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lgli/Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi - Mario Schmidt; (1).pdf

Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of being a Man in an African City (Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa) Dr Mario Schmidt James Currey, US, 2024

Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of capitalist consumption reassure migrants of an upward trajectory, it is also a place where their ambitions of long-term economic success and stable romantic relationships are routinely thwarted. This book explores how men who migrate to Nairobi from Western Kenya navigate this tension that is generated by the contrast between their view of Pipeline as a launching pad for their personal and professional careers and the fact that they face constant economic, romantic, and personal backlashes. Drawing on over two years of fieldwork, the book reveals that many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. Under the pressure to succeed from romantic partners, spouses, rural kin, and children, they create and participate in homosocial spaces where a sense of brotherhood emerges and their experience of pressure is attenuated. Alongside a deep ethnographic exploration of how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood - this book brings a new perspective to our understanding of urban African life and the nature of masculinity. This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Open Access Fund and the German Research Foundation.

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lgli/Field Research in Africa - Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka;Susan Thomson;An Ansoms;.pdf

Field Research in Africa : The Ethics of Researcher Vulnerabilities An Ansoms, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Susan Thomson, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka James Currey Publishers, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2021

An essential exploration of and guide to research ethics in the field. Researchers working in Africa are engaged in ethical, methodological, logistical, emotional and professional compromises. Juggling the demands of being a researcher and being human, scholars must balance the recording of data withthe emotional demands of listening, of analyzing and reporting personal, and often contradictory, narratives. This book recognizes these challenges and lays bare the underlying and important process by which the researcher grapples with emotions, and how 'feelings' inform and shape data collection, interpretation, write-up and dissemination. Based on widely researched on-the-ground work, the contributors reveal the ambiguities and inconsistences that emerge at all stages of fieldwork and how to tackle them. They examine the ethical quagmires that arise when doing research on sensitive topics in a researcher's own living environment, and suggest how to manage the complex interaction between the researcher's own identity and social relationships in the field, and navigate the role of researcher when activism risks access to the field.

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lgli/Ngugi.indb - Gikandi, Simon;Wachanga, D. Ndirangu;.pdf

Ngũgĩ : reflections on his life of writing / edited by Simon Gikandi & Ndirangu Wachanga Simon Gikandi, D. Ndirangu Wachanga James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2018

First-hand accounts of how Ngugi wa Thiong'o's life and work have intersected, and the multiple forces that have converged to make him one of the greatest writers to come out of Africa in the twentieth century.This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution to the African culture of letters at its moment of inception, and his global artistic life in the twenty-first century. Here we have both personal andcritical reflections on the different phases of the writer's life: there are poems from friends and admirers, commentaries from his co-workers in public theatre in Kenya in the 1970s and 1980s, and from his political associates in the fight for democracy, and contributions on his role as an intellectual of decolonization, as well as his experiences in the global art world. Included also are essays on Ngugi's role outside the academy, in the world of education, community theatre, and activism. In addition to tributes from other authors who were influenced by Ngugi, the collection contains hitherto unknown materials that are appearing in English for the first time. Both a celebration of the writer, and a rethinking of his legacy, this book brings together three generations of Ngugi readers. We have memories and recollections from the people he worked with closely in the 1960s, the students that he taught atthe University of Nairobi in the 1970s, his political associates during his exile in the 1980s, and the people who worked with him as he embarked on a new life and career in the United States in the 1990s. First-hand accounts reveal how Ngugi's life and work have intersected, and the multiple forces that have converged to make him one of the greatest writers to come out of Africa in the twentieth century. Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University. He is President of the MLA and was editor of its journal PMLA, from 2011-2016. Ndirangu Wachanga is Professor of Media Studies and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin. He is also the authorized documentary biographer of Professors Ali A. Mazrui, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Mugo.

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lgli/Architecture and Politics in Africa - Joanne Tomkinson;Daniel Mulugeta;Julia Gallagher;.epub

Architecture and Politics in Africa : Making, Living and Imagining Identities Through Buildings Dawit Yekoyesew, Emmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong, Innocent Batsani Ncube, Irene Appeaning Addo, Marie Gibert James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2022

Honourable Mention - 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. Buildings shape politics in the ways they define communities, enable economic activity, reflect political ideas, and impact state-society relations. They are materially and symbolically interwoven with the everyday lives of elites and citizens, as well global flows of money, goods, and contracts. Yet, to date, there has been no research that explicitly connects debates about Africa's domestic and international politics with the study of architecture. This innovative book fills this gap, providing a new and compelling reading of the politics of identity in sub-Saharan Africa through an examination of some of its most significant buildings. Using case studies from nine countries across sub-Saharan Africa, this volume reveals how they are commissioned and built, how they enable elites to project power, and how they form a basis for popular conceptions of the state. Exploring a diverse range of buildings including parliaments, airports, prisons, ministries, regional institutions, libraries, universities, shopping malls, public housing, cathedrals and palaces, the contributors suggest a innovative perspective on African politics, identity and urban development. This book will be a compelling reference for scholars and students of African politics, development studies and city life in its elaboration of and challenges to established concepts and arguments about the relationship between material objects and political ideas. This book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND.

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nexusstc/The Kenyan Cut Flower Industry & Global Market Dynamics (Future Rural Africa, 2)/7175a367456cb9303cbe5818b5e5b562.pdf

The Kenyan Cut Flower Industry & Global Market Dynamics (Future Rural Africa, 2) Dr Andreas Gemählich James Currey : In association with Future Rural Africa, Boydell & Brewer, [Place of publication not identified], 2022

Investigates the production, trade and consumption of the bouquets sold in European supermarkets and the consequences of this for the globalised economy. From a macro-perspective, it appears that the cut flower industry has changed into a buyer-driven value chain with corporate retailers as the new lead firms. Yet, as this book shows, this is insufficient to explain how new trade relations come into being, and the consequences of this, not only for global economics, but for the producers, climate change and rural livelihoods. As the retailers and wholesalers of the flower industry in the West linked directly to producers in the Global South, trade relations changed fundamentally, and this critical new book explores the complexities of the power asymmetries and the way in which corporate retailers have shaped the market to promote their own interests, as well as the role non-economic actors played. This book examines in detail the situation at Lake Naivasha, Kenya, which has played a central part within this new market order. Since the 1970s, the area has developed into one of the most important production areas for the ready-made bouquets that sell so cheaply in European supermarkets. For the flower growers themselves, however, coping with the new conditions of supply and demand, the new market order has brought financial precariousness. Farms needed to be flexible in the production and marketing of their flowers. Yet while they were able to expand their production and achieve more stable employment conditions, this has not resulted in significantly higher remuneration. The rapidly changing economic situation has also had a profound impact, not only on local stakeholders, but on the environment, where there is intensified competition for resources and new production technologies. Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).

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nexusstc/Losing your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes (African Issues, 34)/f5d0b7357d701aa646c4c9735e7b50dc.pdf

Losing your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes (African Issues, 34) An Ansoms, Thea Hilhorst James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2014

Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession. Dispossession of land on a small scale can have as great an impact on living conditions as large-scale land-grabs. With the increasing commodification of land, new forms of dispossession, in urban as well as rural districts, are also gaining in importance. This book looks at this largely uninvestigated issue through case studies in the Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: here the loss of land often represents the loss of people's livelihoods inthese areas of extreme land scarcity in highly populated regions. In the post-conflict states of the Great Lakes, governance challenges increase the risk of dispossession of the already poor and vulnerable: formal institutions are weak or biased; customary authorities have lost some of their moral authority. The cases in this book show in particular how local power dynamics, often rooted in history, bear upon the processes of land competition, dispossession and land grabbing. This timely volume will be important not only for those in African Studies, but for those in development studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers worldwide. An Ansoms is assistant professor in development studies at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); Thea Hilhorst is a senior advisor at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.

