2010-2011 African Studies Catalogue

2010/2011
AFRICAN
STUDIES
table of contents
AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORY. . . . . .13 HUMAN RIGHTS & CONFLICT . . . . . . . 5 REGIONAL - GHANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
AFRICAN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 LAND ISSUES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 REGIONAL - NIGERIA . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9, 19
ANTHROPOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15 LITERARY STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 17 REGIONAL - SUDAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 MODERN HISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 REGIONAL - ZIMBABWE . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
DIASPORA STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 POLITICS & ECONOMICS. . . . . . . . 7-8, 18 SOCIAL HISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
FILM & PERFORMING ARTS. . . 11-13, 16 REGIONAL - ETHIOPIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 SUFI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
African Police Soldiers Colonial Zimbabwe Ira Aldridge

STAPLETON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDFORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
African Theatre 9 Ira Aldridge’s Early Years
BANHAM/GIBBS/OSOFISAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDFORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Afro-Cuban Diasporas Atlantic World Land, Governance, Conflict Nuba Sudan
OTERO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KOMEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement Sudan Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema
GRAWERT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbara Tepa Lupack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alex la Guma Men in African Film and Fiction
FIELD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OUZGANE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ALT 28 Film African Literature Today Narrating War Peace Africa
EMENYONU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FALOLA/TER HAAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night Nigeria, Nationalism, Writing History
MAPANJE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FALOLA/ADERINTO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Borders Borderlands Resources Horn of Africa Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World
FEYISSA/HOEHNE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ILIFFE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bulawayo Burning Peace versus Justice?
RANGER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SRIRAM/PILLAY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Christopher Okigbo 1930–67 Political Culture Nationalism Malawi
NWAKANMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POWER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Circular Migration Zimbabwe Contemporary Africa Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars
POTTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHNSON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Do Bicycles Equal Development Mozambique Sudan Handbook
HANLON/SMART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RYLE et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Domesticating Vigilantism Africa Turning Points in African Democracy
KIRSCH/GRÄTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mustapha/Whitfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fighting for Britain War Veterans in Zimbabwe’s Revolution
KILLINGRAY/PLAUT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SADOMBA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From Revolution to Rights in South Africa White Chief, Black Lords
Steven L. Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MCCLENDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hemingway and Africa Women’s Authority Society Early E.-Central Africa
MANDEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Identity Economics Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
MEAGHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCOONES et al.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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african literature
african literature Christopher Okigbo 1930-67 Hemingway and Africa

Thirsting for Sunlight Edited by Miriam Mandel
Alex la Guma Hemingway’s two extended African safaris,
Obi Nwakanma
A Literary and Political Biography Christopher Okigbo,
the first in the 1930s and the second in the
1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known
Roger Field once described as
stories (“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “The
Best known as a novelist ‘Africa’s most lyrical
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”),
and political activist, poet of the twentieth
a considerable amount of journalism and
Alex la Guma (1925- century’ was killed in
correspondence, and two nonfiction books,
85) was also a September 1967,
Green Hills of Africa (1935), about the first
journalist, comic strip fighting for the
safari, and True at First Light (1999) and the
artist, reviewer, sketcher, independence of
longer version, Under Kilimanjaro (2005), about
painter, short story Biafra. The Sunday Times
the second. Africa also figures largely in the
writer and travel writer. described his death as
important posthumous novel The Garden of Eden
Born in Cape Town’s ‘the single most
(1986). Considering the time Hemingway
famous multiracial important tragedy of the Nigerian civil war’.
spent not only on the safaris but also in
District Six, he was a The manner in which Okigbo died typified the
preparing for them beforehand and writing
founder member of the South African Coloured passionate, tortured and dramatic quality of
about them afterwards, Africa was a major
People’s Organisation and a leading member of his life. Widely considered along with Wole
factor in his life and work. But surprisingly
the Congress Alliance during the 1950s and Soyinka and Chinua Achebe as part of modern
little scholarship has been devoted to this
1960s. Due to his political activity he was Nigeria’s greatest literary triumvirate, Okigbo’s
aspect of Hemingway’s oeuvre. This book
detained without trial, shot at, placed under house death promoted him to cult status among
fills that empty niche, opening the way for a
arrest, and ultimately tried for treason in 1956-61. subsequent generations of African writers.
long-delayed and multi-faceted conversation
He reluctantly went into exile in 1966, where he This is the first full biography of the Nigerian on a neglected aspect of Hemingway’s work.
continued his writing and political work for the poet. It places Okigbo within the turmoil of Topics treated include historical, theoretical,
African National Congress (ANC) and the South his generation and illustrates the aspects of biographical, theological, and literary
African Communist Party, travelling widely as an his life that gave rise to such an intense poetry. interpretations of Hemingway’s African
ANC spokesperson on cultural matters. In 1979 How did his experience in the prestigious, topics and motifs. There is also an up-to-
he became the ANC’s Chief Representative in English-type boarding school, Umuahia, where date, annotated review of the scholarship
Central and Latin America and moved to Havana, he was known more as a sportsman than a on the African works and a bibliography of
where he died in 1985. scholar, influence his life and later choices? Hemingway’s reading on natural history, and
Why was he sacked from the colonial service, other topics relevant to Africa.
La Guma attracted the attention of critics and and how did that lead him towards a search for
literary scholars from the time his first short Contributors: Silvio Calabi, Suzanne
private recovery, and ultimately towards poetry?
stories appeared in the 1950s, and he has been del Gizzo, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, Jeremiah M.
What led him to take up arms? In other words,
hailed by such important literary figures as Kitunda, Kelli A. Larson, Miriam B. Mandel,
how did his eclectic pursuits as high school
Achebe, Soyinka and J.M. Coetzee. His novels Chikako Matsushita, Frank Mehring, Erik G.
teacher, university librarian, publisher, gun-
continue to sell steadily and inspire comments R. Nakjavani, James Plath.
runner and guerrilla fuel his poetic drive?
by literary critics, who have studied different Miriam B. Mandel is retired as Senior
aspects of his work, but who have left the OBI NWAKANMA, journalist and poet,
Lecturer in the Department of English and
rest of his life and his literary and political is Assistant Professor in the Department of
American Studies at Tel Aviv University.
influences relatively untouched. Drawing on English at Truman State University, Kirksville,
a far wider range of his writing and artwork, Missouri.
some previously unpublished, this book Nigeria: HEBN (Paperback) £45.00/$80.00(s), June 2011, 9781571134837
combines biography with literary and political 12 b/w illustrations, 288pp, HB
analyses to offer fresh insights into his major Studies in American Literature and Culture
texts: A Walk in the Night (1962), And a Threefold £55.00/$105.00(s), April 2010, 9781847010131
Cord (1964), The Stone Country (1967), In the Fog 12 b/w & 3 line illustrations, 304pp, HB
of the Seasons’ End (1972) , A Soviet Journey (1975)
and Time of the Butcherbird (1979).
ROGER FIELD is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of English at the University of
the Western Cape.
£50.00/$95.00(s), March 2010, 9781847010179
28 b/w & 19 line illustrations, 272pp, HB
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de v elopment studies
development studies now available in paperback Identity Economics

