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| Struggles for Citizenship in Africa Bronwen Manby 'This is a sharp, concise and convincing analysis of the ruthless manipulation of the idea of citizenship by Africa’s rulers. Manby brilliantly exposes the large scale legalised discrimination and disenfranchisement which underlie many of today’s political conflicts in Africa. A must read for policymakers and any serious student of African politics.' - Tom Porteous, author of 'Britain in Africa' | The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism How the IMF has Undermined Public Health and the Fight Against AIDS Rick Rowden 'This book is an extraordinary achievement. It includes a careful study of the political economy of HIV/AIDS and a clear explanation of the economic policies associated with neoliberalism and the IMF. Rowden shows that neoliberalism and IMF policies bear a significant responsibility for the limitations of health policies and budgets in the poor countries and, especially, for the insufficiencies of prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.' - Professor Alfredo Saad Filho, Head of Department of Development Studies SOAS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Neoliberal Africa The Impact of Global Social Engineering Graham Harrison This book explores the ways in which African countries have experienced the neoliberal project, highlighting how this project has gone beyond economic liberalisation and towards a bolder social transformation. | The Rise of China and India in Africa Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions Edited by Fantu Cheru and Cyril Obi This book examines in detail the opportunities and challenges posed by the increasing presence of China and India in Africa, and proposes critical interventions that African governments must undertake in order to negotiate with China and India from a stronger and more informed platform. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Egypt The Moment of Change Edited by Rabab El Mahdi and Philip Marfleet
This book is the first for over 20 years to comprehensively and accesibly examine contemporary issues in Egypt. It presents a series of analyses of politics, culture and society, including many by Egyptian academics and activists. It addresses the turmoil created by imposition of neo-liberal economic policies, the increasingly fragile nature of an authoritarian regime, the influence of movements for democratic opening and popular participation, and the impacts of Islamism. More information | A People Betrayed The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide Linda Melvern 'The best overall account of the background to the genocide, and the failure to prevent it, is Linda Melvern's A People Betrayed ... She discovered so much that we did not know, and her book remains one of the best sources available.' - Lt. Gen Romeo Dallaire, Force Commander United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda, UNAMIR. October 1993-August 1994 and author of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The End of Certainty Towards a New Internationalism Stephen Chan 'This is a gloriously ambitious book. No one has done anything like it ... Forget Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington. Stephen Chan is the public intellectual with his finger on the global pulse.' - Baroness Helena Kennedy | African Women and ICTs Investigating technology, gender and empowerment Edited by Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb
ICT policy is currently being made and implemented all over Africa, but the authors argue that this is happening mostly in the absence of clear knowledge about the ways gender inequality and ICTs are impacting each other and that by becoming alert to a gender dimension in ICT developments at an early stage of the information revolution, we may be able to prevent greater scaled undesirable effects in the future. More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Africa The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal
'In this compassionate, elegantly written book Patrick Chabal argues that mainstream political science, political theory and economics fail to do justice to the complexities of African social life. In their place, he offers an interdisciplinary, interpretive approach that offers sensitive insights into contemporary political realities from the point of view of the people who suffer and strive through them.' - Tim Kelsall, Editor, African Affairs More information | Life After Violence A People's Story of Burundi Peter Uvin
'A unique and much-needed view from below. Peter Uvin gives a voice to Burundi's youth and offers refreshing and challenging new insights into conflict dynamics in the Great Lakes.' - Filip Reyntjens, University of Antwerp 'Peter Uvin's book goes beyond the usual categorizations to reveal a much less romantic, more complex, more brutal and more hopeful image of society in Burundi. It presents a challenging local understanding of the different dimensions of the peacebuilding agenda, making it a thought-provoking must-read for anyone interested in the area' - Beatrice Pouligny, CERI/Sciences Po Paris & Georgetown University
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| Development and the African Diaspora Place and the Politics of Home Claire Mercer, Ben Page & Martin Evans
'This engaging and well-written book offers a richly empirical analysis of the roles of diaspora associations in development back home. Ultimately, the book requires us to rethink many assumptions about the migration-development nexus for Africa, recentering the discussion on nuances, context, heterogeneity, and the everyday lives of people who make these long journeys' - Garth Myers, Kansas University More information | The Trouble with Aid Why Less Could Mean More for Africa Jonathan Glennie
'Jonathan Glennie's excellent and immensely readable new book presents a compelling case for those of us who care about Africa not to demand ever more aid, but rather to seek the more fundamental changes in the global economy which could reduce dependency on aid and contribute to the ultimate eradication of poverty.' - David Woodward, former head of New Global Economy Programme, nef 'The Trouble with aid certainly hits the spot. A concise and forthright critique and summary of the aid dilemma, its lack of prohibitive jargon and lofty rhetoric afford it wide and deserved appeal.' - New Agriculturalist Read Jonathan Glennie's new blog www.thetroublewithaid.org.