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nexusstc/Ethiopian Warriorhood: Defence, Land and Society 1800-1941/517a1a20c217d658b05cc09b3c34d4b7.epub

Ethiopian Warriorhood: Defence, Land and Society 1800-1941 (Eastern Africa Series, 41) Tsehai Berhane-Selassie James Currey, Eastern African studies (London, England), Rochester, New York, 2018

Today best known for their role in defending Ethiopia from Italian invasion 1935-41, when more than 7,000 fought against colonial forces, chewa warriors protected Ethiopia for centuries. Yet, depicted by some 19th-century Western observers as little more than "a horde" of warmongers, and later suppressed by Ethiopian monarchs who sought to create a centralized modern state, their contribution has been neglected. Drawing on oral and written sources, as well as the zeraf poetry through which they expressed themselves, this book explores for the first time in depth the history, practices and principles of warriorhood of the chewa, and their wider influence on society and state. Often self-trained individuals who began by defending their communities, by the end of the 19th century there were chewawarrior groups from almost all linguistic groups who fought together to resist foreign invaders. Some chewa enrolled in the service of the Ethiopian "kings of kings," who organized them as named corps that supplemented the formal defence of the state. Today, chewa political identity, which transcended social, familial, political and other groupings, remains deeply rooted in Ethiopian society. Tsehai Berhane-Selassie taught Social Anthropology, Gender and Development Studies in universities in Ethiopia, the UK, the USA and Ireland. She is a member of The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her publications include editing Gender Issues in Ethiopia.

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nexusstc/Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria (Western Africa Series, 15)/20eb1d96f974b36f8ab333b20a4fcef9.pdf

Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria (Western Africa Series, 15) Abdul Raufu Mustapha; Kate Meagher James Currey ; Premium times books, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2020

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so violently, and for so long? Why does radicalizationhave so little influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldworkof specialist Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present, the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress, migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out of the conflict. Nigeria: Premium Times Books

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Competing Catholicisms - the Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa Jean-Luc Enyegue SJ James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, Religion in Transforming Africa, 10, 2022

Explores the impact of Jesuit missions on the development of Christianity in postcolonial French Africa, which found itself at the centre of major shifts and struggles within global Christianity and world politics. At a time when most African countries were moving towards independence, the Vatican was speeding up the Church's indigenization agenda in an effort to secure its survival in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, at the same time, African nationalism was on the rise and, following the collapse of its colonial empire, France was attempting to reassert its influence in Africa. This book shows how the Vatican, French Jesuits, the rising Cameroonian indigenous clergy and leadership, and the first Cameroonian Jesuits competed for the Catholic evangelization of French Africa during the mid-20th century. In the mission field, they also competed with different Protestant groups, with whom they shared acommon aim: to convert African traditional religionists and different groups of African Muslims to Christ, while containing the spread of anti-religious ideologies such as Communism. Tracing the rapid expansion of Christianity in Central and Western French Africa during the second half of the twentieth century, the author shows in this book how this competition for faith helped both build the church in French West Africa and Africanize the church alongside missionary Christianity in postcolonial Africa. He also explores the African reaction to this diverse and competing global agenda of Christianization, especially after Chad and Cameroon came together as part of a single Jesuit jurisdiction in 1973, and the way in which, despite differing interpretations of Catholicity which generated internal conflicts, Western Jesuits focus on popular masses and the poor, was able to contain the spread of Islam, counter the Chad's persecution of Christians during the Cultural Revolution (1973-1975) and secure the survival of Christianity as a missionary movement in which Western missionaries worked alongside a rising African clergy and leadership. JEAN LUC ENYEGUE, SJ is the Director of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa, Nairobi. He also lectures on church history at Hekima University College, Catholic University of Eastern Africa.

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lgli/The Road to Soweto - Brown, Julian; (1).epub

The Road to Soweto : Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976 Julian Brown James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2016

A new history of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the events leading to it in the preceding decade, that will transform our understanding of the historical evolution of the struggle against apartheid. This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression of African opposition movements, during which they went underground, this period was marked by experiments in resistance and attempts to develop new forms of politics that prepared the ground for the Uprising. Students at South Africa's segregated universities began to re-organise themselves as a political force; new ideas about race reinvigorated political thought; debates around confrontation shaped the development of new forms of protest. The protest then began to move off university campuses and onto the streets: through the independent actions of workers in Durban, and attempts by students to link their struggles with a broader agenda. These actions made protest public once again, and helped establish the patterns of popular action and state response that would come to shape the events in Soweto on 16 June 1976. Julian Brown is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana 'throws new light on the background to the Soweto Uprising, providing insight into white and black student politics, worker protest and broader dissent' - William Beinart, University of Oxford 'an extremely important contribution to the historiography on protest in South Africa. It links black and white student protests (too often studied in isolation from one another) to workers' movements by looking at the changing forms of protest during the 1960s and 1970s, and the apartheid government's changing responses.' - Anne Heffernan, University of the Witwatersrand 'By showing how the Soweto Uprising served as a precursor for later historical and political events, the author convincingly shows the continuity from one from one protest and decade to the next.' - Dawne Curry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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lgli/General Labour History of Africa - Stefano Bellucci;Andreas Eckert;.pdf

General Labour History of Africa : Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries Stefano Bellucci; Andreas Eckert; Akua O. Britwum; Andreas Admasie; Babacar Fall; Ben Scully; Bill Freund; Carolyn Brown; Daniel Roger Maul; Deborah Fahy Bryceson; Dmitri van den Bersselaar; Franco Barchiesi; Frederick Cooper; Gareth Austin; Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani; Helena Prez-Nio; Joel Glasman; Julia Tischler; Laurent Fourchard; Leyla Dakhli; Luca Puddu; Michelle R. Moyd; Patrick Neveling; Rana Jawad; Richard L. Roberts; Rory Pilossof; Samuel A. Nyanchoga; Sara S. Berry James Currey ; ILO Regional Office for Africa, Boydell & Brewer, Martlesham, 2019

The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.Co-published with the International Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of labour history. It brings, for the first time, an African perspective within a global context to the study of labour and labour relations. The volume analyses key developments in the 20th century, such as the emergence of free wage labour; the transformation in labour relations; the role of capital and employers; labour agency and movements; the growing diversity of formal and informal or precarious labour; the meaning of work; and the impact of gender and age on the workplace. The contributors - eminent historians, anthropologists and social scientists from Africa, Europe and the United States - examine African labour in the context of labour and social issues worldwide: mobility and colonial and postcolonial migration, forced labour, security, the growth of entrepreneurial labour, the informal sector and self-employment, and the impact of trade unionism, welfare and state relations. The book discusses key sectors such as mining, agriculture, industry, transport, domestic work, and sport, tourism and entertainment, as well as the international dimension and the history and impact of the International Labour Organization itself. This authoritative and comprehensive work will be an invaluableresource for historians of labour, social relations and African history. In association with the ILO Regional Office for Africa Stefano Bellucci is senior researcher at the International Institute of SocialHistory, Amsterdam, and lecturer in African History and Economy at Leiden University, the Netherlands; Andreas Eckert is Director of the International Research Centre for Work and the Human Life Cycle in Global History and professor of African history at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

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lgli/Township Violence and the End of Apartheid - Kynoch, Gary; (1).epub

Township Violence and the End of Apartheid : War on the Reef Gary Kynoch James Currey ; Wits University Press, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2018

A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand.In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize'for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime'. Yet, while bothdeserved the plaudits they received for entering the negotiations that led to the end of apartheid, the four years of negotiations preceding the April 1994 elections, known as the transition era, were not'peaceful': they were the bloodiest of the entire apartheid era, with an estimated 14,000 deaths attributed to politically related violence. This book studies, for the first time, the conflicts between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party that took place in South Africa's industrial heartland surrounding Johannesburg. Exploring these events through the perceptions and memories of combatants and non-combatants from war-torn areas, along with security force members, politicians and violence monitors, offers new possibilities for understanding South Africa's turbulent transition. Challenging the prevailing narrative which attributes the bulk of the violence to a joint state security force and IFP assault against ANC supporters, the author argues for a more expansive approach that incorporates the aggression of ANC militants, the intersection between criminal and political violence, and especially clashes between groups alignedwith the ANC. Gary Kynoch is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He has written one previous book, We are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 (OhioUniversity Press, 2005). Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press

