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Publications
RSS FeedAfrica: The Oral & Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa
2007-10-18, Issue 324
Ruth Finnegan is renowned as the scholar who has made a whole generation of Africanists realise the singular importance of oral literature. She is the author of the classic "Oral Literature in Africa" and a whole range of other work in Africa. She as...
Africa: Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
2007-10-18, Issue 324
The Swiss missionaries played a primary role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasises how these European intellectuals, brought to the deep rural areas of southern Africa by...
Southern Africa: Conflicts Over Land and Water in Africa
2007-10-18, Issue 324
Efforts to change the race-based systems of land ownership and land tenure in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe have pushed land issues to the forefront of social and economic discourses in Africa. This collection examines the broader context of the...
Uganda: Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers and Colonial Policies
2007-10-18, Issue 324
Today's development agenda is ever more focused on results. This book raises questions about how results and outcomes are evaluated, and reflects on notions of 'success' in colonial and contemporary development policy. The first part of the book exam...
Silences in NGO discourse: The role and future of NGOs in Africa
By Issa G Shivji
2007-07-05, Issue 311
Issa Shivji has long been one of the most articulate critics of the destructive effects of neoliberal policies in Africa, and in particular of the ways in which they have eroded the gains of independence....
'From the slave trade to ‘free’ trade: How trade undermines democracy and justice in Africa'
Edited by Patrick Burnett and Firoze Manji
2007-07-05, Issue 311
Leading up to the 200th commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade and the 50th anniversary of Ghana’s independence, Pambazuka News carried a series of four special issues during 2006 and 2007 that included articles designed to raise awareness and debate on issues of trade and justice. These and other articles from Pambazuka News have been gathered in this book....
Paulin Houtondji (ed): La rationalite, une ou plurielle
New titles from CODESRIA
2007-07-06, Issue 311
Edited by one of Africa's foremost intellectuals, former deputy chair of CODESRIA and deputy chair of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (ICPHS), this work investigates how reason, an attribute of all of humanity, expresses itself in different cultures, in diverse, plural and unified forms. ...
Wole Soyinka. The Invention & The Detainee
New titles from Africa Books Collective
2007-06-14, Issue 308
The first formal publication of two early plays by Soyinka, with a foreword by Abiola Irele. Widely regarded as Soyinka's first play, The Invention (1959) reflects the obsession with race that marked the apartheid regime, and prophetically depicts th...
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe: Biafra Revisited
New titles from Africa Books Collective
2007-06-14, Issue 308
It is now forty years since the beginning of the genocide of the Igbo people, a holocaust of unprecedented proportions in recent African history. According to the author of this study it was the ‘foundational genocide of post-conquest, European-occupied Africa’. This text demonstrates that the Biafran War, 1967-1970, was the second phase of the Igbo genocide, following the initial massacre of 100,000 Igbo across the principal towns and cities of northern Nigeria. ...
Joe Ebiegberi Alagoa: The Practice of History in Africa. A History of African Historiography
New titles from Africa Books Collective
2007-06-14, Issue 308
A history of African historiography from an African perspective, attempting to answer questions concerning the practice of history from the civilizations of ancient Egypt, through the varied cultures and regions of the continent, to contemporary times. The book presents the philosophy of the oral tradition as co-existent with the written traditions of ancient Egypt, the Islamic tradition, and the western European historiographical traditions....
Nigeria: Chinua Achebe lands Man Booker
2007-06-15, Issue 308
Nigeria's Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of modern African writing, has been awarded the £60 000 Man Booker International Prize. His award capped a triumphant month for Nigerian authors as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie last week landed the Orange Pri...
Nigeria: Author Adichie wins Orange Prize
2007-06-08, Issue 307
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. She beat five other contenders for the £30,000 women-only award, including Kiran Desai, shortlisted for her Booker Prize winner The Inheritance ...