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| Kenya - Democracy on Trial Godwin Murunga
Kenya - Democracy on Trial tells the story of the violence that erupted following the outcome of the disputed general election in December 2007. Across the world, media accounts hailed the violence as a consequence of old 'tribal hatreds', marking the end of an era in which the country was assumed to be an island of peace in a sea of chaos. In this book, the first to cover events in Kenya fully, Godwin Murunga provides a much more nuanced analysis. He shows that the electioneering and historical elements of injustice, combined with a close race and a winner-takes-all system, provide a much better context for the protests, violence, criminality and murders which followed. More information | Africa's Development Impasse Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation Stefan Andreasson
Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores post-development alternatives. More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Peace and Conflict in Africa Edited by David J. Francis
'This is a welcome and pioneering attempt, conducted overwhelmingly by Africans, to integrate the insights both of academic conflict and peace analysis, and of indigenous African approaches to conflict resolution, and apply them to the needs of peace-building in modern Africa.' - Christopher Clapham, Editor, The Journal of Modern African Studies
More information | Britain in Africa Tom Porteous ''This is the most helpful and illuminating book on a Western country's foreign policy in Africa for a very long time. Porteous takes us behind the scenes into the policy world itself. Rarely have such intricacies been conveyed so compellingly' - Jane Guyer, Johns Hopkins University 'A lucid, hugely informative and insightful account of British policy towards Africa under Blair. It should be required reading for today's Ministers and their advisers.' - David Mepham, Director of Policy, Save the Children 'In the latest in the ‘African Arguments’ series, Tom Porteous provides a succinct and very useful overview of some of the highs and lows of Britain’s Africa policies under the Labour government …The book serves as an excellent overview of the issues involved in trying to design and implement policies in a continent as diverse and afflicted as Africa ... He does so with admirable clarity while at the same time remaining sensitive to the genuine dilemmas that confronted the British government.' - Paul D. Williams, George Washington University, Journal of Modern African Studies Read Tom Porteous in The Guardian here More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Darfur - Updated and Revised A New History of a Long War (Second Edition) Julie Flint & Alex de Waal 'The best introduction is Darfur: A Short History of a Long War by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal...their accounts are as readable as they are tragic' - Nicholas D. Kristof in The New York Review of Books 'Among the best works available' - Mahmood Mamdani, University of Columbia 'Essential reading' - Mia Farrow 'The book is an impressive source of detailed information about a conflict that has been grossly over-simplified by most western reporters and advocacy groups.' - Alan J. Kuperman, Lyndon B. Johnson, School of Public Affairs University of Texas, Journal of Genocide Research 'Disentangling myth from reality in Darfur is so difficult that the credentials of those who judge events there are particularly important. Those of both authors of this … work are excellent A masterpiece.' - Sudan - The Passion of the Present http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/2005/11/the_word_is_gen.html Read Alex de Waal's Blog 'Making Sense of Darfur' here Insight with Alex de Waal: the Crisis in Darfur Available Now!