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ia/instrumentsofeco0000unse.pdf

Instruments Of Economic Policy In Africa staff of the African Centre for Monetary Studies; with the assistance of Alan R. Roe Association of African Central Bank and African Centre for Monetary Studies; Currey; Heinemann; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Dakar [Senegal], London, Portsmoutn, N.H, Senegal, 1992

Africa's Experiences With Economic Policy Instruments / Alan R Roe (16 P.). -- Exchange Rate In Structural Adjustment And Economic Growth In Sub-saharan Africa : Policy Issues / Nguyuru H.i Lipumba (14 P.). -- Perspective On Exchange-rate Policies And Their Results : The Experience Of Tanzania / C.s Kimei (12 P.). -- Managed Floating System In Kenya / A.k Mullei (9 P.). -- Experience Of Malawi / C.s.r Chuka (10 P.). -- Monetary Policy Issues In An African Context / F.m Mwega (7 P.). -- Kenya's Experience Of Interest-rate Policy And Credit Allocation / G.c Musoko (10 P.). -- Experience Of Cameroon / Wilfred A Ndongko (10 P.). Experience Of Swaziland / S.g Mdluli (3 P.). -- Experience Of Tanzania / L.w Rutayisire (10 P.). -- Experience Of Tunisia / Bank Al-markazī Al-tūnisī (5 P.). -- Case Of The Bank Of The Central African States / Banque Des états De L'afrique Centrale (9 P.). -- Zairean Experience / Banque Du Zaïre (4 P.). -- Nigerian Experience / Central Bank Of Nigeria (13 P.). -- Fiscal Deficits And Internal Debt Management In Africa / Alan R Roe (11 P.). -- Domestic Debt Management In Zimbabwe / R Zhakata (6 P.). -- African External Debt Issues And Management Experiences / F.m Yemidale (8 P.). -- Issues Of Management / A M'bet (11 P.). -- Optimal Economic Policy And The Cost Of Euro-credit Loans / D Seck (16 P.). -- Prerequisites For Successful Financial Reform / Y.s.h El-nil (10 P.). -- Financial Liberalization And Exchange-rate Deregulation : The Gambia's Experience / M.a Ceesay (10 P.). -- Ghanaian Experience / Bank Of Ghana (9 P.). -- Privatization Or Removal Of Market Imperfections : A Challenge For Senegal / D Seck (8 P.). -- Bank Autonomy And Economic Performance : The Case Of Algeria / S Mouhoubi (7 P.). Staff Of The African Centre For Monetary Studies ; With The Assistance Of Alan R. Roe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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nexusstc/Reimagining the Gendered Nation: Citizenship and Human Rights in Postcolonial Kenya (Eastern Africa Series, 55)/2f96825a1985d5587fc725e44a9d21fb.epub

Reimagining the Gendered Nation: Citizenship and Human Rights in Postcolonial Kenya (Eastern Africa Series, 55) Christina Kenny; British Institute in Eastern Africa James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Martlesham, 2022

Explores the complex and intersecting dimensions of gender, ethnicity, and culture on women in the Global South, as well as the central roles of women in resisting colonial rule, and their foundational contributions to post-independence constitutional reform and nation building. For all the effort and attention women across the Global South receive from the international human rights community and from their own governments, human rights frameworks frequently fail to significantly improve the lives of these women or their communities. Taking Kenya as a case study, this book explores the reasons for this, emphasising the need to understand the effects of the legacy of local colonial and postcolonial histories on the production of gendered identities and power in modern Kenyan cultural and political life. Drawing on interviews with women in Nairobi and rural areas around Lake Victoria in Kenya, the author examinestheir access to, and experiences of, civil and political rights and citizenship, beginning with the colonial encounter, following these legacies into modern times, and the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution. In four thematic chapters, Kenny discusses women as victims and objects of cultural violence, the myths of the sorority of African women, women as victims of political and state violence, and women as actors in national political processes. In revealing that international human rights interventions have in fact reproduced the very patterns, structures, and hierarchies which are at the core of women's disenfranchisement and marginalization, the book provides new insights into the difficulties women face in accessing their rights and will be invaluable for scholars and NGOs working in developing states. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

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nexusstc/Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa/aa2cc0e044d93d918b6c6f4768c4c5ff.pdf

Domesticating vigilantism in Africa : South Africa, Nigeria, Bénin, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso Tilo Grätz, Thomas G. Kirsch (editor) James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2010

Self-justice and legal self-help groups have been gaining importance throughout Africa. The question of who is entitled to formulate 'legal principles', enact 'justice', police 'morality' and sanction 'wrongdoings' has increasingly become a subject of controversy and conflict. These conflicts focus on the strained relationship between state sovereignty and citizens' self-determination. More particularly, they concern the conditions, modes and means of the legitimate execution of power, and in this volume are seen as a diagnostics as to how social actors in Africa debate and practise socio-political order. State agencies try to bring vigilante groups under control by channelling their activities, repressing them, or using them for their own interests. Vigilante groups usually must struggle for recognition and acceptance in local socio-political spheres. As several of the contributions in the volume show, legal self-help groups in Africa therefore 'domesticate' themselves by, among other things, seeking legitimation, engaging in publicly acceptable non-vigilante activities, or institutionalizing what often began as a rather unrestrained and 'disorderly' social movement. Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor et Chair of Social et Cultural Anthropology at the University of Constance, Germany; Tilo Grätz is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany et Associate Lecturer at the University of Halle-Wittenberg

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Thomas Pringle : South African Pioneer, Poet and Abolitionist Randolph Vigne Boydell & Brewer, Limited; James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2012

A fine biography. [It] is a most satisfying book and an important contribution to South African scholarship. CAPE TIMES Scottish poet, fighter for human rights in the Cape Colony, and abolitionist, reveals the role this key Enlightenment figure played in Africa and Britain.This biography of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), poet, fighter for human rights in the Cape Colony, and abolitionist, reveals the role this key Enlightenment figure played in Africa and Britain. Honoured in South Africa as'the father of South African English poetry', for his part in achieving a free press, for his fight for the settlers'rights in the colony, in Scotland as the founding editor of Blackwood's Magazine, and in England as instrumental inbringing in abolition, Thomas Pringle has not yet had the attention he deserves. Born on the Scottish Borders, Pringle entered literary life in late Englightenment Edinburgh, but in 1820 led a party of settlers to theCape Colony. After running a school, launching a literary journal and co-editing the Cape's first independent newspaper, he formed a group to fight for democratic rights for both the settlers and the dispossessed indigenous people. His biography reveals the important part he played in the literary and political world across two continents, and in championing the Khoisan and the increasingly dispossessed Nguni people. On returning to England he became Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and on 15 June 1834 announced the implementation of abolition. After actively opposing the apartheid government in South Africa Randolph Vigne worked in exile as a London publisher andlatterly, in Britain and South Africa, as author and editor of European and African historical studies. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe): UCT Press

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The Rise And Fall Of The South African Peasantry Second Edition Colin J Bundy David Philip ; James Currey, Second edition, Cape Town, London, 1988

With a Preface reviewing some of the debates prompted by the earlier edition of this book. The first edition of this book was hailed as a major reinterpretation of South African history. It criticised the prevailing view that African agriculture was primitive or backward, and attacked the notion that poverty and lack ofdevelopment were a result of 'traditionalism'. Bundy's work introduced the idea that by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century capitalist development in South Africa was increasingly hostile to peasant producers and a massive onslaught was launched against them - the understanding of this was vital to an understanding of both the South African past and present.

