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Book SynopsisSPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.Volume 2 covers the period beginning at the close of the Neolithic era, from around the eighth millenium before our era. This period of some nine thousand years has been sub-divided into four major geographical zones. Chapters 1 to 12 cover the Nile, Egypt and Nubia: by far the largest part of the book is devoted to the ancient civilization of Egypt because of its pre-eminent place in the early history of Africa. Chapters 13 to 16 relate to the Ethiopianhighlands. Chapters 17 to 20 describe the Maghrib and its Sahara hinterland, and Chapters 21 to 29 the rest of Africa including some of the Indian Ocean islands. The series is co-published in Africa with seven publishers, inthe United States and Canada by the University of California Press, and in association with the UNESCO Press.Trade ReviewReviews of the Series: * . *... a real contribution to scholarship. -- Roland Oliver in the TLSThe General History of Africa was launched in 1970, when an International Scientific Committee of 39 scholars was formed to oversee the writing and publication of a complete survey of the African past, from pre-history to the present. The laudable aim of the project was to break free from the straightjacket of Eurocentrism, and to provide a history that reflected a range of African views without imposing any set historical interpretation. - -- David M. Anderson * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *

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Book SynopsisOuidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade.Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region, and the second most important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the export of slaves for the trans- Atlantic trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the 'Slave Coast'. Exporting over a million slaves, it was second only to Luanda in Angola for the embarkation of slaves in the whole of Africa. The author's central concerns are the organization of the African end of the slave trade, and the impact participation in the trade had on the historical development of the African societies involved. It shifts the focus from the viewpoint of the Dahomian monarchy, represented in previous studies, to the coast. Here is a well documented case study of pre-colonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time. North America: Ohio U PressTrade ReviewThis work is a masterful chronological history of a community, especially the history of its merchant families. Although grounded in archival research, the book's collection of oral traditions from descendants of the Ouidah merchants makes this study of an urban community unique. Especially important is the history of the Brazilians among them, because many of these merchants were ex-slaves themselves and Portuguese was the lingua franca. -- R.T. Brown * CHOICE *This magisterial volume, an impressive contribution to the history of West Africa and of the slave trade, together with his numerous other published works, highlights Robin Law as one of the most distinguished historians in the field of African history. -- Christopher Fyfe * AFRICAN STUDIES *Ouidah offers a great deal more than just a case study of slave traffic. Professor Law examines the town from the inside out, and from its obscure Hueda origins to its occupation by the French in 1892 via its long incorporation into the kingdom of Dahomey. Slaving features as a staple of the local economy - the merchants and officials of Ouidah served as middlemen in the sale of slaves taken elsewhere - and is a recurring theme, but the character of the town and its inhabitants are also dealt with at length. Of course, they are inextricably linked. ... Professor Law excels in reconstructing the topography, society and administrative history of Ouidah under successive regimes and relating these structures to the conduct of external trade, both for slaves and, latterly, for palm oil. -- Richard Gorski * HISTORY *This book is an excellent case study on the formation, growth and decline of Ouidah's Atlantic merchant community and of the town itself. ... this is a very informative book. It provides a detailed analysis of the formation and growth of Ouidah's trade community and its relations with Dahomey in the era of Atlantic commerce. -- Ibrahima Thiaw * INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Origins: Ouidah before the Dahomian conquest - The Dahomian conquest of Ouidah - Dahomian Ouidah - The operation of the Atlantic slave trade - De Souza's Ouidah: the era of the illegal slave trade, 1815-39 - The era of transition: from slaves to palm oil, 1840-57 - Dissension & decline: Ouidah under King Glele, 1858-77 - From Dahomian to French rule, 1878-92 - Sources & bibliography.

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Book SynopsisUrbanization has been an important feature of Africa's history for over 2000 years.Towns and cities have been arenas around which societies have organized themselves: as centres of trade and economic activity; as foci of political action and authority; as military garrisons; as sites of ritual power; and as places of refuge and collective security in troubled times. This collection reveals the depth of urbanization in African history.Trade ReviewI have seldom read a book which introduced me to so many new things - to so many fresh topics and to so much new research by scholars, many of them young, as well as by established figures such as John Thornton and Robin Law... I found this book almost a course in African Studies in itself. - -- Terence Ranger * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *The editors provide an excellent introduction which outlines the entire history of African urbanism in eight tightly-written pages, explains the rationale of the book in the context of the state of the art, and places the seventeen studies included here into their broader academic context. - -- Anthony Lemon * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *... will definitely be on my undergraduate African History reading list. - -- David Dorward * ARAS *Table of ContentsUrban Africa - histories in the making, David M. Anderson and Richard J.A.R. Rathbone. Part 1 Urban archaeologies: clustered cities of the Middle Niger - alternative routes to authority in prehistory, Roderick J. McIntosh; African city walls - a neglected source?, Graham Connah; Aksumite urbanism, David Phillipson. Part 2 Pre-colonial towns in transition: Mbanza Kongo/Sao Salvador - Kongo's holy city, John K. Thornton; Ouidah, 1727-1892 - a pre-colonial urban centre in coastal West Africa, Robin Law; merchants, missions and the remaking of the urban environment in Buganda, c. 1840-1890, Richard Reid and Henri Medard. Part 3 Urban economies: "A town of strangers" or "a model modern East African town"? Arusha and the Arusha, Thomas Spear; the cost of living in Lagos, 1914-1945, Ayodeji Olukoju; the city of Durban - towards a structural analysis of the economic growth and character of a South African city, Bill Freund. Part 4 Becoming Urban-towns as cultural brokers: "But I know what I shall do" - agency, belief and the social imagination in 18th-century Gold Coast towns, Ray Kea; gender in the city - women, migration and contested spaces in Tunis, c. 1830-1881, Julia Clancy-Smith; cultural politics of death and burial in early colonial Accra, John Parker; "wo pe tam won pe ba" ("you like cloth but you don't want children") - urbanization, individualism and gender relations in colonial Ghana, c.1900-1939, Emmanuel Aykeampong. Part 5 The politics of urban order: land alienation and the urban growth of Bahir Dar, 1935-74, Seltene Seyoum; conservation and the colonial past - urban planning, space and power in Zanzibar, William Bissell; the urbanism of District Six, Cape Town, Rafael Marks and Marco Bezzoli; the political shaping of sacred locality in Brazzaville, 1959-1997, Florence Bernault.

