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Welcome................................................................................................................... 3 Books African Literature and Social Change........................................................................................................ 26 African Medical Pluralism............................................................................................................................ 26 African Photographer J. A. Green................................................................................................................27 African Women..............................................................................................................................................27 Africans in Exile.............................................................................................................................................. 4 The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast.............................................................................................................. 28 The ANC’s War against Apartheid..................................................................................................................5 Art World City............................................................................................................................................... 28 Arts of Being Yoruba.................................................................................................................................... 29 Black Lives Matter and Music....................................................................................................................... 6 The Colonial Legacy in France..................................................................................................................... 29 Concrete Flowers............................................................................................................................................7 Congo Inc........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Elusive Adulthoods ...................................................................................................................................... 30 Entrepreneurship in Africa............................................................................................................................ 9 An Ethnography of Hunger...........................................................................................................................10 Everyday Life in Global Morocco................................................................................................................. 30 Funeral Culture.............................................................................................................................................. 11 Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture..............................................................................................31 Germans on the Kenyan Coast....................................................................................................................31 The Gnawa Lions...........................................................................................................................................12 Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria..........................................................................................................13 Hadija’s Story............................................................................................................................................... 32 Harvest of Skulls.......................................................................................................................................... 32 Inside Al-Shabaab.........................................................................................................................................14 International Security and Peacebuilding.................................................................................................. 33 Jazz and Palm Wine..................................................................................................................................... 33 Life and Death in Kolofata............................................................................................................................15 Masquerading Politics................................................................................................................................. 34 On Islam.........................................................................................................................................................16 Performing Trauma in Central Africa........................................................................................................... 17 Popobawa..................................................................................................................................................... 34 Public Art in South Africa............................................................................................................................ 35 Roots of the New Arab Film..........................................................................................................................18 The Silence of the Spirits............................................................................................................................ 35 Singing Yoruba Christianity..........................................................................................................................19 Slave Owners of West Africa........................................................................................................................ 36 Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Films............................................................................................ 36 State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa.....................................................................................................37 The Tears of the Black Man......................................................................................................................... 20 Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria.............................................................................21 Women and Genocide.................................................................................................................................. 22 Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania................................................................... 23

Journals Africa Today.................................................................................................................................................. 39 African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review................................................................................................ 39 Black Camera............................................................................................................................................... 40 Black Diaspora Review................................................................................................................................ 40 The Global South...........................................................................................................................................41 Mande Studies..............................................................................................................................................41 Research in African Literatures................................................................................................................... 42 Spectrum...................................................................................................................................................... 42 Transition...................................................................................................................................................... 43

Sales Information.................................................................................................. 45 Backlist Highlights............................................................................................46,47 Index.......................................................................................................................48

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Breaking down stereotypes and focusing on the struggles and aspirations of ordinary individuals.

Africa is one of the most diverse and vibrant continents on our ever-changing earth. African studies, as an academic

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LETTER FROM THE EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

discipline, is also constantly changing and responding to new conditions, ideas, and stories. Indiana University Press stands tall as a leading publisher of books that foster understanding of a complex and dynamic region. Our books and journals break down stereotypes and focus on the struggles and aspirations of ordinary individuals, especially when they are confronted with issues and challenges such as climate change, migration, violent conflict, and social, cultural, and political transformation.

The Press is recognized world-wide for publishing innovative and high-quality scholarship that sets the standard for excellence in the discipline. From introductory textbooks to monographs that break new ground to novels in translation, Indiana University Press is a fully-committed partner in building bridges to knowledge and inspiring fresh thinking about Africa and Africans, no matter where they reside. I am honored and pleased to present you with this catalog of new titles that carry forward this distinguished publishing tradition.

Dee Mortensen Editorial Director

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Africans in Exile Mobility, Law, and Identity Edited by Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. Broken into three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa.

September 2018 Colonialism, Social Science 384 pages, 6x9, 7 b&w illus., 7 maps Cloth 978-0-253-03807-4 $85.00 £62.00 Paper 978-0-253-03808-1 $35.00 £26.99 ebook 978-0-253-03811-1 $34.99 £26.99 FRAMING THE GLOBAL HILARY E. KAHN, EDITOR

Nathan Riley Carpenter directs the Center for Global Education at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA. Benjamin N. Lawrance is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and Editor-in-Chief of the African Studies Review. He is the author of Amistad’s Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling.

“Rather than a rare punishment inflicted on dissident elites, exile is revealed in this important volume as one of the defining features of African history since the colonial era. In their deeply researched and thematically linked essays, contributors present instances of exile from around the continent that illustrate the ambitions and limits of state power, extra-territorial strategies of resistance, and the capacity of relocation to spur both suffering and creativity. Africans in Exile masterfully enriches our understanding of two key themes in African history, mobility and community, and their salience for politics and individual experience over the past century and into the present.”

–Lisa A. Lindsay, author of Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa

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Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Liberation of South Africa

By Stephen Davis

January 2018 History, South Africa 328 pages, 6x9, 12 b&w illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-03228-7 $85.00 £73.00 Paper 978-0-253-03229-4 $35.00 £29.99 ebook 978-0-253-03230-0 $34.99 £29.99

For nearly three decades, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), waged a violent revolutionary struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Stephen Davis works with extensive oral testimonies and the heroic myths that were constructed after 1994 to offer a new history of this armed movement. Davis deftly addresses the histories that reinforce the legitimacy of the ANC as a ruling party, its longstanding entanglement with the South African Communist Party, and efforts to consolidate a single narrative of struggle and renewal in concrete museums and memorials. Davis shows that the history of MK is more complicated and ambiguous than previous laudatory accounts would have us believe, and in doing so he discloses the contradictions of the liberation struggle as well as its political manifestations.

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The ANC’s War Against Apartheid

Stephen Davis is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.

“Stephen Davis charts new territory in a bold and lively fashion. Apart from furthering our knowledge and understanding of MK, he contributes significantly to scholarship on liberation movements more broadly. Essential reading.”

–Gary Baines, author of South Africa’s Border War

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Black Lives Matter and Music Protest, Intervention, Reflection Edited by Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan Foreword by Portia K. Maultsby

August 2018 African American Studies, Ethnomusicology, Popular Culture 136 pages, 6x9, 3 b&w illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-03841-8 $55.00 £40.00 Paper 978-0-253-03842-5 $25.00 £17.99 ebook 978-0-253-03843-2 $24.99 £17.99 ACTIVIST ENCOUNTERS IN FOLKLORE AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY DAVID MCDONALD, EDITOR

In this collection of critical studies, contributors draw from ethnographic research and personal encounters to illustrate how scholarly research of, approaches to, and teaching about the role of music in the Black Lives Matter movement can contribute to public awareness of the social, economic, political, scientific, and other forms of injustices in our society. Each chapter in Black Lives Matter and Music focuses on a particular case study, with the goal to inspire and facilitate productive dialogues among scholars, students, and the communities we study. Black Lives Matter and Music provokes us to examine how we teach, how we conduct research, and ultimately, how we should think about the ways that black struggle, liberation, and identity have evolved in the United States and around the world.