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From Revolution to Rights in South Africa : Social Movements, NGOs and Popular Politics After Apartheid Steven L. Robins James Currey ; University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge [England], 2008

The author argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social movements and other'civil society'actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy in South Africa.Critics of liberalism in Europe and North America argue that a stress on'rights talk'and identity politics has led to fragmentation, individualisation and depoliticisation. But are these developments really signs of'the end ofpolitics'? In the post-colonial, post-apartheid, neo-liberal new South Africa poor and marginalised citizens continue to struggle for land, housing and health care. They must respond to uncertainty and radical contingencies on a daily basis. This requires multiple strategies, an engaged, practised citizenship, one that links the daily struggle to well organised mobilisation around claiming rights. Robins argues for the continued importance of NGOs, socialmovements and other'civil society'actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy. He goes beyond the sanitised prescriptions of'good governance'so often touted by development agencies. Instead he argues for a complex, hybrid and ambiguous relationship between civil society and the state, where new negotiations around citizenship emerge. Steven L. Robins is Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Stellenbosch and editorof Limits to Liberation after Apartheid (James Currey).

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After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan Eastern Africa Elke Grawert James Currey, Eastern Africa Series; 8, 2010

The Sudanese peace agreement reached a crisis point in its final year. This book offers an analysis of the impact of the implementation of the agreement on different Sudanese communities and neighbouring regions. After a long process of peace negotiations the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The CPA raised initialhopes that it would be the foundation block for lasting peace in Sudan. This book compiles scholarly analyses of the implementation of the power sharing agreement of the CPA, of ongoing conflicts with particular respect to land issues, of the challenges of the reintegration of internally displaced people and refugees, and of the repercussions of the CPA in other regions of Sudan as well as in neighbouring countries. Elke Grawert is SeniorLecturer at the Institute for Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany.

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Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa (African Anthropology) Richard Vokes Fountain Publishers ; James Currey, Illustrated, 2009

NEW LOWER PRICEOn 17 March 2000 several hundred members of a charismatic Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), burnt to death in the group's headquarters in the Southwest Ugandan village of Kanungu. Days later the Ugandan police discovered a series of mass graves containing over 400 bodies on various other properties belonging to the sect. Was this mass suicide or mass murder? The question of whether Kanungu is best understood as mass suicide or multiple murder is more than just an intriguing detective story: it goes to the heart of how the event should be perceived and understood in both religious and social terms. Based on eight years of historical and ethnographic research, Ghosts of Kanungu provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the MRTC and of the events leading up to the inferno. It argues that none of these events can be understood without reference to a broader social history of Southwestern Uganda during the twentieth century, in which anti-colonial movements, Catholic White Fathers missionaries, colonial relocation schemes, the breakdown of the Ugandan state, post-war reconstruction, the onset of HIV/AIDS, and the transformation of the regional Nyabingi fertility cult into a Marian church with worldwide connections, all played their part. The themes of this book were presented by the author when he gave the Evans-Pritchard lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. RICHARD VOKES is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand Uganda: Fountain Publishers (PB) Table of Contents Prologue: The End as a BeginningIntroductionOn Fertility & MisfortuneThe Many Lives of the Nyabingi SpiritGenesis: Building the NetworkNumbers: Religion in the Time of AIDSChronicles: The History of an African-Initiated ChurchRevelation: The Last Days of the MRTCEpilogue

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Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885 (Western Africa Series, 6) Silke Strickrodt James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk, 2015

A uniquely detailed account of the dynamics of Afro-European trade in two states on the western Slave Coast over three centuries and the transition from slave trade to legitimate commerce. From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). This book looks at the commercialrelations of two states which played a crucial role in the Atlantic slave trade as well as the trade in ivory and agricultural produce: Hula, known to European traders as Grand Popo (now in Benin) and Ge, known as Little Popo (nowin Togo). Situated between the Gold Coast to the west and the eastern Slave Coast to the east, this region was an important supplier of provisions for Europeans and the enslaved Africans they purchased. Also, due to its positionin the lagoon system, it facilitated communication along the coast between the trading companies' headquarters on the western Gold Coast and their factories on the eastern Slave Coast, particularly at Ouidah, the Slave Coast's major slave port. In the 19th century, when the trade at more established ports was disrupted by the men-of-war of the British anti-slave trade squadron, the western Slave Coast became a hot-spot of illegal slave trading. Providing a detailed reconstruction of political and commercial developments in the western Slave coast, including the transition from the slave trade to legitimate commerce, this book also reveals the region's position in the wider trans-Atlantic trade network and how cross-cultural partnerships were negotiated; the trade's impact on African coastal "middlemen" communities; and the relative importance of local and global factors for the history of a region or community. Silke Strickrodt is Research Fellow in Colonial History, German Historical Institute London. She is co-editor (with Robin Law and Suzanne Schwarz) of Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa (James Currey, 2013).

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Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives & the Bible (Religion in Transforming Africa, 7) Adriaan van Klinken, Johanna Stiebert, Brian Sebyala, Fredrick Hudson James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Martlesham, 2021

An invaluable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling, a key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies. Presenting the deeply moving personal life stories of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya alongside an analysis of the process in which they creatively engaged with two Bible stories - Daniel in the Lions' Den (Old Testament) and Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery (New Testament) - Sacred Queer Stories explores how readings of biblical stories can reveal their experiences of struggle, their hopes for the future, and their faith in God and humanity. Arguing that the telling of life-stories of marginalised people, such as of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, affirms embodied existence and agency, is socially and politically empowering, and enables human solidarity, the authors also show how the Bible as an authoritative religious text and popular cultural archive in Africa is often used against LGBTQ+ people but can also be reclaimed as a site of meaning, healing, and empowerment. The result of a collaborative project between UK-based academics and a Nairobi-based organisation of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, the book provides a valuable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling. A key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies, among others, the book expresses an innovative methodology of inter-reading queer life-stories and biblical stories.

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nexusstc/The Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial (Religion in Transforming Africa, 9)/676d114edc35c9d1b19e66fe97b4e2bd.epub

The Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial (Religion in Transforming Africa, 9) Philippe Denis Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 1st, 2022

Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,000 people in three months between April and July 1994? What prevented the churches' acceptance that they may have had some responsibility? And how should we account for the efforts made by other sectors of the churches to remember and commemorate the genocide and rebuild pastoral programmes? Drawing on interviews with genocide survivors, Rwandans in exile, missionaries and government officials, as well as Church archives and other sources, this book is the first academic study on Christianity and the genocide against the Tutsi to explore these contentious questions in depth, and reveals more internal diversity within the Christian churches than is often assumed. While some Christians, Protestant as well as Catholic, took risks to shelter Tutsi people, others uncritically embraced the interim government's view that the Tutsi were enemies of the people and some, even priests and pastors, assisted the killers. The church leaders only condemned the they never actually denounced the genocide against the Tutsi. Focusing on the period of the genocide in 1994 and the subsequent years (up to 2000), Denis examines in detail the responses of two churches, the Catholic Church, the biggest and the most complex, and the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda, which made an unconditional confession of guilt in December 1996. A case study is devoted to the Catholic parish La Crête Congo-Nil in western Rwanda, led at the time by the French priest Gabriel Maindron, a man whom genocide survivors accuse of having failed publicly to oppose the genocide and of having close links with the authorities and some of the perpetrators. By 1997, the defensive attitude adopted by...