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Book SynopsisIntended as a reference and textbook, it does not assume prior knowledge of the subject.The history of the Islamic faith in Africa spans fourteen centuries. This book provides a detailed mapping of the cultural, political, geographic and religious past of Islam in a single volume. North America: Ohio U PressTrade Review... by far the most complete attempt at covering the history of Islam in Africa up to the present ... There can be no doubt that this volume will become a standard textbook for undergraduates and a frequent reference work for scholars. -- S.V. Ricard * ISLAM & CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS *...massive and marvellous synthesis...that will be both accessible and useful to general readers and scholars. ... The editors and contributors deserve high praise for this achievement. All levels. -- J.A. Works * CHOICE *... the spacious layout and considerable length of each of its twenty four chapters make it pleasant to use. The way the book has been put together clearly reveals it is intended as a teaching aid ... This work rests on solid foundations, due to the authority of the authors as much as the documentation and bibliography it provides. It fulfils its objective of being a guide for students and others who want a reference volume that addresses both general and local issues in the Africa of Islam - Constant Hames in * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction - patterns of Islamization and varieties of religious experience, N. Levtzion and R.L. Pouwels. Part 1 The gateways: Egypt and North Africa, Peter von Sivers; the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, M.N. Pearson. Part 2 West Africa: Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800, N. Levtzion; the Juula and the expansion of Islam into the forest, Ivor Wilks; the Eastern Sudan to 1822, Jay Spaulding; revolutions in the Western Sudan, David Robinson; the Eastern Sudan, 1822 to the present, John O. Voll; Islam in Africa under French colonial rule, Jean-Louis Triaud; Islam in West Africa - radicalism and the new ethic of disagreement, 1960-1990, Lansine Kaba; religious pluralisms in Nothern Nigeria, William F.S. Miles. Part 3 Eastern and Southern Africa: Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, Lidwien Kapteijns; the East African coast, c.780 to 1900ce, R.L. Pouwels; the coastal Hinterland and interior of East Africa, David C. Sperling and Jose H. Kagabo; East Central Africa, Edward A. Alpers; Islam in South Africa, 1652-1998, Robert C.-H. Shell; radicalism and reform in East Africa, Abdin Chande. Part 4 Islamic ways of life: Islamic law in Africa, Allan Christelow; Muslim women in African history, Roberta Ann Dunbar; Islamic education and scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa, Stefan Reichmuth; Sufi brotherhoods in Africa, Knut Viko; prayer, amulets and healing, David Owusu-Ansah; Islamic art and material culture in Africa, Rene Bravmann; Islamic literature in Africa, Kenneth W. Harrow; music and Islam, Eric Charry.

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Book SynopsisA political history of the Sudan since the second civil war began in 1983.This text provides a comprehensive analysis of Sudan's unresolved struggle between supporters of the majoritarian vision who seek to create a cohesive Arab-Islamic state and the pluralists who strive for equality before the law. North America: Indiana U PressTrade ReviewIt is crisply and clearly written, with excellent footnotes and bibliography, and should be read not only by those seeking to understand Muslim-Christian conflicts but by all with a concern for refugees, for the victims of human rights' abuses and even more general concerns about the instability of Africa. No specialist knowledge is required. * THEOLOGICAL BOOK REVIEW *The emphasis here is on the years since the second civil war began in 1983, and as this is the period for Sudan as a whole on which less has been produced than the earlier war and the Addis Ababa agreement, the book is to be welcomed ... Students of Sudanese studies will be grateful to Ann Lesch for pulling so much material together in this book. -- Peter Woodward * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *This is a refreshingly straightforward political history of the Sudan which aims primarily to clarify and elucidate what has become of one of the most intractable civil wars in Africa. The study's approach is limpid: the author attempts to explain in detail how the country has suffered from an absence of political consensus... Mosley Lesch confirms what is widely suspected about the Sudan: namely that the Arabic speaking Muslim political elite have found it difficult, if not downright impossible, to give proper expression to the cultural and political demands of the southern peoples. -- Patrick Chabal * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsPart 1 Background and context: the problem of national identity and historical legacies; the contradictory policies of Numairi 1969-1985. Part 2 Democratic period 1985-1989: the transition to democracy; polarization during the parliamentary period; efforts to resolve the civil war. Part 3 Polarization under the Islamist government: the evolving political system; indoctrination and control; fragmented opposition; the impasse in negotiations; emerging consensus within the opposition movement. Appendix: the changing composition of governments.

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Book SynopsisOver the years, William Kentridge has built a world-wide reputation as a contemporary artist, known for his series of ten animated films created from drawings. This book include features that connects with smartphones and tablets. It brings a collaboration using the pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation.

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Book SynopsisOn the eve of the 2007 general elections in Morocco, writer, academic, and former cabinet minister Abdallah Saaf embarked on several road trips across the country to get a feel for how its citizens had fared since Mohammed VI's accession to the throne. A Significant Year is the result: an analysis of the political and sociological state of the Moroccan nation on the eve of a crucial moment in the postHassan II period, but also a travelogue that describes what the author saw and heard on his travels in the summer months leading up to the epochal vote. Through Saaf's eyes, we see the country's varied regions and its urban and rural landscapes. We meet Moroccans from all walks of life, such as a waiter at a favorite cafe, a car-park attendant who recognizes the author from TV, and fellow writer and intellectual Abdelkabir Khatibi. Behind the deceptive simplicity of the book's narrative structure, readers will find in A Significant Year an insightful and nuanced portrayal of modern Moro

