African Studies S18

African Studies New Titles Spring/Summer 2018 this season’s highlights

A Primer for Teaching African History Ten Design Principles TREVOR R. GETZ

March 2018 184pp 9780822369820 PB £17.99 9780822371038 HB £68.00 Design Principles for Teaching History Duke University Press This title is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching African history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate African history into their world history courses.In his discussions of setting goals, pedagogy, assessment, and syllabus design, Getz draws readers into the process of thinking consciously and strategically about designing courses on African history that will challenge students to think critically about Africa and the discipline of history.

Entrepreneurship in Africa A Historical Approach EDITED BY MOSES E OCHONU

February 2018 392pp 9780253034380 PB £32.00 9780253032607 HB £72.00 Indiana University Press 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, craftsmen, 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.

Media, Geopolitics, and Power

A View from the Global South HERMAN WASSERMAN

February 2018 232pp 9780252083266 PB £21.99 9780252041624 HB £79.00 Geopolitics of Information University of Illinois Press The end of apartheid brought South Africa into the global media environment. Outside companies invested in the nation's newspapers while South African conglomerates pursued lucrative tech ventures and communication markets around the world. Many observers viewed the rapid development of South African media as a roadmap from authoritarianism to global modernity. Herman Wasserman analyzes the debates surrounding South Africa's new media presence against the backdrop of rapidly changing geopolitics. His exploration reveals how South African disputes regarding access to, and representation in, the media reflect the domination and inequality in the global communication sphere.

Robert Mugabe

SUE ONSLOW & MARTIN PLAUT

June 2018 208pp 9780821423240 PB £11.99 Ohio Short Histories of Africa Ohio University Press Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is an African leader who sharply divides opinion. As man and leader he has come to embody the contradictions of his country’s history and political culture. In this short biography, intended for a general audience, Sue Onslow and Martin Plaut explain Mugabe’s formative experiences as a child and young man; his role as an admired Afro-nationalist leader in the struggle against white settler rule; and his evolution into a political manipulator and survivalist. They also address the emergence of political opposition to his leadership and the uneasy period of coalition government.

Ultimately, they reveal the complexity of the man who led Zimbabwe for its first four decades of independence.

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African-Print Fashion Now!

A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style EDITED BY SUZANNE GOTT, KRISTYNE S. LOUGHRAN, BETSY D. QUICK & LESLIE W. RABINE

August 2017 304pp 363 illus., 333 in color 9780990762638 PB £36.00 University of Washington Press This title introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits.Throughout, fashions are considered as responses to historical moments and the imaginings of Africa in the future.

Children of Hope

The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa SANDRA ROWOLDT SHELL

August 2018 464pp 9780821423189 HB £60.00 Ohio University Press In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell traces the lives of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth-century, liberated by the British navy and ultimately sent to Lovedale Institution, a Free Church of Scotland mission in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, for their safety.

Albert Luthuli

ROBERT TRENT VINSON

August 2018 224pp 9780821423288 PB £11.99 Ohio Short Histories of Africa Ohio University Press In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the important but largely forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of the African National Congress from 1952 to 1967.

Amy Biehl’s Last Home

A Bright Life, a Tragic Death, and a Journey of Reconciliation in South Africa STEVEN D. GISH

Awu's Story

A Novel JUSTINE MINTSA TRANSLATED BY CHERYL TOMAN FOREWORD BY THÉRÈSE KUOH-MOUKOURY

June 2018 384pp 9780821423219 HB £22.99 Ohio University Press In 1993, American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack after working to promote democracy in South Africa. Gish is the first to place Amy’s story in its full historical context, presenting a gripping portrait of this remarkable young woman and the aftermath of her death.

May 2018 138pp 9781496206930 PB £13.99 University of Nebraska Press Supplemented with a foreword and critical introduction highlighting Justine Mintsa’s importance in African literature, Awu’s Story is an essential work of African women’s writing and the only published work to meditate this deeply on some of the Fang’s most cherished legends and oral history.

Colonial Suspects

Congo Inc.

Cooking Data

April 2018 270pp 1 map, index 9780803296916 HB £44.00 France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization University of Nebraska Press A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student—what did they have in common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillance by French colonial authorities in West Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.

January 2018 200pp 9780253031907 PB £15.99 Global African Voices Indiana University Press To the sound of machine gun fire, 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.

Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa KATHLEEN KELLER

Bismarck's Testament IN KOLI JEAN BOFANE

Culture and Politics in an African Research World CRYSTAL BIRUK

March 2018 288pp 8 illus.

9780822370895 PB £20.99 9780822370741 HB £80.00 Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Duke University Press Offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink how quantitative health data is produced. Biruk demonstrates how units of information acquire value as statistics.

Edges of Exposure

Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal NOÉMI TOUSIGNANT

May 2018 232pp 18 illus.

9780822371243 PB £19.99 9780822371137 HB £79.00 Experimental Futures Duke University Press Tousignant traces toxicologists work in Senegal as they have sought to warn of and remediate the presence of heavy metals and other poisons in their communities. Tousignant shows how decolonization and structural adjustment have impacted toxicity.

Life and Death in Kolofata An American Doctor in Africa ELLEN EINTERZ

January 2018 232pp 26 b&w illus., 1 map 9780253032386 PB £21.99 9780253032379 HB £48.00 Indiana University Press Tragic, heartwarming, and at times even humorous, Life and Death in Kolofata illustrates daily life for the people of Cameroon and their doctor, documenting both the incredible human suffering in the world and the difference that can be made by those willing to help.