More information | Climate Change in Africa Camilla Toulmin
Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat. This book outlines current thinking and evidence and it impact such change will have on Africa's development prospects. More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fearless Fighter An Autobiography Vera Chirwa 'She has faced every obstacle, every threat, every setback with courage and determination, and with faith that what she is doing is right...she is a remarkable person and hers is a remarkable story' - Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International Published November 2007 - Available NowMore information | China in Africa Chris Alden
'Chris Alden has written the first substantive book on China-Africa relations in three decades. Anyone wishing to understand the complexities of China's engagement with Africa must read this fine study.' - David Shambaugh, George Washington University & The Brookings Institution 'In this short and readable book, Chris Alden provides a clear overview of 'Alden's book answers the need for a measured review of China-Africa relations. Alden combines judicious analysis with a balanced, authoritative survey of the context and nature of current relations' - The Times Literary Supplement, May 23rd 2008 'A useful analysis of China’s increasing economic role in Africa.' – Chartist 'Alden’s book answers the need for a measured review of China-Africa relations. Alden combines judicious analysis with a balanced, authoritative survey of the context and nature of current relations Unlike those commentators who have rushed to pronounce and prescribe, he captures the rich potential and sense of dynamism that China has catalysed in Africa with a grounded appreciation of the challenges and constraints ... This is important Alden’s account is well-calibrated, especially when empirical research on "the content and context of Chinese involvement in Africa is desperately needed.' – TLS More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC William Mervin Gumede
'A timely, well-written and important book' - The Economist ‘A Shakespearian tale of power struggles, paranoia, betrayals, secrets, lies, and, above all, hubris.’ -The Guardian 'This is a definitive account ... told with revelatory research, a cool head and expert storytelling.' - Naomi Klein, author No Logo 'Eagerly anticipated.' - South Africa Magazine Read William Gumede online | The New Development Management Critiquing the Dual Modernization Sadhvi Dar and Bill Cooke 'Critical thinking on the intersection between development and management studies is a rarity. From amongst those engaged in such thinking, the leading light and the rising star have combined forces to edit this outstanding collection. It should provoke debate amongst academics in both fields, as well as amongst development practitioners and policy makers, and will no doubt become a classic statement of what is at stake in the immensely complex and hugely important politics concealed within the apparently innocuous term "development management".' - Christopher Grey, University of Warwick | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Land and Sustainable Development in Africa Edited by Kojo Sebastian Amanor and Sam Moyo This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa, with chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa. It traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and addresses a new agenda based on social justice. Available NowMore information | Algeria Since 1989 Between Terror and Democracy James D. Le Sueur Algeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. In this book Le Sueur shows that Algeria is at the very heart of contemporary debates about Islam and secular democracy. Between Terror and Democracy is a lively examination of how the fate of one country is entwined with much greater global issues. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The United States in Africa Bush Policy and Beyond Raymond W. Copson
'Ray Copson casts a dispassionate eye on recent U.S. policy toward Africa - on trade, development aid, support for democracy, counter terrorism, and HIV-AIDS - and lays bare the gap between high-flown rhetoric and the often disappointing reality. An essential book.' - Jon Sawyer, Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting More information | African Literature as Political Philosophy M.S. C. Okolo African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in particular at Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, but situates these within the broader context of developments in African literature over the past half-century, discussing writers from Ayi Kwei Armah to Wole Soyinka. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Congo Wars Conflict, Myth and Reality Thomas Turner 'Thomas Turner provides the most lucid and detailed analysis of the complexity of the internal and interregional wars that have plagued this vast country since 1996. By situating this tragic history within the legacies of colonialism and Mobutuism, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the criminalization of political activity in resource rich but politically unstable regions of the world, he has produced a remarkable and highly readable book.' - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, United Nations Development Programme | The Politics of Land Reform in Africa From Communal Tenure to Free Markets Ambreena Manji ‘Few scholars have exposed the inner workings of land law formation and its effects on the landless and land-short as this book does’. - Professor Sam Moyo, African Institute for Agrarian Studies ‘[A] remarkable book ...' - Professor Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam Exposes how private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure across Africa, and illuminates the role played by legal consultants and the World Bank in the process. It highlights what the implications will be for some of the world's poorest communities. More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Looting Africa The Economics of Exploitation Patrick Bond
