women that uphold and change entire social systems.
£62.96
University of Wisconsin Press Religious Entanglements Central African
Book SynopsisDrawing on artifacts, images, documents, and interviews, David Maxwell examines the roles of missionaries and their African collaborators - the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga - in producing knowledge about Africa.Trade Review“An original and lucid contribution to the study of missionary Christianity in colonial Africa, Religious Entanglements compellingly demonstrates the influence of missionary forms of knowledge on Africanist anthropology, history, art history, and philosophy. Through nuanced, historical, and context-specific research, it also furthers our understanding of the emergence of African ethnicities and African Christianity. With eloquent and precise prose, Maxwell makes a stunning contribution. This is one of the most compelling accounts of mission Christianity and African society in colonial Africa in over two decades.”—David Gordon, Bowdoin College “An enlightening study of Pentecostal missionary activities in Central Africa from the late 19th to mid-20thcentury. . . Brimming with nuance and acute historical detail, this makes clear that the Luba reception of such missionaries as Burton was an active process of fusion and exchange.”—Publishers Weekly “Religious Entanglements makes a major contribution to both African studies and the history of missions, thanks to its multiple perspectives, its concern with both contexts and comparisons, its interdisciplinary approach (from anthropology to photography), and its careful distinctions between different group responses to the mission. A most impressive study.”—Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge “A brilliant, capacious, field-defining book. Maxwell not only rewrites the history of evangelical Christianity in Central Africa; he also rethinks the nature and meaning of colonialism itself, illuminating the complex ‘entanglements’ through which Europeans and Africans co-created their worlds.”—James Campbell, Stanford UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Primitivism and Pragmatism in the Making of the Congo Evangelistic Mission 2 Luba Transformations Prior to 1910 3 Continuity and Change in the Luba Christian Movement 4 Missions and the State: The Challenge of Pentecostalism 5 “Acquainting Oneself with the Enemy”: Making Knowledge about Africa 6 Pathways to Knowledge 7 The Creation of Lubaland: Missionary Science and Christian Literacy in the Making of the Luba Katanga 8 Finding God among the Luba: Missionary Conversions and Epiphanies Postscript: Postcolonial Developments Conclusion: Pentecostalism, Knowledge Creation, and Religious Change Notes Sources and Bibliography Index
£60.00
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Religious Entanglements Central African
Book SynopsisThe Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and how the Luba shaped missionary research.Trade Review“An original and lucid contribution to the study of missionary Christianity in colonial Africa, Religious Entanglements compellingly demonstrates the influence of missionary forms of knowledge on Africanist anthropology, history, art history, and philosophy. Through nuanced, historical, and context-specific research, it also furthers our understanding of the emergence of African ethnicities and African Christianity. With eloquent and precise prose, Maxwell makes a stunning contribution. This is one of the most compelling accounts of mission Christianity and African society in colonial Africa in over two decades.”—David Gordon, Bowdoin College “An enlightening study of Pentecostal missionary activities in Central Africa from the late 19th to mid-20thcentury. . . Brimming with nuance and acute historical detail, this makes clear that the Luba reception of such missionaries as Burton was an active process of fusion and exchange.”—Publishers Weekly “Religious Entanglements makes a major contribution to both African studies and the history of missions, thanks to its multiple perspectives, its concern with both contexts and comparisons, its interdisciplinary approach (from anthropology to photography), and its careful distinctions between different group responses to the mission. A most impressive study.”—Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge “A brilliant, capacious, field-defining book. Maxwell not only rewrites the history of evangelical Christianity in Central Africa; he also rethinks the nature and meaning of colonialism itself, illuminating the complex ‘entanglements’ through which Europeans and Africans co-created their worlds.”—James Campbell, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Primitivism and Pragmatism in the Making of the Congo Evangelistic Mission 2 Luba Transformations Prior to 1910 3 Continuity and Change in the Luba Christian Movement 4 Missions and the State: The Challenge of Pentecostalism 5 “Acquainting Oneself with the Enemy”: Making Knowledge about Africa 6 Pathways to Knowledge 7 The Creation of Lubaland: Missionary Science and Christian Literacy in the Making of the Luba Katanga 8 Finding God among the Luba: Missionary Conversions and Epiphanies Postscript: Postcolonial Developments Conclusion: Pentecostalism, Knowledge Creation, and Religious Change Notes Sources and Bibliography Index
£26.36
University of Wisconsin Press Burning Ambition Education Arson and Learning
Book SynopsisExplores how young people learn to understand and influence the workings of power and justice in their society. Since 2008, hundreds of secondary schools across Kenya have been targeted with fire by their students. Through an in-depth study of Kenyan secondary students’ use of arson, Elizabeth Cooper asks why.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Rising Disappointment 1 Kindling Contradictions 2 Striking Students 3 Troubling Unrest 4 Burning Schools 5 Striving for Success 6 Learning Experiences 7 Fighting Fire with Fire 8 Arising from the Ashes Notes Works Cited Index
£62.96
University of Wisconsin Press Congos Dancers Women and Work in Kinshasa
Book SynopsisUses the prism of the Congolese danseuse to examine the politics of control and the ways in which notions of visibility, virtue, and socio-economic opportunity are interlinked in the urban African context.Trade Review“A highly original and compelling work of ethnography. The role of urban women in the production of popular culture often tends to be overlooked and undervalued, and Braun’s study of female concert dancers in Kinshasa, the beating heart of much of the musical world in Congo, the African continent, and beyond, makes a substantial contribution to fill in this lacuna. Through a refreshing lens of dance as reflective of social form, her lively prose offers innovative insights on the importance of female agency in refashioning gendered boundaries within the context of one of Africa’s most iconic urban settings.”—Filip De Boeck, coauthor of Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds“Braun’s study comes as a unique and innovative contribution to our understanding of Kinshasa as a kinetic cityscape that dizzies itself in its perpetual gyrations and metamorphoses. By locating women dancers at the center of Kinshasa’s vortex-like ambiance, Braun’s fine-grained narrative does more than just render these performers visible and agentive; it disrupts and shakes up staid notions of gender configurations, femininity, and the economy of the affect.”—Ch. Didier Gondola, author of Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa“A brilliant study of the dynamics of gender, labor, and respectability. Drawing on deep fieldwork, Lesley Braun poignantly shows how the dilemmas that professional female dancers face—of being highly visible and yet respectable—offer a lens through which to analyze the double binds that characterize women’s lives more broadly. Essential reading for anyone interested in gender, performance, and contemporary social change.”—Jennifer Cole, University of ChicagoTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Women and Dance in Congo’s Modern History Chapter 2 Overlapping Tempos Chapter 3 Dance Formations Chapter 4 From Containment to Entrapment Chapter 5 Working through Encadrement Coda Notes Bibliography Index