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"'La Guma himself inhabited the dual role of writer-fighter that he maintained was crucial in the national liberation struggle. This conviction – that aesthetic concerns must speak to the people’s lived experiences and their emancipatory aspirations – aligns with La Guma’s commitment to socialist realism; yet, to attend to his non-fiction writing is to see that conviction in action. Offering a more holistic view of La Guma’s writing life in exile, Culture and Liberation works to “bring him home” while contributing new materials for understanding socialism and resistance movements in Africa, and South-South cultural studies more broadly." * Journal of the African Literature Association *"La Guma has also inspired a consistent body of earnest and well-grounded scholarly study, much of it aimed at filling in the shadow in which the author’s career resides. Culture and Liberation is a new and worthy entrant that does the good work of concretising some of La Guma’s disappearing archive. The editor, Christopher J Lee, has gathered together a weighty assortment of essays, reports, reviews, interviews and stories penned over the course of La Guma’s career. These ancillary texts, the sort of thing writers do out of interest, obligation and a need to support life, are a vital if unwieldy archive through which La Guma’s abiding preoccupations can be traced." * Johannesburg Review of Books *"A short review can only touch upon a few points in such a wide-ranging collection. Worth mentioning, though, is La Guma’s beautiful tribute to activist/singer/actor Paul Robeson as one example of a work I am grateful to have encountered. [. . .] Christopher J. Lee’s perceptive introduction is the best account I have seen of La Guma’s life and work. On its own, it is worth the price of the book. [. . .] It is to be hoped that the present volume will help spark greater awareness of the contributions of Alex La Guma to making the world a better place." * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *Table of ContentsForeword by Albie SachsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Editing and SelectionIntroduction by Christopher J. LeePart I. Political WorldsChapter 1. Great Power Conspiracy: Review (January 1967)Chapter 2. The Time Has Come: New Forms of Struggle Face the South African Coloured Community (March 1967)Chapter 3. The Time Has Come: S.A. Coloured People’s Social and Economic Deterioration (April 1967)Chapter 4. The Time Has Come (May 1967)Chapter 5. The Time Has Come: The Coloured People Must Prepare to Bear Arms for Liberation (June 1967)Chapter 6. The Coloured Cadets Bill (October 1967)Chapter 7. The Coloured People of South Africa (1968)Chapter 8. Pumpkins and Dark Skins (1969)Chapter 9. On the Coloured People (1970)Chapter 10. The Immorality Act: South Africa’s Sex Law (August 1970)Chapter 11. Dialogue ‘A Gross Betrayal’ (February 1972)Chapter 12. Apartheid and the Coloured People of South Africa (September 1972)Chapter 13. Vietnam: A People’s Victory (1973)Chapter 14. Whither South Africa? (1974)Chapter 15. Apartheid Coloured Council Flounders (1975)Chapter 16. Africa and the USSR: A Friendly Handshake (1977)Chapter 17. Apartheid is Not Just a Regional Problem (1979)Chapter 18. Caribbean Against Apartheid (September 1979)Chapter 19. ‘This is Our Vanguard, a Vanguard of Communists’ (1981)Chapter 20. Caribbean – Nobody’s Backyard (1982)Chapter 21. Israel and South Africa – Where the Vultures Perch (1983)Chapter 22. Message to the People and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1983)Chapter 23. Israel-South Africa: The Unholy Alliance (1983)Chapter 24. Cuba and Africa (1984)Chapter 25. Tribute to Indira Gandhi (1985)Part II. Cultural Scenes and ArgumentsChapter 26. The Third Afro-Asian Writers’ Conference (1967)Chapter 27. Culture and Apartheid in South Africa (1968)Chapter 28. Culture and Revolution (October 1969)Chapter 29. African Culture and National Liberation (1969)Chapter 30. Paul Robeson and Africa (1971)Chapter 31. The Condition of Culture in South Africa (1971)Chapter 32. GDR Opera Supports Liberation Struggle (1974)Chapter 33. Culture and Liberation (1976)Chapter 34. Has Art Failed South Africa? (1977)Chapter 35. To Alternate Member of the Politbureau, CPSU CC, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, Comrade Sharaf R. Rashidov (1978)Chapter 36. Report of the Acting Secretary General (1979)Chapter 37. Final Speech, Secretary General of the Afro-Asian Writers Association (1979)Chapter 38. ‘Walk Among the Multitudes’ (1981)Chapter 39. To Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the CC CPSU, President of the USSR Supreme Soviet (1983)Chapter 40. Is There a South African National Culture? (1985)Part III. Literary Criticism and the Writing LifeChapter 41. Literature and Life (1970)Chapter 42. Address by Lotus Award Winner (1971)Chapter 43. A Poet Is Born (1972)Chapter 44. On Short Stories (1973)Chapter 45. In Memory of Hutch: Alfred Hutchinson (South Africa) (1973)Chapter 46. Lust without Passion (1973)Chapter 47. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: ‘Life through a Crooked Eye’ (1974)Chapter 48. Hello or Goodbye, Athol Fugard? (1974)Chapter 49. Against Literary Apartheid (1974)Chapter 50. Sounds of a Cowhide Drum by Oswald Joseph Mtshali (1974)Chapter 51. I Came Here to Sing: A Tribute to Pablo Neruda (1974)Chapter 52. South African Freedom Poetry (1975)Chapter 53. South African Writing under Apartheid (1975)Chapter 54. What I Learned From Maxim Gorky (1977)Part IV. Five Stories and One PlayChapter 55. Come Back to Tashkent (1970)Chapter 56. The Man in the Tree (1971)Chapter 57. The Exile (1972)Chapter 58. Late Edition (1972)Chapter 59. Thang’s Bicycle (1976)Chapter 60. Blankets (1978)Part V. Interviews and MemoirChapter 61. Alex La Guma, South African Author Recently Settled in London (November 1966)Chapter 62. A Home Away from Home (1969)Chapter 63. Why I Joined the Communist Party (1971)Chapter 64. Answers to Our Questionnaire (1977)Chapter 65. Why I Joined the Communist Party: Doing Something Useful (1982)Chapter 66. Two Letters from Sechaba (1984)Chapter 67. ‘My Books Have Gone Back Home’ (1984)Chapter 68. Report of the Secretary General to the Seventh General (25th Anniversary) Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September-October 1983 (1985)Afterword by Bill NassonWorks CitedNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisWith fifteen stunning new color drawings by Kentridge and an additional coda, this revised edition of Accounts and Drawings from Underground continues its remarkable documentation of the stories of migrant laborers and the flows of capital and desire, providing us with a palpable sense of a vanished world.Table of Contents1. 'Drawings' by William Kentridge 2. 'Accounts' by Rosalind C. Morris 3. 'Jonah and the whale at Blyvooreizicht' by Rosalind C. Morris 4. 'Coda: Half Life in Ruins' by Rosalind C. Morris

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Book SynopsisThe most important historical and journalistic portrait to date of a nation whose destiny will determine the fate of a continent.Trade Review"Fantastic at cultivating contacts... [Foster] draws insightful observations from the hundreds of people he interviewed and those he encountered in passing. He proved to be especially good at connecting with young people and drawing on their astute observations about the country they have inherited." "What a pleasant surprise to encounter a book that actually looks beyond the surface of South Africa's by now well-known story... Douglas Foster, former editor of Mother Jones, has gained a superb understanding of the complexities of South African society... Foster gives us a portrait of a vibrant nation, full of contrasts and contradictions, of wealth and poverty, of diversity and sophistication alongside ingrained attitudes and resistance... He is also fearless in putting his questions to the president, but given the nature of Zuma's evasions and excuses, it is no wonder that, at its conclusion, the book looks beyond the democratically elected leaders to the demos, the people of South Africa, and its essential spirit." -- Martin Rubin "Mr. Foster is a dogged reporter, blessed with an uncanny ability to talk himself into places where journalists aren't normally welcome." -- Rian Malan

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa’s underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care less accessible for most people.

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Book SynopsisIn the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea engaged in a course of intellectual and political debate that marked the beginnings of a genuine national consciousness across the region.Trade Review“In my considered opinion, Paths toward the Nation is an excellent scholarly work that tells the story of the evolution and struggle for survival of Eritrean nationalism .… Venosa’s work represents a significant contribution to the study of Eritrea’s national struggle for independence”“One of the lesser-acknowledged outcomes of [Eritrea’s] travails is that its historical trajectory has been neglected by scholars in favor of presentist concerns with the incumbent regime. Joseph L. Venosa’s Paths toward the Nation is a refreshing and innovative exception to that trend, a powerful exemplar of the insights which can be provided by sustained, cogent, and indeed courageous historical research into the most complex and shadowed of places.” * American Historical Review, Vol. 120, Issue 5, 2015 *“This book is of interest to a wide range of readers…Joseph Venosa skillfully discusses [Eritrean political processes], bringing them together into a broadly based narrative through which we can see evolution of a complex road towards Eritrean independence and how the Muslims in Eritrea have become part of its national consciousness.” * The Historian *“The major significance of Joseph L. Venosa’s work lies in the rejection of [the] hegemonic narrative … Venosa does a good job in chronicling the birth, growth, and demise of the Muslim League as a factor in Eritrean politics.” * Canadian Journal of History *“This work is very well written and organized, and Venosa makes excellent use of primary documents to reconstruct a history of activism and sociopolitical transformations taking place among Eritrean Muslim populations during the period under analysis.”Table of Contents* List of Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Note on Language, Terminology, and Translation * Introduction Islam, Community, and the Cultural Politics of Eritrean Nationalism * 1. Early Rumblings: Muslim Activism in British-Occupied Eritrea, April 1941-November 1946 * 2. Founding Success: The Muslim League and the Early Nationalist Movement, November 1946-December 1947 * 3. Navigating Rough Seas: The Muslim League's Internal Challenges, January 1948-September 1949 * 4. Maintaining Momentum: The Muslim League and Its Rivals, September 1949-December 1950 * 5. Holding the Line: Institutional Autonomy and Political Representation on the Federation's Eve, December 1951-September 1952 * 6. Struggling for Autonomy: The Disintegrating Federation, October 1952-December 1957 * 7. New Beginnings at the Federation's End: Muslim Mobilization, Popular Resistance, and Diaspora Activism, January 1958-September 1961 * Epilogue * Notes * Glossary * Selected Bibliography * Index