'...a solid theoretical, empirical, and analytical framework showing and proving that the processes of looting the African continent, which started with the slave trade, have continued to this day.' - Professor Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania '...a short but sweeping book, offering a multifaceted analysis of African economic deprivation...' - Multinational Monitor ‘An important contribution to the political analysis of the continent, as viewed on the inside.' - ComAfrica, Brazil ‘Bond’s book points out at a great deal of valuable information and a compelling critique of Africa’s place in the world.’ - The African Channel, Book review by Ronald Elly Wanda More information | Everyday Corruption and the State Citizens and Public Officials in Africa Giorgio Blundo and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan with N. B. Arifari, M. T. Alou and M. Mathieu 'Everyday Corruption and the State provides an icy critique of the factual shortcomings of a literature over-heated by metaphor, and a demonstration of the systematic, pervasive and institutionalized nature of corruption in three West African states. No-one concerned with developmental issues in Africa can ignore or be indifferent to this evidence of the ways public officials routinely deal with their citizens.' - Richard Fardon, SOAS, University of London | ||||||||||||||||||||
| African Intellectuals Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development Edited by Thandika Mkandawire
'African Intellectuals makes a compelling case that constructing a democratic, developmental, and socially inclusive social order has become a moral imperative and a question of survival for Africa...because it provides a comprehensive understanding and grasp of the key components of an African renaissance, this book will be of considerable value to all those who are genuinely concerned with Africa's intellectual revival.' - African Studies Review More information | Kenya The Struggle for Democracy Edited by Godwin R. Murunga,, Kenya and Shadrack W. Nasong’o
'Refreshing, rigorous, informative, and multidisciplinary...identifies the reasons behind Kenya's failure to institutionalize democracy [and] provides possible solutions.' - John Mukum Mbaku, Weber State 'A book of first-rate scholarship...' - Lisa Aubrey, Ohio University. Published in association with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) www.codesria.org More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Congo Plunder and Resistance David Renton, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig
"A book which must be read by those who believe that the marginalization of Africa is the result of its backwardness, while it is in fact the very product of its integration in the global imperialist system." - Samir Amin 'A concise, analytical and well-corroborated account of how Western countries from the late 19th century on systematically and ruthlessly exploited the Congo, both economically and strategically. Anyone wishing to comprehend the origins of Africa's seemingly endless problems is advised to get hold of a copy of this book.' - Marcus Papadopoulos in The Tribune
More information | Intellectuals and African Development Pretension and Resistance in African Politics Edited by Bjrn Beckman and Gbemisola Adeoti
These essays study the responses to "the African predicament". They draw on many sources including prominent writers such as Soyinka, Ngũgĩ and Achebe; military men in power; and students who defy repression. More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ghana One Decade of the Liberal State Edited by Kwame Boafo-Arthur, University of Ghana
'This, the first book-length assessment of the latest experiment in liberal democracy in Ghana, is a timely study. It shows in an admirable way both the progress and the still existing shortcomings in the institutionalization of liberal democracy and will undoubtedly attract a wide readership in academic and policy-making circles.' - Piet Konings, African Studies Centre, Leiden Published in association with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) www.codesria.org
More information | No Refuge The Crisis of Refugee Militarization in Africa Edited by Robert Muggah
This book traces the experience of refugee and IDP militarization in four African countries emerging from or affected by war: Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. It considers the effects of such militarization on regional, national, and human security, and reflects on the responses of hosting governments and humanitarian organizations. Read Robert Muggah on Refuge militization in The Ottawa Citizen More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| African Anthropologies History, Critique and Practice Edited by Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills and Mustafa Babiker This landmark volume on the history, application and teaching of anthropology in post-colonial Africa shows how the continent’s anthropologists are redefining the historical legacy of European and American disciplinary hegemony, and developing distinctively African contributions to anthropological theory and practice. | Endgame in the Western Sahara What Future for Africa's Last Colony? Toby Shelley