Social Networks and the
Borders and Borderlands as Do Bicycles Equal
Informal Economy in Nigeria
Resources in the Horn of Africa Development in Mozambique?
Kate Meagher
Edited by Dereje Feyissa & Joseph Hanlon & Teresa Smart
Why have informal
Markus Virgil Hoehne Is Mozambique an enterprise networks failed
State borders are more African success story? to promote economic
than barriers. They development in Africa?
It has 7 percent a
structure social, Although social networks
year growth rate and were thought to offer a
economic and political substantial foreign solution to state
spaces and as such investment. Seventeen incapacity and market
provide opportunities years after the war failure, the proliferation
as well as obstacles for of destabilisation, of socially embedded
the communities the peace has held. enterprise networks
straddling both sides Mozambique is the across Africa has
of the border. This donors’ model pupil, generated disorder and economic decline rather than
book deals with the development. This book challenges the prevailing
carefully following their prescriptions and
conduits and opportunities of state borders in assumption that the problem of African
receiving more than a billion dollars a year development lies in bad cultural institutions by
the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the in aid. The number of bicycles has doubled showing that informal economic governance in
people living there exploit state borders and this is often cited as the symbol of Nigeria is shaped, not just by culture, but by the
through various strategies. development. disruptive effects of rapid liberalization, state
Using a micro level perspective, the case decline and political capture.
In this book the authors challenge some
studies, which include the Horn and Eastern key assumptions of both the donors and Identity Economics traces the rise of two dynamic
Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, the government and ask questions such as informal enterprise clusters in Nigeria, and explores
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, whether there has been too much stress on their slide into trajectories of Pentecostalism,
Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, poverty and violent vigilantism. Drawing on over
the Millennium Development Goals and too
highlight the agency of the borderlanders, twenty years of empirical research on African
little support for economic development; if informal economies, the author highlights the
and acknowledge the permeability but it makes sense to target the poorest of the institutional legacies, networking strategies and
consequentiality of the borders. poor, or would it be better to target those who globalizing dynamics that shape the regulatory
DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute create the jobs which will employ the poor; role of social networks in Africa’s largest and most
of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; whether there has been too much emphasis on turbulent economy. Through an ethnography of
MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck foreign investment and too little on developing informal economic governance, this book shows
Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, domestic capital; and if the private sector really how ties of ethnicity, class, gender and religion are
will end poverty, or must there be a stronger used to restructure enterprise networks in response
Germany.
to contemporary economic challenges. Moving
role for the state in the economy?
beyond primordialist interpretations of African
£40.00/$90.00(s), July 2010, 9781847010186 This book is about more than Mozambique. culture, attention is drawn to the critical role of the
7 line illustrations, 224pp, HB Mozambique is an apparent success story that state and the macro-economic policy environment
Eastern Africa Series is used to justify the present ‘post-Washington in shaping trajectories of informal economic
consensus’ development model. Here, the case governance.
of Mozambique is situated within the broader KATE MEAGHER is a former Research Associate
development debate. at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
and is currently a Lecturer in the Development
Joseph Hanlon is Senior Lecturer Studies Institute at the London School of
at the Open University and the author of Economics.
Beggar Your Neighbours; Mozambique: Who Calls the
Nigeria: HEBN
Shots?; and Peace without Profit (all published by
James Currey) which have all made influential
interventions in the development debate; £16.99/$34.95, March 2010, 9781847010162
Teresa Smart is Director of the London 4 line illustrations, 224pp, PB
Mathematics Centre, Institute of Education. African Issues
£17.99/$27.95, December 2010, 9781847013187

25 b/w & 14 line illustrations, 256pp, PB
human rights & conflict
human rights & conflict Domesticating Vigilantism now available in paperback