£56.95
University of Wisconsin Press Violence in Rural South Africa 18801963
Book SynopsisFocusing on the Eastern Cape province, Sean Redding investigates the rise of large-scale lethal fights among men, increasingly coercive abduction marriages, violent acts resulting from domestic troubles and witchcraft accusations within families and communities, and political violence against state policies and officials.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: A History of Violence, a Question of Tradition 1 Neighbors and Rivals: Faction Fighting and Traditional Violence in the Rural Transkei 2 “The Girl Is Not Consulted”: Abduction Marriage and Gendered Traditions of Violence 3 Deaths in the Family: Supernatural Harms and Violent Remedies 4 Sons and “Hooligans,” “World-Destroyers” and Rebels: Traditional Violence Takes a Nationalist Turn Conclusion: Rural Violence Reconsidered Notes Bibliography Index
£60.30
University of Wisconsin Press Spirit Wives and Church Mothers Marriage
Book SynopsisExplores how the growth of Pentecostal churches in central Mozambique occurred alongside a striking increase in so-called traditional religious practices such as spirit mediumship and spiritual healing.Trade ReviewThis ethnography is alive, giving the reader a wonderful window into life as lived in Central Mozambique. Bringing together spirit mediumship and Pentecostalism, Christy Schuetze shows how women living under patriarchy gain access to material security and social well-being by calling on both religious communities and the spirit world." - SÓnia Silva, Skidmore CollegeTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The World is Upside Down: Reordering Society in a World Out of Balance PART I: Spirits and Suffering in Historical and Contemporary Contexts 2. The Production and Integration of Suffering: Social Healing Across Generations 3. Economic Exclusion: The Search for Cash on the Margins 4. A Precarious World: The Hospital as Complementary Medicine Part II: Searching for Stability 5. Misfortune and Women’s Vulnerability in Marriage 6. Becoming a Spirit Wife: Managing Spirits and the Dangers of Marriage 7. Bargaining with Patriarchy: Pentecostal Church Women and Social Renewal Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£56.95
University of Wisconsin Press The Age of Sex
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£62.25
Yale University Press Rwanda
Book SynopsisA sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Susan Thomson, who witnessed the hostilities firsthand, has written a provocative modern history of the country, its rulers, and its people, covering the years prior to, during, and following the genocidal conflict. Thomson's hard-hitting analysis explores the key political events that led to the ascendance of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its leader, President Paul Kagame. This important and controversial study examines the country's transition from war to reconciliation from the perspective of ordinary Rwandan citizens, Tutsi and Hutu alike, and raises serious questions about the stability of the current peace, the methods and motivations of the ruling regime and its troubling ties to the past, and the likelihood of a genocide-free future.Trade Review"A critical examination of President Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front's (RPF) post-conflict reconstruction model. . .The wide scope of the book—from the colonial origins of the genocidal state to the possibilities of future violence—is testimony to Thomson's masterful knowledge of the country's many complexities."—Aditi Malik, African Studies Review“An insightful and unique bottom-up examination of two decades of rule by the RPF, and a much needed warning that structural violence in today's Rwanda may again mutate into lethal conflict.”—Filip Reyntjens, author of Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda“This is the best guide to an understanding of a society torn to bits by genocide. Thomson cuts through the veil of prejudice and ignorance surrounding one of the continent’s most controversial dictatorships in a way no other book does. Truly excellent.”—René Lemarchand, University of Florida“An indispensable guide to the complex politics in Rwanda since the genocide of 1994. Based on years of research and a longstanding interest in the experiences of ordinary Rwandans, this accessible and nuanced study challenges many assumptions on the role of the state in the East African country.”—Catharine Newbury, author of The Cohesion of Oppression“A powerful and important reexamination of the history of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath under Paul Kagame. This is a book that challenges much of the received knowledge about Rwanda's recovery from one of the worst bouts of atrocity in the 20th Century, and deserves reading by anyone who wishes to understand this country's many modern traumas.”—Howard W. French, author of A Continent for the Taking “A vital contribution towards understanding the link between Rwanda's 1994 genocide and its current precarious peace."—Anjan Sundaram, author of Bad News
£23.75
Yale University Press The First Victory
Book SynopsisA riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World WarTrade Review“A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the major Allied victory of the Second World War… draws on an array of previously unseen documents to provide both a detailed campaign history and a fresh appreciation of the first significant Allied success of the war.”—Andrew Stewart, Army Rumour Service“Stewart’s engagingly written narrative goes far towards correcting the obscurity that has lingered over this important theatre of the Second World War. Communicated in lively prose and rich in anecdotes, the book will surely reach a wide audience both within the academy and beyond. . . [it] will be welcome as a comprehensive introduction to the East Africa campaign, and will certainly be useful to historians of the British, Italian, Indian and African militaries.”—Dr Oliver Coates, Journal of Military History 'Exciting and multilayered, this is a comprehensive account of an overlooked campaign in which an outnumbered imperial army destroyed Mussolini’s dream of a new Roman Empire. Fighting over vast distances and inhospitable terrain, forces from the Congo, Ethiopia and across the British Empire recorded the Allies' first major triumph. With its mastery of archival sources, The First Victory displays Andrew Stewart’s skill as an historian of Second World War campaigns and their political and strategic context. An exhilarating read.'—Ashley Jackson, author of Churchill‘This is a highly readable account of a little-known military campaign and an important addition to our understanding of the Second World War. The author is to be congratulated on penning an authoritative and well-written book.'—Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC, author of Victoria Cross Heroes
£30.00
Yale University Press Public Freedoms in the Islamic State
