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Lagos Never Spoils
Nollywood and Nigerian City Life
Av Connor Ryan
Häftad, 2023
537 kr
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Winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group Outstanding Book AwardThe slogan “Lagos shall not spoil,” found in print media, political campaigns, and common conversation, represents a shared expression of the optimism the city embodies. However, on …
African Print Cultures
Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century
Av Derek Peterson, Steph Newell m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
459 kr
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The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By …
Unsettled History
Making South African Public Pasts
Av Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
397 kr
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Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 to South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ®. Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions of …
Rise of the African Novel
Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
Häftad, 2018
373 kr
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The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging …
Developing States, Shaping Citizenship
Service Delivery and Political Participation in Zambia
Av Erin Hern
Häftad, 2019
325 kr
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At the nexus of political science, development studies, and public policy, Developing States, Shaping Citizenship analyzes an overlooked driver of political behavior: citizens’ past experience with the government through service provision. Using evidence from Zambia, this book demonstrates that the …
Postcolonial Animal
African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
Av Evan Mwangi
Häftad, 2019
512 kr
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Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics demonstrates the importance of African writing to …
Textile Ascendancies
Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria
Av Elisha Renne, Salihu Maiwada
Häftad, 2020
333 kr
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Until this century, Northern Nigeria was a major center of textile production and trade. Textile Ascendancies: Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria examines this dramatic change in textile aesthetics, technologies, and social values in order to explain the extraordinary shift in …
Black and White Rainbow
Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa
Häftad, 2020
397 kr
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Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting multiparty elections and encouraging debate. …
Filtering Histories
The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times
Häftad, 2021
459 kr
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Photographers and their images were critical to the making of Mozambique, first as a colony of Portugal and then as independent nation at war with apartheid in South Africa. When the Mozambique Liberation Front came to power, it invested substantial human and financial resources in institutional …
Aso Ebi
Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa
Häftad, 2021
325 kr
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Honorable Mention: Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association | August 12, 2024The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi …
Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa
Av Wale Adebanwi, Rogers Orock
Häftad, 2021
446 kr
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Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public …
African Performance Arts and Political Acts
Av Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
365 kr
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African Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection, edited by Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo, engages with a breadth of African countries …
There Used to Be Order
Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines
Häftad, 2021
325 kr
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In There Used to Be Order, Patience Mususa considers social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large state mining conglomerate, the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), in the mid-1990s. As the copper mines were Zambia’s most important economic …
Animated by Uncertainty
Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
Häftad, 2021
397 kr
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In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that …
Power / Knowledge / Land
Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa
Av Laura German
Häftad, 2022
464 kr
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The 2008 outcry over the “global land grab” made headlines around the world, leading to a sustained interest in the dynamics and fate of customary land among both academics and development practitioners. In Power/Knowledge/Land, author Laura German profiles the consolidation of a global knowledge …
Infrastructures of Security
Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg
Häftad, 2022
506 kr
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Much of the South African government’s response to crime—especially in Johannesburg—has been to rely increasingly on technology. This includes the widespread use of video cameras, Artificial Intelligence, machine-learning, and automated systems, effectively replacing human watchers with machine …
In Search of Tunga
Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town
Häftad, 2022
333 kr
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This volume on Muslim life focuses on young male migrants of rural origin who move to build better lives in Bougouni, a provincial town in southwest Mali. Describing themselves as “simply Muslims” and “adventurers,” these migrants aim to be both prosperous and good Muslims. Drawing upon seventeen …
Writing on the Soil
Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa
Häftad, 2023
443 kr
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Winner of the 2024 African Studies Association Bethwell A. Ogot Book PrizeAcross contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Those concerns, however, have …
Continuous Pasts
Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
Häftad, 2023
512 kr
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Finalist: Memory Studies Association 2025 First Book Award Shortlist | April 7, 2025 In Continuous Pasts, author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past is etched on bodies and topographies, resonant in silences and …
Congo Style
From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence
Av Ruth Sacks
Häftad, 2023
459 kr
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Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II’s Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko’s totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist …
Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony
Av Abdilatif Abdalla, Annmarie Drury
Häftad, 2024
582 kr
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The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony) is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1969 and 1972. He originally wrote the poems while incarcerated by the government of Jomo Kenyatta for sedition as a result of his political activism and …
Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change
Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders
Häftad, 2024
459 kr
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Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social …
Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights
The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana
Av Ellie Gore
Häftad, 2024
333 kr
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Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights investigates the transformative impacts of global development's sexual rights agenda on queer politics and activism in Ghana. With queer men bearing a disproportionate burden of HIV in Africa, rights-based health interventions have sought to tackle the …
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures
Häftad, 2024
373 kr
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Typologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Despite humor being omnipresent in African societies and their literatures, discussions of contemporary African literature have largely dismissed it as being …
Homeowner Ideology
Economic (F)Utility of Real Property Rights in Four African Cities
Häftad, 2025
385 kr
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While homeownership has clear benefits among the impoverished, The Homeowner Ideology shows that the utility of real property rights as an economic resource are severely limited in sub-Saharan African cities. Although global poverty has declined since 1990, it remains widespread in Subsahara, the …
Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal
Intermarriage, Qur'anic Education, and Jihad
Av Aly Dramé
Häftad, 2025
385 kr
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Weaving together oral and written sources, The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal investigates previously overlooked dimensions of Islamization in Senegambia through the processes of intermarriage, Qur’anic education, and jihãd. Due to its geographic location at the point where …
Education Alibi
Tracing Education's Entanglements Across Contemporary Africa
Av Elizabeth Cooper, Erdmute Alber m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
521 kr
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Education is generally promoted as the key to the future of Africa in global development discourses about the continent. Education’s official story in Africa continues to be one of innocence and public good, yet, since colonial times, education has constituted an area of intense contestation. The …
Post-Global City
Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa
Av Katrien Pype, Omolade Adunbi m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
459 kr
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The Post-Global City seeks to open a new field of analytical inquiry that examines knowledge production and technological developments in urban Africa rooted in local, historical realities, while also partaking in transnational, global processes. This work explores the ways in which urban residents …
Exit of a Hero
Photography and the Visual Culture of Commemoration in Southern Nigeria
Häftad, 2026
459 kr
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In Exit of a Hero, Okechukwu Nwafor explores the cultural, political, and socioeconomic implications of photography in commemorative practices in southern Nigeria from the nineteenth century to the present. Focusing on obituary and commemorative photographs of late nineteenth and early …
Out for Glamour in Africa
A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine
Häftad, 2026
459 kr
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Out for Glamour in Africa critically reflects on how Black women utilized Drum magazine, a leading publication in Africa during the era of independence, for political empowerment and constructing notions of Black femininity. Wanjirũ G. Mbure terms the concept of femme urbAfricana, a model of Black …