Fernando Orejuela is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University.

Stephanie Shonekan is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Black Studies at the University of Missouri.

“[This] volume is written from the heart of the BLM movement: the authors’ stance as politically committed, or ‘engaged,’ scholars lends the work an immediacy poignantly buttressing its academic value.”

–Paul Austerlitz, author of Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity

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By Wilfried N’Sondé Translated by Karen Lindo

August 2018 Fiction 112 pages, 5.5x8.5 Paper 978-0-253-03559-2 $17.00 £13.99 ebook 978-0-253-03560-8 $16.99 £13.99 GLOBAL AFRICAN VOICES DOMINIC THOMAS, EDITOR

Behind the bars on her window, Rosa Maria dreams of sunshine, love, calm, and leaving the city where she lives with her family. She suffers her father’s beatings, hides her femininity behind shapeless clothing, and pines for the beautiful Jason as she awaits her opportunity to flee. Meanwhile, her older brother is found dead in a nearby parking lot, and the neighborhood explodes in a riot against the police. Rosa Maria resolves to act before she is devoured by family intrigues and despair. Wilfried N’Sondé’s powerful voice creates a palpable sense of the absence of hope and the social and racial isolation that pervade the Paris projects, even as he never abandons the expansive capacity of individuals to dream of better lives beyond a seemingly hopeless reality.

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Concrete Flowers

Wilfried N’Sondé born in 1969 in the Congo (Brazzaville) and grew up in France. He is widely considered one of the shining lights of the new generation of African and Afropean writers. His work has received considerable critical attention and been recognized with prestigious literary awards, including the Prix de Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Senghor de la création littéraire.

Karen Lindo is a scholar of French and Francophone literatures and currently teaches and translates in Paris.

“Wilfried N’Sondé is a musician. One can hear this.

His writing captures the rhythm of a brutal reality of a society on the brink of collective disintegration while simultaneously providing a space for daydreaming.”

–L’Humanité

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Congo Inc. Bismarck’s Testament

By In Koli Jean Bofane Translated by Marjolijn de Jager To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author, In Koli Jean Bofane, leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity, corrupt governance, widespread civil conflict, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in Africa. Told with just enough levity to make it truly heartbreaking, Congo Inc. is a searing tale about ecological, political, and economic failure.

January 2018 Fiction 200 pages, 6x9 Paper 978-0-253-03190-7 $20.00 £16.99 ebook 978-0-253-03191-4 $19.99 £16.99 GLOBAL AFRICAN VOICES DOMINIC THOMAS, EDITOR

In Koli Jean Bofane was born in 1954 in the northern region of what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo and currently resides in Belgium. His novels have received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire, the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, and the Prix des Cinq continents de la Francophonie.

Marjolijn de Jager is a trilingual (Dutch, English, French), award-winning translator of works by Werewere Liking, Tahar Djaout, Ken Bugul, and Camille Laurens.

She also translated Gilbert Gatoré’s The Past Ahead for the Global African Voices series.

“This scalding indictment of Western interference in Africa should give proponents of pell-mell progress pause.”

–Publishers Weekly

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A Historical Approach

Edited by Moses E. Ochonu

February 2018 Business & Economics 392 pages, 6x9, 2 maps Cloth 978-0-253-03260-7 $90.00 £74.00 Paper 978-0-253-03438-0 $40.00 £33.00 ebook 978-0-253-03262-1 $39.99 £32.99

A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explore the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social, economic, and political debates in Africa today.

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Entrepreneurship in Africa

Moses E. Ochonu is Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University.

“An authentic, Africa-centered volume on entrepreneurship and a fresh departure from stale discussions of African economies that have often been carved from Western modes of explanation that trivialize African historical experiences and realities.”

–Adebayo Oyebade, author of Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa

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An Ethnography of Hunger Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun

By Kristin Phillips

August 2018 Agriculture & Food, Social Science 256 pages, 6x9, 19 b&w illus., 8 color illus., 1 maps Cloth 978-0-253-03836-4 $75.00 £55.00 Paper 978-0-253-03837-1 $28.00 £19.99 ebook 978-0-253-03840-1 $27.99 £19.99 FRAMING THE GLOBAL HILARY E. KAHN, EDITOR

In An Ethnography of Hunger, Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development.

Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular famine in Africa, she examines how people live with, rather than die, from hunger. Through tracing the seasonal cycles of drought, plenty, and suffering and the political cycles of elections, development, and state extraction, Phillips studies hunger as a pattern of relationships and practices that organizes access to food and profoundly shapes agrarian lives and livelihoods. Amid extreme inequality and unpredictability, rural people pursue subsistence by alternating between, and sometimes combining, rights and reciprocity, a political form that she calls “subsistence citizenship.” Phillips argues that studying subsistence is essential to understanding the persistence of global poverty, how people vote, and why development projects succeed or fail.

Kristin D. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University.

“Kristin Phillips has written a compelling, compassionate exploration of the social life of food and hunger in rural Tanzania. She masterfully evokes the voices and visions of everyday people seeking economic security and political justice in the face of deepening inequalities, a negligent state, and exploitative development projects. An Ethnography of Hunger should be read by anyone interested in the intersections of food, power, and sociality in agrarian communities.”

–Dorothy L. Hodgson, author of Gender, Justice and the Problem of Culture: From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania

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AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom

By Casey Golomski

June 2018 Customs & Traditions, Social Science 272 pages, 6x9, 15 b&w illus., 1 maps Cloth 978-0-253-03644-5 $85.00 £64.00 Paper 978-0-253-03645-2 $30.00 £21.99 ebook 978-0-253-03646-9 $29.99 £21.99

Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa’s last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski’s ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals.

Many of these forms and practices–newly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom’s first crematorium–are now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in people’s everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.

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Funeral Culture

Casey Golomski is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire.

“A highly original account of death and funeral cultures in southern Africa that enlarges understandings of ‘postcolonial cultural production’ as the outcome of both vernacular and state-driven historical consciousness and processes.”

–Hansjörg Dilger, author of Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Life

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The Gnawa Lions Authenticity and Opportunity in Moroccan Ritual Music

By Christopher Witulski

August 2018 Customs & Traditions, Ethnomusicology 240 pages, 6x9, 5 b&w illus., 1 maps, 9 music exx Cloth 978-0-253-03679-7 $85.00 £62.00 Paper 978-0-253-03675-9 $30.00 £21.99 ebook 978-0-253-03678-0 $29.99 £21.99

Traditionally Gnawa musicians in Morocco played for all-night ceremonies where communities gathered to invite spirits to heal mental, physical, and social ills untreatable by other means. Now Gnawa music can be heard on the streets of Marrakech, at festivals in Essaouira, in Fez’s cafes, in Casablanca’s nightclubs, and in the bars of Rabat. As it moves further and further from its origins as ritual music and listeners seek new opportunities to hear performances, musicians are challenged to adapt to new tastes while competing for potential clients and performance engagements.