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights Volume 1 : Political, Intellectual & Cultural Origins Rubner, Dr Nat James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2023

Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, one of the most important documents in modern African history, that positions it within the African Lives Matter struggle to assert an African identity rather than as simply a human rights document. Describes its underlying African origins and how the principles of the OAU influenced its path and content. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), which was proposed in 1979, adopted in 1981 and came into effect in 1986, was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. With Africa largely absent in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, it stands in stark historical reproach to the Western conception of universal human rights as a pivotal document in the decolonisation of the continent. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the development of the ACHPR, which is key to a proper understanding of its fundamental nature. Through documenting its process of construction, it becomes possible to understand how Africans themselves understood the process and the issues involved and how the ACHPR became a political text asserted by African leaders and not a continuum of a so-called universal human rights tradition. The result is a radical repositioning of the underlying context of the ACHPR, one of the most important documents in modern African history, of how it came to be and how it should therefore be understood. Volume 1 outlines the dominant African political and cultural ideas of the time and their symbiotic relationship with the principles and politics upon which the OAU (now African Union) was founded and upon which it functioned. It thereby draws out the path the ACHPR process was obliged to follow and the influence of the existential desire to counter neo-colonialism in all its forms that helped bring it into being and shaped its content.

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Kingdoms of the Yoruba Smith, Robert, 1919- London : Currey, 3rd ed., London, United Kingdom, 1988

174 pages, Previous edition: [London] : Methuen, 1976, Includes bibliographical references and index

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APPROACHING AFRICAN HISTORY Michael Brett Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY: James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2013

Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years.Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic discipline in its own right is little more than fiftyyears old. Since then the subject has grown enormously, but the question of what this history is and how it has been approached still needs to be asked, not least to answer the question of why should we study it. This book takes as its subject the last 10,000 years of African history, and traces the way in which human society on the continent has evolved from communities of hunters and gatherers to the complex populations of today. Approaching that history through its various dimensions: archaeological, ethnographic, written, scriptural, European and contemporary, it looks at how the history of such a vast region over such a length of time has been conceived and presented, and how it is to be investigated. The problem itself is historical, and an integral part of the history with which it is concerned, beginning with the changing awareness over the centuries of what Africa might be. MichaelBrett thus traces the history of Africa not only on the ground, but also in the mind, in order to make his own historical contribution to the debate. Michael Brett is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS.

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Reimagining the Gendered Nation: Citizenship and Human Rights in Postcolonial Kenya (Eastern Africa Series, 55) Christina Kenny; British Institute in Eastern Africa James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Martlesham, 2022

Explores the complex and intersecting dimensions of gender, ethnicity, and culture on women in the Global South, as well as the central roles of women in resisting colonial rule, and their foundational contributions to post-independence constitutional reform and nation building. For all the effort and attention women across the Global South receive from the international human rights community and from their own governments, human rights frameworks frequently fail to significantly improve the lives of these women or their communities. Taking Kenya as a case study, this book explores the reasons for this, emphasising the need to understand the effects of the legacy of local colonial and postcolonial histories on the production of gendered identities and power in modern Kenyan cultural and political life. Drawing on interviews with women in Nairobi and rural areas around Lake Victoria in Kenya, the author examinestheir access to, and experiences of, civil and political rights and citizenship, beginning with the colonial encounter, following these legacies into modern times, and the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution. In four thematic chapters, Kenny discusses women as victims and objects of cultural violence, the myths of the sorority of African women, women as victims of political and state violence, and women as actors in national political processes. In revealing that international human rights interventions have in fact reproduced the very patterns, structures, and hierarchies which are at the core of women's disenfranchisement and marginalization, the book provides new insights into the difficulties women face in accessing their rights and will be invaluable for scholars and NGOs working in developing states. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

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nexusstc/Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa (Western Africa Series)/04690be9596e21e21acf809cc3b82364.pdf

Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa (Western Africa Series) Suzanne Schwarz (editor), Silke Strickrodt (editor) James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2013

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery.This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to theearly stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. Thisidea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slaveryin Africa persisted into the colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.

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Marikana : A People's History Julian Brown Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 1st, 2022

In-depth account of the Marikana massacre, based on the voices of the miners and their families themselves, from the build up to the strike to attempts to hold the state to account and its lasting significance. In August 2012 the South African police - at the encouragement of mining capital, and with the support of the political state - intervened to end a week-long strike at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, in South Africa's NorthWest Province. On the afternoon of Thursday, 16 August, the police shot and killed 34 men. Hundreds more were injured, some shot as they fled. None posed a threat to any police officer. Recognised by many as an event of international significance in stories of global politics and labour relations, the perspectives of the miners has however been almost missing from published accounts. This book, for the first time, brings into focus the mens' lives - and deaths - telling the stories of those who embarked on the strike, those who were killed, and of the family members who have survived to fight for the memories of their loved ones. It places the strike in the context of South Africa's long history of racial and economic exclusion, explaining how the miners came to be in Marikana, how their lives were ordinarily lived, and the substance of their complaints. It shows how the strike developed from an initial gathering into a mass movement of more than 3,000 workers. It discusses the violence of the strike and explores the political context of the state's response, and the eagerness of the police to collaborate in suppressing the strike. Recounting the events of the massacre in unprecedented detail, the book sets out how each miner died and everything we know about the police operation. Finally, Brown traces the aftermath: the attempts of the families of the deceased to identify and bury their dead, and then the state's attempts to spin a narrative that placed all blame on the miners; the subsequent Commission of Inquiry - and its failure to resolve any real issues; and the solidarity politics that have emerged since. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana): Jacana.

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nexusstc/African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health: Diseases & Treatments in South Africa/81c3f76f7ec0133392a47a5a9e403523.pdf

African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health : Diseases & Treatments in South Africa Professor William Beinart, Karen Brown James Currey ; Wits University Press, Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk, 2013

A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge. Understanding local knowledge has become a central academic project among those interested in Africa and developing countries. In South Africa, land reform is gathering pace and African people hold an increasing proportion of thelivestock in the country. Animal health has become a central issue for rural development. Yet African veterinary medical knowledge remains largely unrecorded. This book seeks to fill that gap. It captures for the first time the diversity, as well as the limits, of a major sphere of local knowledge. Beinart and Brown argue that African approaches to animal health rest largely in environmental and nutritional explanations. They explore the widespread use of plants as well as biomedicines for healing. While rural populations remain concerned about supernatural threats, and many men think that women can harm their cattle, the authors challenge current ideas on the modernisation of witchcraft. They examine more ambient forms of supernatural danger expressed in little-known concepts such as mohato and umkhondo. They take the reader into the homesteads and kraals of rural black South Africans and engage with a key rural concern - vividly reporting the ideas of livestock owners. This is groundbreaking research which will have important implications for analyses of local knowledge more generally as well as effectivestate interventions and animal treatments in South Africa. William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford; Karen Brown is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press

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Higher Education in Mozambique: A Case Study (Higher Education in Africa) Mouzinho Mário; Peter Fry; Lisbeth A Levey; Arlindo Chilundo; Partnership for Higher Education in Africa in association with James Currey Publishers; James Currey, Higher education in Africa, Oxford, England, 2003

Mozambique Has Experienced The Most Dramatic Changes Of Any Country In Southern Africa Over The Past Thirty Years. It Suffers From A Critical Shortage Of Qualified Professionals, As Well As From Acute Regional Disparities In Wealth, Development And Trained Human Resources. The Government Attaches Great Importance To Higher Education. At The Same Time, The Emergence Of Non-governmental Universities Has Led To A Fascinating Debate On The Nature Of Higher Education In Mozambique. Hihger Education Is In Great Flux, Providing A Scenario For Considerable Contestation And Innovation, But Also Resulting In A Diverse And Vital Field.--book Jacket. 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Background -- The Last Years Of Colonialism: A University For Colonialists And Assimilados -- Independence And Socialism: Central Planning Requires A Utilitarian University -- Peace, Democracy, A Market Economy And The Emergence Of Non-governmental Institutions Of Higher Education -- 3. Students: Access And Equity -- Supply And Demand -- Distribution Of The Sexes -- Geography -- Policies For Improving Access & Equity -- Distance Learning -- 4. Teaching Staff -- Prior To The Advent Of Non-governmental Hei's -- After The Introduction Of Non-governmental Hei's -- 5. Relevance, Quality, Quantity -- What Is Taught, Where And How -- Strategic Planning -- Efficiency -- Relevance -- Efforts To Improve Efficiency & Relevance -- 6. Information And Communication Technologies: Policies And Use -- Ict At Uem -- Other Governmental Universities -- Non-governmental Universities -- What Do Students Say? -- Questions And Recommendations -- 7. Finance And Governance -- Financing The Governmental Institutions -- Financing The Non-governmental Hei's -- Unit Costs -- Governance And Management -- 8. Conclusions And Recommendations -- A Dynamic Field. Mouzinho Mário ... [et Al.]. Published In Association With Partnership For Higher Education In Africa. Includes Bibliographical References.