in Africa
And Crocodiles are From Revolution to
Edited by Thomas G. Kirsch
Hungry at Night & Tilo Grätz Rights in South Africa
Prison Memoir Self-justice and legal Social Movements, NGOs and
self-help groups have
Jack Mapanje
been gaining Popular Politics After Apartheid
’In 1981 Jack Mapanje was a budding poet importance Steven L. Robins
and scholar in Malawi. His first collection throughout Africa. Critics of liberalism in
of poetry, Of Chameleons and Gods had just The question of who Europe and North
been published and reviewers were already is entitled to formulate America argue that a
hailing it as the work of a new and important ‘legal principles’, enact stress on ‘rights talk’
African voice. His scholarly work in linguistics ‘justice’, police and identity politics
was also transforming language and literary ‘morality’ and sanction has led to
studies in Central Africa and drawing ‘wrongdoings’ has fragmentation,
international attention to the works of increasingly become a subject of controversy individualisation and
writers and critics from the region. Mapanje’s and conflict. These conflicts focus on the depoliticisation. But
poetry was remarkable not only because of strained relationship between state sovereignty are these developments
his keen sense of sound and place, but also and citizens’ self-determination. More really signs of ‘the end
its tense relationship with its context: here particularly, they concern the conditions, of politics’? In the post-colonial, post-
was a compelling lyrical voice, producing a modes and means of the legitimate execution apartheid, neo-liberal new South Africa poor
musical and touching verse in a country that of power, and in this volume are seen as a and marginalised citizens continue to struggle
was under the iron heel of a self-proclaimed diagnostics as to how social actors in Africa for land, housing and health care. They must
dictator and life-president, Kamuzu Banda, debate and practise socio-political order. respond to uncertainty and radical
Ngwazi. That Mapanje had been able to write
State agencies try to bring vigilante groups contingencies on a daily basis. This requires
such powerful poetry under official rules of
under control by channelling their activities, multiple strategies, an engaged, practised
censorship was a remarkable feat. But two
repressing them, or using them for their citizenship, one that links the daily struggle to
years later, the state ordered the withdrawal of
own interests. Vigilante groups usually must well organised mobilisation around claiming
Mapanje’s poetry from all schools, institutions
struggle for recognition and acceptance in rights. Robins argues for the continued
of higher learning, and bookstores. In 1987,
local socio-political spheres. As several of the importance of NGOs, social movements and
after attending a regional language conference
contributions in the volume show, legal self- other ‘civil society’ actors in creating new forms
in Zimbabwe, Mapanje was arrested by the
help groups in Africa therefore ‘domesticate’ of citizenship and democracy. He goes beyond
Malawian secret police and bundled off to
themselves by, among other things, seeking the sanitised prescriptions of ‘good governance’
prison where he was to stay under lock and
legitimation, engaging in publicly acceptable so often touted by development agencies.
key, without any formal charges, until 1991.
non-vigilante activities, or institutionalizing Instead he argues for a complex, hybrid and
This book is a recollection of those years in
what often began as a rather unrestrained and ambiguous relationship between civil society
prison. Written in the tradition of the African
‘disorderly’ social movement. and the state, where new negotiations around
prison memoir, and often echoing the works
citizenship emerge.
of other famous prison graduates such as Wole Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor of Social
Soyinka (The Man Died) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Cultural Anthropology, University of Steven L. Robins is Professor of
(Detained), the memoir represents Mapanje’s Constance, Germany; Tilo Grätz is Senior Social Anthropology in the University of
retrospective attempt to explain the cause Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Stellenbosch and editor of Limits to Liberation
and terms of his imprisonment, to recall, in for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. after Apartheid (James Currey).
tranquillity as it were, the terror of arrest, the Southern Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal
process of incarceration, and the daily struggle Press(PB)
£40.00/$75.00(s), December 2010, 9781847010285
to hold on to some measure of spiritual
2 b/w illustrations, 192pp, HB
freedom.’ - Simon Gikandi, Professor of
English, Princeton University £17.99/$34.95, November 2010, 9781847012012
5 line illustrations, 208pp, PB
£25.00/$45.00(s), March 2011, 9781847010315

240pp, HB
land issues
Peace versus Justice? land issues War Veterans in
The Dilemmas of Transitional Zimbabwe’s Revolution
Land, Governance, Conflict and
Justice in Africa Challenging neo-colonialism,
the Nuba of Sudan
Ed by Chandra Lekha Sriram settler and international capital
& Suren Pillay Guma Kunda Komey
Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba
The chapters in this The conventional
perspective on Sudan’s Traces the roots of
volume consider a
recent civil war Zimbabwe’s well
wide range of
(1983-2005) - one of known, but little
approaches to
the longest and most analysed, revolution of
accountability and
complex conflicts in 2000 to the 1970s
peacebuilding. These
Africa - emphasises guerrilla war, revealing
include not only
ethnicity as the main the foundational
domestic courts and
cause. This study, on philosophies,
tribunals, hybrid
the contrary, identifies cosmologies and
tribunals, or the
the land factor as a experiences that are
International Criminal
root cause that is central to understanding manifest in the War
Court, but also truth commissions and
Sudan’s local conflicts and large-scale wars. Veterans-led revolution.
informal or non-state justice and conflict
resolution processes. Taken together, they Land rights are about relationships between The book is a bold account of an ongoing
demonstrate the wealth of experiences and and among persons, pertaining to different bottom-up struggle against neo-colonialism,
experimentation in transitional justice processes economic and ritual activities. Rights to land settler economy and international capital. It
on the continent. are intimately tied to membership in specific traces the unfolding events of Zimbabwe’s
communities, from the family to the nation- war of liberation, revealing little-known facts
CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM is Professor
state. Control over land in Africa has been, that help to explain the complexity of current
of Human Rights at the School of Law,
and still is, used as a means of defining identity politics, ideology and class conflicts.
University of East London, United Kingdom.
She is also the Chair of the International and belonging, an instrument to control, and Based on grounded empirical research this
Studies Association Human Rights Section a source of, political power. Membership of scholarly analysis differs significantly from
and consults on issues of governance and these communities is contested, negotiable, and the standard journalistic accounts of this
conflict prevention for the United Nations changeable over time. For national governments topic. The book illustrates that the popular
Development Programme. land is a national economic resource for public land occupations of 2000 were part of a
and private development, but the interests and much wider current under the surface that
SUREN PILLAY is a Senior Lecturer in rights of rural majorities and their sedentary reconfigured industry, mining, finance,
the Department of Political Studies at the or nomadic subsistence forms of life are commerce and trade. War Veterans led a
University of the Western Cape, South often difficult to harmonise with land policies revolution that challenged the state, ruling
Africa, and a Senior Research Specialist in the pursued by national governments. The state’s ZANU PF, the MDC, President Robert
Democracy and Governance programme of the exclusionary land policies and politics of Mugabe, settler and international capital.
Human Sciences Research Council. limiting or denying communities their land Zimbabwe’s revolution sets a new agenda and
Southern Africa: University of KwaZulu- rights play a crucial role in causing local raises anew the intriguing question ‘what are
Natal Press conflicts that then can escalate into large-scale the people of Africa trying to free themselves
wars. Land issues increase the complexity of from and what are they trying to establish?’
a conflict, thereby reducing the possibility of
£19.99/$37.95, May 2010, 9781847010216 Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba
managing, resolving, or ultimately transforming
392pp, PB is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology,
it. The conflict in the Nuba Mountains in
University of Zimbabwe.
central Sudan, the regional focus in this study,
is living proof of this transformation. Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
Guma Kunda Komey is Assistant
Professor of Human Geography, Juba £40.00/$70.00(s), December 2010, 9781847010254
University, Sudan. 8 b/w & 7 line illustrations, 256pp, HB
£40.00/$70.00(s), December 2010, 9781847010261