Christopher Witulski explores how Gnawa musicians straddle popular and ritual boundaries to assert, negotiate, and perform their authenticity in this rich ethnography of Moroccan music. The Gnawa Lions reveals a shifting terrain of music, ritual, and belief that follows the negotiation of musical authenticity, popular demand, and economic opportunity.

PUBLIC CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA PAUL A. SILVERSTEIN, SUSAN SLYOMOVICS, TED SWEDENBURG, EDITORS

Christopher Witulski is an instructor of ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.

“Christopher Witulski’s focus on musicians’ lives, including their multiple musical, interpersonal, and ideological interactions and encounters, provides a welcome and important perspective that captures the reality of lived experience, complete with its complexities and contradictions. It is a highly perceptive account that never strays far from the ethnographic experience.”

—Richard Jankowsky, author of Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia

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Firearms, Culture, and Public Order

By Saheed Aderinto

January 2018 Colonialism, Nigeria 336 pages, 6x9, 12 b&w illus., 4 tables Paper 978-0-253-03161-7 $35.00 ÂŁ25.99 ebook 978-0-253-03162-4 $34.99 ÂŁ25.99

Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic, or to inspire confidence. In Guns and Society, Saheed Aderinto considers the social, political, and economic history of these weapons in colonial Nigeria. As he transcends traditional notions of warfare and militarization, Aderinto reveals surprising insights into how colonialism changed access to firearms after the 19th century. In doing so, he explores the unusual ways in which guns were used in response to changes in the Nigerian cultural landscape.

Aderinto argues that firearms in the Nigerian context are not simply commodities but are also objects of material culture. Considering guns in this larger context provides a clearer understanding of the ways in which they transformed a colonized society.

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Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria

Saheed Aderinto is Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University and the author of When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958.

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Inside Al-Shabaab The Secret History of Al-Qaeda’s Most Powerful Ally

By Harun Maruf and Dan Joseph Foreword by Christopher Anzalone

October 2018 Political Science, Terrorism 324 pages, 6x9, 14 color illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-03748-0 $70.00 £52.00 Paper 978-0-253-03749-7 $28.00 £21.99 ebook 978-0-253-03751-0 $27.99 £21.99

One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat to stability in the Horn of Africa. Somalis risk retaliation or death if they oppose or fail to comply with Al-Shabaab-imposed restrictions on aspects of everyday life such as clothing, media, sports, interpersonal relations, and prayer. Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda’s Most Powerful Ally recounts the rise, fall, and resurgence of this overlooked terrorist organization and provides an intimate understanding of its connections with Al-Qaeda.

Drawing from interviews with former Al-Shabaab militants, including high-ranking officials, military commanders, police, and foot soldiers, authors Harun Maruf and Dan Joseph reveal the motivations of those who commit their lives to the group and its violent jihadist agenda.

Harun Maruf is Senior Editor in Voice of America’s Somali Service who has been covering Somalia and its struggles with war, terrorism, piracy, and drought since the early 1990s.

Dan Joseph is an Editor in Voice of America’s central newsroom.

“For years I studied and assessed Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and Harun Maruf was my go-to source on the terror group and the Horn of Africa. This book reveals insights I’ve never seen during my 15 years in counterterrorism—an excellent work.”

–Clinton Watts, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute

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An American Doctor in Africa

By Ellen Einterz

November 2017 Memoir 232 pages, 6x9, 26 b&w illus., 1 map Cloth 978-0-253-03237-9 $60.00 £52.00 Paper 978-0-253-03238-6 $28.00 £23.99 ebook 978-0-253-03239-3 $27.99 £23.99

When Dr. Ellen Einterz first arrives in the town of Kolofata in Cameroon, the situation is dire: patients are exploited by healthcare workers, unsterilized needles are reused, and only the wealthy can afford care. In Life and Death in Kolofata, Einterz tells her remarkable story of delivering healthcare for 24 years in one of the poorest countries in the world, revealing both touching stories of those she is able to help and the terrible suffering of people born in extreme poverty. In one case, a 6-year-old burn victim suffers after an oil tanker tips and catches fire; in another story, Dr. Einterz delivers a child in the front yard of her home. In addition to struggling to cure diseases and injuries and combat malnutrition, Einterz faced another kind of danger: the terrorist organization Boko Haram had successively kidnapped foreigners from Cameroon, and they had set their sights on the American in Kolofata. It would only be a matter of time before they would come for her.

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Life and Death in Kolofata

Dr. Ellen Einterz has spent most of her life in rural West and Central Africa. After two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger in the mid-1970s, she directed a Catholic mission hospital in Benue State, Nigeria. She moved to northern Cameroon in 1990 and remained for 24 years, building and leading a district hospital and public health service.

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On Islam Muslims and the Media Edited by Hilary E. Kahn and Rosemary Pennington

February 2018 Islamic Studies, Journalism 324 pages, 6x9, 14 color illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-02934-8 $50.00 £43.00 Paper 978-0-253-03255-3 $18.00 £14.99 ebook 978-0-253-03256-0 $17.99 £14.99

In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims, depictions that erode human responses of concern, connection, or even a willingness to learn about Muslims.

On Islam helps break this cycle with information and strategies to understand and report the modern Muslim experience. Journalists, activists, bloggers, and scholars offer insights into how Muslims are represented in the media today and offer tips for those covering Islam in the future. Interviews provide personal and often moving firsthand accounts of people confronting the challenges of modern life while maintaining their Muslim faith, and brief overviews provide a crash course on Muslim beliefs and practices. A concise and frank discussion of the Muslim experience, On Islam provides facts and perspective at a time when truth in journalism is more vital than ever.

Rosemary Pennington is Assistant Professor of Journalism at Miami University.

Hilary E. Kahn is Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change in the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University.

“This book goes a long way in combating Islamophobia and exposing how media representations often exacerbate the ignorant fear of Islam and Muslims.”

–Publishers Weekly

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Shadows of Empire

By Laura Edmondson

March 2018 Performing Arts 400 pages, 6x9, 17 b&w illus., 1 map Cloth 978-0-253-03245-4 $90.00 £77.00 Paper 978-0-253-03247-8 $42.00 £36.00 ebook 978-0-253-03246-1 $41.99 £35.99 AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR

What are the stakes of performance in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? From the standpoint of empire, Laura Edmondson explores cultural production that responds to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the twenty-year civil war in northern Uganda, and regional conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

She examines memorial ceremonies, plays, indigenous performance, NGO media campaigns, and contemporary dance to reveal how artists and cultural workers challenge state and humanitarian narratives in the shadow of empire and how empire, in turn, infiltrates creative capacities.

