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A Dam for Africa
A Man among Other Men
Akosombo Stories from Ghana Stephan F. Miescher
The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism Jordanna Matlon
May 2022 608pp 55 b&w illus., 7 maps 9780253059956 £36.00 / $45.00 PB 9780253059970 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
May 2022 306pp 59 b&w halftones, 1 map 9781501762932 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9781501762864 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
Indiana University Press
Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has become one of the most controversial sites in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, this book tells in detail for the first time the story of this dam that has so profoundly helped and hurt a nation for 60 years.
Cornell University Press
Engaging the histories, representational repertoires, and performative identities of men in Abidjan and across the Black Atlantic, Matlon shows how French colonial legacies and media tropes of Blackness act as powerful axes, rooting masculine identity and value within labor, consumerism, and commodification.
African Leaders of the Twentieth Century, Volume 2
Africana Studies
Theoretical Futures Edited by Grant Farred
Cabral, Machel, Mugabe, Sirleaf Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman, Peter Karibe Mendy, Sue Onslow, Martin Plaut and Pamela Scully
June 2022 212pp 9781439923078 £26.99 / $34.95 PB 9781439923061 £79.00 / $99.50 HB
Temple University Press
Recognizes how the discipline has been shaped, changing over the decades as scholars have opened new modes of theoretical engagement such as addressing issues of gender and sexuality, politics, and cultural studies. The essays debate and (re)consider black and diasporic life to sustain, provoke, and cultivate Africana Studies as a singular yet polyvalent mode of thinking.
Ohio Short Histories of Africa July 2022 840pp 9780821424742 £27.99 / $36.95 PB
Ohio University Press
Brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Amílcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. This title complements courses in history and political science and serves as a useful collection for general readers.
Excludes Asia Pacific
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
Architecture and Development
The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria Saheed Aderinto
Israeli Construction in SubSaharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973 Ayala Levin
New African Histories April 2022 324pp 9780821424766 £27.99 / $36.95 PB 9780821424698 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
March 2022 320pp 69 illus., incl. 16 page color insert 9781478017882 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478015260 £84.00 / $104.95 HB
Ohio University Press
From debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation impacted aquatic creatures, Saheed Aderinto argues that it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of imperial domination without considering the colonial subjecthood of animals.
Duke University Press
Focusing on the “golden age” of Israel’s diplomatic relations in and throughout the continent from 1958 to 1973, this book charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. 1
Burnished
Carceral Afterlives
Zulu Ceramics between Rural and Urban South Africa Elizabeth Perrill
Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
June 2022 304pp 90 color illus., 2 b&w tables 9780253061874 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253061867 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
New African Histories May 2022 272pp 9780821424780 £27.99 / $36.95 PB 9780821424773 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
Indiana University Press
Ohio University Press
Showcases the lives and work of individual Black South African artists, mostly women, whose contributions and accomplishments have not been well recognized. Approaches Zulu pottery making not to define a normative style but to treat ceramic production as an important mode of self-definition for Zulu women.
This social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe.
Casablanca Story
Creating African Fashion Histories
In Koli Jean Bofane, Translated by Bill Johnston
Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices Edited by JoAnn McGregor, Heather M. Akou and Nicola Stylianou
Global African Voices May 2022 166pp 9780253058799 £18.99 / $25.00 PB
Indiana University Press
The author trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining fiction.
April 2022 360pp 81 color illus., 7 b&w illus. 9780253060129 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253060112 £60.00 / $75.00 HB
Indiana University Press
From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities.
Cultural Netizenship
Deliberative Agency
May 2022 278pp 50 b&w illus. 9780253060495 £32.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253060488 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
World Philosophies March 2022 234pp 9780253059918 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253059925 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria James Yékú
A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy Uchenna Okeja
Indiana University Press
Proposes the concept of "cultural netizenship"—internet citizenship and its aesthetico-cultural dimensions—as a way of being on the social web and articulating counterhegemonic self-presentations through viral popular images. A fascinating look at the intersection of social media and popular culture performance, this book reveals the logic of remediation that is central to both the internet's remix culture and the generative materialism of African popular arts.