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Book SynopsisA story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century’s most dramatic transformations.Trade Review“The important work of recording Kenyan voices is brought to bear in Huttenbach’s excellent compilation: the General’s retelling of the Mau Mau period is highly vivid and complex.” * Focus on the Horn *“Those of us who teach African history are always looking for accessible and engaging books to assign our students. Africa is a vast unknown to most American college students. Most of us have developed strategies of easing them into the subject gently. Huttenbach’s book will fit the bill.”“Thambu’s account of the Mau Mau conflict—the central focus of the book—is unique among all the memoirs written by former Mau Mau: it is the only one authored by a non- Kikuyu African. …[It] has the potential to reshape the way we think about Mau Mau in Meru, and more broadly, outside Kikuyuland.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Laura Lee did what every one of us in the African history field has always wanted to do. She actually lived with the family of her subject. They ate together, worked together (picking tea), stayed together. There is simply no better way for a White outsider to penetrate the core of Meru history.”“This [is] a well-researched book that narrates the life history of a dignified freedom fighter without Western bias.” * Diaspora Messenger *“[Huttenbach and Thambu’s] touching and in the end profound relationship across age, geography, and gender formed the basis of this engaging book, a permanent record of the life and adventures of an African leader set down with grace, intelligence, affection, and style. A valuable contribution to anthropology, life history, and African studies and a recommended read for anyone interested in the modern transformation of African life.”“Laura Lee Huttenbach’s The Boy Is Gone is Japhlet Thambu’s story of the brave Kenyans who went ‘into the forest’ as the Mau Mau to battle the colonial forces of oppression in the mid-twentieth century, and his unsparing tale, told with admirable restraint, puts us at the white-hot center of a people’s struggle against economic repression and cultural abasement. Mr. Thambu speaks eloquently in a simple, clear, and unsentimental language that tells a powerful political story and a heartfelt personal story of a husband, father, and businessman motivated by peace, love, and reconciliation.”“…The saga of the General’s passage from boy to man is a tale of two civilizations caught in the creative and destructive form of contact we call colonialism…. Anyone wishing to broaden their understanding of what lies beneath the veil of stereotypes and Hollywood distortions of Africa, or who would enjoy meeting a character of uncommon intellect and grace, should read this book.”“Laura Lee Huttenbach’s debut, The Boy Is Gone: Conversations with a Mau Mau General, is a unique first-hand account of cultural lineage, revolutionary awakening and dogged perseverance told in the voice Japhlet Thambu, a man who seems to have fit several lifetimes into the span of one. It is an essential testimony to those seeking to understand modern-day Kenya.”“The General’s story … will meet scholarly tests but will enchant a much wider audience … and will inform and broaden the views of western readers about Kenya’s important anti-colonial Mau Mau movement at a time when all Americans, through President Obama, have a need to know more about that country’s history.”

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Book SynopsisIn Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold Warinterdisciplinary in approach and intended for nonspecialistsElizabeth Schmidt provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. She focuses on the quarter century following the Cold War (19912017), when neighboring states and subregional, regional, and global organizations and networks joined extracontinental powers in support of diverse forces in the war-making and peace-building processes. During this period, two rationales were used to justify intervention: a response to instability, with the corollary of responsibility to protect, and the war on terror.Often overlooked in discussions of poverty and violence in Africa is the fact that many of the challenges facing the continent today are rooted in colonial political and economic practices, in Cold War alliances, and in attempts by outsiders to influence African political and economic systTrade Review“Why is this book a ‘must read’? In my view, it is because (Schmidt) manages to bring together a massive amount of information across a highly diverse socioeconomic and political landscape, organize it around a very persuasive set of propositions, and present it in a highly readable and compelling way.” * African Studies Review *“A counterweight to the often shallow perspectives on African events and affairs as communicated by broadcast and print media, which tend to be overly descriptive, short on evidence, and divorced from historical context. Libraries, be they local public institutions or at major research universities, would be well advised to include this title in their collections.” * American Historical Review *“[A] well-organized, easy-to-read survey of a very complicated field of literature … clear and succinct presentation of major factors driving foreign intervention….it is refreshing to have a textbook on the market that is clearly designed for teaching undergraduates.” * H-Africa *“Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War should become the quintessential building block for future conceptual, theoretical, and empirical explorations of international affairs in and with Africa.” * H-Diplo Roundtable, 2 March 2020 *“Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War is a laudable contribution to the expanding body of scholarship … about…Africa’s past and potential future. It is an excellent introductory text for students, policymakers, and other readers…. The suggested readings at the end of each chapter provide a valuable guide for those seeking to further explore specific topics within this remarkable book.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines *"(Foreign Intervention in Africa) makes an important contribution to the literature on African conflicts. Specifically written for non-specialists, it contains many illustrations, beautiful maps and useful reading suggestions that will appeal to policy-makers, humanitarian actors, students and the general public interested in understanding the consequences of foreign interventions in Africa.” * African Studies Quarterly *“A timely analysis …. [The book] is a must-read and will prove quite valuable in providing readers with deeper knowledge to question faulty logic and oversimplified solutions.…Schmidt presents an articulate, meticulous, yet easily comprehensible book that keeps her readers engaged. Summing up: Essential.” * CHOICE *“Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War, by one of the leading Africanists in the United States, is richly detailed and beautifully organized. The bibliographical essays at the end of each chapter make it especially helpful to students. This is a fine study that is ideal for classroom use.”“Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War is an excellent contribution to African studies, history and political science because of the many insights into the extent and complexities of foreign intervention in one accessible text. This is a book that reminds us that it is not always just a question of whether to intervene or not.” * The Washington Post *

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the war machine of New Kingdom Egypt from c. 1575 bc1100 bc. Focuses on the period in which the Egyptians created a professional army and gained control of Syria, creating an Empire of Asia. Written by a respected Egyptologist. Highlights new technological developments, such as the use of chariots and siege technology. Considers the socio-political aspects of warfare, particularly the rise to power of a new group of men. Evaluates the military effectiveness of the Egyptian state, looking at the logistics of warfare during this period. Incorporates maps and photographs, a chronological table, and a chart of dynasties and pharaohs Trade Review"For anyone interested in Egyptian military history, and wanting to learn more than the simple dry facts and the well-known major battles, then this book is an absolute must. The author is to be congratulated on this major contribution to our knowledge of warfare in ancient Egypt, presented in a very readable book, suitable for the beginner as well as the real enthusiast." Ancient Egypt "A very handy and innovative introduction on the war machine of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1070 BC)... shows a thorough familiarity with the ancient sources and relevant literature on military topics, ancient and modern... Spalinger's book is a stimulating and highly competent study no one who deals with New Kingdom warfare should overlook." Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Maps x Acknowledgements xi Preface xiii Chronology xvi 1 Prelude to New Kingdom Warfare 1 2 The System of Early Dynasty XVIII: Technological and Physical Constraints 32 3 Southern and Northern Expansion 46 4 Social and Religious Implications of the New Military system 70 5 The Battle of Megiddo and its Result 83 6 The Pharaoh on Campaign: Ideal and Real 101 7 The Later Military Situation in Asia and at Home 110 8 Egyptian Imperialism and Thutmose III 130 9 Dynasty XVIII: Warfare and Economy 140 10 The Amarna Letters and War 160 11 The Influence of the Egyptian Military from Late Dynasty XVIII to Dynasty XIX 169 12 Early Dynasty XIX 187 13 To Kadesh and After 209 14 Merenpath and Ramesses III 235 15 Egypt on the Defensive 249 16 The Social System of the Military in the Ramesside Period 264 General Bibliography 278 Index 282

