New african

Histories
series from
ohio university press

T
he series builds on the significant achievements of
social historians over the past two decades, while
pushing the boundaries of African social history
in exciting new directions - theoretically, methodologically
and conceptually. New African Histories promotes
continued research on the lived experiences of Africans in
their households, communities, workplaces, and classes,
as well as in the clubs, associations, and social movements
they have created. It insists on the centrality of gender,
generation and social identity to African historiography,
while it seeks to expose the constraints at local, national, and
transnational levels that structure the daily lives of the poor
and disadvantaged. Social historians have long maintained
that there can be no social history without economic history.
We contend that it is increasingly imperative that politics,
environment, and culture receive far greater attention in the
exploration of daily life.

Series Editors
Allen Isaacman, Professor of History
University of Minnesota

Jean Allman, Professor of History

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

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 Forthcoming
Domestic Violence and
the Law in Colonial and
Postcolonial Africa
Edited by Emily S. Burrill, Richard L.
Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry
978-0-8214-1929-8 F paper $28.95
978-0-8214-1928-1 F cloth $59.95
“This is a fascinating and extensively
researched exploration of a range of
forms of gender-based violence that
combines historical, anthropological, and
legal perspectives. One of its strengths is
the way it juxtaposes studies of the legal
regulation of violence in the colonial
era with that of the postcolonial human
rights era.”
—Sally Engle Merry, author of Human
Rights and Gender Violence: Translating
International Law into Local Justice
new
Colonial Meltdown
Northern Nigeria in
the Great Depression
By Moses E. Ochonu
978-0-8214-1890-1 F paper $24.95
978-0-8214-1889-5 F cloth $55.00
“This book is well researched, elegantly
written, and bound to reshape the
debate on British imperialism in Africa.”
—Elias Mandala, author of Work and
Control in a Peasant Economy
new
Recasting the Past
History Writing and Political Work
in Modern Africa
Edited by Derek R. Peterson
and Giacomo Macola
978-0-8214-1879-6 F paper $26.95
978-0-8214-1878-9 F cloth $49.95
“As a group, the contributors and editors
of Recasting the Past constitute one of
the most impressive cohorts of scholars
brought together in a collective volume
project in the past three decades. This
work will be required reading for any
individual venturing into serious study of
Africa’s past.”— David William Cohen,
University of Michigan
Healing Traditions
African Medicine, Cultural
Exchange, and Competition in
South Africa, 1820–1948
By Karen E. Flint
978-0-8214-1850-5 F paper $26.95
978-0-8214-1849-9 F cloth $55.00
978-0-8214-4302-6 F pdf $25.00
Finalist, Melville J. Herskovits Award
“An extremely timely book that will
have immediate impact on the heated
current debates across several fields of
study, forming part of a new and exciting
debate emerging around new South
African history.
The book has great potential to have a
measurable impact on the teaching of
medicine and health . . . and the various
pathways to healing and health in our
current HIV/AIDS pandemic.”—Catherine
Burns, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Copublished with the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Press, South Africa
Intonations
A Social History of Music and
Nation in Luanda, Angola, from
1945 to Recent Times
By Marissa J. Moorman
978-0-8214-1824-6 F paper $26.95
CD included
978-0-8214-1823-9 F cloth $52.95
978-0-8214-4304-0 F pdf $30.00
“Moorman’s elegantly written history
makes a significant contribution to our
understanding of Angolan music, history,
and nationalism. . . . The book will appeal
especially to students in African studies,
African history, colonial and postcolonial
studies, and ethnomusicology, but the
writing makes Intonations accessible to
audiences outside these specialties.”
—Kelly Askew
Heterosexual Africa?
The History of an Idea from
the Age of Exploration
to the Age of AIDS
By Marc Epprecht
978-0-8214-1799-7 F paper $19.95
978-0-8214-1798-0 F cloth $39.95
978-0-8214-4298-2 F pdf $25.00
Finalist, Melville J. Herskovits Award
Heterosexual Africa? explores how Africa