Carefully contextualizing these narratives within the charged political terrain of the Great Lakes Region, Edmondson deepens our understanding of the role of creative expression and cultural agency in conflict and post-conflict zones.

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Performing Trauma in Central Africa

Laura Edmondson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater at Dartmouth College, where she is also affiliated with African and African American Studies.

She is author of Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage.

“Passionate and brilliantly argued, Performing Trauma in Central Africa illuminates the complicities, paradoxes, and problematics at the intersection of humanitarian activism and the performance of trauma. While performance studies has at times succumbed to a naïve faith in the transformative power of performance in zones of conflict, Edmondson illuminates how the affective labor of such endeavors can be so potently marshaled for such problematic ends.”

–Catherine M. Cole, author of Performing South Africa’s Truth Commission

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Roots of the New Arab Film

By Roy Armes

March 2018 Arabian Peninsula, Film & Media 344 pages, 6x9 Cloth 978-0-253-03418-2 $90.00 £77.00 Paper 978-0-253-03172-3 $40.00 £34.00 ebook 978-0-253-03173-0 $39.99 £33.99

Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and retained a deep attachment to their homeland.

Although these aspiring filmmakers had to seek their training abroad, they witnessed a time of filmic revival in Europe–Fellini and Antonioni in Italy, the French New Wave, and British Free Cinema. Returning home, these filmmakers brought a unique insider/outsider perspective to bear on local developments in society since independence, including the divide between urban and rural communities, the continuing power of traditional values and the status of women in a changing society. As they made their first films back home, the feelings of participation in a worldwide movement of new, independent filmmaking was palpable.

Roots of the New Arab Film is a necessary and comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the foundations of Arab cinema.

Roy Armes is Professor Emeritus of Film at Middlesex University.

“The structure, argument, and content of this volume treat a timely topic that will meet a welcoming readership. It will make a nice companion to New Voices in Arab Cinema and fill a void in scholarship on the Arab world and in cinema in general.”

–Michael F. O’Riley, author of Cinema in an Age of Terror: North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History

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Music, Media, and Morality

By Vicki L. Brennan

January 2018 Ethnomusicology, Religion 264 pages, 6x9, 13 b&w illus., 1 map Cloth 978-0-253-03207-2 $80.00 £69.00 Paper 978-0-253-03209-6 $30.00 £25.99 ebook 978-0-253-03208-9 $29.99 £25.99 AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR

Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members of the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become unified around a shared set of values. She follows parishioners as they attend choir rehearsals, use musical media hymn books and cassette tapes, and perform the music and rituals that connect them through religious experience. Brennan asserts that church members believe that singing together makes them part of a larger imagined social collective, one that allows them to achieve health, joy, happiness, wealth, and success in an ethical way. Brennan discovers how this particular Yoruba church articulates and embodies the moral attitudes necessary to be a good Christian in Nigeria today.

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Singing Yoruba Christianity

Vicki L. Brennan is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the African Studies Program at the University of Vermont.

“By looking at song and sound as critically important aspects of worship, Vicki L. Brennan provides an excellent and detailed analysis of Yoruba Christianity, its practice, and its impact on church members.” ¬Elisha P. Renne, author of Yoruba Religious Textiles

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The Tears of the Black Man

By Alain Mabanckou Translated by Dominic Thomas

July 2018 Literary Criticism 86 pages, 5.5x8.5 Paper 978-0-253-03583-7 $16.00 £12.99 ebook 978-0-253-03584-4 $15.99 £12.99 GLOBAL AFRICAN VOICES DOMINIC THOMAS, EDITOR

“Africa’s Samuel Beckett ...

One of the continent’s greatest living writers” –Guardian 22

In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today. Without ignoring the injustices and prejudice still facing blacks, he distances himself from resentment and victimhood, arguing that focusing too intensely on the crimes of the past is limiting. Instead, it is time to ask: Now what? Embracing the challenges faced by ethnic minority communities today, The Tears of the Black Man looks to the future, choosing to believe that the history of Africa has yet to be written and seeking a path toward affirmation and reconciliation.

Alain Mabanckou is an award-winning author. He is regarded as Francophone Africa’s leading voice, novelist, poet, and essayist and has received numerous literary prizes.

Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

By Elisha P. Renne

November 2018 Customs & Traditions, Islamic Studies 256 pages, 6x9, 83 color illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-03654-4 $85.00 £65.00 Paper 978-0-253-03655-1 $32.00 £22.99 ebook 978-0-253-03656-8 $31.99 £22.99 AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR

Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years.

As Islamic reformers have sought to address societal problems such as poverty, inequality, ignorance, unemployment, extravagance, and corruption, they have used textiles as a means to express their religious positions on these concerns. Home first to the early indigo trade and later to a thriving textile industry, northern Nigeria has been a center for Islamic practice as well as a place where everything from women’s hijabs to turbans, buttons, zippers, short pants, and military uniforms offers a statement on Islam. Elisha P. Renne argues that awareness of material distinctions, religious ideology, and the political and economic contexts from which successive Islamic reform groups have emerged is important for understanding how people in northern Nigeria continue to seek a proper Islamic way of being in the world and how they imagine their futures spiritually, economically, politically, and environmentally.

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Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria

Elisha P. Renne is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

“The topic of Islamic dress in Nigeria is very rich, complicated by gender, global-local networks, politics, the economy, successive waves of religious reform, and a vibrant, multi-ethnic society with a strong history of using dress to craft and perform identities.

I applaud Elisha Renne for her objectivity and nuanced approach to this politically charged subject.”

–Heather Akou, author of The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture

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Women and Genocide Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators Edited by Elissa Bemporad and Joyce W. Warren The genocides of modern history, Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocaust, and countless others and their effects have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates and scholars come together to argue that the memory of trauma is gendered and that women’s voices and perspectives are key to our understanding of the dynamics that emerge in the context of genocidal violence.

By placing women at center stage, Women and Genocide helps us to better understand the nexus existing between misogyny and violence in societies where genocide erupts.

April 2018 Social Science, Women’s Studies 344 pages, 6x9 Cloth 978-0-253-03276-8 $90.00 £74.00 Paper 978-0-253-03381-9 $36.00 £29.99 ebook 978-0-253-03383-3 $35.99 £29.99

Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust, and Associate Professor of History at Queens College of the City University of New York and at The CUNY Graduate Center.

Joyce W. Warren was Professor of English and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York.

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By Katherine Wiley

September 2018 Gender Studies, Social Science 248 pages, 6x9, 15 b&w illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-03621-6 $85.00 £65.00 Paper 978-0-253-03622-3 $35.00 £24.99 ebook 978-0-253-03625-4 $34.99 £24.99

Although slavery was legally abolished in 1981 in Mauritania, its legacy lives on in the political, economic, and social discrimination against ex-slaves and their descendants. Katherine Ann Wiley examines the shifting roles of Muslim Harātīn (ex-slaves and their descendants) women, who provide financial support for their families. Wiley uses economic activity as a lens to examine what makes suitable work for women, their trade practices, and how they understand and assert their social positions, social worth, and personal value in their everyday lives. This powerful ethnography challenges stereotypical views of Muslim women and demonstrates how they work together to navigate social inequality and bring about social change.