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Rached Ghannouchi is one of the most influential, most interesting, and most promising thinkers and leaders of political Islam today. Finally, the magnum opus of his political thought on public and personal freedom is available in English. It is an important document for how human rights and freedoms can be squared with the claims of Islamic political movements.”—Frank Griffel, Yale University“Rached Ghannouchi presents the case for Islamic democracy in this in-depth study of public freedoms in an Islamic state. David Johnston’s clear translation should be read by anyone interested in the emerging movements of Muslim democrats.”—John O. Voll, coauthor of Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring“Rached Ghannouchi is one of the world’s most influential Islamist thinkers, and his Public Freedoms in the Islamic State is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between Islam and democracy.”—Anne Wolf, author of Political Islam in Tunisia: The History of Ennahda
£45.00
Yale University Press The Arts of Africa
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking analysis of one of the most significant collections of African art in the United States The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from across the continent dating from antiquity to today. This handsome volume, the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between the museum's curators and conservators, supported by a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, presents highlights from the collectionsome never before publishedalongside new scientific analysis and imaging. Six chapters detail both the historiographical and technical concerns at play in collecting and conserving African art. The result promises to deepen our understanding of the art in the dynamics of their original communities and as they appear now in a museum context. Distributed for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
£33.25
Yale University Press Humanitarian Governance and the British
Book SynopsisHow the suppression of the slave trade and the “disposal” of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitarianismTrade Review“This brilliantly conceptualised book reveals the carceral origins of imperial humanitarianism. Its meticulous interpretation of the processing, exploitation, and experience of ‘Liberated Africans’ in sites across the British Empire underpins a new understanding of the coloniality of refuge and asylum today.”—Clare Anderson, University of Leicester“This stunning book constitutes a ground-breaking addition to the literature on slavery and abolition.”—Manuel Barcia, author of The Yellow Demon of Fever“In this erudite, original, and well-written account of the imperial origins of humanitarian governance Maeve Ryan demonstrates that the past is never past but continues into the present.”—Michael Barnett, author of Eyewitness to a Genocide
£38.00
Yale University Press Speaking of Objects
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£28.50
Yale University Press Black Orpheus
Book SynopsisThe first book to feature Jacob Lawrence’s Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa’s place as a global center of modernist art and cultureTrade ReviewShortlisted for The Alice award, sponsored by the Furthermore Foundation
£38.00
Yale University Press Shared Passion An African Art Collection Built
Book SynopsisHighlighting the strong bond between a collector and an art dealer, Shared Passion explores a remarkable collection of African art assembled in the twenty-first century
£76.50
Yale University Press Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye
Book SynopsisTwo acclaimed South African artists offer a cross-generational dialogue on history, memory, and the power of self-narration
£38.00
WW Norton & Co A Labyrinth of Kingdoms 10000 Miles Through
Book SynopsisKemper's majestic account of Barth's journey restores the reputation of an explorer who was as passionate about science as he was about rigorous travel. It's an enthralling adventure, captivatingly told. Ziauddin Sardar, Times (London)Trade Review"An enjoyable account of Barth’s great journey packed with arresting details." -- Tim Jeal - Wall Street Journal"An astute character study of a relentlessly curious scientific personality." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe"If you have an ounce of historical exploratory curiosity in your veins, course through this forgotten tale." -- Robert F. Wells - Expedition News"Heinrich Barth belongs in the ranks of the greatest explorers of Africa. But unlike most of the others, he was less interested in imperial conquest and self-promotion than in the cultures, the peoples, the languages, and the ancient manuscripts that he found there. It’s a pleasure to see a lively, readable biography of him in English at last." -- Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and To End All Wars"Let us hope Steve Kemper’s fine study of an extraordinary personality gives Barth the wider, albeit posthumous, audience he so widely deserves." -- Justin Marozzi - Literary Review (London)"Kemper ably resurrects the unsung and unappreciated accomplishments of this intrepid explorer and clearly shows that his high level of scholarship and attention to detail are relevant and useful today." -- Ben Moise - Post and Courier"A nicely rounded literary study of an intrepid explorer undone by the cultural biases of the time." -- Kirkus Reviews"[Barth’s] story has been known primarily to scholars, so this is an important corrective." -- Library Journal
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Africa in Global History with Sources
Book SynopsisA NEW narrative history by a leading scholar places Africa in a global context.
£52.25
LUP - University of Michigan Press German Colonialism Revisited
Book SynopsisBrings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people’s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds light on local power dynamics and economic, cultural, and social networks.Trade Review“This valuable multidisciplinary anthology provides 17 chapters about dynamic and creative responses to German colonial rule from the 1820s until the 1990s and includes single-case and comparative studies of former colonies around the world. . . . The writing is lively and the arguments cogent. Overall, this is a fresh, new perspective. . . . Highly recommended.” - Choice
£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Africa in Translation A History of Colonial
Book SynopsisDespite its long history, few know about the German literature on African languages or the prominence of Germans in the discipline of African philology. Sara Pugach works to fill this gap, arguing that Afrikanistik was essential to the construction of racialist knowledge in Germany.Table of Contents Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Eleven Nigerian Students in Cold War East Germany: Visions of Science, Modernity, and Decolonization, 1949-1965 Chapter 2: Bumps in the Road: Uncertain Journeys to the GDR and Beyond, 1959-1964 Chapter 3: Getting In: From Ghana to the GDR, 1957-1966 Chapter 4: The Politics of Home Abroad: African Student Organizations in the GDR, 1962-1971 Chapter 5: African Students at the Intersection of Race and Gender Conclusion Works Cited Index
£28.45
LUP - University of Michigan Press John Lewis and the Challenge of Real Black Music
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A remarkable piece of jazz scholarship that is timely and fills at leasttwo significant needs in the discipline. The first is a deeply investigated,serious consideration of the work of one of the music’s great masters,John Lewis. Second, but equally important, this is a rich meditation onquestions about race, nation, and authenticity in the music that scholarsof jazz and many other kinds of music will find useful.” - Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press The Black and White Rainbow
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork conducted in 2012-13, this volume explores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, and the public performance of nationalism.