'Toby Shelley focuses on the situation in the territory since the ceasefire of 1991... Where [he] takes up the story in earnest, he tells it very well, and his is the only full-length, readily available account in English that covers the years of failed diplomacy.' - Jeremy Harding in The London Review of Books 'The first real study of this obscure conflict in over 20 years.' - Middle East Policy More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Whose Development? An Ethnography of Aid An Ethnography of Aid Emma Crewe and Elizabeth Harrison
"This book moves beyond the conventional deconstruction of development and stimulates new, relational ways of thinking about it."- Cecile Jackson, University of East Anglia "A rich picture of the complexities and power relations involved in foreign aid." - Michael Edwards, NGO Division, World Bank More information | Aids and Power Why there is no political crisis - yet Alex de Waal
One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments. In fact, democratic governance is spreading. Contrary to fearful predictions, the social fabric is not being ripped apart by bands of unsocialized orphan children. New! Read the Aids and Power blog hosted by the Social Science Research Council here More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium The NEPAD Debate Edited by J. O. Adésín , Yao Graham and A. Olukoshi
This book is the first significant attempt by Africa's own scholarly community to unpack NEPAD and evaluate its practical potential. It raises key questions about the market economy, poverty, gender and regional development, and examines NEPAD's implications... 'The book serves as an extremely useful introduction to the NEPAD debate and offers a forceful critique of the neoliberal orthodoxy that dominates the majority of the plan’s development prescriptions. The collection provides a thought-provoking analysis of the key issues by some of the eminent intellectuals in this field.' - Alexander Beresford, Edinburgh University, Journal of Modern African Studies More information | Trial Justice The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army Tim Allen African Arguments: a series of accessible, topical books about Africa today that get to the heart of why Africa is the way it is and how it is changing SAMPLE CHAPTER AVAILABLE!Read the Introduction to the book online here
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| The Paternalism of Partnership A Postcolonial Reading of Identity in Development Aid Maria Eriksson Baaz 'Development theorists are beginning to acknowledge that aid workers reproduce and thrive on postcolonial representations of identity. The African 'other' is sometimes seen through a romantic lens, more often a derogatory one: passive, corrupt and dangerous. Eriksson contributes to this emerging body of work by exposing and contextualising such racist assumptions.' - Emma Crewe, University of Warwick | Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa Edited by Harri Englund and Francis B. Nyamnjoh
"This rich collection will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the interplay among identity and belonging, community, the nation and their fragments, and the mediation of power and politics by material and symbolic resources." - Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| African Renaissance Roadmaps to the Challenge of Globalization Fantu Cheru "...analyzes Africa's marginal position in the new global hierarchy...offers important but pragmatic pointers that African governments must undertake to navigate successfully the cold currents of globalization...a must read for African policymakers, civil society leaders, and donor organizations." - Carlos Lopes, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme | The Economist's Tale A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank Peter Griffiths "This is a delightful read, a real page turner...[It offers] a behind the scenes view of the interplay of politics, greed and the World Bank's obsession with one economic solution...an ideal read for the sixth form economist or sociologist and an essential text for courses on development and globalisation…its value in winning the interest of students cannot be overstated. Every school should have a copy. Persuade your school or college librarian now." - The Journal of the Economics & Business Education Association, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress Edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
