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Walter E A van Beek, Harrie M. Leyten
Masquerades in African Society

Explores the dynamics of African masquerades and mask performances on the continent, linking performative expressions to societal characteristics.What is the meaning of masks and masquerades in African tr…

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David Dickinson
South Africa's Constitution and the Law of the Township

How are residents of South Africa's townships responding to socio-economic inequality and a pervasive sense that the country's democratic transition has not delivered on its constitutional promises of soc…

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Toyin Falola, Victor Angbah
African Rivers

The Nile, Congo, Niger, Chad and Zambezi are names that evoke watershed periods in Africa's history. Yet, until now, scholars have paid little attention to Africa's riverine environment or how it has shap…

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Lisa Elena Fuchs
A Political Ecology of Kenya's Mau Forest

A timely and important examination of the forest's environmental crises, investigating their biophysical, political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects, that reveals why previous conservation efforts fa…

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Andreas Gemählich
The Kenyan Cut Flower Industry & Global Market Dynamics

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 f…

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Christina Kenny
Reimagining the Gendered Nation

Eastern Africa Series

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 co…

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Frank Matose
Forests and the Power of Marginalised People in Southern Africa

Decades after independence and the end of apartheid, why have forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover the land and resource rights they lost under colonialism?This book ex…

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Luke Melchiorre
Comrade Power! Student Activism and the Kenyan State, c. 1978-2002

Eastern Africa Series

Analysis of one of the most influential and powerful student movements in all of sub-Saharan Africa and its impact on transition in the postcolonial state.During the late-1980s, waves of protest challenge…

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Stephanie Newell
Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century.WINNER: 2025 African Literature Association Book of the Year -…

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Jeff Opland
Xhosa literature

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesXhosa Literature: Spoken and Printed Words consists of fourt…

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Jeff Opland
Xhosa Poets and Poetry

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesThe Xhosa-speaking peoples who settled along the south-eastern seaboard of South Africa…

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Michael Pesek
Diplomacy, Trade and Imperialism in East Africa, 1850-1900

A detailed overview of East African diplomacy at the end of the pre-colonial era, which provides a corrective to the commonly held view that African diplomats were inexperienced, naïve and parochial.This …

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Uhuru Portia Phalafala
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement

Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studie…

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Jodie Yuzhou Sun
Kenya's and Zambia's Relations with China 1949-2019

Eastern Africa Series

Finalist: ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Prize Examines the history of post-colonial Kenya's and Zambia's relations with the People's Republic of China from ideological, political, economic and social perspectives.…

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Christian A Williams
Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation

Illuminates how Christian communities shaped the trajectory of one nation's liberation struggle through the life of Namibian refugee pastor, Salatiel Ailonga.Born at a Finnish mission station in South Wes…

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African Futures in the Making

What lies ahead for rural Africa, given a rapidly increasing population, climate change, poverty, inequality and projections of an increasing vulnerability to natural hazards and food shortages?Bringing t…

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African Futures in the Making

What lies ahead for rural Africa, given a rapidly increasing population, climate change, poverty, inequality and projections of an increasing vulnerability to natural hazards and food shortages?Bringing t…

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Alt 42

Examines the state of African poetry today, the continuing influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation and their work in written poetry and in spoken word, continuing oral indigenous tradi…

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Alt 43

This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings in the emerging genre of Afrifuturism.In contrast to Afrofuturism, which explores th…

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Decolonising State & Society in Uganda

Eastern Africa Series

Key book on the debates surrounding the knowledge economy and decolonialization of African Studies, that brings the subject up to date for the 21st century.Decolonization of knowledge has become a major i…

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