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Book SynopsisUsing the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt's Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings. Provides an illuminating and engaging re-construction of what daily life was like in ancient Egypt Describes the main issues of everyday life in the town - from education, work, and food preparation to religious rituals, healing techniques, marriages, births, and deaths Authentically recreated through the use of recently published textual data and archaeological findings directly from the settlement of Lahun and other sites Includes photographs and illustrations of actual artifacts from the settlement of Lahun Trade Review"This volume breaks new ground in how we need to examine Egyptian culture." (Journal of World History, March 2010) "The author brings a contemporary academic understanding of ancient Egyptian society and culture to a general audience, successfully overturning widely-held preconceptions and offering new research and methodologies in an accessible and lucid manner. As such, it will serve both general interest readers and students of the subject." (Egyptian Archaeology, Spring 2009) "The book will be attractive to anyone who wishes to read an appealing and original introduction to the Egyptian mind." (Scholia Reviews, 2009) "Books dealing with the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians abound ... .I'd not gotten far into Szpakowska's contribution when I realized that hers was something special, and needful. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction ... which the author fleshes out with a highly detailed and readable survey. This approach brings the mundane world ... to life in a way real and vital, and is sure to appeal to Szpakowska's intended audience: university students, the general public, and scholars. Daily Life is at once a good read and an excellent reference book." (KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, December 2008) "In this interesting addition to the growing body of scholarship on the social and cultural history of ancient Egypt, Szapkowska treats in succession birth, home life, personal possessions, crafts and trades, learning and related topics, religion, sickness, death, and love. What sets her book apart from other similar works is its restriction to the Middle Kingdom town of Lahun and the author's reliance primarily on material from that site. The focus on Middle Kingdom Lahun ... does allow readers to get a clearer sense of life in a particular place than other similarly titled works provide. Recommended." (CHOICE, December 2008) "Szpakowska's book is well-written, and a valuable addition to books on the topic of daily life in ancient Egypt. It tells a wonderful story of life in an ancient Egyptian town." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2008) "A magnificent undergraduate textbook, because of the focus on the actual record." (Times Higher Education Supplement)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 The Setting. 2 Birth. 3 Close to Home. 4 The Stuff of Life. 5 Crafts and Trades. 6 Learning Earning and Leisure. 7 Religion. 8 Sickness. 9 Death. 10 Love. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, GovernaTrade ReviewREVIEWS OF FIRST EDITION: "Here is an excellent anthology that illustrates magnificently processes of Africa's invention, the complexity of her cultures, the paradoxes and predicament of discourses that claim to render her being." V. Y. Mudimbe Stanford University. "A volume for all students and teachers seriously interested in understanding the unity and diversity of African cultures, and engaging in a dialogue with African Studies literary ancestors and their creative and critical successors. Grinker and Steiner have offered a doorway for those who dare to embrace the masters of the field and join new academic worlds in the making." Sulayman S. Nyang, Professor, Howard University and Director of the African Voices Project, Smithsonian Institute. "Perspectives on Africa is a much needed addition to African studies and literature. They attempt, quite successfully, to place each article within, not only an historical time frame, but also within a theoretical progression. Its bibliographies contain a useful starting point and reference on all the major trends and subjects." Sean Pratt, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments x List of Maps xiv List of Figures xv List of Plates xvii List of Tables xviii Introduction: Africa in Perspective 1 Part I Representation and Discourse 19 Introduction 21 1 Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination 31Jean and John Comaroff 2 The Meaning of Our Work 44Cheikh Anta Diop 3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48Kwame Anthony Appiah 4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55V. Y. Mudimbe Part II From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61 Introduction 63 5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71E. E. Evans-Pritchard 6 The Illusion of Tribe 83Aidan W. Southall 7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95Leroy Vail Part III Economics as a Cultural System 109 Introduction 111 8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123Mary Douglas 9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930–83 151Sharon Hutchinson Part IV Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167 Introduction 169 11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175Colin M. Turnbull 12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184Roy Richard Grinker 13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200Edwin N. Wilmsen 14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee Part V Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237 Introduction 239 15 Conversations on Rain-making 245David Livingstone 16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249E. E. Evans-Pritchard 17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257Peter Winch 18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270Ralph A. Austen Part VI Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283 Introduction 285 19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291Marcel Griaule 20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302Paulin J. Hountondji 21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314Igor Kopytoff Part VII Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323 Introduction 325 22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo 335Simon Ottenberg 23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348Olu Oguibe 24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354Kelly M. Askew 25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372Bayo Holsey Part VIII Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379 Introduction 381 26 The Economics of Polygamy 389Ester Boserup 27 “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399Judith Van Allen 28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic 411Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala Part IX Europe in Africa: Colonization 423 Introduction 425 29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431Frederick D. Lugard 30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439Walter Rodney 31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450Terence Ranger 32 Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary 462Ngugi wa Thiong’o Part X Nations and Nationalism 471 Introduction 473 33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477Léopold Sédar Senghor 34 On National Culture 484Frantz Fanon 35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498Bruce J. Berman 36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d’Ivoire 514Christopher B. Steiner Part XI Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521 Introduction 523 37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531Max Gluckman 38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543Paul Richards 39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555Christopher C. Taylor 40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569Stephen Lubkemann Part XII Development, Governance, and Globalization 583 Introduction 585 41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595James Ferguson 42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609Peter Uvin 43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616Daniel Jordan Smith 44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629Jean-François Bayart 45 “Govern Yourselves!” Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644Harry G. West 46 Nuer-American Passages 660Dianna Shandy Index 671

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1965. This book is about the association between Britain and Africa. The book begins with the British entry into Africa and the Indian Ocean and the establishment of the principal foci of power before 1914. The book next treats the quarter century from the First World War until the outbreak of the Second. The book then discusses the period of the Second World War, its aftermath, and the time period contemporaneous with the book's publication. The author's personal experiences and observations shortly before and during the Second World War in different parts of Africa convinced him at the time that the years 19391945 marked a decisive watershed. After the historical chapters, the author examines the three major zones of contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The final chapter considers the major international associations of which Britain is a member and with which it operates in African affairs in the aftermath of colonialism.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Britain and Africa before 1914: Establishment of the Foci of PowerChapter 2. Britain and Africa 1914—39: War and Trusteeship Chapter 3. Britain and Africa 1939—64: Bases and BridgeheadsChapter 4. Britain and Southern AfricaChapter 5. Britain and West AfricaChapter 6. Britain and Eastern AfricaChapter 7. Britain and Independent Africa: Partnership—The Uncompleted TaskPostscriptIndex