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Oral literature & performance in southern Africa Cuncan Brown, Editor Oxford: J. Currey ; Cape Town: D. Philip ; Athens: Ohio University Press, Studies in African literature, Oxford, Athens, Ohio, 1999

<p>This work draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, enthnomusicology and African language studies in an analysis of the complex functioning of oral texts and models in differing contexts. The work examines the continuing role of orality in modern society, the adaptation of oral models to printed forms, and the ability of oral forms to talk back to the technology of print. North America: Ohio U Press; South Africa: David Philip</p>

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nexusstc/South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis (African Issues, 30)/bad0f04182f85ad523d2d1ca4f3e8d91.pdf

South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis (African Issues, 30) Jock McCulloch James Currey Ltd, 1, 2012

Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners was hidden for over a century.South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to labour-sending states. In the twentieth century, South African mines twice faced a crisis over silicosis, which put its workers at risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, often fatal. The first crisis, 1896-1912, saw the mining industry invest heavily in reducing dust and South Africa became renowned for its mine safety.The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that the disease rate among miners is more than a hundred times higher than officially acknowledged. The first crisis also focused upon disease among the minority white miners: the current crisis is about black migrant workers, and is subject to major class actions for compensation. Jock McCulloch was a Legislative Research Specialist for the Australian parliament and has taught at various universities. His books include Asbestos Blues. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana

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zlib/no-category/A. S. Van Klinken, Johanna Stiebert, Brian Sebyala, Fredrick Hudson/Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives & the Bible (Religion in Transforming Africa, vol. 7)_117236181.pdf

Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives & the Bible (Religion in Transforming Africa, vol. 7) A. S. Van Klinken, Johanna Stiebert, Brian Sebyala, Fredrick Hudson Boydell & Brewer, Limited, Religion in Transforming Africa, 7, 2021

An invaluable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling, a key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies.Presenting the deeply moving personal life stories of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya alongside an analysis of the process in which they creatively engaged with two Bible stories - Daniel in the Lions' Den (Old Testament) and Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery (New Testament) - Sacred Queer Stories explores how readings of biblical stories can reveal their experiences of struggle, their hopes for the future, and their faith in God and humanity. Arguing that the telling of life-stories of marginalised people, such as of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, affirms embodied existence and agency, is socially and politically empowering, and enables human solidarity, the authors also show how the Bible as an authoritative religious text and popular cultural archive in Africa is often used against LGBTQ+ people but can also be reclaimed as a site of meaning, healing, and empowerment. The result of a collaborative project between UK-based academics and a Nairobi-based organisation of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, the book provides a valuable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling. A key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies, among others, the book expresses an innovative methodology of inter-reading queer life-stories and biblical stories.

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Africa's Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change (African Issues, 36) Ruth Hall; Ian Scoones; Dzodzi Tsikata; Abdirizak Nunow; Blessings Chinsinga; Emmanuel Sulle; Gaynor Paradza; John Letai; Joseph Ariyo; Joseph Yaro; Marcel Rutten; MARU SHETE; Michael Chasukwa; Michael Mortimore; Rebecca Smalley; Ward Anseeuw James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2015

Interrogates the narratives of'land grabbing'and'agricultural investment'through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy.Africa has been at the centre of a'land grab'in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for'green'energy, and cheap land and water rights. But such land is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mean for Africa? In what ways are rural people's lives and livelihoods being transformed as a result? And who will control its land and agricultural futures? The case studies explore the processes through which land deals are being made; the implications for agrarian structure, rural livelihoods and food security; and the historical context of changing land uses, revealing that these land grabs may resonate with, even resurrect, forms of large-scale production associated with the colonial and early independence eras. The book depicts the striking diversity of deals and dealers: white Zimbabwean farmers in northern Nigeria,Dutch and American joint ventures in Ghana, an Indian agricultural company in Ethiopia's hinterland, European investors in Kenya's drylands and a Canadian biofuel company on its coast, South African sugar agribusiness in Tanzania's southern growth corridor, in Malawi's'Greenbelt'and in southern Mozambique, and white South African farmers venturing onto former state farms in the Congo. Ruth Hall is Associate Professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and Director of the ESRC STEPS Centre; Dzodzi Tsikata is Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, Legon.

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The Dennis Brutus Tapes : Essays at Autobiography Bernth Lindfors (editor) James Currey, annotated edition, US, 2011

Poet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to give valuable insights into Brutus's life and works. Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) is known internationally as a South African poet, anti-apartheid activist and campaigner for human rights and the release of political prisoners. His literary works include Sirens Knuckles Boots (1963), Letters to Martha, and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), A Simple Lust (1973), and Stubborn Hope (1978). When Dennis Brutus was a Visiting Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in 1974-75, he recorded on tape a series of reflections on his life and career. In addition, he frequently responded to questions about his poetry and political activities put to him by students and faculty in formal and informal interviews that were also captured on tape. Transcripts of a selection of these tapes, as well as reprints of two interviews recorded earlier, are reproduced here in order to put on record fragments of the autobiography of a remarkable man who lived in extraordinary times and managed to leave his mark on the land and literature of South Africa. Brutus was an effective anti-apartheid campaigner who succeeded in getting South Africa excluded from the Olympics. His opposition to racial discrimination in sports led to his arrest, banning, and imprisonment on Robben Island. Upon release, he left South Africa and lived most of the rest of his life in exile, where he continued his political work and simultaneously earned an international reputation as a poet who often sang of his love for his country. The tapes are edited by Bernth Lindfors who has added an Introduction and a transcript of a 1970 interview as well as other transcripts of lectures and discussions. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, The University of Texas at Austin, and founding editor of Research in AfricanLiteratures. He has written and edited numerous books on African literature, including Folklore in Nigerian Literature (1973), Popular Literatures in Africa (1991), Africans on Stage (1999), Early Soyinka (2008), and Early Achebe (2009).

