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1. Cover image for 'Congo Style'
From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence
Ruth Sacks

Examines the impact of colonial Belgium’s influence on the Congo’s visual culture

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Web Open Access Forthcoming
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Nollywood and Nigerian City Life
Connor Ryan

Examines the relationship between Nollywood and the city of Lagos

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Ebook Forthcoming View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Lagos Never Spoils"
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Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
Sakiru Adebayo
Investigates the ways in which post-colonial African fiction deals with or, in some cases, becomes the source of memory friction
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Ebook Forthcoming View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Continuous Pasts"
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Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa
Ng’ang’a Wahu-Muchiri
How representations of land and landscape perform important metaphorical labor in African literatures
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Ebook Forthcoming View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Writing on the Soil"
5. Cover image for 'Peace, Preference, and Property'
Return Migration after Violent Conflict
Sandra F. Joireman
A bottom-up analysis of what displaced people need rather than what states want
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Peace, Preference, and Property"
6. Cover image for 'In Search of Tunga'
Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town
André Chappatte
The lives of young male Muslim "adventurers" in a Malian town
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "In Search of Tunga"
7. Cover image for 'African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975'
Sara Pugach
Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975"
8. Cover image for 'Power / Knowledge / Land'
Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa
Laura A. German
Explores contested truths surrounding land governance in Africa and beyond
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Power / Knowledge / Land"
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Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg
Martin J. Murray
The shift from dependence upon human decision-making in security services to Artificial Intelligence
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Infrastructures of Security"
10. Cover image for 'The Evolution of Settlement Systems in the Region of Vohémar, Northeast Madagascar'
Volume: 63
Henry T. Wright
In this monograph, Henry T. Wright reports on the results of a four-year archaeological survey on the northeast coast of Madagascar, near the town of Vohémar. Researchers found evidence of a roughly 600-year-old port site; early estuarine villages of the 7th and 8th centuries; and a rock shelter with microlithic tools.
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Evolution of Settlement Systems in the Region of Vohémar, Northeast Madagascar"
11. Cover image for 'Disability and Social Justice in Kenya'
Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation
Nina Berman and Rebecca Monteleone, Editors
The first interdisciplinary and multivocal study of its kind to review achievements and challenges related to the situation of persons with disabilities in Kenya today
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Disability and Social Justice in Kenya"
12. Cover image for 'Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency'
The Routes of Terror in an African Context
Daniel E. Agbiboa

Mobility as the driving force of armed conflict

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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency"
13. Cover image for 'African Performance Arts and Political Acts'
Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo, Editors
Explores how performance arts, whether staged or in daily life, regularly interface with political action across the African continent
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "African Performance Arts and Political Acts"
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Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper MInes
Patience Mususa
Environmental change and social consequences in the Copperbelt region of Zambia
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "There Used to Be Order"
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Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
Joshua D. Rubin
Examines the political significance of rugby in South Africa’s post-apartheid present
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Animated by Uncertainty"
16. Cover image for 'Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies'
Notes on the Social Production of Cities
Mahbub Rashid
The conscious construction of urban space
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies"
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Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa
Okechukwu Nwafor
The social significance of aso ebi fashion in Nigerian and West African society
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Ebook Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Aso Ebi"
18. Cover image for 'Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa'
Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock, Editors
Studying elites through the framework of accountability
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa"
19. Cover image for 'Filtering Histories'
The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times
Drew A. Thompson
Highlights the role of photography and other aesthetic practices in state formation and bureaucratic transition
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Filtering Histories"
20. Cover image for 'The Black and White Rainbow'
Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa
Carolyn E. Holmes
A multifaceted study of identity in South Africa exploring themes of nationalism, democracy, and nation building
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Black and White Rainbow"
21. Cover image for 'Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice'
Catherine M. Cole
Dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice"
22. Cover image for 'Prismatic Performances'
Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation
April Sizemore-Barber
Exploring the contradictions of post-Apartheid South Africa through performance
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Prismatic Performances"
23. Cover image for 'Shaping the Future of Power'
Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations
Lina Benabdallah
Probes the power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Shaping the Future of Power"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Shaping the Future of Power"
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Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations
Lina Benabdallah
Probes the power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Shaping the Future of Power"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Shaping the Future of Power"
24. Cover image for 'Textile Ascendancies'
Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria
Elisha P. Renne and Salihu Maiwada, Editors
Handwoven and manufactured textiles, aesthetic preferences, and trade in northern Nigeria
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Textile Ascendancies"
25. Cover image for 'The Ait Ayash of the High Molouya Plain'
Rural Social Organization in Morocco
Volume: 69
John Chiapuris
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Ebook Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Ait Ayash of the High Molouya Plain"
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Our EPUB and PDFs may be read using free Adobe Digital Editions software. Digital Editions is available for PC, Mac, major mobile platforms, and many e-reader devices. Visit the Adobe Digital Editions Supported Ebook Devices page for a complete list of e-reader devices that are compatible with the software and their FAQ page for other questions about the software.

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