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1962. This book is a study of relations between Britain and China. The first section surveys historical relations between the two nations and culminates with the Second World War. The second part examines British policy during the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, and the Geneva Conference. The third part discusses what contemporary issues in British-Chinese relations were at the time the book was written.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. The PastChapter 1. The British Assault Chapter 2. The Chinese RejoinderChapter 3. Britain and the KuomintangPart II. Britain and the People's RepublicChapter 4. The Coming of the CommunistsChapter 5. The Korean WarChapter 6. MissionariesChapter 7. MerchantsChapter 8. Geneva and AfterChapter 9. Hong KongChapter 10. The Two ChinasPart III. The FutureChapter 11. Chinese Aspirations and British InterestsChapter 12. British Policy and the FutureIndex

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Book SynopsisA sweeping narrative of America's imperial history and its long entanglement with China. In Terminus, Stuart Rollo examines the origins and trajectory of American empire in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on its westward expansion and historic entanglement with China. American foreign and strategic policy in this region, Rollo argues, has always been shaped by broader economic and political concerns centered on China. China's current rise, and the economic and strategic systems that China is developing, represents the most serious challenge to the structure of American empire to date. Rollo paints a sweeping historical narrative of American imperial history and its relationship with China from 1776 to the present. Grounded in archival research, official and personal correspondence, policy documents, declassified intelligence material, and congressional records, Terminus traces the development of American empire building from the pre-independence period to the eve of World War I,Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Westward Expansion and the Commercial Origins of EmpireChapter One. The Long March Westward and Native DispossessionChapter Two. The China Focus in Westward ExpansionChapter Three. A Colonial EmpirePart II. Ascending Power to Unipolarity, 1914–1991Chapter Four. The 30 Years CrisisChapter Five. American HegemonyChapter Six. War with Asia, Recession, and ResurgencePart III. From a Unipolar Global Empire to a Shrinking Exploitative HegemonyChapter Seven. The Unipolar Moment and Imperial HubrisChapter Eight. The Sleeper Awakes: China's Rise as a World Historical MomentChapter Nine. Trump, Biden, and Trouble AheadConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisApartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa's apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, Made thinking apartheid, more than anything else, an absolute necessity. The Perversity of Gratitude is a provocative book in which Farred reflects on an upbringing resisting apartheid. Although he is still inclined to struggle viscerally against apartheid, he acknowledges, It is me. Unsentimental about his education, Farred's critique recognizes the impact of four exceptional teachersall engaging pedagogical figures who cultivated a great sense of possibility in how thinking could be learned through a disenfranchised South African education. The Perversity of Gratitude brings to bear the work of influential philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. The book tackles broad philosophical conceptstransgression, withdrawal, and the dialectic. This leads to the creation of a new concept, the diaspora-in-place, wTrade Review“Farred offers readers who dare a perverse anthropology of ‘the surprising intellectual processes that were put into motion precisely because of the violence that the apartheid regime intended its policies to enact on the disenfranchised mind.’ Both loving tribute to his intellectual influences and unsparing theorizing of the conditions of his education, Farred brings apartheid thinking, as a ‘primal scene,’ home to Heidegger and Derrida. Relentless in its audacity, dizzying in its intellectual reach and range, this book thinks—with rigor, ferocity, and grace—the unthinkable.”—Dana D. Nelson, Nancy Perot Chair of English and Professor of American Studies at Vanderbilt University, and author of Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People“Existential, confessional, deconstructive, self-reflexive, linguistically fraught, restlessly philosophic, The Perversity of Gratitude is autopoetic theorizing at its best, connecting worldliness with self, the word with the world, and meditative serenity with political turbulence. Grant Farred’s situated and grateful thinking transforms the ugly and given context of apartheid into a rich pretext for the only kind of learning that is worth the effort: learning against the grain.”—R. Radhakrishnan, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of History, the Human, and the World Between

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, GovernaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments x List of Maps xiv List of Figures xv List of Plates xvii List of Tables xviii Introduction: Africa in Perspective 1 Part I: Representation and Discourse 19 Introduction 21 1 Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination 31 Jean and John Comaroff 2 The Meaning of Our Work 44 Cheikh Anta Diop 3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48 Kwame Anthony Appiah 4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55 V. Y. Mudimbe Part II: From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61 Introduction 63 5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 6 The Illusion of Tribe 83 Aidan W. Southall 7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95 Leroy Vail Part III: Economics as a Cultural System 109 Introduction 111 8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123 Mary Douglas 9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139 Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930–83 151 Sharon Hutchinson Part IV: Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167 Introduction 169 11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175 Colin M. Turnbull 12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184 Roy Richard Grinker 13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200 Edwin N. Wilmsen 14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219 Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee Part V: Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237 Introduction 239 15 Conversations on Rain-making 245 David Livingstone 16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257 Peter Winch 18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270 Ralph A. Austen Part VI: Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283 Introduction 285 19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291 Marcel Griaule 20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302 Paulin J. Hountondji 21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314 Igor Kopytoff Part VII: Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323 Introduction 325 22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afi kpo Igbo 335 Simon Ottenberg 23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348 Olu Oguibe 24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354 Kelly M. Askew 25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372 Bayo Holsey Part VIII: Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379 Introduction 381 26 The Economics of Polygamy 389 Ester Boserup 27 “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399 Judith Van Allen 28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic 411 Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala Part IX: Europe in Africa: Colonization 423 Introduction 425 29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431 Frederick D. Lugard 30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439 Walter Rodney 31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450 Terence Ranger 32 Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary 462 Ngugi wa Thiong’o Part X: Nations and Nationalism 471 Introduction 473 33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477 Léopold Sédar Senghor 34 On National Culture 484 Frantz Fanon 35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498 Bruce J. Berman 36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d’Ivoire 514 Christopher B. Steiner Part XI: Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521 Introduction 523 37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531 Max Gluckman 38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543 Paul Richards 39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555 Christopher C. Taylor 40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569 Stephen Lubkemann Part XII: Development, Governance, and Globalization 583 Introduction 585 41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595 James Ferguson 42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609 Peter Uvin 43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616 Daniel Jordan Smith 44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629 Jean-François Bayart 45 “Govern Yourselves!” Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644 Harry G. West 46 Nuer-American Passages 660 Dianna Shandy Index 671

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Book SynopsisFrom its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth.Trade Review"Bedasse gives us an enlightening insight in still too rare research of South-South networks. Jah Kingdom is an excellent analysis of how Rastafarians situated themselves in the eclectic interplay of pan-Africanism and Tanzanian nationalism and sheds more light on the global pan-African movement and the opportunities it created. Apart from the more evident readership who will have a background in Rastafarianism or post-independent Tanzania, this book will be of interest for any historian researching on questions of pan-Africanism, race and citizenship." — H/Soz/Kult

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Book SynopsisIn this account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the US and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that US-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism.

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Book SynopsisIn this account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the US and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that US-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism.

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Book SynopsisBeginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the US Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery.

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Book SynopsisBeginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the US Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery.