Faith in Flux

Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique DEVAKA PREMAWARDHANA

Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria

Firearms, Culture, and Public Order SAHEED ADERINTO

Hip-Hop in Africa

Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers MSIA KIBONA CLARK FOREWORD BY QUENTIN WILLIAMS AFTERWORD BY AKOSUA ADOMAKO AMPOFO

March 2018 256pp 8 illus.

9780812249989 HB £40.00 Contemporary Ethnography University of Pennsylvania Press Documents the ambivalence with which Pentecostalism has been received by the Makhuwa, a people indigenous to northern Mozambique, defying the much reported “explosion” seen across Africa. This book explores a seeming disconnect between these “explosive” global forces and the everyday intricacies of actual lives.

January 2018 336pp 12 b&w illus., 4 tables 9780253031617 PB £27.99 9780253031600 HB £64.00 Indiana University Press Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose order, create spectacle, or to inspire confidence. Aderinto considers the social, political, and economic history of these weapons in colonial Nigeria.

Masquerading Politics

Performing Trauma in Central Africa

Singing Yoruba Christianity

April 2018 9780253032478 PB £33.00 9780253032454 HB £72.00 African Expressive Cultures Indiana University Press What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? Laura Edmondson explores performance through the lens of empire.

February 2018 264pp 13 b&w illus., 1 map 9780253032096 PB £23.99 9780253032072 HB £64.00 African Expressive Cultures Indiana University Press 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 rehearsals, use musical media and perform the music and rituals that connect them through religious experience.

Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town JOHN THABITI WILLIS

January 2018 256pp 27 color illus., 5 maps 9780253031464 PB £27.99 9780253031440 HB £68.00 African Expressive Cultures Indiana University Press In West Africa, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions and the institutional structures in which masquerade was used to reveal ongoing changes in notions of gender, kinship, and ethnic identity.

Shadows of Empire LAURA EDMONDSON

May 2018 312pp 9780896803190 PB £23.99 9780896803183 HB £64.00 Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies Ohio University Press Examines some of Africa’s hip-hop scenes and shows how it helps us understand African narratives.

Music, Media, and Morality VICKI L. BRENNAN

Stray

BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO FOREWORD BY KWAME DAWES

March 2018 96pp 9781496205582 PB £13.99 African Poetry Book University of Nebraska Press This collection delicately examines the theme of migration—migration in a literal, geographic sense; migration of language from one lexicon to another; migration of a poem toward prose—and the instability of the creative experience in the broader sense.

Internal Frontiers

African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in 20th Century South Africa JON SOSKE

December 2017 280pp 9780821422847 PB £27.99 9780821422830 HB £64.00 New African Histories Ohio University Press In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress’s development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism.

The ANC's War against Apartheid Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Liberation of South Africa STEPHEN R. DAVIS

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Collapse of a Country

Memoirs of a Diplomat in South Sudan NICHOLAS COGHLAN

March 2018 328pp 12 b&w illus.

9780253032294 PB £27.99 9780253032287 HB £68.00 Indiana University Press For nearly three decades, Umkhonto we Sizwe, waged a violent struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Davis works with oral testimonies and the heroic myths that were constructed after 1994 to offer a new history of this armed movement.

September 2017 296pp 9780773551268 HB £27.99 McGill-Queen's University Press In harrowing terms, this book describes the ebb and flow of the war and the humanitarian tragedy that followed. Fast-paced and poignant, it gives an insider’s glimpse into the chaos, violence, and ethnic conflicts that emerged out of a civil war that has been largely ignored by the West.

Living with Nkrumahism

Saamaka Dreaming

Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana JEFFREY S. AHLMAN

November 2017 296pp 9780821422939 PB £26.99 9780821422922 HB £64.00 New African Histories Ohio University Press Draws on newly available source material to portray an organizational and cultural history of Nkrumahism. Ahlman reconstructs the political and social milieu of the time and portrays a range of Ghanaians’ relationships to their country’s unique position in the decolonization process.

RICHARD PRICE & SALLY PRICE

August 2017 280pp 42 illus.

9780822369783 PB £20.99 9780822369660 HB £76.00 Duke University Press In Saamaka Dreaming, the Prices look back on the most intensive fieldwork of their careers with the Saamake Maroons of Suriname.

The book is at once a moving human story, a portrait of a remarkable society, and a thought-provoking revelation about the development of anthropology over the past half-century.

Dedan Kimathi on Trial

Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion EDITED BY JULIE MACARTHUR CONTRIBUTIONS BY DAVID M. ANDERSON, JOHN LONSDALE, NICHOLAS GITHUKU, SIMON GIKANDI & LOTTE HUGHES

November 2017 416pp 9780896803176 PB £27.99 9780896803169 HB £72.00 Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies Ohio University Press A long thought lost transcript of the trial, available for the first time.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission MARY INGOUVILLE BURTON

August 2017 160pp 9780821422786 PB £11.99 Ohio Short Histories of Africa Ohio University Press This latest addition to the series is a trenchant look at the TRC’s entire, stunningly ambitious project. As a longtime activist for justice in South Africa and a former commissioner of the TRC, Ingouville Burton is uniquely positioned to write this complex story. Students and scholars alike will this book invaluable.