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African Freedom How Africa Responded to Independence Phyllis Taoua
A comprehensive synthesis of the ideal of freedom in African culture from a pan-African perspective after independence. July 2018 978-1-108-44616-7 Paperback £21.99 / US$29.99
A History of Algeria James McDougall
An essential introduction to the history of Algeria, spanning a period of five hundred years. April 2017 978-0-521-61730-7 Paperback £23.99 / US$29.99
A History of African Popular Culture Karin Barber
A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day. New Approaches to African History, 11 January 2018 978-1-107-62447-4 Paperback £18.99 / US$24.99
Citizenship and Antisemitism in French Colonial Algeria, 1870–1962 Sophie B. Roberts
Examines the relationship between antisemitism and the practices of citizenship in a colonial context, focusing on experiences of Algerian Jews.
Africans The History of a Continent Third edition John Iliffe
An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations. African Studies, 137
Human Rights in Africa Bonny Ibhawoh
An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and prodemocracy movements.
July 2017 978-1-316-64812-4 Paperback £20.99 / US$25.99
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A History of Modern Uganda
Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
Richard J. Reid
A comprehensive history of Uganda, examining its political, economic and social development from its precolonial origins to the present day. March 2017 978-1-107-67112-6 Paperback £18.99 / US$27.99
December 2017 978-1-107-18815-0 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00
January 2018 978-1-107-60239-7 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99
Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa Jonathon L. Earle
Offers an intellectual history of colonial Buganda, using previously unseen archives to recast the end of empire in East Africa. African Studies, 138 August 2017 978-1-108-41705-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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The Asaba Massacre Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli
An interdisciplinary study of the Asaba massacre, re-examining Nigerian history and enriching the understanding of post-conflict trauma and memory construction. August 2017 978-1-316-50616-5 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99
The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism Spectacles of Suffering Lasse Heerten
A global history of ‘Biafra’, providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.
Naturalizing Africa
The Kongo Kingdom
Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature Cajetan Iheka
The Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity Koen Bostoen and Inge Brinkman
Analyses how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa.
A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a crossdisciplinary perspective.
December 2017 978-1-107-19917-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Human Rights in History September 2017 978-1-107-11180-6 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00
October 2018 978-1-108-47418-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$105.00
Freund
Twentieth-Century South Africa
Twentieth-Century South Africa A Developmental History Bill Freund
Twentieth-Century South Africa A Developmental History Bill Freund
This unique history highlights South Africa’s complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered. August 2018 978-1-108-44615-0 Paperback £21.99 / US$29.99
Imagining Africa Whiteness and the Western Gaze Clive Gabay
While challenging traditional postcolonial accounts, Gabay places racial anxiety at the heart of imaginaries of Africa and international order. December 2018 978-1-108-47360-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$105.00
Empire of Sentiment The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism Joanna Lewis
An innovative study proposing a new history of the British Empire in Africa by exploring the emotion culture of imperialism. January 2018 978-1-107-19851-7 Hardback £30.00 / US$39.99
The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe Law and Politics since 1950 George Hamandishe and Karekwaivanane
Examines the role of the law in the constitution and contestation of state power in Zimbabwean history. African Studies, 139 November 2017 978-1-107-19020-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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To Be Free and French
The Temne of Sierra Leone
Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire Lorelle Semley
African Agency in the Making of a British Colony Joseph J. Bangura
A new vision of French citizenship from the perspective of Africans and Antilleans living in the colonies and in France. Critical Perspectives on Empire
An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.
July 2017 978-1-107-49847-1 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99
November 2017 978-1-107-19798-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
From Slavery to Aid
Volume 1: The Sources Alice Bellagamba Sandra E. Greene and Martin A. Klein
Uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade. December 2017 978-0-521-14526-8 Paperback £24.99 / US$31.99
Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000 Benedetta Rossi
Explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries. African Studies, 135 December 2017 978-1-107-54511-3 Paperback £24.99 / US$31.99
Hasan al-Turabi Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan W. J. Berridge
A comprehensive study of the life and political thought of Sudanese Islamist scholar and politician Hasan al-Turabi. August 2017 978-1-107-18099-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Transforming Sudan Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation Alden Young
Traces the formation of the Sudanese state following the Second World War through a developmentalist ideology. African Studies, 140 December 2017 978-1-107-17249-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland
Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania
Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914–2014 Kate Skinner
Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization Emma Hunter
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland examines the history and politics behind the failed project of Togoland unification.
A study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics during Africa’s decolonization.
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African Studies, 133
November 2017 978-1-107-42705-1 Paperback £20.99 / US$31.99
October 2017 978-1-107-45862-8 Paperback £21.99 / US$32.99
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