6 line illustrations, 288pp, HB
Eastern Africa Series
P O L I T I C A L H I S TO RY
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform political history Fighting for Britain

Myths and Realities African Soldiers in the
African Police and Soldiers in
Ian Scoones et al. Second World War
Ten years after the land Colonial Zimbabwe (1923-80)
David Killingray
invasions of 2000, this Timothy Stapleton with Martin Plaut
book provides the first Making use of archival During the Second
full account of the documents, period World War over half-a-
consequences of these newspapers, and oral million African troops
dramatic events. This interviews, African Police served with the British
land reform and Soldiers in Colonial Army as combatants
overturned a century- Zimbabwe examines the and non-combatants in
old pattern of land ambiguous experience campaigns in the Horn
use, one dominated by of black security of Africa, the Middle
a small group of personnel, police, and East, Italy and Burma
large-scale commercial farmers, many of whom soldiers in white-ruled - the largest single
were white. But what replaced it? Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from movement of African
This book challenges five myths through the 1923 through independence and majority rule men overseas since the slave trade. This
examination of the field data from Masvingo in 1980. Across the continent, European account, based mainly on oral evidence and
province: colonial rule could not have been maintained soldiers’ letters, tells the story of the African
without African participation in the police and experience of the war. It is a ‘history from
Myth 1 Zimbabwean land reform has been a
army. In Southern Rhodesia, lack of white below’ that describes how men were recruited
total failure.
manpower meant that despite fear of mutiny, for a war about which most knew very little.
Myth 2 The beneficiaries of Zimbabwean land blacks played an increasingly prominent role in Army life exposed them to a range of new and
reform have been largely political ‘cronies’. law enforcement and military operations, and startling experiences: new foods and forms of
Myth 3 There is no investment in the new from World War II constituted a strong discipline, uniforms, machines and rifles,
resettlements. majority within the regular security forces. notions of industrial time, travel overseas, new
Despite danger, Africans volunteered for languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy.
Myth 4 Agriculture is in complete ruins
creating chronic food insecurity. the police and army for a variety of reasons What impact did service in the army have on
including the prestige of wearing a uniform, African men and their families? What new
Myth 5 The rural economy has collapsed. the possibility of excitement, family traditions, skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes
By challenging these myths, and suggesting material considerations, and patriotism. As were they put on their return? What was the
alternative policy narratives, this book presents black police and soldiers were called upon to social impact of overseas travel, and how did
the story as it has been observed on the perform more specialized tasks, they acquired the broad umbrella of army welfare services
ground: warts and all. What comes through greater education and some - particularly change soldiers’ expectations of civilian life?
very strongly is the complexity, the differences, African police - became part of the emerging And what role if any did ex-servicemen play
almost farm by farm: there is no single, westernized African middle class. After in post-war nationalist politics? In this book
simple story of the Zimbabwe land reform as retirement, career African police and soldiers African soldiers describe in their own words
sometimes assumed by press reports, political often continued to work in the security field, what it was like to undergo army training, to
commentators, or indeed much academic study. some becoming prominent entrepreneurs or travel on a vast ocean, to experience battle,
Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow, commercial farmers, and generally composed a and their hopes and disappointments on
Institute of Development Studies, University conservative, loyalist element in African society demobilisation.
of Sussex, with co-authors Nelson that the government eventually mobilized to
counter the growth of African nationalism. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus
Marongwe, Blasio Mavedzenge, of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research
Jacob Mahenehene, Felix Tim Stapleton here mines rich archival sources
to clarify the complicated dynamic and legacy Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth
Murimbarimba and Chrispen Studies, University of London.
Sukume. of black military personal who served during
colonial rule in present-day Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
Timothy Stapleton is professor of £45.00/$95.00(s), March 2010, 9781847010155
history at Trent University in Ontario. 16 b/w & 3 line illustrations, 304pp, HB
£16.99/$34.95, December 2010, 9781847010247
African Issues £50.00/$90.00(s), June 2011, 9781580463805
20 b/w illustrations, 336 pp, HB
political history / regional - nigeria
Political Culture and Narrating War and Peace in Africa Turning Points in
Nationalism in Malawi Edited by Toyin Falola African Democracy
& Hetty ter Haar
Building Kwacha While Africa has
Edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha
& Lindsay Whitfield
Joey Power experienced conflict
Radical changes have
Inspired by the events throughout its history,
taken place in Africa
leading up to the those wars of the latter
since 1990. What are
overthrow of Doctor half of the twentieth
the realities of these
Hastings Kamuzu century seem to have
changes? What
Banda’s Life defined and reinforced
significant differences
Presidency, this book the myth of barbarism:
have emerged between
explores the deep logic in Nigeria, Rwanda,
African countries?
of Malawi’s political Somalia, Sierra Leone,
What is the future for
culture as it emerged in Uganda, Kenya,
democracy in the
the colonial and early Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe,
continent?
post-colonial periods. and Sudan. The essays in this volume strive to
It draws on archival sources from three address the reductive and stereotypical The editors have chosen eleven key countries to
continents and oral testimonies gathered over a assumptions of postcolonial violence as provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts
ten-year period provided by those who lived “tribal” in nature, and offers instead various to stimulate discussion among students. They
these events. Power narrates how anti-colonial perspectives to foster a less fetishized, more have brought together a team of scholars who
protest was made relevant to the African contextualized understanding of African war, are actively working in the changing Africa
majority through the painstaking engagement peace, and memory. of today. Each chapter is structured around a
of politicians in local grievances and struggles, framing event which defines the experience of
Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie
which they then linked to the fight against democratisation.
Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar,
white settler domination in the guise of the Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, The editors have provided an overview of the
Central African Federation. She also explores Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl turning points in African politics. They engage