came to be defined as a “homosexual-free
zone” during the colonial era, and how
this idea not only survived the transition to
independence but flourished under con-
ditions of globalization and early responses
to HIV/AIDS.
Copublished with the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Press, South Africa
The Forger’s Tale
The Search for Odeziaku
By Stephanie Newell
978-0-8214-1710-2 F paper $22.95
“Beyond being a good read and telling
a fascinating story, this book makes
significant new contributions to Queer,
African, and British imperial history.”
—African Studies Review
“Newell is to be commended for
directing interest towards one of the
most fascinating personalities of colonial
Nigeria.”­—Journal of African History
Fighting the Greater Jihad
Amadu Bamba and the Founding
of the Muridiyya of Senegal,
1853–1913
By Cheikh Anta Babou
978-0-8214-1766-9 F paper $26.95
978-0-8214-1765-2 F cloth $55.00
978-0-8214-4257-9 F pdf $30.00
“This important book offers a new
interpretation of the Muridiyya of Senegal,
the late-19th-century Sufi brotherhood
founded by Cheikh Amadu Bamba
Mbacké. . . . Babou tempers the insider’s
lived experience with the historian’s
balanced analysis.”—Choice
Imagining Serengeti
A History of Landscape Memory
in Tanzania from Earliest Times
to the Present
By Jan Bender Shetler
978-0-8214-1750-8 F paper $26.95
978-0-8214-1749-2 F cloth $59.95
978-0-8214-4243-2 F pdf $24.00
“This remarkable work on the Serengeti
area in Tanzania will be of great value
to Africans and non-Africans alike,
including researchers in African history,
anthropology, and geography. . . .
Highly recommended.”
—Choice
“Shetler’s book provides a completely new
analysis of the Serengeti debate by adding
the voices of a forgotten population, the
peoples of the western Serengeti. . . . The
centrality of the landscape to Serengeti
peoples’ identitites, the complexity of local
environmental knowledge, and the deep
historical and emotional attachments to
place are thus illustrated in vivid detail.”
–African Studies Review
Natures of Colonial Change
Environmental Relations in the
Making of the Transkei
By Jacob A. Tropp
978-0-8214-1699-0 F paper $24.95
978-0-8214-1698-3 F cloth $55.00
978-0-8214-4227-2 F pdf $30.00
“Jacob A. Tropp has written an impressive
history of the state’s capture of forest
resources in the Transkei, between 1880
and 1930. . . . His book’s central question
is how a reading of the social interactions
surrounding environmental access can
reshape historical understanding.”
—American Historical Review
“Tropp’s detailed case study of the
KwaMatiwane area of the Transkei . . . is
a major contribution to the historiography
of the region.”
­—H-SAfrica
 New african
Histories
We Are Fighting the World
A History of the Marashea Gangs
in South Africa, 1947–1999
By Gary Kynoch
978-0-8214-1616-7 F paper $22.95
978-0-8214-1615-0 F cloth $44.95
978-0-8214-4156-5 F pdf $25.00
“An extremely important contribution to
South African scholarship but also offers
a wealth of findings for comparative
scholarship in the fields of colonialism,
state formation, police science,
criminology, resistance, migration, and
gender studies.”
—Tom Lodge, author of Politics in South
Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki
Theatres of Struggle and
the End of Apartheid
By Belinda Bozzoli
978-0-8214-1599-3 F paper $28.95
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“(Bozzoli) draws upon thousands of
archived interviews with the actors
involved to create a rich and cohesive
story that one cannot help but think sets
the stage for the horrendously high rate
of violence experienced in the country
today.”—African Studies Quarterly
The Risks of Knowledge
Investigations into the Death of
the Hon. Minister John Robert
Ouko in Kenya, 1990
By David William Cohen and
E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
978-0-8214-1598-6 F paper $26.95
978-0-8214-1597-9 F cloth $59.95
“A historical investigation of the highest
caliber.”—African Studies Review
“In telling the story of (Ouko’s) death,
Cohen and Odhiambo draw upon a rich
array of official reports and journalistic
investigations into the crime. With careful
research and insightful presentation,
Cohen and Odhiambo do not explicitly
solve this ‘who-dunnit’, but they do tease
out a multiplicity of themes about Kenya’s
recent political past.”
—Journal of African History
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