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Continuous Pasts
Book SynopsisArgues that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past is etched on bodies and topographies, resonant in silences and memorials, and continuous even in experiences as well as structures of migration.Trade ReviewWinner: 2022 Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism “Continuous Pasts offers a much-needed Africa-centered contribution to memory and trauma studies from a literary perspective, and Adebayo is just the scholar to make such a contribution. As the book reveals, he has a near encyclopedic knowledge of recent approaches to trauma and memory as well as a broad knowledge of African literature, history, culture, and criticism. This is the book we’ve been waiting for!”—Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and PerpetratorsTable of Contents Introduction:The Past is Full of Ruptures 0.1 Memories of Conflict and Conflicts of Memory in Post-Colonial Africa 0.2 Postcolonial Memory Studies 0.3 Frictions of Memory 0.4 Fiction of Memory in Post-Conflict Africa 0.5 Outline of the BookChapter 1: The Past is a Contested Territory: Half of a Yellow Sun as a Postmemory Fiction 1.1 The Shadow of Biafra 1.2. Postmemory 1.3 Chimamanda Adichie as a Vicarious Witness 1.4 Aesthetics of Postmemory in Half of Yellow Sun 1.5 Remembering Back and Writing Back: The Nexus Between Postmemory and Postcolonialism in Half of a Yellow Sun 1.6 Remediation of Memory 1.7 Postmemory and the Possibility of Justice for Biafra 1.8 Concatenated Memories, Ancestral MemoriesChapter 2: The Past Continues in Silence: Memory, Complicity and the Post-Conflict Timescapes in The Memory of Love 2.1 Reading Silence 2.2 A Sense of Something Unspoken: The Memory of Love as Textual Silence 2.2 Silence of Trauma 2.3 Silence of Oppression 2.4 A Culture of Silence 2.5 Silent and Silenced Memories 2.6 Silence of Complicity 2.7 The Post-Conflict Timescapes in The Memory of LoveChapter 3: The Past Continues in Another Country: African Transnational Memory in a Migratory Setting 3.1 Immigrant Melancholia 3.2 Memory, Translocalities and Alternative Practices of Belonging in Children of the Revolution 3.3 In Search of an African Transnational MemoryChapter 4: The Past Continues through Subject Positions: Memory, Subjectivity and Secondary Witnessing in The Shadow of Imana 4.1 African Transnational Memory and the Rwandan Genocide 4.2 Sites and Sutures of Memory: Veronique Tadjo’s Affective Encounters 4.3 Memory and Positionality: Intricacies of Secondary Witnessing in The Shadow of ImanaChapter 5: The Past Continues in the Future References
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdallas
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki, in English Voice of Agony, is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1969 and 1972. Imaginative Vision is the first complete literary translation into English of one of the most esteemed and influential collections of Swahili poetry of the twentieth century.Table of Contents Editor’s Introduction by Annmarie Drury Preface to the Translationby Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Translator’s Introduction by Ken Walibora Waliaula Voice of Agony Sauti ya Dhiki Translated by Ken Walibora Waliaula I Won’t Compromise N’shishiyelo ni Lilo Go and Console Him Kamliwaze Worry Not Tuza Moyo The Boil Jipu I’ll Never Let Go Siwati Crocodile Mamba I Remember You Nakukumbuka Human Perfection Ukamilifu wa Mja What Has Offended You? Lilokuudhi ni Lipi? Coconut Palm: A Tug-of-War Mnazi: Vuta N’kuvute This Speaking Out Kuno Kunena Slipperiness Telezi Speak Out, You Who Dare Semani Wenye Kusema Even a Clever Guy Can’t Shave His Own Head Muwerevu Hajinyowi It Will End Yatakoma Alas, My Friend! Ah! Mwenzangu Be Gone, Anxiety Wasiwasi Enda Zako What a Bad Fellow! Mja Si Mwema What Will Happen? Lipi Litakalokuwa? Our Mother Africa Mamaetu Afrika Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow Jana na Leo na Kesho A Precious Thing Can’t Last Chema Hakudumu Be Patient, My Heart Moyo Iwa Na Subira Don’t Kill Me! Usiniuwe! Things Have Their Own Ways Mambo Yana Mambo Yake Don’t Listen to Them Watiliye Pamba Pampering Tendekezo I Wouldn’t Be Here Today Leo N’singekuwako Cockadoodle-do! Kokoiko! Don’t Cling to Silence ’Sikakawane na Kimya Travelers, Let’s Wake Up Wasafiri Tuamkeni Come to Your Senses Zindukani Goodbye Kwa Heri The Town Cockerel and the Country One La Mjini na La Shamba Wash Him Muosheni I’m Coming Naja Crossroads Ndiya Panda A Thing Can’t Be Human Kichu Hakiwi Ni Uchu Tit for Tat Kutendana I’m Back N’sharudi Critical PerspectivesSauti ya Dhiki: Its Place in Swahili Literature and East African Literature by Ann Biersteker Abdilatif and I: Reflections on Comparative Experiencesby Alamin Mazrui Rhymed, Metrical Translations of Four Poemsby Meg Arenberg This is What I Hold Fast N’shishiyelo ni Lilo Crocodile Mamba I Remember You Nakukumbuka Which Will It Be? Lipi Litakalokuwa? Textual Backgrounds: Voice of Agony in Its Historical MomentKenya: Twendapi? Kenya: Where Are We Heading? by Abdilatif Abdalla, Translated by Kai Kresse Introduction to the 1973 edition by Shihabuddin Chiraghdin, Translated by Ann Biersteker Author’s Preface to the 1973 editionbyAbdilatif Abdalla,Translated by Ann Biersteker Bibliography Notes on Contributors
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press The PostGlobal City
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£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Women of Jeme
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an illuminating, lively written, and extensive social history of women's lives in late antique Egypt." --Journal of Near Eastern Studies
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press The Rise of the African Novel
Book SynopsisSituates South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.