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Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania

Katherine Ann Wiley is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University. Her work has appeared in Africa and Africa Today.

“Katherine Ann Wiley provides a complex account of how slavery practices and post-slavery conventions have been entangled with ambiguous colonial, postcolonial, and neoliberal moments to reframe ethnic and social status.” –Hsain Ilahiane, author of The Historical Dictionary of the Berbers

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African Literature and Social Change Tribe, Nation, Race

By Olakunle George

June 2017 Literary Criticism 222 pages, 6x9, 6 b&w illus.

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Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature.

Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together—writings by little-known black missionaries, so called “black whitemen,” and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers—Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed notions of ethnicity, nation, and race and how the debates need to be rehistoricized today. George presents Africa as a site of complex desires and contradictions, refashioning the way African literature is positioned within current discussions of globalism, diaspora, and postcolonialism.

Olakunle George is Associate Professor at Brown University. He is author of Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters and coeditor of The Encyclopedia of the Novel.

African Medical Pluralism Edited by William Olsen and Carolyn Sargent In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts.

Carolyn Sargent is Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power.

February 2017 Health Care 280 pages, 6x9, 7 b&w illus.

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William C. Olsen lectures in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is editor (with Walter E. A. van Beek) of Evil in Africa: Encounters with the Everyday.

Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial Edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson

October 2017 Photography 400 pages, 8.5x10, 186 b&w illus., 2 maps Paper 978-0-253-02895-2 $40.00 £34.00 AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR

J. A. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa.

This beautiful book celebrates Green’s photographs and opens a new chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson, and the contributors have uncovered 350 of Greens images in archives, publications, and even albums that celebrated colonial achievements. This landmark book unifies these dispersed images and presents a history of the photographer and the area in which he worked.

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African Photographer J. A. Green

Martha G. Anderson is Professor Emerita of the School of Art and Design at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University.

Lisa Aronson is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Art History at Skidmore College.

African Women Early History to the 21st Century

By Kathleen Sheldon

April 2017 Women’s Studies 352 pages, 6x9, 20 b&w illus., 1 map, 1 table Cloth 978-0-253-02716-0 $85.00 £70.00 Paper 978-0-253-02722-1 $40.00 £33.00 ebook 978-0-253-02731-3 $39.99 £32.99

African women’s history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations.

In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon’s work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women’s roles in the history of Africa.

Kathleen Sheldon is an independent scholar who has a research affiliation with the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire

By John H. Hanson

June 2017 History, Islamic Studies 302 pages, 6x9, 14 b&w illus., 7 maps Cloth 978-0-253-02619-4 $85.00 £73.00 Paper 978-0-253-02933-1 $35.00 £29.99 ebook 978-0-253-02951-5 $34.99 £29.99

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a global movement with more than half a million Ghanaian members, runs an extensive network of English-language schools and medical facilities in Ghana today. Founded in South Asia in 1889, the Ahmadiyya arrived in Ghana when a small coastal community invited an Ahmadiyya missionary to visit in 1921. Why did this invitation arise and how did the Ahmadiyya become such a vibrant religious community? John H. Hanson places the early history of the Ahmadiyya into the religious and cultural transformations of the British Gold Coast (colonial Ghana). This is a global story of religious engagement, modernity, and cultural transformations arising at the dawn of independence.

John H. Hanson is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, where he is also Director of the Africa Studies Program.

Art World City The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar

By Joanna Grabski

June 2017 Art, Popular Culture 328 pages, 8.5x9, 57 color illus.

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Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city’s resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how and why they produce and exhibit their work and how they make an art scene and transact with art world mediators such as curators, journalists, critics, art lovers, and collectors from near and far. Grabski shows that Dakar-based artists participate in a platform that has a global reach. They extend Dakar’s creative economy and the city’s urban vibe into an “art world city.”

Joanna Grabski is Director of the School of Art at Arizona State University. She is editor (with Carol Magee) of African Art, Interviews, Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work. She wrote, directed, and produced the feature-length documentary film Market Imaginary, focused on Dakar’s sprawling Colobane Market.

Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric

By Adélékè Adéèkó

August 2017 Customs & Traditions, Philosophy 226 pages, 6x9, 13 b&w illus., 3 tables Cloth 978-0-253-02623-1 $80.00 £67.00 Paper 978-0-253-02649-1 $28.00 £22.99 ebook 978-0-253-02672-9 $27.99 £22.99

There is a culturally significant way of being Yoruba is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations, no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adéèkó documents Yoruba patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be Yoruba in this innovative study. As he focuses on historical writings, divination practices, the use of proverbs in contemporary speech, photography, gendered ideas of dressing well, and the formalities of ceremony and speech at celebratory occasions, Adélékè Adéèkó extends that being Yoruba is indeed an art and Yorubaness is a dynamic phenomenon that responds to cultural shifts as Yoruba people inhabit an increasingly globalized world.

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Arts of Being Yoruba

Adélékè Adéèkó is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the English and African American and African Studies departments at Ohio State University.

AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR

The Colonial Legacy in France Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid Edited by Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard and Dominic Thomas Translated by Alexis Pernsteiner Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks.

The essays in this volume put French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates on what it means to identify as French.

Nicolas Bancel is Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

May 2017 Colonialism, Political Science 500 pages, 6x9 Cloth 978-0-253-02625-5 $60.00 £50.00 ebook 978-0-253-02651-4 $59.99 £49.99

Pascal Blanchard is a historian and researcher at the Laboratoire Communication et Politique .

Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA. Alexis Pernsteiner is a freelance editor and translator.

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Elusive Adulthoods The Anthropology of New Maturities Edited by Deborah Durham and Jacqueline Solway

September 2017 Anthropology, Social Science 210 pages, 6x9 Paper 978-0-253-03000-9 $30.00 £25.99 ebook 978-0-253-03019-1 $29.99 £25.99

What is adulthood? How does the field of anthropology come to overlook this meaningful life transition? Through diverse case studies, contributors explore a variety of means by which adulthood can be recognized such as negotiated relationships with others, including grown children, and as a form of upward class mobility.

Contributors also grapple with the difficulties that come from a sense of having missed full adulthood rapid social change or reluctance to embrace the necessary subordination to job and family. In each case, changing political and economic factors form the background for generational experiences and understandings of what it means to reach adulthood as globalization dictates changes to traditional rites of passage.

Deborah Durham is Professor of Anthropology at Sweet Briar College.

Jacqueline Solway is Professor Emeritus of the International Development Studies and Anthropology Departments of Trent University of Canada.