'An important, well-grounded and stimulating contribution to current debates on democratisation, both in Africa and globally.' - New Agenda '[An] informative book...Eight African scholars question what is actually on offer with liberal democracy, which today all too easily equates with rampant free-market ideology while social democracy remains off the agenda...the questions asked in this book should also be asked in Washington and Whitehall.' - Tribune More information | Negotiating Modernity Africa's Ambivalent Experience Edited by Elísio Salvado Macamo Africa has been through a particularly ambivalent experience of modernity. Previous research has tended to emphasize its alien nature in Africa and how it has been resisted. This book seeks to show how this tension and the impulse to modernity have contributed to changing African society over the past one hundred years. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Urban Africa Changing Contours of Survival in the City Edited by AbdouMaliq Simone and Abdelghani Abouhani 'This powerfully insightful book edited by Abdoumaliq Simone successfully brings out the rich and diverse complexity, ambivalence, resilience and variety of African urban lives and experiences. The book shows that there can be no simple, naïve and monolithic explanations and interpretations. This is an important book that re-affirms the agency of ordinary African urban dwellers, while recognizing the often very difficult conditions of their existence but at the same time expressing the optimism and resilience that define African urban life.' - Tade Akin Aina, The Ford Foundation, Nairobi | Continent of Mothers, Continent of Hope Understanding and Promoting Development in Africa Today Torild Skard " [Here] Africa emerges as a continent ever-struggling with anguish on the one hand, and hope on the other. Skard is the best kind of child advocate: principled, down-to-earth, engaged, knowledgeable, sardonic, angry and determined. The book mirrors the qualities of its author." - Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging Francis B. Nyamnjoh
'Raises the level of the debate on the media and the democratization agenda in Africa to a very high level with perceptive and insightful analysis of the problematic. It is a "must" text for all students of mass media and development in Africa.' - Cecil Blake, Chair, Africana Studies Department, University of Pittsburgh 'These studies provide valuable insights into the operation of the media in Africa, at least in some parts of it.' - African Studies Review
More information | Postcolonial Identities in Africa Edited by Richard Werbner and Terence Ranger In this book, distinguished anthropologists, political scientists and social historians from Africa, Europe and America make a radical break with much conventional wisdom in postcolonial discourse to explore contemporary African identities in transition. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Congo from Leopold to Kabila A People's History Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja This book is the winner of the African Politics Conference Group (APCG) first Best Book Award 2003 | Memory and the Postcolony African Anthropology and the Critique of Power Edited by Richard Werbner Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the urgent need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its official and unofficial forms, its moves between the personal and the social in postcolonial transformations. "The essays in this volume are must reading for all who contemplate life in the African postcolony." - African Studies Review | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Insiders and Outsiders Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Francis B. Nyamnjoh 'A remarkable study… Among the many significant theoretical and empirical contributions that Nyamnjoh makes in this study, perhaps most incisive is the intensity with which Africa is incorporated into the consumption practices of global capitalism in that no object, territory or experience is beyond being a locus of often fierce struggle over their disposition and use.' - Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, author For the City Yet to Come: Changing Urban Life in Africa (Duke University Press, 2004). | Reinventing Order in the Congo How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa Edited by Theodore Trefon
'An outstanding social anthropology of Kinshasa...will stand as a major contribution to the social science literature on the Congo, and also a model for looking at African urban life from the standpoint of the victims of state mismanagement' - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Director, UNDP, Oslo Governance Centre "The separate essays provide useful insights into urban living in Kinshasa" More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| What Women Do in Wartime Gender and Conflict in Africa Meredeth Turshen and Clotilde Twagiramariya This is the first book to describe and analyze the experience of women in African civil wars. | Women and Land in Africa Culture, Religion and Realizing Women's Rights Edited by L. Muthoni Wanyeki This book brings together ongoing research into rural African women and land rights, with the aim of contributing towards gender equity and the economic independence and human rights of African women | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa Edited by Richard Werbner "Werbner's trilogy on identity, memory and subjectivity has now become the most sustained anthropological enquiry into the nature of postcolonialism in Africa." -Richard Fardon, Professor of West African Anthropology, University of London, SOAS | Energy Services for the Urban Poor in Africa Issues and Policy Implications Edited by Bereket Kebede and Ikhupuleng Dube | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dangerous Alliances Civil Society, the Media and Democratic Transition in North Africa Lise Garon Civil Society, the Media and Democratic Transition in North Africa | Ethiopia since the Derg A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance Edited by Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen