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Book SynopsisOffers a sweeping history of how the United States responded to decolonization in Africa. James Meriwether explores how Washington, grappling with national security interests and racial prejudices, veered between strengthening African nationalist movements and bolstering anticommunist European allies seeking to maintain white rule.

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Book SynopsisWith fascinating glimpses into the lives of working-class men and women, this study of the urbanization of a provincial Egyptian factory town reveals how industrialization transformed masculine and feminine identities, sexualities, and public morality.Trade ReviewIndustrial Sexuality is an important contribution to the fields of both Middle Eastern and gender studies...the meticulous nature of Hammad's work yields a worthy read. * Review of Middle East Studies *Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments A Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations Introduction. Townspeople, Company People, and Textiles: A Woven History Part One. Gendered Experiences Chapter 1. Competing Masculinities: Docile Workers, Aggressive Afandiyya, and the Mechanization of the Modern Subject Chapter 2. Urbanizing Masculinity: Workers, Weavers, and Futuwwat in Violent Alliances and Fluid Identities Chapter 3. Mechanizing Women: Industrial Workers or Women Adrift? Chapter 4. Ladies in Urban Times: Work, Property, and Gender in the Modernity of the Poor Part Two. Industrial Sexuality Chapter 5. Sexually Speaking: Unveiling the Harassment of Women, Child Molestation, Homosexuality, and Hetero-intimacy in Industrial-Urban Space Chapter 6. Striking and Sex-Working: Living with Tuberculosis, Syphilis, and Other Monsters Conclusion. The Anxiety of Transition Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMelissa Hackman traces the experiences of Pentecostal ex-gay men in Cape Town, South Africa, as they attempted to cure their homosexuality, forge a heterosexual masculinity, and enter into heterosexual marriage through various forms emotional, bodily, and religious work.Trade Review"Truly unique and fascinating ... Desire Work sheds new light on Africa. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals." -- W. Arens * Choice *"Desire Work is a remarkably rich, detailed, and passionate ethnography. . . . As gender studies in Africa continues to grow as a field, this book provides a needed contribution to understanding homosexuality and masculinity among . . . men in the first country in the world whose constitution outlawed homophobic discrimination: South Africa." -- Dianna Bell * Journal of Religion in Africa *"Desire Work is a rich and fascinating ethnographic study worth reading by anyone with an academic interest in gender, sexuality, and self-making in evangelical and Pentecostal Christian circles." -- Adriaan van Klinken * H-Africa, H-Net Reviews *"There is no doubt that Desire Work is an important book, offering the reader glimpses into the wider body of work on the subject. It is written in an accessible, engaging, and compassionate style, and makes a contribution to the field of gender and sexuality studies as well as opening up new avenues for theological exploration." -- Beverley Haddad * Anthropological Forum *"The book presents an honest and refreshing account of the methodological challenges of conducting such research. ... [It] will be useful specifically to those wanting to understand the ex-gay movement and Pentecostalism as well as to those interested in the intersection of sexuality, gender, and nationality." -- Alex Toft * American Journal of Sociology *“Desire Work emerges as a genuine and serious description of the challenges and struggles of South African men who must navigate the overlapping layers of societal, cultural, and religious demands as they seek a pathway that allows for faithful, authentic expression of masculinity and sexuality…. Desire Work is strongly recommended to mental health professionals, pastoral theologians, pastor caregivers and other ministry practitioners as a cautionary tale and guidepost, calling for careful consideration and reflection when engaging in the sacred task of transforming and changing lives.” -- Eddie L. Journey * Pneuma *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Adrian's Desire Work 1 1. Cultural Convergences 39 2. Building Godly Emotional Intimacy 63 3. Becoming Spiritual Warriors: Learning How to Fight Demonic Sexual Desires 87 4. Mastering Romance and Sexual Feelings 115 5. "I Didn't Fall, I'm Free": Leaving Healing Revelation Ministries 139 Afterword 165 Notes 171 References 177 Index 197

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Book SynopsisMelissa Hackman traces the experiences of Pentecostal ex-gay men in Cape Town, South Africa, as they attempted to cure their homosexuality, forge a heterosexual masculinity, and enter into heterosexual marriage through various forms emotional, bodily, and religious work.Trade Review"Truly unique and fascinating ... Desire Work sheds new light on Africa. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals." -- W. Arens * Choice *"Desire Work is a remarkably rich, detailed, and passionate ethnography. . . . As gender studies in Africa continues to grow as a field, this book provides a needed contribution to understanding homosexuality and masculinity among . . . men in the first country in the world whose constitution outlawed homophobic discrimination: South Africa." -- Dianna Bell * Journal of Religion in Africa *"Desire Work is a rich and fascinating ethnographic study worth reading by anyone with an academic interest in gender, sexuality, and self-making in evangelical and Pentecostal Christian circles." -- Adriaan van Klinken * H-Africa, H-Net Reviews *"There is no doubt that Desire Work is an important book, offering the reader glimpses into the wider body of work on the subject. It is written in an accessible, engaging, and compassionate style, and makes a contribution to the field of gender and sexuality studies as well as opening up new avenues for theological exploration." -- Beverley Haddad * Anthropological Forum *"The book presents an honest and refreshing account of the methodological challenges of conducting such research. ... [It] will be useful specifically to those wanting to understand the ex-gay movement and Pentecostalism as well as to those interested in the intersection of sexuality, gender, and nationality." -- Alex Toft * American Journal of Sociology *“Desire Work emerges as a genuine and serious description of the challenges and struggles of South African men who must navigate the overlapping layers of societal, cultural, and religious demands as they seek a pathway that allows for faithful, authentic expression of masculinity and sexuality…. Desire Work is strongly recommended to mental health professionals, pastoral theologians, pastor caregivers and other ministry practitioners as a cautionary tale and guidepost, calling for careful consideration and reflection when engaging in the sacred task of transforming and changing lives.” -- Eddie L. Journey * Pneuma *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Adrian's Desire Work 1 1. Cultural Convergences 39 2. Building Godly Emotional Intimacy 63 3. Becoming Spiritual Warriors: Learning How to Fight Demonic Sexual Desires 87 4. Mastering Romance and Sexual Feelings 115 5. "I Didn't Fall, I'm Free": Leaving Healing Revelation Ministries 139 Afterword 165 Notes 171 References 177 Index 197