how Doctor Banda (leader of independent Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela with debates on how to study and evaluate
Malawi for thirty years), the Nyasaland African Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan democracy in Africa, such as the limits of
Congress, and its successor, the Malawi Zilberg. elections. They identify four major themes with
Congress Party, functioned within this which to examine similarities and divergences
political culture, and how the MCP became a Toyin Falola is the Frances
as well as to explain change and continuity in
formidable political machine. Central to this Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor and
what happened in the past.
process was the deployment of women and University Distinguished Teaching Professor
at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty Abdul Raufu Mustapha is University
youth to cut across parochial politics and
ter Haar is an independent researcher in Lecturer in African Politics at Queen Elizabeth
consolidate a broad base of support. No less
England. House and Kirk-Greene Fellow at St Antony’s
important was the deliberate manipulation of
College, University of Oxford; Lindsay
history and the use of rumor and innuendo,
Whitfield is a Research Fellow at the
symbol and pageantry, persecution and reward. £45.00/$80.00(s), October 2010, 9781580463300 Danish Institute of International Studies,
It was this mix that made people both accept 3 b/w illustrations, 344pp, HB Copenhagen.
and reject the MCP regime, sometimes Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
simultaneously.
Joey Power is professor of history at £17.99/$34.95, November 2010, 9781847013163
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. 256pp, PB
£55.00/$105.00(s), July 2009, 9781847013170
255pp, HB
£50.00/$85.00(s), January 2010, 9781580463102
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
R E G I O NA L - N I G E R I A / R E G I O NA L - S U DA N
White Chief, Black Lords REGIONAL - nigeria Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World
Shepstone and the Colonial State in John Iliffe
Nigeria, Nationalism, Olusegun Obasanjo
Natal, South Africa, 1845–1878
and Writing History was Nigeria’s military
Thomas V. McClendon head of state (1976-9)
Toyin Falola & Saheed Aderinto
White Chief, Black Lords and President
explores the tensions The second half of the (1999-2007). His
and contradictions twentieth century saw career is made the
between the colonial the publication of focus for a history of
civilizing mission and massive amounts of Nigeria’s first fifty
the practice of indirect literature on Nigeria by years of independence
rule. While colonial Nigerian and non- (1960-2010) and of
states professed that Nigerian historians. African continental
their guiding This volume reflects on affairs during the same period (Obasanjo having
imperative was to that literature, focusing been an active opponent of apartheid and an
transform colonized on those works by architect of the African Union).
societies and bring them within “civilized” Nigerians in the context
of the rise and decline of African nationalist The most important African leader of his
norms, fiscal limitations resulted in ruling generation, Obasanjo has had an extraordinarily
through indigenous authorities and customs. In historiography. Given the diminishing share in the
global output of literature on Africa by African diverse career as soldier, politician, statesman,
this book, Thomas McClendon analyzes this farmer, author, political prisoner, Baptist
deep contradiction by looking at several crises historians, it has become crucial to reintroduce
Africans into historical writing about Africa. As preacher, and family patriarch. As a soldier, he
and key turning points in the early decades of secured the victory in Nigeria’s civil war. As
colonial rule in the British colony of Natal, the authors attempt here to rescue older voices,
they also rehabilitate a stale historiography by military head of state, he returned the country
later part of South Africa. He focuses a keen to civilian rule. For the next 20 years he was
eye on the long tenure of Theophilus revisiting the issues, ideas, and moments that
produced it. This revivalism also challenges ceaselessly active, before spending three years as
Shepstone as that colony’s Secretary for Native a political prisoner.
affairs, examining his interactions with subject Nigerian historians of the twenty-first century to
African communities. study the nation in new ways, to comprehend its Released from prison, Obasanjo served Nigeria
modernity, and to frame a new set of questions as elected President from 1999 to 2007,
In a series of case studies, including high on Nigeria’s future and globalization. until his growing authoritarianism and his
drama over rebellions by African “chiefs” and manipulation of his successor’s election ruined
In spite of current problems in Nigeria and its
their followers and intense debates over the universities, that historical scholarship on Nigeria his reputation among many Nigerians. This
control of witchcraft, White Chief, Black Lords (and by extension, Africa) has come of age is book argues that the controversial end to his
shows that these colonial imperatives led to a indisputable. From a country that struggled for presidency must be understood in the light of his
self-defeating conundrum. In the process of Western academic recognition in the 1950s to
one that by the 1980s had emerged as one of earlier career.
attempting to rule through African leaders and
the most studied countries in Africa, Nigeria is The author has used mainly published sources,
norms yet to discipline and transform African not only one of the early birthplaces of modern
subjects, the colonial state inevitably was itself especially Nigerian newspapers and political
African history, but has also produced members
transformed and became, in part, an African of the first generation of African historians whose memoirs, as well as recently released FCO
state. McClendon concludes by spotlighting contributions to the development and expansion documents in Britain.
the continuing importance of these unresolved of modern African history is undeniable. Like John Iliffe is a Fellow of St John’s
their counterparts working on other parts of the
contradictions in post-apartheid South Africa. world, these scholars have been sensitive to the College, Cambridge. He retired as Professor of
Thomas McClendon is a professor need to explore virtually all aspects of Nigerian African History at Cambridge in 2006 and has
of history at Southwestern University in history. The book highlights the careers of some published widely on African history including:
of Nigeria’s notable historians of the first and A Modern History of Tanganyika; The Emergence of
Georgetown, Texas. second generation. African Capitalism; The African Poor: A History;
Toyin Falola is Frances Higginbotham Africans: the History of a Continent; Honour in African
£40.00/$75.00(s), September 2010, 9781580463416 Nalle Centennial Professor of history at the History and The African Aids Epidemic: A History.
7 b/w & 3 line illustrations, 192pp, HB University of Texas at Austin. Saheed
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Aderinto is assistant professor of history
at Western Carolina University.
£45.00/$80.00(s), January 2011, 9781847010278
2 line illustrations, 320pp, HB
£40.00/$75.00(s), December 2010, 9781580463584
392 pp, HB
R E G I O N A L - sudan / R E G I O N A L - Z I M B A B W E
REGIONAL - sudan revised edition The Sudan Handbook