Everyday Life in Global Morocco

By Rachel Newcomb Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging exploration of how world issues impact lives. Rachel Newcomb shows how larger issues like gentrification, changing diets, and nontraditional approaches to marriage and fertility are changing what the everyday looks and feels like in Morocco. Newcomb’s close engagement with the Benjelloun family presents a broad range of responses to the multifaceted effects of globalization. The lived experience of the modern family is placed in contrast with the traditional expectation of how this family should operate. This juxtaposition encourages new ways of thinking about how modern the notion of globalization really is.

September 2017 Anthropology, Social Science 192 pages, 6x9, 1 map Cloth 978-0-253-02952-2 $60.00 £52.00 Paper 978-0-253-03123-5 $30.00 £25.99 ebook 978-0-253-03130-3 $29.99 £25.99

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Rachel Newcomb is Professor of Anthropology at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She is editor (with David Crawford) of Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding.

PUBLIC CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA PAUL A. SILVERSTEIN, SUSAN SLYOMOVICS, TED SWEDENBURG, EDITORS

From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania

By Dorothy L. Hodgson When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania; from customary law to human rights as specific forms of justice that often reflect elite ideas about gender, culture, and social change.

March 2017 Gender Studies, Political Science 204 pages, 6x9 Cloth 978-0-253-02520-3 $80.00 £66.00 Paper 978-0-253-02535-7 $30.00 £24.99 ebook 978-0-253-02547-0 $29.99 £24.99

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Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture

Dorothy L. Hodgson is Professor of anthropology and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (Graduate School New Brunswick) at Rutgers University and past President of the African Studies Association. She has worked in Tanzania, East Africa, for almost thirty years on such topics as gender, ethnicity, cultural politics, colonialism, nationalism, modernity, the missionary encounter, transnational organizing, and the indigenous rights movement.

Germans on the Kenyan Coast Land, Charity, and Romance

By Nina Berman

January 2017 History 284 pages, 6x9, 8 b&w illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-02424-4 $85.00 £65.00 Paper 978-0-253-02430-5 $35.00 £26.99 ebook 978-0-253-02437-4 $34.99 £26.99

Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists. Nina Berman looks carefully at the repercussions that these economic and social interactions have brought to life on the Kenyan coast. She explores what happens when poorer and less powerful members of a community are forced to give way to profit-based real estate development, what it means when most of Diani’s schools and water resources are supplied by funds from immigrants, and what the impact of mixed marriages is on notions of kinship and belonging as well as the economy. This unique story about a small Kenyan town also recounts a wider tale of opportunity, oppression, resilience, exploitation, domination, and accommodation in a world of economic, political, and social change.

Nina Berman is Professor of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University.

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Hadija’s Story Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields

By Harmony O’Rourke

February 2017 Women’s Studies, Social Science 272 pages, 6x9, 14 b&w illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-02375-9 $85.00 £61.00 Paper 978-0-253-02383-4 $32.00 £24.99 ebook 978-0-253-02389-6 $31.99 £24.99

In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the court proceedings turned to the question of whether she had been the wife or the slave-concubine of her deceased husband. In tandem with other court cases of the day, Harmony O’Rourke illuminates a set of contestations in which marriage, slavery, morality, memory, inheritance, status, and identity were at stake for Muslim Hausa migrants, especially women. As she tells Hadija’s story, O’Rourke disrupts dominant patriarchal and colonial narratives that have emphasized male activities and projects to assert cultural distinctiveness, and she brings forward a new set of women’s issues involving concerns for personal prosperity, the continuation of generations, and Islamic religious expectations in communities separated by long distances.

Harmony O’Rourke is Assistant Professor of History at Pitzer College.

Harvest of Skulls

By Abdourahman A. Waberi Translated by Dominic Thomas

February 2017 Fiction 80 pages, 5.5x8.5 Paper 978-0-253-02432-9 $15.00 £11.99 ebook 978-0-253-02441-1 $14.99 £11.99

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GLOBAL AFRICAN VOICES DOMINIC THOMAS, EDITOR

In 1994, the akazu, Rwandan’s political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the country. Given the failure of the international community to acknowledge the genocide, in 1998, ten African authors visited Rwanda in a writing initiative that was an attempt to make partial amends. Shaped by the author’s own experiences in Rwanda and by the stories shared by survivors, Harvest of Skulls stands twenty years after the genocide as an indisputable resource for discussions on testimony and witnessing, the complex relationship between victims and perpetrators, the power of the moral imagination, and how survivors can rebuild a society haunted by the ghost of its history.

Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Djibouti, he is Professor of French and Francophone literature at George Washington University.

Africa, the Middle East, and Europe Edited by Abu Bakarr Bah

January 2017 Political Science 212 pages, 6x9 Cloth 978-0-253-02376-6 $80.00 £61.00 Paper 978-0-253-02384-1 $30.00 £26.99 ebook 978-0-253-02390-2 $29.99 £26.99

The end of the Cold War was to usher in an era of peace based on flourishing democracies and free market economies worldwide. Instead, new wars, including the war on terrorism, have threatened international, regional, and individual security and sparked a major refugee crisis. This volume of essays on international humanitarian interventions focuses on what interests are promoted through these interventions and how efforts to build liberal democracies are carried out in failing states. Together, the essays provide a theoretical and empirical critique of global liberal governance and, as they note challenges to regional and international cooperation, they reveal that global liberal governance may threaten fragile governments and endanger human security at all levels.

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International Security and Peacebuilding

Abu Bakarr Bah is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University.

Jazz and Palm Wine

By Emmanuel Dongala Foreword and Translation by Dominic Thomas Jazz, aliens, and witchcraft collide in this collection of short stories by renowned author Emmanuel Dongala. The influence of Kongo culture is tangible throughout, as customary beliefs clash with party conceptions of scientific and rational thought. In the title story, African and American leaders come together to save the world from extraterrestrials by serving vast quantities of palm wine and playing American jazz. Dongala suggests a pathway to racial harmony, peaceful co-existence, and individual liberty through artistic creation.

April 2017 Fiction 138 pages, 5.5x8.5 Paper 978-0-253-02669-9 $20.00 £16.99 ebook 978-0-253-02675-0 $19.99 £16.99 GLOBAL AFRICAN VOICES DOMINIC THOMAS, EDITOR

Emmanuel Dongala is Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. His novels have been awarded the Grand Prix Ladislas Dormandi, the Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique Noire, the Charles Oulmont Prize, and the Cezam Literary Prize.

Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Masquerading Politics Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town

By John Thabiti Willis

November 2017 Customs & Traditions, Gender Studies 256 pages, 6x9, 27 color illus., 5 maps Cloth 978-0-253-03144-0 $85.00 £73.00 Paper 978-0-253-03146-4 $35.00 £29.99 ebook 978-0-253-03145-7 $34.99 £29.99 AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR

In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility.