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Book SynopsisRosalind Fredericks traces the volatile trash politics in Dakar, Senegal, to examine urban citizenship in the context of urban austerity and democratic politics, showing how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identifies and mobilizing political action.Trade Review"Garbage Citizenship isn’t solely about urban rubbish collection in Senegal’s capital. The book uses waste collector strikes and activism to explore broader effects of labour relations, citizen advocacy, neoliberal reform, and religious understandings of purity and pollution." -- Christine Ro * Environment and Urbanization *"A powerful account of the centrality of infrastructure, waste and labor for writing larger stories of urban transformation and citizenship in Dakar and beyond." -- Colin McFarlane * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Garbage Citizenship powerfully details. . . how the responsibility for waste has disproportionately fallen on the urban poor." -- Jacob Doherty * American Anthropologist *"An engaging study of garbage infrastructure in Senegal’s capital that foregrounds both the human labor it takes to keep the city clean and the ways that failures to do so become goads to political action." -- Dagna Rams * American Ethnologist *"Garbage Citizenship is a significant contribution and necessary reading for scholars of infrastructural governance and politics, labor geographies, African urban studies, and discard studies." -- Kathleen Stokes * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“Fredericks presents a dazzling excavation of the many strata of garbage politics. … Fredericks’s book gives us new tools for understanding how that power works.” -- Chris Tilly * American Journal of Sociology *“Fredericks goes beyond the conventional view of waste infrastructure as capital equipment by drawing from labor studies. She expands the literature on urban citizenship by conceptualizing Dakar’s working poor as waste infrastructure whose social responsibility, political actions, and religious ideology shaped state-society relations…. [S]he provides additional lens with which to study material politics in African cities.” -- Adebisi Alade * African Studies Quarterly *“The book offers a crucial example of innovative reworking of urban governance from the South. In an age of widespread public sector cutbacks across African (and indeed global) cities, and growing labour casualization in the global North…Garbage Citizenship offers an affirmative story of labour bargaining.” -- Tatiana A. Thieme * Development and Change *“Garbage Citizenship presents an in-depth analysis of the ways that garbage, and waste infrastructures, played a central role in the politics of urban change in Dakar. This text presents a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of infrastructures as a complex artefact of urban life, adding to the growing field of infrastructure studies…” -- Jenny McArthur * Urban Studies *"Garbage Citizenship introduce[s] the possibility of understanding political practices based on the material elements that make up the city—a huge and novel contribution…. [It] will be essential reading for those interested in urban politics and everyday life in the Global South for many years to come, just as the contentious politics of urban space will shape the contours of Africa well into the future.” -- Jeffrey W. Paller * Peace Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Trash Matters 1 1. Governing Disposability 27 2. Vital Infrastructures of Labor 60 3. Technologies of Community 97 4. The Piety of Refusal 123 Conclusion. Garbage Citizenship 149 Notes 155 References 171 Index 193

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Book SynopsisJessica A. Krug traces the history and meaning of Kisama—a seventeenth-century fugitive slave community located in present-day Angola—by showing how it operated as a inspirational global symbol of resistance for fugitives on both sides of the Atlantic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Cartography xi List of Archives and Abbreviations xiii Introduction. Fugitive Modernities: Chronotope, Epistemology, and Subjectivity 1 1. Kafuxi Ambari and the People without State's History: Forging Kisama Reputations, c. 1580-1630 31 2."They Publicize to the Neighboring Nations That the Arms of Your Majesty Do Not Conquer": Fugitive Politics and Legitimacy, c. 1620-55 58 3. "The Husbands Having First Laid Down Their Lives in Their Defense": Gender, Food, and Politics in the War of 1655-58 86 4. (Mis)Taken Identities: Kisama and the Politics of Naming in the Palenque Limón, New Kingdom of Grenada, c. 1570-1634 111 5. Fugitive Angola: Toward a New History of Palmares 146 6. "The Ashes of Revolutionary Fires Burn Hot": Brazilian and Angolan Nationalism and the "Colonial" and "Postcolonial" Life of the Kisama Meme, c. 1700-Present 164 Conclusion. Fugitive Modernities in the Neoliberal Afterlife of the Nation-State 187 Notes 195 Bibliography 241 Index 257

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Book SynopsisThroughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women—the Mothers—make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and expel the forces of evil. In An Intimate Rebuke Laura S. Grillo draws on fieldwork in Côte d’Ivoire that spans three decades to illustrate how these rituals of Female Genital Power (FGP) constitute religious and political responses to abuses of power. When deployed in secret, FGP operates as spiritual warfare against witchcraft; in public, it serves as a political activism. During Côte d’Ivoire’s civil wars FGP challenged the immoral forces of both rebels and the state. Grillo shows how the ritual potency of the Mothers’ nudity and the conjuration of their sex embodies a moral power that has been foundational to West African civilizatTrade Review"A detailed and thoughtful history of Côte d’Ivoire that gives due placement to civilian women who have largely been ignored in the definitive historical monographs. . . . Grillo’s scholarship has groundbreaking strengths. For those interested in religion, her detailed documentation of myth, ritual, secret societies, symbolism, witchcraft, and the appeal to the spiritual domain—and her defense of the inclusion of this knowledge as a requisite in understanding a country’s history—is utterly exquisite. . . . The work is inimitable—Grillo is sensitive, sensible, and devotes attention to detail." -- Dianna Bell * Reading Religion *“Ultimately, Grillo demonstrates how knowledge of the moral authority of women elders remained and remains embedded in West Africa and that women enact FGP to defend not only social equity and justice but also their own rights. An Intimate Rebuke will be required reading for all future analysis of women’s authority and mobilization.” -- Jill E. Kelly * African Studies Review *“Grillo’s work redefines our understanding of the use of ritual and moral values in the current postcolonial political order by focusing on the ignored phenomenon of Female Genital Power.... Grillo’s work is an important contribution to the study of gender, religion, history, and politics, particularly in Côte d’Ivoire but also in the whole West African subregion.” -- Carole Ammann * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Home and the Unhomely: The Foundational Nature of Female Genital Power 19 1. Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers 21 2. Matrifocal Morality: FGP and the Foundations of "Home" 54 3. Gender and Resistance: The "Strategic Essentialism" of FGP 81 Part II. Worldliness: FGP in the Making of Ethnicity, Alliance, and the War in Côte D'Ivoire 117 4. Founding Knowledge/Binding Power: The Moral Foundations of Ethnicity and Alliance 121 5. Women at the Checkpoint: Challenging the Forces of Civil War 152 Part III. Timeliness: Urgent Situations and Emergent Critiques 171 6. Violation and Deployment: FGP in Politics in Côte D'Ivoire 175 7. Memory, Memorialization, and Morality 198 Conclusion. An Intimate Rebuke: A Local Critique in the Global Postcolony 228 Notes 239 References 255 Index 275

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Book SynopsisJessica A. Krug traces the history and meaning of Kisamaa seventeenth-century fugitive slave community located in present-day Angolaby showing how it operated as a inspirational global symbol of resistance for fugitives on both sides of the Atlantic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Cartography xi List of Archives and Abbreviations xiii Introduction. Fugitive Modernities: Chronotope, Epistemology, and Subjectivity 1 1. Kafuxi Ambari and the People without State's History: Forging Kisama Reputations, c. 1580-1630 31 2."They Publicize to the Neighboring Nations That the Arms of Your Majesty Do Not Conquer": Fugitive Politics and Legitimacy, c. 1620-55 58 3. "The Husbands Having First Laid Down Their Lives in Their Defense": Gender, Food, and Politics in the War of 1655-58 86 4. (Mis)Taken Identities: Kisama and the Politics of Naming in the Palenque Limón, New Kingdom of Grenada, c. 1570-1634 111 5. Fugitive Angola: Toward a New History of Palmares 146 6. "The Ashes of Revolutionary Fires Burn Hot": Brazilian and Angolan Nationalism and the "Colonial" and "Postcolonial" Life of the Kisama Meme, c. 1700-Present 164 Conclusion. Fugitive Modernities in the Neoliberal Afterlife of the Nation-State 187 Notes 195 Bibliography 241 Index 257

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