Edited by John Ryle et al.
After the Comprehensive The Root Causes The Sudan Handbook, based on the Rift Valley
Peace Agreement in Sudan of Sudan’s Civil Wars Institute’s successful Sudan Field Course, is
an authoritative and accessible introduction to
Edited by Elke Grawert Comprehensive Peace Sudan, vividly written and edited by leading
After a long process of
or Temporary Truce? Sudanese and international specialists.
peace negotiations the
Comprehensive Peace Douglas H. Johnson The handbook offers a concise introduction
Agreement (CPA) was Sudan’s post- to all aspects of the country, rooted in a broad
signed on 9 January independence history historical account of the development of the
2005 between the has been dominated by Sudanese state. It consists of eighteen self-
Government of Sudan political and civil contained, cross-referenced chapters, covering
(GOS) and the Sudan strife. Most essential topics in the geography, history,
People’s Liberation commentators have sociology, culture and politics of the country,
Movement/Army attributed the country’s written by outstanding Sudanese scholars and
(SPLM/A). The CPA recurring civil war recognized international experts. It includes
raised initial hopes that it would be the either to an age-old numerous purpose-drawn maps and diagrams,
foundation block for lasting peace in Sudan. racial divide between glossaries of key terms, capsule biographies of
Arabs and Africans, or key figures, a chronology and a bibliography.
This book compiles scholarly analyses of
the implementation of the power sharing to recent colonially constructed inequalities. JOHN RYLE, Rift Valley Institute and
agreement of the CPA, of ongoing conflicts This book attempts a more complex analysis, Department of Anthropology, Bard College,
with particular respect to land issues, of the briefly examining the historical, political, USA; JUSTIN WILLIS, Department of
challenges of the reintegration of internally economic and social factors which have History, Durham University, and former
displaced people and refugees, and of the contributed to periodic outbreaks of violence Director of the British Institute in Eastern
repercussions of the CPA in other regions of between the state and its peripheries. In tracing Africa; SULIMAN BALDO, International
Sudan as well as in neighbouring countries. historical continuities, it outlines the essential Center for Transitional Justice, New York,
differences between the modern Sudan’s first International Crisis Group; JOK MADUT
ELKE GRAWERT, Faculty of Economics civil war in the 1960s and the current war. It JOK, Department of History, Loyola
and Institute for World Economics and also looks at the series of minor civil wars Marymount University, USA.
International Management, University of generated by, and contained within, the major
Bremen, Germany. conflict, as well as the regional and
international factors - including humanitarian £19.99/$34.95, May 2011, 9781847010308
£40.00/$75.00(s), November 2010, 9781847010223
aid - which have exacerbated civil violence.
6 line illustrations, 312pp, HB This introduction is aimed at students of
Eastern Africa Series North-East Africa, and of conflict and
ethnicity. It should be useful for people in aid
and international organizations who need a
straightforward analytical survey which will
help them assess the prospects for a lasting
peace in Sudan. Revised to include an analysis
of the escalation of the Darfur war,
implementation of the peace agreement, and
implications of the Southern referendum.
Douglas H. Johnson is an independent
scholar and former international expert on the
Abyei Boundaries Commission.
£16.99/$29.95, July 2011, 9781847010292

African Issues
S O C I A L H I S TO RY
REGIONAL - ZIMBABWE Circular Migration in social history