John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional structures in which masquerade was used to reveal ongoing changes in notions of gender, kinship, and ethnic identity. As Willis focuses on performers and spectators, he reveals a history of masquerade that is rich and complex. His research offers a more nuanced understanding of performance practices in Africa and their role in forging alliances, consolidating state power, incorporating immigrants, executing criminals, and projecting individual and group power on both sides of the Afro-Atlantic world.

John Thabiti Willis is Associate Professor of African History at Carleton College. He is an associate editor of the Journal of West African History.

Popobawa Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings

By Katrina Daly Thompson

February 2017 Customs & Traditions, Gender Studies 238 pages, 6x9 Cloth 978-0-253-02449-7 $80.00 £61.00 Paper 978-0-253-02456-5 $30.00 £22.99 ebook 978-0-253-02461-9 $29.99 £22.99

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Since the 1960s, people on the islands off the coast of Tanzania have talked about being attacked by a mysterious creature called Popobawa, a shapeshifter often described as having an enormous penis. Popobawas recurring attacks have become a popular subject for stories, conversation, gossip, and humor that has spread far beyond East Africa. Katrina Daly Thompson shows that talk about Popobawa becomes a tool that Swahili speakers use for various creative purposes such as subverting gender segregation, advertising homosexuality, or discussing female sexuality. Thompson demonstrates that uses of this legend are more diverse and complex than previously thought and provides insight into how women and men communicate in a place where taboo, prohibition, and restraint remain powerful cultural forces.

Katrina Daly Thompson is Professor and Director of the Program in African Languages in the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents Edited by Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? In this lively volume, Kim Miller, Brenda Schmahmann, and an international group of contributors examine statues and memorials as well as performance, billboards, and other temporal modes of communication, considering the implications of not only the exposure but also erasure of events and icons from the public domain.

September 2017 Art 392 pages, 6x9, 58 b&w illus.

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Public Art in South Africa

Kim Miller is Associate Professor and holds the Jane Oxford Keiter Professorship of women’s and gender studies and art history at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

Brenda Schmahmann is Professor and the South African Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg.

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The Silence of the Spirits

By Wilfried N’Sondé Translated by Karen Lindo Foreword by Dominic Thomas

SILENCE SPIRITS

THE OF THE

WILFRIED N’SONDÉ T r a n s l a t e d b y KAREN LINDO

June 2017 Fiction 140 pages, 5.5x8.5 Paper 978-0-253-02894-5 $17.00 £14.99 ebook 978-0-253-02907-2 $16.99 £14.99 GLOBAL AFRICAN VOICES DOMINIC THOMAS, EDITOR

What are the limits of empathy and forgiveness?

How can someone with a shameful past find a new path that allows for both healing and reckoning? When Clovis and Christelle find themselves face-to-face on a train heading to the outskirts of Paris, their unexpected encounter propels them on a cathartic journey toward understanding the other, mediated by their respective histories of violence. Wilfried N’Sondé brave novel confronts French attitudes toward immigrants, pushes moral imagination to its limits, and constructs a world where the past must be confronted in order to map the future.

Wilfried N’Sondé was born in 1969 in the Congo (Brazzaville) and grew up in France. He is widely considered one of the shining lights of the new generation of African and Afropean writers.

Karen Lindo is a scholar of French and francophone literatures and currently teaches and translates in Paris.

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Slave Owners of West Africa Decision Making in the Age of Abolition

By Sandra E. Greene

May 2017 Slavery 140 pages, 6x9, 3 b&w illus., 4 maps Cloth 978-0-253-02597-5 $75.00 £62.00 Paper 978-0-253-02599-9 $25.00 £20.99 ebook 978-0-253-02602-6 $24.99 £20.99

Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa.

Sandra E. Greene is the Stephen ‘59 and Madeline ‘60 Professor of African History at Cornell University.

Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Films

By Vlad Dima

January 2017 Film & Media 246 pages, 6x9, 19 b&w illus.

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The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety’s cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his films bridge Western practices of filmmaking and oral traditions from West Africa. Mambety’s film, Touki Bouki, is considered one of the foundational works of African cinema.

Vlad Dima proposes a new reading of Mambety’s entire filmography from the perspective of sound. Following recent analytical patterns in film studies that challenge the primacy of the visual, Dima claims that Mambety uses voices, noise, and silence as narrative tools that generate their own stories and sonic spaces. By turning an ear to cinema, Dima pushes African aesthetics to the foreground of artistic creativity and focuses on the critical importance of sound in world cinema.

Vlad Dima is Assistant Professor of French Studies with a specialty in African cinema at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Enchantings Edited by Tejumola Olaniyan

October 2017 Anthropology 324 pages, 6x9, 9 b&w illus.

Cloth 978-0-253-02971-3 $90.00 £77.00 Paper 978-0-253-02998-0 $40.00 £34.00 ebook 978-0-253-03017-7 $39.99 £33.99 AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR

How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the state-culture dynamic, senior scholars and emerging voices examine the intersections of the state, culture, and politics in postcolonial Africa in this lively and wide-ranging volume. The coverage here is continental and topics include literature, politics, philosophy, music, religion, theatre, film, television, sports, child trafficking, journalism, city planning, and architecture. Together, the essays provide an energetic and nuanced portrait of the cultural forms of politics and the political forms of culture in contemporary Africa.

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State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa

Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of African Cultural Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Interdisciplinary research and diverse perspectives on political, economic, and social issues in Africa.

Since 1954, Africa Today has published peerreviewed, scholarly articles, and book reviews in a broad range of academic disciplines on topics related to contemporary Africa. We encourage interdisciplinary research and seek to be a venue for diverse perspectives on a broad range of topics. Africa Today has been on the forefront of African Studies research for more than 45 years. Our editors accept submissions based on original research in any humanities and social science discipline. Recent issues highlight social, cultural, political, historical, and economic concerns, as well as special features focusing on complex topics from multiple perspectives.

Published quarterly.

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Africa Today

Keywords: African Culture, African Diaspora, African History, African Studies, Colonialism, Geography, International Studies, Political Movements, Political Science, Religion

African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review Creative and rigorous perspectives on the impact of conflicts and peace processes.

ACPR: African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review is an interdisciplinary forum for creative and rigorous studies of conflict and peace in Africa, and for discussions among scholars, practitioners, and public intellectuals in Africa, the United States, and other parts of the world. ACPR provides a wide range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives on the causes of conflicts and peace processes. These include cultural practices relating to conflict resolution and peacebuilding, legal and political preventative measures, and the intersection of international, regional, and local interests and conceptions with conflict and peace.

Published biannually.

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Keywords: African Diaspora, African Studies, Ethics, Human Rights, Humanitarianism, International Cooperation, International Studies, Military Operations, Peacemaking, Political Science

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Black Camera: An International Film Journal Historical and contemporary scholarship on black cinematic experiences and the development of black creative culture.

Published biannually.