Indiana University Press
Through a measured, comparative analysis, this book argues that the best way to reimagine and harness the idea of public deliberation, based on current experiences in Africa, is to see it as performance of agency. Building a new political center around the practice places agency at the core of a new political life in Africa. 2
Emirs in London
Everyday State and Democracy in Africa
Subaltern Travel and Nigeria's Modernity Moses E. Ochonu
Ethnographic Encounters Edited by Wale Adebanwi
April 2022 390pp 21 b&w illus., 9 maps 9780253059154 £29.99 / $38.00 PB 9780253059161 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series June 2022 460pp 9780821424902 £32.00 / $39.95 PB 9780821424872 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
Indiana University Press
Explores how, through their experiences visiting the heart of the British Empire, Northern Nigerian aristocrats were enabled to define themselves within the framework of the empire. In doing so, the book reveals a unique colonial sensibility that complements rather than contradicts the traditional perspectives of less privileged Africans toward colonialism.
Ohio University Press
Through ethnographic case studies of Africans’ quotidian encounters with state bureaucracy, infrastructure, discipline, citizenship, democracy, political economy, education, and health, this book demonstrates how the state not only enables but also constrains and complicates ordinary Africans’ daily struggles to live and live well.
Global Trade and Cultural Authentication
Imagining Futures
Memory and Belonging in an African Family Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe
The Kalabari of the Niger Delta Edited by Joanne B. Eicher
May 2022 290pp 26 b&w illus., 1 map 9780253060204 £32.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253060211 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
August 2022 272pp 80 color illus., 1 b&w table 9780253062604 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253062598 £60.00 / $75.00 HB
Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press
Explores the changing practices of remembering in an African family and offers a unique contribution to the growing field of memory studies, beyond the usual focus of Europe and America. This book explore how, in an increasingly globalized, postcolonial world, memories themselves are not static accounts of past events but are actually malleable and shaped by both current concerns and imagined futures.
Showcases the complexity and enduring aesthetic and economic power of Kalabari crafts. Using dress and textiles as a lens, this book explores the Kalabari people's role in the global trade arena. Their economic interconnectedness demonstrates that Africa was critically involved in a global trade built around Kalabari ingenuity and creativity.
In Praise of the Ancestors
In the Skin of the City
Spatial Transformation in Luanda António Tomás
Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas Susan Elizabeth Ramirez
Theory in Forms July 2022 288pp 25 illus. 9781478018155 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478015529 £80.00 / $99.95 HB
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies June 2022 244pp 9781496231475 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496230256 £79.00 / $99.00 HB
Duke University Press
Traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, by showing how it emerges out of the continual redefinition and negotiation of its physical and social boundaries. Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and native, slave owner and slave, formal and informal, and the powerful and powerless.
University of Nebraska Press
In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge among the Indigenous peoples of subSaharan Africa, the North American Great Lakes regions, and the Andes. 3
Inventing the Berbers
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
History and Ideology in the Maghrib Ramzi Rouighi
C. L. R. James, Edited by Leslie James The C. L. R. James Archives May 2022 272pp 9781478006220 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478005452 £80.00 / $99.95 HB
The Middle Ages Series March 2022 312pp 4 illus. 9780812225242 £22.99 / $29.95 NIP
University of Pennsylvania Press
Duke University Press
Examines the emergence of the Berbers as a distinct category in early Arabic texts and probes the ways in which later Arabic sources, shaped by contemporary events, imagined the Berbers as a people and the Maghrib as their home.
Tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, showing how Ghana’s independence movement brought a new phase of revolutionary history. James shows that Ghana’s independence movement was an exceptional moment in global revolutionary history: it moved revolutionary activity to the African continent and employed new tactics not seen in previous revolutions.
