The Government Is Us Now
Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945–1980
By Kara Moskowitz
Description forthcoming.
African History · Economic Development · Colonialism and Decolonization · Kenya · African Studies
The Great Upheaval
Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria
By Judith A. Byfield
African History · Women’s History · Women’s Studies · Nationalism · Nigeria · African Studies
Everyday Life on the African Continent
Fun, Leisure, and Expressivity
Edited by Kemi Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu
Description forthcoming.
Popular Culture · Africa · African Studies · Human Geography · Customs, Traditions, and Everyday Life
The Politics of Disease Control
Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920
By Mari Kathryn Webel
Description forthcoming.
African History · History of Science · African Studies · Eastern Africa · Human Geography
Emergent Masculinities
Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age
By Ndubueze L. Mbah
African History · Gender Studies · African Studies · Igbo · Slavery and Slave Trade · Western Africa · Atlantic Studies
Powerful Frequencies
Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002
By Marissa J. Moorman
Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. Moorman details how settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state all used radio to project power, while the latter employed it to challenge empire.
Finding Dr. Livingstone
A History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archive
Edited by Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman
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Foreword by Guido Gryseels and Dominique Allard
In 1870, journalist Henry M. Stanley embarked on a search for the famous explorer Dr. David Livingstone. In 1872, Stanley returned with the story of how he had found Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika, restored his health, and resupplied his expedition. This collection of unpublished documents reveals how Stanley shaped the account of his journey.
Diaries and Journals · African History · Africa · African Studies · Biography, Adventurers and Explorers
Age of Concrete
Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique
By David Morton
Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment and greatest bequest to the future.
African History · Human Geography · Urban Planning · Mozambique · African Studies
Converging on Cannibals
Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509–1670
By Jared Staller
In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving—cannibalism—was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals. Some Africans and European slavers allowed these rumors of themselves as man-eaters to stand unchallenged.
African History · African Studies · Atlantic Studies · Slavery and Slave Trade
Staging the Amistad
Three Sierra Leonean Plays
By Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de’Souza George
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Edited by Matthew J. Christensen
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Introduction by Matthew J. Christensen
Staging the Amistad collects for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the 20th century. Written and staged before and after the start of Sierra Leone’s decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness.
African Theater · Sierra Leone · African Studies · African Authors
Modernist Art in Ethiopia
By Elizabeth W. Giorgis
In locating her arguments at the intersection of visual culture and literary and performance studies, Giorgis details how innovations in visual art intersected with shifts in narratives of modernity. The result is a bold intellectual, cultural, and political history of Ethiopia, with art as its centerpiece.
The Wolf at Number 4
A Novel
By Ayo Tamakloe-Garr
When Desire Mensah, a disgraced school teacher in her thirties, meets Wolfgang “Wolf” Ofori, an eleven-year-old genius, a strange friendship develops between them. Set in 1990s Ghana, The Wolf at Number 4 is a chilling and funny gothic tale that forces us to confront whether the wolves around us are born or made.
A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
By Terri Ochiagha
In the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha asks new questions and brings wider attention to unfamiliar but crucial elements of the story, including new insights into questions of canonicity, and into literary, historiographical, and precolonial aesthetic influences.
African History · Literary Criticism, Africa · African Studies