ISSN: 1536-3155 | eISSN: 1947-4237 Learn more at http://bit.ly/iup-blc.

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Black Camera, a journal of Black film studies, is devoted to the study and documentation of the Black cinematic experience and aims to engender and sustain a formal academic discussion of Black film production. We include reviews of historical as well as contemporary books and films, researched critiques of recent scholarship on Black film, interviews with accomplished film professionals, and editorials on the development of Black creative culture. Black Camera challenges received and established views and assumptions about the traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, where new and longstanding cinematic formations are in play. Issues and special sections are devoted to national cinemas, as well as independent, marginal, or oppositional films and cinematic formations.

Keywords: African Americans, African Studies, Black Feminism, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Movie Culture, Political Movements, Popular Culture, Queer Culture

Black Diaspora Review Critiques, debates, and discussions centering the mission, curricula, and ideology Black Diaspora studies.

Black Diaspora Review provides an open access forum for scholarly critiques, debates, and discussions on every aspect of Black Diaspora studies, including its mission, curricula, ideology and/or scholarly methodologies, linkages to other academic disciplines links to extraacademic communities, and its future.

Keywords: African Diaspora, African Studies, Afrodescendents, Black Feminism, Colonialism, Cultural Studies, Global Studies, Racial Inequality, Racism, Slavery

Published biannually. eISSN: 2334-1521 Learn more at http://bit.ly/iup-bdr.

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World literatures and cultures respond to globalization, colonialism, modernity, diasporas, and resistance.

The Global South is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on how world literatures and cultures respond to globalization. Particularly of interest is how authors, writers, and critics respond to issues of the environment, poverty, immigration, gender, race, hybridity, cultural formation and transformation, colonialism and postcolonialism, modernity and postmodernity, transatlantic encounters, homes, diasporas, and resistance and counter discourse, among others, under the superordinate umbrella of globalization.

Published biannually.

ISSN: 1932-8648 | eISSN: 1932-8656

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The Global South

Keywords: African American Culture, African Studies, Colonialism, History, International Studies, Latin American Culture, Narratives, Poetry, Political Violence, Slavery

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Mande Studies Exploring multidisciplinary research about the diverse peoples and cultures of the Mande diaspora in West Africa.

Mande Studies is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research that focuses on the Mande-speaking peoples of West Africa and the Mande community in diaspora, from slavery to the post-colony. We welcome articles in the social sciences and the humanities including, but not limited to: history, art history, archeology, sociology, and public health. Articles may range from the pre-colonial period to the present.

Keywords: African Culture, African History, African Studies, Cultural Identity, Judaism, Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistics, Muslims, Political Science, Religion

Published annually.

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Research in African Literatures The premier journal of African literary studies providing a forum for research on the literatures of Africa.

Research in African Literatures, founded in 1970, is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa. In addition to thought-provoking essays, reviews of current scholarly books appear in every issue, often presented as critical essays, and a forum offers readers the opportunity to respond to issues raised in articles and book reviews. Thematic clusters of articles and frequent special issues reveal the broad interests of its readership.

Published quarterly.

ISSN: 0034-5210 | eISSN: 1527-2044

Keywords: African Culture, African Literature, African Studies, Arts & Culture, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Narratives, Poetry, Secularism, Theology

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Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men Investigating the complexity of Black manhood, including gender, masculinities, and race/ethnicity.

Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men is a multidisciplinary research journal whose articles focus on issues related to aspects of Black men’s experiences, including such topics as gender, masculinities, and race/ ethnicity. Spectrum examines the social, political, economic, and historical factors that influence the life chances and experiences of African-descended males using disciplinary and interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, empirical methods, theoretical analysis, and literary criticism.

Published biannually.

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Keywords: African Americans, African Studies, Black Communities, Civil Rights, Gender Studies, Hip Hop Culture, Masculinity, Race & Ethnicity, Slavery, Social Justice,

The leading forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas and intellectual debate from and about the African Diaspora.

Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. Transition is a publication of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, edited by Alejandro de la Fuente.

Published triannually.

ISSN: 0041-1191 | eISSN: 1527-8042

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Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora

Keywords: African Americans, African Studies, Arts & Culture, Black Nationalism, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, Politics, Race & Ethnicity, Popular Culture, Social Justice

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS

Africa’s First Democrats 978-0-253-02230-1

Africa, 4th Edition 978-0-253-01292-0

The Unseen Things 978-0-253-02143-4

The Heart of the Leopard Children 978-0-253-02190-8

African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe 978-0-253-01803-8

Blue White Red 978-0-253-00791-9

The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa 978-0-253-02139-7

Murambi, The Book of Bones 978-0-253-02342-1

One Woman’s Jihad 978-0-253-21398-3

Queen of Flowers and Pearls 978-0-253-01547-1

Humor and Violence 978-0-253-02267-7

Oliver Mtukudzi 978-0-253-02231-8

Oil Wealth & Insurgency in Nigeria 978-0-253-01573-0

Ghana on the Go 978-0-253-02307-0

Islamic Education in Africa 978-0-253-02302-5

Tropical Cowboys 978-0-253-02077-2

Abidjan USA 978-0-253-02229-5

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INDEX African American Studies....................................................................................... 6 African Studies................................................................................................ 39-43 Agriculture & Food................................................................................................. 10 Anthropology................................................................................................... 30, 37 Arabian Peninsula...................................................................................................18 Art.....................................................................................................................28, 35 Arts & Culture........................................................................................................ 42 Black Nationalism..................................................................................................43 Business & Economics............................................................................................ 9 Colonialism............................................................................................. 4, 13, 29, 41 Cultural Studies.....................................................................................................40 Customs & Traditions......................................................................11, 12, 21, 29, 34 Ethnomusicology.......................................................................................... 6, 12, 19 Fiction..................................................................................................7, 8, 32, 33, 35 Film & Media.............................................................................................. 18, 36, 40 Gender Studies.................................................................................... 23, 31, 34, 42 Global Studies........................................................................................................40 Health Care............................................................................................................ 26 History...........................................................................................................5, 28, 31 International Studies....................................................................................... 39, 41 Islamic Studies...........................................................................................16, 21, 28 Journalism...............................................................................................................16 Literary Criticism.......................................................................................20, 26, 42 Memoir....................................................................................................................15 Nigeria.....................................................................................................................13 Performing Arts......................................................................................................17 Philosophy.............................................................................................................. 29 Photography.......................................................................................................... 27 Political Science........................................................................ 14, 29, 31, 33, 39, 41 Popular Culture..................................................................................... 6, 28, 40, 43 Religion.............................................................................................................. 19, 41 Slavery....................................................................................................................36 Social Justice......................................................................................................... 42 Social Science....................................................................... 4, 10, 11, 22, 23, 30, 32 South Africa............................................................................................................. 5 Terrorism.................................................................................................................14 Women’s Studies....................................................................................... 22, 27, 32

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