Queer African Cinemas
Recording History
Lindsey B. Green-Simms
Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa Christopher Silver
a Camera Obscura book April 2022 272pp 49 illus. 9781478018018 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478015406 £80.00 / $99.95 HB
June 2022 304pp 9781503631687 £19.99 / $26.00 PB 9781503630567 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
Duke University Press
Stanford University Press
Examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, showing how these films record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience while at the same time imagining new hopes and possibilities. Green-Simms emphasizes that in these films queer resistance is often practiced from a position of vulnerability.
With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into JewishMuslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections.
Spear
Spirit Service
Mandela and the Revolutionaries Paul S. Landau
Vodún and Vodou in the African Atlantic World Edited by Eric James Montgomery, Timothy R. Landry and Christian N. Vannier
New African Histories April 2022 372pp 9780821424797 £27.99 / $36.95 PB 9780821424704 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
Ohio University Press
June 2022 368pp 27 b&w illus. 9780253061911 £32.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253061904 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa’s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.
Indiana University Press
Offers the first comprehensive ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale. Offering much-needed perspective on this historically disparaged religion, this book reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and demanding recognition and respect. 4
Students of the World
The Life of Madie Hall Xuma
Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo Pedro Monaville
Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid Wanda A. Hendricks
Theory in Forms July 2022 336pp 24 illus. 9781478018377 £21.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478015758 £84.00 / $104.95 HB
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History August 2022 344pp 9780252086649 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252044564 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
Duke University Press
Traces a generation of Congolese student activists whose work following the Congo’s independence became central to national politics and broader decolonization movements during the global 1960s. By illuminating the many worlds inhabited by Congolese students at the time of decolonization, Monaville charts new ways of writing histories of the global 1960s from Africa.
University of Illinois Press
Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
The Politics of the Near
The Roads to Hillbrow
On the Edges of Protest in South Africa Jérôme Tournadre, Translated by Andrew Brown
Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants Ron Nerio and Jean Halley
Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies June 2022 320pp 30 b&w illus. 9780823299409 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780823299393 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
Thinking from Elsewhere May 2022 320pp 26 b&w illus. 9780823299959 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780823299966 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
Fordham University Press
Fordham University Press
The Roads to Hillbrow explores the diverse experiences of domestic and transnational migrants who have made their way to this South African community following war, economic dislocation, and the social trauma of apartheid. Authors Ron Nerio and Jean Halley weave sociology, history, memoir, and queer studies with stories drawn from over one hundred interviews.
Offers a novel approach to social unrest in postapartheid South Africa. This ethnography of a poor people’s movement traces individual commitments and the mainsprings of mobilization in the ordinary social and intimate life of activists, their relatives, and other township residents.
Unmaking Migrants
Vodun
Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking Stacey Vanderhurst
Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power Timothy R. Landry
Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance June 2022 210pp 9 b&w halftones, 1 chart 9781501763533 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781501763526 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
Contemporary Ethnography March 2022 216pp 12 illus. 9780812225259 £18.99 / $24.95 NIP
University of Pennsylvania Press
Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion. Landry writes as anthropologist and initiate, having participated in hundreds of Vodún ceremonies, rituals, and festivals.
Cornell University Press
Unmaking Migrants engages critical questions about preventing trafficking by preventing migration through a study of a shelter for trafficking victims in Lagos, Nigeria. As Stacey Vanderhurst argues, migration can be a freely made choice. 5
Wartime North Africa
Who Are My People?
A Documentary History, 1934–1950 Edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa Emmanuel Katongole Contending Modernities May 2022 232pp 12 b&w illus., 4 maps 9780268202569 £36.00 / $45.00 HB
July 2022 336pp 9781503631991 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503611511 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
University of Notre Dame Press
Stanford University Press
Examines what it means to be both an African and a Christian in a continent that is often riddled with violence. The driving assumption behind the investigation is that the recurring forms of violence in Africa reflect an ongoing crisis of belonging. An engaging, interdisciplinary study, combining philosophical analysis and theological exploration, along with theoretical argument and practical resources.
This book is the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust. These writings shed light on how war, occupation, race laws, internment, and Vichy French, Italian fascist, and German Nazi rule were experienced day by day across North Africa.
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