£64.95
The University of Michigan Press Gender Separatist Politics and Embodied
Book SynopsisExamines how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon. The book defines and uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate the political importance of women’s everyday behaviour.Trade Review“Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon offers an engaging and provocative analysis that is attractive and accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. It is clear, lively, nicely spiced with humor, and seasoned with a good mix of clear-eyed analysis and warm empathy. Good cookery for the mind.”- Judith Van Allen, Cornell University“Mougoue makes significant contributions to the history of Cameroon, to our understanding of the potential emergence of secessionist movements in Africa, to the way in which gender relations play a role in such historical developments, and to the history of women and girls in Anglophone Africa. Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon is excellent; it is a joy to read.”- Gretchen Bauer, University of Delaware
£69.30
The University of Michigan Press The Black and White Rainbow
Book SynopsisExplores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, the public performance of nationalism and other group-based identities, and integration and sharing of space.
£60.95
The University of Michigan Press Animated by Uncertainty
Book SynopsisAnalyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, Joshua Rubin argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put.Trade ReviewAnimated by Uncertainty is insightful, thought-provoking and beautifully written. It offers a bold, new perspective that is at once engaging and provocative: far more than a history of sport, it offers deep insights into the embodied practices and legacies of Apartheid in white and ‘coloured’ men and communities, as well as diverse fantasies of integration and failures to materialize them."" - Laura Fair, Michigan State UniversityTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Making Art from Uncertainty: Magic and Its Politics in South African Rugby Chapter 2: Sons and Commodities: Work, Play, and the Politics of Autonomy at the Margins of Professional Rugby Chapter 3: Residual Uncertainty: Play, Injuries, and Rugby’s Masculine Ideal Chapter 4: Searching for Certainty: Rugby and Male Identity in a Former Model C School Chapter 5: Fractured Frames: Rugby, Imaginative Resistance, and the Legacies of the Struggle against Apartheid Chapter 6: In Apartheid’s Image: Rugby and Nationalist Spectacle in South Africa Conclusion Endnotes Works Cited
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press African Students in East Germany 19491975
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The University of Michigan Press In Search of Tunga
Book SynopsisFocuses on young male migrants of rural origin who move to build better lives in Bougouni, a provincial town of southwest Mali. Based on 18 months of fieldwork, author Andre Chappatte explores their sense of prosperity and piety in what they call ‘tunga’ (adventure), a customary search of money and more dating back from the colonial period.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Style sheet Glossary Tunga: ‘Tomorrow is in God’s Hands’ [Introduction] Part 1: Navigating Street Life and Public Islam An Informed Bike Tour of Bougouni Public Islam on the street Islam under street lighting: an ambiguous ‘civilization’ Part 2: Motions and Ethics on the Earthly Path Struggles for Better Lives in the Hands of God The Resilience of Mande Figures of ‘Humanity’ Social Motions: Chinese Products and Material Modernity. The Mercy of the savanna [Conclusion] Notes Bibliography
£56.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Congo Style
Book SynopsisPresents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II’s Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko’s totalitarian Zaire. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.Table of Contents List of Images Preface Map of Kinshasa Introduction: Entangled Histories Chapter One: Behind Congo Style: Navigating Research PART I: STYLE CONGO Chapter Two: Looking for the Congo in Style Congo: Art Nouveau and the African Colony Chapter Three: Style Congo in the Congo: Colonial Modernism Takes Root PART II: CONGO STYLE Chapter Four: Modernism, Congo Style: Authenticity and Tradition Chapter Five: Kinshasa’s Congo Style: Sites of Postcolonial Identity Conclusion: From Total Artwork to Totalitarianism Map of Kinshasa Bibliography Appendix
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The University of Michigan Press The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdallas
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki, in English Voice of Agony, is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1969 and 1972. Imaginative Vision is the first complete literary translation into English of one of the most esteemed and influential collections of Swahili poetry of the twentieth century.Table of Contents Editor’s Introduction by Annmarie Drury Preface to the Translationby Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Translator’s Introduction by Ken Walibora Waliaula Voice of Agony Sauti ya Dhiki Translated by Ken Walibora Waliaula I Won’t Compromise N’shishiyelo ni Lilo Go and Console Him Kamliwaze Worry Not Tuza Moyo The Boil Jipu I’ll Never Let Go Siwati Crocodile Mamba I Remember You Nakukumbuka Human Perfection Ukamilifu wa Mja What Has Offended You? Lilokuudhi ni Lipi? Coconut Palm: A Tug-of-War Mnazi: Vuta N’kuvute This Speaking Out Kuno Kunena Slipperiness Telezi Speak Out, You Who Dare Semani Wenye Kusema Even a Clever Guy Can’t Shave His Own Head Muwerevu Hajinyowi It Will End Yatakoma Alas, My Friend! Ah! Mwenzangu Be Gone, Anxiety Wasiwasi Enda Zako What a Bad Fellow! Mja Si Mwema What Will Happen? Lipi Litakalokuwa? Our Mother Africa Mamaetu Afrika Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow Jana na Leo na Kesho A Precious Thing Can’t Last Chema Hakudumu Be Patient, My Heart Moyo Iwa Na Subira Don’t Kill Me! Usiniuwe! Things Have Their Own Ways Mambo Yana Mambo Yake Don’t Listen to Them Watiliye Pamba Pampering Tendekezo I Wouldn’t Be Here Today Leo N’singekuwako Cockadoodle-do! Kokoiko! Don’t Cling to Silence ’Sikakawane na Kimya Travelers, Let’s Wake Up Wasafiri Tuamkeni Come to Your Senses Zindukani Goodbye Kwa Heri The Town Cockerel and the Country One La Mjini na La Shamba Wash Him Muosheni I’m Coming Naja Crossroads Ndiya Panda A Thing Can’t Be Human Kichu Hakiwi Ni Uchu Tit for Tat Kutendana I’m Back N’sharudi Critical PerspectivesSauti ya Dhiki: Its Place in Swahili Literature and East African Literature by Ann Biersteker Abdilatif and I: Reflections on Comparative Experiencesby Alamin Mazrui Rhymed, Metrical Translations of Four Poemsby Meg Arenberg This is What I Hold Fast N’shishiyelo ni Lilo Crocodile Mamba I Remember You Nakukumbuka Which Will It Be? Lipi Litakalokuwa? Textual Backgrounds: Voice of Agony in Its Historical MomentKenya: Twendapi? Kenya: Where Are We Heading? by Abdilatif Abdalla, Translated by Kai Kresse Introduction to the 1973 edition by Shihabuddin Chiraghdin, Translated by Ann Biersteker Author’s Preface to the 1973 editionbyAbdilatif Abdalla,Translated by Ann Biersteker Bibliography Notes on Contributors