A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance 'Honest, objective, and useful, this book provides an invaluable assessment of the government‘s democratic credentials. Both accessible and thought-provoking, it‘s a major contribution.' - Patrick Gilkes, journalist and writer on Africa More information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closing the Circle Democratization and Development in Africa Richard Sandbrook "...for students and scholars to get a quick yet far-reaching and inclusive overview of the complex conditions defining democracy and development in Africa." - Georg Sorensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark | The Regulation of the Power Sector in Africa Attracting Investment and Protecting the Poor Edited by Edward Marandu and Dorcas Kayo | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Ordeal of the African Writer Charles R Larson "Conveys something of the literary treasures of a much misunderstood continent" - Doris Lessing, author | African Cinemas Decolonizing the Gaze Olivier Barlet Translated by Chris Turner. Decolonizing the Gaze | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Politics of Memory Truth, Healing and Social Justice Edited by Ifi Amadiume and Abdullahi A An-Na'im Truth, Healing and Social Justice | Male Daughters, Female Husbands Gender and Sex in an African Society Ifi Amadiume Gender and Sex in an African Society | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Disciplining Democracy Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa Rita Abrahamsen 'This book’s greatest contribution is its ability to challenge the widely held assumption by the Western institutions and agencies over the relations between democracy and development.' - Journal of Third World Studies | Nigeria: Renewal from the Roots? The Struggle for Democratic Development Adebayo Adedeji and Onigu Otite The Struggle for Democratic Development | ||||||||||||||||||||
| African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21st Century Looking Back to Move Forward: Essays in honour of Adebayo Adedeji at Seventy Bade Onimode et al | Family, Population and Development in Africa Edited by Aderanti Adepoju This book investigates the challenges currently facing the African family. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Energy Utilities and Institutions in Africa Edited by M R Bhagavan | Petroleum Marketing in Africa Issues in Pricing, Taxation and Investment Edited and Introduced by M R Bhagavan Issues in Pricing, Taxation and Investment | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reforming the Power Sector in Africa Edited and Introduced by M R Bhagavan | Transport Energy in Africa Edited by M R Bhagavan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| South Africa: Limits to Change NEW UPDATED EDITION The Political Economy of Transition Hein Marais | Changing Class Education and Social Change in post-Apartheid South Africa Edited by Linda Chisholm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Against Global Apartheid South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance Patrick Bond 'An excellent contribution ... to a small but growing list of publications that seek to redraw the focus of South Africa‘s transition to non-racial democracy, away from the nature of the political negotiations to the political economy of the process.' - Stephen Hurt, International Affairs | Rainbow Vice The Drugs and Sex Industries in the New South Africa Ted Leggett | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa Edited by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im | Western Supremacy The Triumph of an Idea? Sophie Bessis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Re-Inventing Africa Matriarchy, Religion and Culture Ifi Amadiume | Biomass Energy Policy in Africa Selected Case Studies Edited by D L Kgathi, D O Hall, A Hategeka & M B M Sekhwela | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Planning and Management in the African Power Sector With an Introduction by V. Ranganathan Lucy Khalema-Redeby, Hailu Mariam, Abel Mbewe, Ben Ramasedi Africa in the New Millennium Series The books in the Africa in the New Millennium series are an initiative by CODESRIA, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, to encourage African scholarship relevant to the multiple intellectual, policy and practical problems and opportunities confronting the African continent in the twenty-first century.
African Arguments Series African Arguments is a series of short books about Africa today. Aimed at the growing number of students and general readers who want to know more about the continent, these books intend to highlight many of the longer-term strategic as well as immediate political issues confronting the African continent. They will get to the heart of why Africa is the way it is and how it is changing. The books are scholarly but engaged, substantive as well as topical. The series is a collaboration between Zed Books, The Royal African Society, The International Africa Institute, The Social Science Research Council and Justice Africa. Series Editors: Alex de Waal, Social Science Research Council and Richard Dowden, Royal African Society
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