Mazonde and Thomas (eds): Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property in the 21st Century
New titles from CODESRIA
2007-06-08, Issue 307
This volume discusses the contested nature of intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in the context of southern Africa, including the protection of folklore, IKS in a digital era, the valuation and safeguard of heritage sites, the need for appropriate IKS legislation, community-based control of natural resources, and the role played by traditional music in the maintenance of community. ...
Zeleza (ed.): The Study of Africa. Vol. 2, Global and Transnational Engagements
New titles from CODESRIA
2007-06-08, Issue 307
This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the 21st century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. The volume is divided into two parts, the first entitled Globalisation Studies and African Studies, and the second, African Studies in Regional Contexts. ...
New African studies reference resource from Hans Zell Publishing
New 2nd edition of Africa: A Guide to Reference Material
2007-05-30, Issue 306
Hans Zell Publishing launches a new second, fully revised and greatly expanded edition of a classic African studies reference resource. First published in 1993, John McIlwaine’s Africa: A Guide to Reference Material, evaluates the leading sources...
Kenya: The history and impact of political cartooning in Kenya
2007-05-25, Issue 305
The history of cartooning in Kenya, as it is elsewhere in Africa, is indeed a work in progress. Little has been written on Kenyan journalism, and even less on cartooning. A generation ago, Kenya hardly had any cartooning significance. But in the last...
New titles from James Currey Publishers
2007-05-16, Issue 304
Pambazuka News is pleased to be bringing to you selected new title information from James Currey Publishers, the leading Oxford-based publishers of academic books on Africa.
Basil Davidson: Black Star. A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah
New titles from James Currey Publishers
2007-05-16, Issue 304
Fifty years after Ghana's independence, it is now clear that Kwame Nkrumah was 'a black star'.
Fiona Magowan: Melodies of Mourning: Music & Emotion in Northern Australia
New titles from James Currey Publishers
2007-05-16, Issue 304
This work presents a theoretically rich and ethnographically vivid account of the way that song, dance and musical sensitivity weave into the lives of an aboriginal community of Australia.
William Wolmer: From Wilderness Vision to Farm Invasions
New titles from James Currey Publishers
2007-05-16, Issue 304
African people were written out of the landscape in many parts of colonial Zimbabwe. The uses, perceptions and experiences of this landscape by African people have been ignored. Land reform has failed to take account of the way the landscape is bound up with identity through its embodiment of ancestral spirits and function as a repository of social memories. ...
New titles from James Currey Publishers
Charmaine Pereira: Nigeria: Gender in the Making of the Nigerian University System
2007-05-11, Issue 303
This study maps the changing character of the university system in Nigeria, with a particular focus on gender. It asks four major questions: How have gendered structures and processes at the contextual and systemic levels affected universities? In what ways have the workings of the university system contributed to gender differentials? How have women contributed to policy issues in university education? What are the gender implications of existing reforms of the university system?...
New titles from James Currey Publishers
Mwiria, Ng'ethe, Ngome et. al: Public and Private Universities in Kenya New Challenges, Issues and Achievements
2007-05-11, Issue 303
A review the history of higher education in Kenya, this study details the emergence of private universities, most of them with a Christian religious orientation, as major players in the provision of tertiary-level education....
New titles from James Currey Publishers
Manuh, Gariba & Budu: Ghana: Change and transformation in Ghana's publicly funded universities
2007-05-11, Issue 303
This study is set in the context of Ghana's socioeconomic realities, in an economy dominated by structural adjustment programming, fiscal restraint and Ghana's recent status as a Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC). Ghana's public universities have faced competition from offshore universities as well as from non-university centres of knowledge production and research....
Gambia: Gambian circumcisors publicly abandon knives
2007-05-11, Issue 303
A sizable number of Gambian female circumcisors publicly abandoned their knives in front of a crowd at the Independence Stadium in Bakau, 12 km from the capital Banjul, swearing that they would no longer use their knives to circumcise or mutilate the...
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