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The University of Michigan Press The PostGlobal City
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The University of Michigan Press Between Sahara and Sea
Book SynopsisChallenges orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman domination. Based on decades of research in North Africa, David Mattingly’s book is an innovative account of the history and archaeology of ancient North Africa (roughly equivalent to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the first century BCE to the third century CE.Trade Review“In Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire, David Mattingly charts a new path toward a bottom-up understanding of North African archaeology. This cleverly constructed, innovative book addresses key themes in the archaeology of ancient North Africa, roughly equivalent to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, from the first century BCE to the third century CE. The author focuses not on “Roman Africa,” but rather the way that areas participated in the empire centered on Rome. Mattingly articulates this new vision of Africa through the perspective of “discrepant identity,” a theoretical approach that enables him to examine variation in the extent of identification with the imperial project.” —David Stone, University of MichiganTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Note on the Transliteration of Names and Spelling of Toponyms Part 1. Introduction Chapter 1. From the Desert to the Sown: An African Journey Chapter 2. Discrepant Identity and Other Theoretical Approaches Part 2. Early Cultural Encounters in North Africa: 1000 BCE – 40 CE (and Beyond) Chapter 3. Incomers: Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans Chapter 4. Numidae and Mauri of the Tell Chapter 5. Gaetuli of the Pre- Desert and Garamantes of the Sahara Part 3. T he Military Community Chapter 6. Ars Militaris: Pacifying, Protecting, Policing, Posturing? Chapter 7. Military Identities in Action Part 4. T he Urban Communities Chapter 8. Different Towns and Varied Trajectories Chapter 9. Exploring Urban Identities Part 5. T he Rural Communities Chapter 10. Different Landscapes, Different Worlds Chapter 11. Expressions of Rural Identities Part 6. Some Final Themes Chapter 12. Different Economies Chapter 13. African Agency Appendix 1. Chronological Table Bibliography Index
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University of California Press France the United States and the Algerian War
Book SynopsisDemonstrates the intertwining threads of the protracted agony of France's war with Algeria, the American role in the fall of the Fourth Republic, the long shadow of Charles de Gaulle, and the decisive postwar power of the United States. This study offers an analysis of how Washington helped bring de Gaulle to power.Trade Review"This is a fascinating and provocative work, based on amazingly thorough archival research that includes extensive use of previously classified materials. The narrative carries us through the long agony of the Algerian War and offers a keen and judicious analysis of the major parties involved, as well as of the immensely complex diplomatic negotiations and of Charles de Gaulle's role in the resolution of the crisis. Wall's conclusions are sharp and forceful and should elicit significant debate on both sides of the Atlantic." -David Schalk, author of War and the Ivory Tower: Algeria and Vietnam"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The United States and the Algerian War 2. The Suez Crisis 3. The Degeneration of the Regime 4· The United States, Great Britain, and the Sakiet Crisis 5· The Fall of the Republic and the Coming of de Gaulle 6. The United States, Algeria, and de Gaulle's Diplomacy 7· De Gaulle Reconsidered 8. Peace Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press A Place in the Sun
Book SynopsisA study of Italian colonial history and culture, this text gathers articles which highlight the ways in which colonial discourse has pervaded Italian culture from the post-unification period to the present. It delves into the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Italian Colonial Cultures Patrizia Palumbo PART I. THE SHAPING OF ITALIAN COLONIAL HISTORY: POLITICAL PRACTICES AND THEORETICAL LEGITIMIZATION The Myths, Suppressions, Denials and Defaults of Italian Colonialism Angelo Del Boca Studies and Research on Fascist Colonialism, 1922--1935: Reflections on the State of the Art Nicola Labanca Italian Anthropology and the Africans: The Early Colonial Period Barbara Sorgoni The Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea: The Liberal and Early Fascist Period (1897--1934) Giulia Barrera PART II. COLONIAL LITERATURE: FROM EXPLORATION TO A DOMESTIC EMPIRE Gifts, Sex, and Guns: Nineteenth-Century Italian Explorers in Africa Cristina Lombardi-Diop Incorporating the Exotic: From Futurist Excess to Postmodern Impasse Cinzia Sartini-Blum Alexandria Revisited: Colonialism and the Egyptian Works of Enrico Pea and Giuseppe Ungaretti Lucia Re Mass-Mediated Fantasies of Feminine Conquest, 1930--1940 Robin Pickering-Iazzi Orphans for the Empire: Colonial Propaganda and Children's Literature during the Imperial Era Patrizia Palumbo PART III. THE COLONIAL PRODUCTION OF AFRICA AND THE SILENT SCENE OF DECOLONIZATION Colonial Autism: Whitened Heroes, Auditory Rhetoric, and National Identity in Interwar Italian Cinema Giorgio Bertellini Black Shirts/Black Skins: Fascist Italy's Colonial Anxieties and Lo Squadrone Bianco Cecilia Boggio Empty Spaces: Decolonization in Italy Karen Pinkus Notes on Contributors
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University of California Press Living with Colonialism Nationalism Culture in
Book SynopsisThis work examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state.Trade Review"Breaks profound new scholarly ground by focusing on the ... interaction between colonialism and nationalism... Sublime." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)
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University of California Press Crude Existence
Book SynopsisAfter decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing an economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, this work explores the exclusion, degradation and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
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University of California Press I Did It to Save My Life