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Africa Writes Back : The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature James Currey; James Currey Ltd, 2009

In 2012 the African Writers Series celebrated its 50th anniversary. Africa Writes Back tells the publishing story behind some of the books and authors in the series.Africa Writes Back was published in 2008 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart - the novel which provided the impetus for the foundation of the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser. With the 60th anniversary of the AWS being celebrated in 2022, James Currey's book has a new resonance.'... not only the story of a publishing enterprise of great significance; it is also a large part of the story of African literature and its dissemination in the latter half of the twentieth century. The manuscript is full of the drama of that enterprise, the drama of dealing with the mother house, William Heinemann, of dealing with the often intractable political constraints dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their ambitions,their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time, their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and a European publishing house.'- Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury. North America: Ohio U Press; Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers; South Africa: Wits U Press; Nigeria: HEBN; Kenya: EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

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Bulawayo Burning : The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960 Terence O Ranger; Terence Ranger Weaver Press James Currey, Illustrated, PS, 2010

A unique and stylish contribution to the social history of African cities and Zimbabwean cultural life. NEW LOW PRICE This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explorewhat historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary imagination. Responding as it does to a novel, this history imitates some fictional modes. Two of its chapters are in effect 'scenes', dealing with brief periods of intense activity. Others are in effect biographies of 'characters'. The book draws upon and quotes from a rich body of urban oral memory. In addition to this historical/literary interaction the book is a contribution to the historiography of southern African cities, bringing out the experiential and cultural dimensions, and combining black and white urban social history. TERENCE RANGER was Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford and author of many books including Writing Revolt, Are we not also Men? (1995), Voices from the Rocks (1999) and was co-editor of Violence and Memory (2000). Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

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Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia (Eastern Africa Series, 38) Getnet Bekele James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2017

An in-depth analysis of the politics and practice of food production and supply in Ethiopia, and their impact on the largely agricultural economy and farming populations, who represent nearly 80 per cent of the country's population. Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018. In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. While the Government claimed the riots stemmed from subversive activities among large diasporic populations in the West, the evidence suggests that they were provoked by widespread internal dissatisfaction.Land deals by the Government with foreign investors, the building of vast hydroelectric dams, sugar estates and industry parks, and urban sprawl have put pressure on agricultural, rural areas. Today, dispossessions, drought and social unrest surround fears of the worst food shortages in decades. Examining these developments in Ethiopia's lake region, the author shows how transformations in state-society relations and the organization of production and exchange have impacted on a population of smallholder farmers for whom agriculture is not only the mainstay of the economy but a way of life. Getnet Bekele is Associate Professor of History at Oakland University, MI, wherehe teaches African History and the Environmental and Economic History of Africa and the Global South.

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Bulawayo Burning : The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960 Terence O Ranger; Terence Ranger Weaver Press James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K., 2010

A unique and stylish contribution to the social history of African cities and Zimbabwean cultural life.NEW LOW PRICE This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explorewhat historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary imagination. Responding as it does to a novel, this history imitates some fictional modes. Two of its chapters are in effect'scenes', dealing with brief periods of intense activity. Others are in effect biographies of'characters'. The book draws upon and quotes from a rich body of urban oral memory. In addition to this historical/literary interaction the book is a contribution to the historiography of southern African cities, bringing out the experiential and cultural dimensions, and combining black and white urban social history. TERENCE RANGER was Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford and author of many books including Writing Revolt, Are we not also Men? (1995), Voices from the Rocks (1999) and was co-editor of Violence and Memory (2000). Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

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Manhood, Morality & the Transformation of Angolan Society : MPLA Veterans & Post-war Dynamics John Spall James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk, 2020

A detailed examination of African war veterans that reveals the changes they wrought on postwar transition and society. SPECIAL COMMENDATION FOR 2020 AMAURY TALBOT PRIZE FOR AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY Between 1975 and 2002 Angola underwent a very destructive civil war, in which much of the non-elite male population was conscripted into one or other of the contending armies, the country urbanised very rapidly, and colonial-era political and moral economies were radically reshaped. This book presents a detailed examination of the pronounced changes this wrought on Angolan society, and, for the first time, the gendered impact on a generation of Angolan menrecruited by the governing MPLA. Spall shows that the war's effects went far beyond the political and economic, to affect sexual relations, the social valuation of money, respect for elder male wisdom and what it meant to bea senior man, and the role of Christianity in everyday life. Masculinity was central to how the social transformations of war were intimately experienced by Angolan soldiers and the book investigates the consequences of the men'sexperiences when they returned home and the important role of military service in constructing Angola's post-war social trajectory. A powerful study of the gendered dynamics created by the war, the book will not only be of interest to Angolanists, but to those researching masculinity and military service on the continent, and in the wider sphere.

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Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960 (western African Studies) Francois Manchuelle Martin A. Klein; Martin A. Klein Athens: Ohio University Press ; London: J. Currey Publishers, Athens, Ohio, London, ©1997

The First Major Study Of The Soninke Labor Migration Within Africa And To France, Willing Migrants Is Based Upon A Critical Analysis Of French Precolonial And Colonial Records And Interviews With Soninke Migrants. Francois Manchuelle Shows That These Migrations Were Driven By A Search For Improved Economic Options And That These Labor Movements Have A Great Deal In Common With European And American Migrations.--book Jacket. François Manchuelle. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 315-361) And Index.

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ALT 28 Film in African Literature Today (African Literature Today, 28) (Volume 28) Ernest Emenyo̲nu; Nana Wilson-Tagoe; Pat T Emenyonu; F. D Imbuga; Emmanuel Ngara; Charles E Nnolim; Ato Quayson; Alphonse Kwawisi Tekpetey; Iniobong I Uko; James Gibbs; MaryEllen Higgins; Timothy Johns; David M. M Riep; Greg Thomas; Ignatius Chukwuma; Raphael Amalaha; Aje-Ori Agbese; Moradewun Adejunmobi; Africanus Aveh; Joyce Ashuntantang; Chris Dunton; Ester Mirian Scarpa; Kari Dako; Daria Tunca; Folake Shoga; Elinettie Chabwera; Sule E Egya Ibadan, Nigeria: HEBN ; Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY: James Currey, African literature today, 28, Woodbridge, UK, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2010

A Recent Literary Phenomenon In Contemporary Africa Is The Developing Relationship Between Film And African Literature. Alt 28 Focuses On The Interface Between Film And Literature In Contemporary African Writing And Imagination. Contributors Have Examined The Issue From A Variety Of Perspectives: Critiques Of Adaptations Of African Creative Works Into Film, Analyses Of Filmic Structures In African Dramatic Literature, African Writers As Film Makers, And The Impact Of The Video Film Industry On Literature And The Reading Culture In Africa. -- Publisher Description. The Interface Between Film & Literature In Contemporary African Writing & Imagination / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Strategies For Subverting Post-colonial Oppression: Literature & Cinema In Early Sembene Ousmane / Kwawisi Tekpetey -- From Negritude To Migritude?: Moussa Sene Absa's Ainsi Meurent Les Anges (and So Angels Die) / Maryellen Higgins -- Laughing Off Apartheid: Drum Magazine & The Political Economy Of Laughter In The Late Apartheid Film / Timothy Johns -- The Works Of Jean-marie Teno & Raoul Peck: Restoring Life To A Fleeced Continent / David M.m. Riep -- Haile Gerima's Pan-african 'message To The Grassroots': Hearing Malcolm X In Amharic -- Or Harvest 3000 Years / Greg Thomas -- The Video Film Industry & Its 'substitution' For Literature & Reading In Africa: A Case Of Nigeria's Nollywood / Ignatius Chukwuma & Raphael Amalaha -- The Portrayal Of Mothers-in-law In Nigerian Movies: The Good, The Bad & Oh, So Wicked / Aje-ori Agbese -- Charting Nollywood's Appeal Locally & Globally / Moradewun Adejunmobi -- The Rise Of The Video Film Industry & Its Projected Social Impact On Ghanaians / Africanus Aveh -- Constructing Identity & Authenticity: The Evolving Cameroon Video Film In English / Joyce B. Ashuntantang. Edited By Ernest N. Emenyonu. Includes Bibliographical References.