Zimbabwe and Contemporary
Bulawayo Burning Afro-Cuban Diasporas
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Social History of a Southern in the Atlantic World
Deborah Potts
African City, 1893-1960 Circular migration,
Solimar Otero
Terence Ranger whereby rural migrants Afro-Cuban Diasporas in
do not remain the Atlantic World
This book is designed
permanently in town, explores how Yoruba
as a tribute and
has particular and Afro-Cuban
response to Yvonne
significance in the communities moved
Vera’s famous novel
academic literature on across the Atlantic
Butterfly Burning, which
development and between the Americas
is set in the Bulawayo
urbanization in Africa, and Africa in
townships in 1946 and
often having negative successive waves in the
dedicated to the
connotations in nineteenth century. In
author. It is an attempt
southern Africanist studies due to its links with Havana, Yoruba slaves
to explore what
an iniquitous migrant labour system. Literature from Lagos banded together to buy their
historical research and
on other African regions often views circular freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in
reconstruction can add to the literary
migration more positively. This book reviews Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community
imagination.
the current evidence about circular migration became known as the Aguda. This community
Responding as it does to a novel, this history and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The built their own neighborhood that celebrated
imitates some fictional modes. Two of its author challenges the dominant view that their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and
chapters are in effect ‘scenes’, dealing with brief rural-urban migration continues unabated and Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic
periods of intense activity. Others are in effect shows that circular migration has continued constructions of family and community play
biographies of ‘characters’. The book draws and has adapted, with faster out-migration in the role of narrating and locating a longed-for
upon and quotes from a rich body of urban the face of declining urban economic home. By providing a link between the
oral memory. In addition to this historical/ opportunities. workings of nostalgia and the construction of
literary interaction the book is a contribution home, this volume re-theorizes cultural
to the historiography of southern African The empirical core of the book illustrates imaginaries as a source for diasporic
cities, bringing out the experiential and cultural these trends through a detailed examination of community reinvention. Through ethnographic
dimensions, and combining black and white the case of Zimbabwe based on the author’s fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero
urban social history. longstanding research on Harare. The political reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with
and economic changes in Zimbabwe since the their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times.
TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes 1980s transformed Harare from one of the
Professor of Race Relations, University of Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to
best African cities to live in over this period to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that
Oxford. one of the worst. Harare citizens’ livelihoods illustrates the truly cyclical nature of
Zimbabwe: Weaver Press exemplify, in microcosm, the central theme transnational Atlantic community affiliation.
of the book: the re-invention of circulation
and rural-urban links in response to economic Solimar Otero is assistant professor
£45.00/$90.00(s), October 2010, 9781847010209 change. of English and folklore at Louisiana State
10 b/w & 5 line illustrations, 272pp, HB University and is research associate and visiting
Deborah Potts is Senior Lecturer in professor at the Women’s Studies in Religion
Geography, King’s College London. Program at the Harvard Divinity School from
2009 - 2010.
£50.00/$95.00(s), December 2010, 9781847010230
£40.00/$75.00(s), July 2010, 9781580463263
theatre & film
Women’s Authority and Society in theatre & film ALT 28 Film in African
Early East-Central Africa Literature Today
African Theatre 9
Christine Saidi Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu
This study of more Histories 1850-1950 A recent literary
than two thousand Ed by Martin Banham et al. phenomenon in
years of African social African performers, contemporary Africa is
history weaves together dramatists and the developing
evidence from directors have far relationship between
historical linguistics, out-paced chroniclers, film and African
archaeology, critics and librarians, literature. ALT 28
comparative and as a result, those focuses on the
ethnography, oral preparing accounts of interface between film
tradition, and art theatre movements and and literature in
history to challenge performance on the contemporary African
the assumptions that all African societies were continent have very writing and imagination. Contributors have
patriarchal and that the status of women in limited resources to examined the issue from a variety of
precolonial Africa is beyond the scope of work on. African Theatre 9 addresses the topic of perspectives: critiques of adaptations of
historical research. In East-Central Africa, theatre history and, more specifically, looks at a African creative works into film, analyses of
women played key roles in technological and selection of theatrical movements and events filmic structures in African dramatic literature,
economic developments during the long between 1850 and 1950. African writers as film makers, and the impact
precolonial period. Female political leaders of the video film industry on literature and the
were as common as male rulers, and women, Drawing on such archived resources as are reading culture in Africa.
especially mothers, were central to religious available, this volume seeks to recover moments
from the past by bringing together papers that Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor
ceremonies and beliefs. These conclusions of the Department of Africana Studies,
contribute a new and critical element to our explore the complexity of the relationships that
characterised a century of contact, conflict, University of Michigan-Flint.
understanding of Africa’s precolonial history.
compromise and creativity. The findings Nigeria: HEBN
Christine Saidi is assistant professor of provide essential background to understanding
history at Kutztown University. contemporary developments in African theatre,
and draw attention to the importance of £17.99/$34.95, December 2010, 9781847015105
documenting performances. 192pp, PB
£50.00/$85.00(s), March 2010, 9781580463270 African Literature Today
4 b/w & 8 line illustrations, 208 pp, HB Volume Editor: Yvette Hutchison
Series Editors: Martin Banham,
Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre
Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs,
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University
of the West of England; Femi Osofisan,
Professor at the University of Ibadan;
Jane Plastow , Professor of African
Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette
Hutchison, Associate Professor,
Department of Theatre & Performance
Studies, University of Warwick
£17.99/$34.95, December 2010, 9781847010148

10 b/w illustrations, 200pp, PB
African Theatre
T H E AT R E & F I L M / B AC K L I S T
now available in paperback Ira Aldridge’s Early Years, Literary Adaptations in