Book SynopsisProvides a fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. This title illuminates a social world based on love, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space.Trade Review"A profoundly touching book." -- Joanna Lewis * Times Higher Education Supplement *"Bolten does a great job of depicting the life histories of seven residents of Makeni experiencing [Sierra Leone's] civil war in different capacities and from various angles. . . . Reading their stories intertwined with the history of the civil war and Bolten’s insightful comments was very intriguing indeed." * Oral History Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Timeline of the Key Events of War and Aftermath, 1991--2003 Note on Sources Introduction: Sierra Leonean Emotions, Sierra Leonean War Chapter 1: Understanding Makeni and Nested Loyalties: Marginality and Collaboration in the Northern Capital Chapter 2: "I Must Be Grateful to Them for Freeing Me": The Soldier Chapter 3: "They Said Nobody Would Hide from This War": The Rebel Chapter 4: "I Held a Gun but I Did Not Fire It": The Student Chapter 5: "The Government Brought Death, the Rebels Allowed Us to Live": The Trader Chapter 6: "It Was the Lord Who Wanted Me to Stay": The Evangelist Chapter 7: "They Really Damaged Me": The Father Chapter 8: "The RUF Thought I Was on Their Side": The Politician Epilogue and Conclusions: Makeni, May 2010 Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Divided Rule Sovereignty and Empire in French
Book SynopsisBased on archival research in four countries, this title uncovers important links between international power politics and everyday matters of rights, identity, and resistance to colonial authority, while re-interpreting the whole arc of French rule in Tunisia from the 1880s to the mid-20th century.Trade Review"This meticulously researched work ... provides a meaningful contribution to the study of both modern European colonialism and North African history. Highly recommended." -- M. Gershovich Choice "A thorough and creative analysis of the notion of sovreignity and its social practices in a colonized, legally pluralistic state." Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Perfectly integrated... [endowed] with a wealth of context that greatly enriches its comprehensibility and impressively displays the historian's art." -- Kenneth Perkins American Historical Review "A fascinating analysis ... compelling ... [pays] attention to native populations' agency." -- Malika Rahal H-Net "Lewis' analytical horizon is capacious ... this [book] has profound implications for our understanding of imperialism ... [a] great accomplishment." -- Martin Thomas H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews "Ground-breaking ... exemplarily rich and innovative ... Divided Rule brings an important new contribution to the international and domestic legal sphere component of the French empire." -- Idir Ouahes French History "Here, Lewis's extensive multilingual research in Tunisia, France, Britain and Italy is utilised to illuminating effect ... Like any pioneering study, Divided Rule answers many questions but also implicitly poses new ones, offering scholars a broadly applicable framework that transcends the boundaries between colonial and metropolitan geographic spaces and the disciplinary divisions between social, legal and diplomatic histories." -- Abdel Razzaq Takriti The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "An engaging and informative work blending social and diplomatic history." -- Amy Kallander The Historian "Divided Rule is a work of patience, perseverance, and dazzling insight...Lewis achieves nothing less than a methodological breakthrough in the study of colonial domination." -- Nouri Gana Contemporary French Civilization "Brilliant... [Mary Dewhurst Lewis'] findings have profound implications not only for the modern history of France and North Africa, but for the history of western colonialism more broadly." -- Jessica Marglin French Politics, Culture & Society "The author's analysis of the beginnings of Tunisian nationalism in its thoroughly transnational context is even more vital in light of the country's more recent history." -- Naomi Davidson Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Arabic Spelling Introduction Chapter 1. Tunisia in the Imperial Mediterranean Chapter 2. Ending Extraterritoriality? Chapter 3. The Politics of Protection Chapter 4. Contested Terrain: Redefining Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Tunisia Chapter 5. Over our Dead Bodies: Burial Rites and Sovereignty in 1930s Tunisia Conclusion and Epilogue: From Co-Sovereignty to Independence Bibliography
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University of California Press Global Africa
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book serves as an invaluable resource for geographers, historians, and all social scientists, as well as any members of the public interested in learning more about this complicated and fascinating continent.” * Polymath *"In the collection of essays Global Africa Into the Twenty-First Century, editors Dorothy Hodgson and Judith Byfield tackle the challenge V.Y. Mudimbe identified as 'the idea of Africa.' Their aim is to push readers to think deeply about and grapple with the dynamic nature of Africa as a geographic space, situating Africa at the center of global processes by demonstrating the pivotal roles Africans have played in producing and circulating ideas and initiating 'transformations throughout the world'." * African Studies Review *"Challenging popular perceptions of Africa as a place of despair and violence, this volume describes the contributions that African people, ideas and goods have made throughout the world – contributions which, according to the editors, demonstrate that Africa occupies a central position in global historical processes." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"A refreshingly edited collection that offers a number of unusual views on Africa’s global connectedness and entanglements." * New Global Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 0.1 • Why Global Africa? Dorothy L. Hodgson and Judith A. Byfield PART I. ENTANGLED HISTORIES 1.1 • PROFILE: Ibn Khaldun: The Father of the Social Sciences Oludamini Ogunnaike 1.2 • Trade and Travel in Africa’s Global Golden Age (AD 700–1500) François-Xavier Fauvelle 1.3 • Three Women of the Sahara: Fatma, Odette, and Sophie E. Ann McDougall 1.4 • Afro-Iberians in the Early Spanish Empire, ca. 1550–1600 Leo J. Garofalo 1.5 • “From the Land of Angola”: Slavery, Marriage, and African Diasporic Identities in Mexico City before 1650 Frank Trey Proctor III 1.6 • “Ethiopia Shall Stretch” from America to Africa: The Pan-African Crusade of Charles Morris Benedict Carton and Robert Trent Vinson 1.7 • Africans in India, Past and Present Renu Modi PART II. POWER AND ITS CHALLENGES 2.1 • PROFILE: Leymah Gbowee: Speaking Truth to Power Pamela Scully 2.2 • Pan-Africanism: An Ideology and a Movement Hakim Adi 2.3 • Mwalimu Nyerere as Global Conscience Chambi Chachage 2.4 • Power, Conflict, and Justice