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Gender, Home & Identity: Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan (Eastern Africa Series, 23) Katarzyna Grabska James Currey, Boydell & Brewer, Oxford, 2014

Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 Analyses the experiences of exile and return of Nuer women and men of all ages and how they negotiate and reshape gender identities and relations in the context of prolonged war and violence.Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their'homes'in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able to recreate a sense of home, community and nation? During the civil wars in southern Sudan (1983-2005) many of the displaced Sudanese, including many Nuer, were in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. In the aftermath of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, they repatriated to southern Sudan. Faced with finding long-lost relatives and local expectations of'proper behaviour', they often felt displaced again. This book follows the lives of a group of Nuer in the Greater Upper Nile region. The narratives of those displaced and those who stayed behind reveal the complexity of social change, in particular, the crucial yet relatively unconsidered transformation of gender and generational relations, and how this has impacted on state formation in what is now South Sudan. Katarzyna Grabska is a research fellow with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She is co-editor (with Lyla Mehta), of Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter? (Palgrave: 2008)

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Approaching African History Michael Brett JAMES CURREY, 2012

Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years.Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic discipline in its own right is little more than fiftyyears old. Since then the subject has grown enormously, but the question of what this history is and how it has been approached still needs to be asked, not least to answer the question of why should we study it. This book takes as its subject the last 10,000 years of African history, and traces the way in which human society on the continent has evolved from communities of hunters and gatherers to the complex populations of today. Approaching that history through its various dimensions: archaeological, ethnographic, written, scriptural, European and contemporary, it looks at how the history of such a vast region over such a length of time has been conceived and presented, and how it is to be investigated. The problem itself is historical, and an integral part of the history with which it is concerned, beginning with the changing awareness over the centuries of what Africa might be. MichaelBrett thus traces the history of Africa not only on the ground, but also in the mind, in order to make his own historical contribution to the debate. Michael Brett is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS.

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Approaching African History Michael Brett BOYE6, 1. publ, Woodbridge, 2013

Africa Is A Huge Continent, As Large As The More Habitable Areas Of Europe And Asia Put Together. It Has A History Immensely Long, Yet The Study Of That History As An Academic Discipline In Its Own Right Is Little More Than Fifty Years Old. Since Then The Subject Has Grown Enormously, But The Question Of What This History Is And How It Has Been Approached Still Needs To Be Asked, Not Least To Answer The Question Of Why Should We Study It. This Book Takes As Its Subject The Last 10,000 Years Of African History, And Traces The Way In Which Human Society On The Continent Has Evolved From Communities Of Hunters And Gatherers To The Complex Populations Of Today. Approaching That History Through Its Various Dimensions: Archaeological, Ethnographic, Written, Scriptural, European And Contemporary, It Looks At How The History Of Such A Vast Region Over Such A Length Of Time Has Been Conceived And Presented, And How It Is To Be Investigated. The Problem Itself Is Historical, And An Integral Part Of The History With Which It Is Concerned, Beginning With The Changing Awareness Over The Centuries Of What Africa Might Be. Michael Brett Thus Traces The History Of Africa Not Only On The Ground, But Also In The Mind, In Order To Make His Own Historical Contribution To The Debate. Michael Brett Is Emeritus Reader In The History Of North Africa At Soas. The Problem Of African History. The Problem Of Definition -- Solving The Problem: The Search For Information -- Solving The Problem: The Writing Of African History -- The Making Of African Society. From Hunting & Gathering To Herding & Farming -- From Herding & Farming To Cities & States -- The Peopling Of The South -- Men & Women -- From Kinship To Kingship -- The Mind Of Africa -- The Empires Of The South -- Africa In The World. Ancient, Medieaeval & Modern -- Ancient Egypt & Nubia -- The World Of Greece & Rome -- Rome Beyond The Imperial Frontiers -- Christianity In The World Of Late Antiquity -- The Arabs & Islam -- Islam, The Sahara & The Land Of The Blacks -- Islam & Christianity In The East -- Ibn Battuta & Ibn Khaldun -- The Unification Of Africa. The Age Of Empire -- An Islamic Africa -- Between The Americas & The Indies -- A History Of Change -- After Napoleon -- The Reconfiguration Of Africa -- The Reorganisation Of Africa -- The Reaction Of Africa -- The Arrival Of African History. The Resurgence Of Africa -- Africa In Contemporary History -- Approaching African History. Michael Brett. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 332-343) And Index.

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A companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ernest N. Emenyonu, Ernest Emenyo̲nu Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2017

A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your Neck - Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a preeminent story-teller. Americanah (2013), with ingeniouscraftsmanship addresses the sensitive themes of passionate love, independence, freedom and moral responsibility with extravagant and versatile narrative innovations. Through her writings, she has made herself relevant topeople of all ages - across racial and linguistic boundaries. Her talks, blogs, musings on social media, essays and commentaries, workshop-mentoring for budding young writers, lecture circuit discourses, all enrich her imaginativecreativity as they expand and define her mission as a writer.'We Should All be Feminists'she proclaimed in an essay, giving feminism a'tweak and twist'and suggesting new outlooks in literary theory. Her contributionsto African, Diasporic and World literatures deserve serious analyses, commentaries and interpretations, and this Companion to her work critically examines her creative outputs from her art and ideology, from feminism to war, to matters of myth and perception, and the challenges of multicultural existence and complex human identities. Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

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Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria (African Issues, 25) Kate Meagher Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge [England], 2010

This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in Africa. Why have informal enterprise networks failed to promote economic development in Africa? Although social networks were thought to offer a solution to state incapacity and market failure, the proliferation of socially embedded enterprise networks across Africa has generated disorder and economic decline rather than development. This book challenges the prevailing assumption that the problem of African development lies in bad cultural institutions by showingthat informal economic governance in Nigeria is shaped, not just by culture, but by the disruptive effects of rapid liberalization, state decline and political capture. Identity Economics traces the rise of two dynamic informal enterprise clusters in Nigeria, and explores their slide into trajectories of Pentecostalism, poverty and violent vigilantism. Drawing on over twenty years of empirical research on African informal economies, the author highlights the institutional legacies, networking strategies and globalizing dynamics that shape the regulatory role of social networks in Africa's largest and most turbulent economy. Through an ethnography of informal economicgovernance, this book shows how ties of ethnicity, class, gender and religion are used to restructure enterprise networks in response to contemporary economic challenges. Moving beyond primordialist interpretations of African culture, attention is drawn to the critical role of the state and the macro-economic policy environment in shaping trajectories of informal economic governance. KATE MEAGHER is a former Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford and is currently a Lecturer in the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics. Nigeria: HEBN

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Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana (African Issues, 23) Kenneth Good BOYE6, Illustrated, PS, 2008

Analyses the limits to democracy in Botswana. Is Botswana still 'an African miracle'? Thanks to diamonds the country's growth rate was the highest in the world into the 1990s, and regular parliamentary elections judged free on polling day have been held since 1965. However aduopoly of presidentialism and ruling party preponderance has stimulated arrogance, complacency and corruption among the country's rulers. What is 'perpetual democracy'? The ruling BDP is kept in perpetual power by the first-past-the post election system. The President in Botswana is empowered to do whatever he pleases. President Mogae has amended the constitution to ensure the automatic succession of the Vice-President General Ian Khama, the son of Seretse and Ruth Khama.A new Directorate of Intelligence Services provides closer control of power. Why are the Khoisan confined to 'a gulag of special settlements'? The expulsion of the San from Central Kalahari Game Reservewas relentlessly enforced in 1997 and 2002. A multi-cultural coalition asserts that the government is implementing 'a philosophy of cultural genocide on the non-Tswana tribes'. How can the gift of diamonds be turned to reform? Professor Good asserts the need to strengthen and democratise the electoral and voting systems. He sees diversification as essential to reduce the dependency on diamonds. He urges the use of mineral wealth to reduce the gap between rich and poor; half of the population are at present in poverty in a rich country. KENNETH GOOD was Professor of Politics at the University of Botswana when he was expelled from the country. South Africa: Jacana

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War Veterans in Zimbabwe's Revolution: Challenging neo-colonialism and settler and international capital ZVKANYORWA WILBERT SADOMBA, Sadomba, Zvakanyorwa Wilbert, Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba Weaver Press ; James Currey, 2011, 2011

An insider's view of the land issue and farm invasions in Zimbabwe, this book gives a different perspective than is normally heard, revealing much about the tensions within Zimbabwean society and between the war veterans and the ruling party Written by a critically positioned participant in Zimbabwe's political history, this book covers more than a generation of eyewitness account and scholarly analysis by a war veteran academic and activist. Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba. Include Bibliographical References (p. 231-237) And Index.

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