1807-1833 Black American Cinema
Ira Aldridge
Bernth Lindfors Expanded Edition
The African Roscius Ira Aldridge’s Early Years, Barbara Tepa Lupack
Edited by Bernth Lindfors 1807-1833 is a detailed,
carefully-researched The cinematic representation of blacks, especially
Ira Aldridge -- a black biography of this black in silent and early film, was shaped not only
New Yorker -- was one classical actor covering by the sentimental racism of the culture but
of nineteenth-century the first 45 years of his also by the popular literature which distorted
Europe’s greatest actors. life (1807-1852), when black experience and restricted black characters
He performed abroad he rose from an to minor, stereotyped roles. By contrast, in the
for forty-three years, impoverished childhood
works of black writers from Oscar Micheaux to
winning more awards, in New York City to a
successful career as one
Toni Morrison, the black experience has been
honors, and official more fully, more accurately, and usually more
of the most celebrated
decorations than any of sympathetically realized; and from the early days
thespians on the British stage.
his professional peers. of film, select filmmakers have looked to that
Billed as the “African Aldridge played upon low audience expectations
by billing himself grandiloquently as the “African literature as the basis for their productions.
Roscius,” Aldridge developed a repertoire initially
Roscius,” and performing under the pseudonym An historical examination of the practice of
consisting of Shakespeare’s Othello, melodramas
of Mr. Keene, a homonym calling up an image such adaptation offers telling insights into the
about slavery, and farces that drew on his ability of Edmund Kean, England’s most famous
to sing and dance. By the time he began touring in portrayal -- and progress -- of blacks in American
Shakespearean actor. He gradually gained a
Europe he was principally a Shakespearean actor, movies and culture. It reveals that while blacks, on
reputation under his own name throughout the
playing such classic characters as Shylock, United Kingdom, attracting large crowds and
screen and behind the scenes, were often forced
Macbeth, Richard III, and King Lear. winning accolades not only as an interpreter of to re-create the demeaning film stereotypes, they
black roles but also eventually as an actor of classic learned how to subvert and exploit the artificiality
Although his frequent public appearances made white Shakespearean parts-Shylock, Macbeth, of their caricatures. It also reveals the ways that
him the most visible black man in the world by Richard III, even Iago. black filmmakers, beginning with Micheaux,
mid-nineteenth century, today Aldridge tends Noble and George Johnson, and their less
A peculiarity of Aldridge’s career was that he seldom
to be a forgotten figure, seldom mentioned prominent colleagues like Emmett Scott, worked
was invited to perform in London; instead he
in histories of British and European theater. moved constantly from one provincial town or city within the conventions of cinema and society, yet
This collection restores the luster to Aldridge’s to the next carrying costumes, props, wife, and son managed to produce films that were, at their best,
reputation by examining his extraordinary with him. At the time Aldridge began performing unconventional and pioneering. It demonstrates
achievements against all odds. The early in Britain, slavery had not yet been abolished in that as far back as the 1920s and 1930s,
essays offer biographical information, while British territories overseas, and a determined West black authors like Paul Laurence Dunbar and
later essays examine his critical and popular Indian lobby in London was attempting to defend
Langston Hughes already recognized the need
reception throughout the world. Taken together, the rights of slave owners abroad. Also, the rise of
black minstrelsy in the 1830s perpetuated a notion for involvement with film production in order
these diverse approaches to Aldridge offer a fuller to create pictures that were more representative
of negro inferiority. Aldridge, as a very visible black
understanding and heightened appreciation of of black life. It illustrates the fact that, in recent
man in a white world at a time when the relationship
a remarkable man who had an exceptionally between whites and blacks was being redefined, was years, as more black voices found their way to the
interesting life and a spectacular career. sometimes subjected to blatant racial harassment and screen, among the strongest were the voices of
Contributors: C. Bruyn Andrews, N. discrimination; he nonetheless managed to survive women. And above all, it confirms that within the
Batusic, P. A. Bell, K. Byerman, R. M. Cowhig, and even thrive in an environment in which he always rich tradition of black literature of all genres lie
was regarded as an outsider. many exciting cinematic possibilities for audiences
N. M. Evans, J. Groeneboer, A. Marie Koller,
J. Green MacDonald, H. Marshall, J. J. Napier, In dealing with his emergence as a professional actor in of all colors.
K. Sawala, G. Sjögren, J. McCune Smith, H. the United Kingdom, Lindfors here records in detail
the ups and downs of Aldridge’s itinerant existence in Barbara Tepa Lupack has written
Waters, and S. B. Winters. extensively on the topic of literary adaptations
a world where no theatergoer had ever seen anyone like
Bernth Lindfors is professor emeritus him on stage before. Aldridge was genuinely a unique in cinema and is co-author (with Alan Lupack)
of English and African literatures at The phenomenon in Britain at a pivotal point in history. of Illustrating Camelot.
University of Texas at Austin. Bernth Lindfors is professor emeritus of
PB: £17.99/$29.95, Dec 2010, 9781580463744 English and African Literatures, University of Texas
£19.99/$39.95, October 2010, 9781580463720
at Austin, and editor of Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius
HB: £30.00/$55.00(s), Sept. 2007, 9781580462587 60 b/w illustrations, 584pp, PB
(University of Rochester Press, 2007).
21 b/w illustrations, 304pp,
£50.00/$85.00(s), June 2011, 9781580463812
12 b/w illustrations, 424 pp, HB
T H E AT R E & F I L M / B AC K L I S T
Men in African Film and Fiction African colonial history African History
Edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane
Colonial Rule and Crisis Afro-Brazilians
Through their analysis of the depictions in in Equatorial Africa Cultural Production in
film and literature of masculinities in colonial, Southern Gabon, c. 1850-1940 a Racial Democracy
independent and post-independent Africa, the Christopher J. Gray Niyi Afolabi
contributors open some key African texts to a £40.00/$70.00(s), July 2002, 9781580460484 £50.00/$90.00(s), April 2009, 9781580462624
more obviously politicized set of meanings. 18 line illustrations, 304pp, HB 1 b/w illustrations, 443pp, HB
Collectively, the essays provide space for
rethinking current theory on gender and
masculinity: Locality, Mobility, and “Nation” Crafting Identity in
- h ow only some of the most popular Periurban Colonialism in Togo’s Eweland, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
theories in masculinity studies in the West 1900-1960 Elizabeth MacGonagle
hold true in African contexts; Benjamin N. Lawrance £40.00/$75.00(s), November 2007, 9781580462570
- h ow Western masculinities react with £40.00/$75.00(s), October 2007, 9781580462648 8 b/w & 3 line illustrations, 205pp, HB
indigenous masculinities on the continent; 10 b/w & 4 line illustrations, 304 pp, HB
- h ow masculinity and femininity in Africa
seem to reside more on a continuum The Power of African Cultures
of cultural practices than on absolutely Making Headway Toyin Falola
opposite planes; The Introduction of Western Civilization £19.99/$39.95, August 2008, 9781580462976
- a nd how generation often functions as a in Colonial Northern Nigeria 18 b/w illustrations, 368pp, PB
more potent metaphor than gender. Andrew E. Barnes
Lahoucine Ouzgane is Associate £55.00/$95.00(s), November 2009, 9781580462990
Professor of English & Film Studies, 8 lin illustrations, 352 pp, HB Sources and Methods
University of Alberta, Canada. in African History
Spoken, Written, Unearthed
£45.00/$80.00(s), March 2011, 9781847015211 Nationalism and African Intellectuals Edited by Toyin Falola
224pp, HB Toyin Falola & Christian Jennings
£19.99/$35.00(s), September 2004, 9781580461498 £17.99/$29.95, September 2004, 9781580461405
20 b/w illustrations, 256 pp, PB 5 b/w illustrations, 432pp, PB
Sudan’s Blood Memory

The Legacy of War, Ethnicity,
and Slavery in South Sudan
Stephanie Beswick
£17.99/$29.95, January 2006, 9781580462310
2224pp, PB
Voices of the Poor in Africa

Moral Economy and
the Popular Imagination
Elizabeth Isichei
£17.99/$24.95, August 2004, 9781580461795
5 b/w & 9 line illustrations, 297pp, PB
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