in Africa: An Uncertain March Stephen Mogaka and Stephen Ndegwa 2.5 • Where Truth, Lies, and Privilege Meet Poverty . . . What Is Hope? Reflecting on the Gains and Pains of South Africa’s TRC Sarah Malotane Henkeman and Undine Whande 2.6 • Commerce, Crime, and Corruption: Illicit Financial Flows from Africa Masimba Tafirenyika 2.7 • Working History: China, Africa, and Globalization Jamie Monson, Tang Xiaoyang, and Liu Shaonan 2.8 • The Radicalization of Environmental Justice in South Africa Jacklyn Cock PART III. CIRCULATIONS OF COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES 3.1 • PROFILE: A Taste of Africa in Harlem: Red Rooster Judith A. Byfield 3.2 • Networks of Threads: Africa, Textiles, and Routes of Exchange Victoria Rovine 3.3 • Sending Forth the Best: African Missions in China Heidi Østbø Haugen 3.4 • PHOTO ESSAY: Baohan Street: An African Community in Guangzhou, China Michaela Pelican and Li Dong 3.5 • The African Literary Tradition: Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong’o Mukoma Wa Ngugi 3.6 • African Soccer’s Global Story Peter Alegi 3.7 • Art, Identity, and Autobiography: Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi Christa Clarke 3.8 • Raï and Rap: Globalization and the Soundtrack of Youth Resistance in Northern Africa Zakia Salime PART IV. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH 4.1 • PROFILE: A Conversation with Microbiologist Dr. Sara Eyangoh Tamara Giles-Vernick 4.2 • The Politics, Perils, and Possibilities of Epidemics in Africa Douglas Webb 4.3 • Generative Technologies from Africa Ron Eglash 4.4 • “Money in Your Hand”: M-PESA and Mobile Money in Kenya Dillon Mahoney 4.5 • What’s in Your Cell Phone? James H. Smith 4.6 • Bioprospecting: Moving beyond Benefit Sharing Rachel Wynberg 4.7 • Of Waste and Revolutions: Environmental Legacies of Authoritarianism in Tunisia Siad Darwish PART V. AFRICA IN THE WORLD TODAY 5.1 • PROFILE: Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim Stuart Reid 5.2 • From Lesotho to the United Nations: The Journey of a Gender Justice Advocate Keiso Matashane-Marite 5.3 • Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art Kerryn Greenberg 5.4 • Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa Onookome Okome 5.5 • Globalizing African Islam from Below: West African Sufi Masters in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou 5.6 • Afropolitanism and Its Discontents Obadias Ndaba 5.7 • PHOTO ESSAY: Awra Amba: A Model “Utopian” Community in Ethiopia Salem Mekuria About the Editors Index
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University of California Press The Art of Connection
Book SynopsisNarrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 * The Art of Connection: An Introduction 2 * Mombasa Marginalized: Claims to Land and Legitimacy in a Tourist City 3 * Crafts Traders versus the State 4 * Negotiating Informality in Mombasa 5 * New Mobilities, New Risks 6 * Crafting Ethical Connection and Transparency in Coastal Kenya 7 * From Ethnic Brands to Fair Trade Labels Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press African Language Structures UC Press Voices
Book SynopsisWm. E. Welmers surveys a wide range of structural characteristics, both phonological and grammatical, of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the analysis and teaching of African languages, and on work done on some seventy spoken languages, Welmers has organized the volume by linguistic topic. Thus there are extensive discussions of tonal systems in languages from all over sub-Saharan Africa, of noun classes and concord in the Bantu and other Niger-Kordofanian languages, and of the varieties of verbal constructions found in representative languages. African Language Structures emphasizes the organization of language data rather than the technicalities of theoretical linguistics. The material is presented in such a way that students working on the analysis of other languages can be guided in their procedures; Welmers suggests not only what types of structures may be expected, but also how they may be discovered and described. This work is unique in the depth of its linguistic insight over the entire spectrum of language structure and in the breadth of its language coverage. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
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University of California Press Nigerian Capitalism
Book SynopsisFollowing a surge in oil revenues in the 1970s, Nigeria became one of Africa's most rapidly developing nations. In Nigerian Capitalism, Sayre P. Schatz analyzes the country's political economy, assessing its position and proposing a development plan for the final quarter of the twentieth century. Referring to Nigeria's economic development strategy as nurture-capitalism, Sayre contrasts the role of private enterprise, which is expected to foster growth of the productive sector of the economy, with the government's role, which is to nurture the capitalist sector generally and to favor indigenous enterprise in particular. The author examines the development of Nigerian nurture-capitalism from 1949 to the launching of and early experience with the Third Plan (197580), with emphasis on the post-civil war 1970s. He then turns to an intensive study of indigenous business and possible impediments to the development of Nigerian private enterprise, analyzing the role of capital availability, entrepreneurship, and the economic environment. Sayre demonstrates that there are substantial divergences between private profitability and social utility and that there is an abundance of socially useful investment possibilities for indigenous businessmen. The author next turns to a study of the government business-assistance programs, and their economic, administrative, and political characteristics. Finally, he assesses the sources of successful investment and makes a case for enhanced socially useful investments. Comparing pragmatic developmentalism, pragmatic socialism, and thoroughgoing socialism, he proposes a pragmatic orientation that postpones ideological decisions as long as practicable. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
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University of California Press The Streets Are Talking to Me
Book SynopsisThis sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for societythe lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability, The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-consciouTrade Review"The book is written in an engaging style, rich with affect. The book contains fascinating ethnographic anecdotes, felt reflections on events and exchanges by the author, long stretches of elicited testimony from interlocutors, and compelling photographs that highlight different materialities. Thus, it might interest those seeking to explore less formal modes of ethnographic writing and presentation." * Anthropology Book Forum *
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