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Dianna Bell
The Rope Maker of Mali

Through the life of an ordinary Muslim, this book examines the way that Muslims in Mali use the concept of baraji, or "divine reward," as a profound but unexplored framework for understanding Is…

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Christopher Conz
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho

Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study f…

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David Dickinson
South Africa's Constitution and the Law of the Township

How are residents of South Africa's townships responding to socio-economic inequality and a pervasive sense that the country's democratic transition has not delivered on its constitutional promises of soc…

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Toyin Falola, Knowledge Grey Moyo
African Cultures and Medical Systems

This book offers a thorough examination of the diverse medical practices deeply rooted in African cultures.It provides a comprehensive analysis of traditional African medicine, emphasizing its historical …

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Toyin Falola, Victor Angbah
African Rivers

The Nile, Congo, Niger, Chad and Zambezi are names that evoke watershed periods in Africa's history. Yet, until now, scholars have paid little attention to Africa's riverine environment or how it has shap…

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Meghan E. Ference
Matatu Work

Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu.How can mass transit systems be designed in ways that respond to the nee…

lieferbar ab 3.11.2026.

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Lisa Elena Fuchs
A Political Ecology of Kenya's Mau Forest

A timely and important examination of the forest's environmental crises, investigating their biophysical, political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects, that reveals why previous conservation efforts fa…

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Julia Gallagher
Building the state in Africa - Political architecture: popular response

Can the stories of states be told through their buildings? What can a former apartheid prison now constitutional court, the world's largest Catholic church, an imperial palace now theme park, and the foot…

lieferbar ab 1.12.2026.

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Andreas Gemählich
The Kenyan Cut Flower Industry & Global Market Dynamics

Investigates the production, trade and consumption of the bouquets sold in European supermarkets and the consequences of this for the globalised economy.From a macro-perspective, it appears that the cut f…

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Jonathan M Jackson
Visions for an African Valley

What was the effect of the numerous, albeit often unsatisfied, plans for development on the land and communities of the Kilombero valley throughout the colonial period and after independence?This book tra…

lieferbar ab 16.3.2027.

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Christina Kenny
Reimagining the Gendered Nation

Eastern Africa Series

Explores the complex and intersecting dimensions of gender, ethnicity, and culture on women in the Global South, as well as the central roles of women in resisting colonial rule, and their foundational co…

lieferbar ab 20.10.2026.

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Nathalie Arnold Koenings
Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast

Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the national narratives of both Zanzibar and Tanzania.For two c…

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Léa Lacan
Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills

Explores the ways in which human and forest futures are interdependent, and the need to recognize its multiple meanings equally with its wealth of natural resources.Forests are a changing environment, imp…

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Frank Matose
Forests and the Power of Marginalised People in Southern Africa

Decades after independence and the end of apartheid, why have forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover the land and resource rights they lost under colonialism?This book ex…

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Luke Melchiorre
Comrade Power! Student Activism and the Kenyan State, c. 1978-2002

Analysis of one of the most influential and powerful student movements in all of sub-Saharan Africa and its impact on transition in the postcolonial state.During the late-1980s, waves of protest challenge…

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Salvatory S. Nyanto
Slave Emancipation, Christian Communities, and Dissent in Post-Abolition Tanzania, 1878-1978

Religion in Transforming Africa

The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slaves in this process.Examining the intersection of post-sla…

lieferbar ab 17.11.2026.

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Jeff Opland
Xhosa literature

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesXhosa Literature: Spoken and Printed Words consists of fourt…

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Jeff Opland
Xhosa Poets and Poetry

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesThe Xhosa-speaking peoples who settled along the south-eastern seaboard of South Africa…

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Uhuru Portia Phalafala
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement

Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studie…

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Jodie Yuzhou Sun
Kenya's and Zambia's Relations with China 1949-2019

Eastern Africa Series

Finalist: ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Prize Examines the history of post-colonial Kenya's and Zambia's relations with the People's Republic of China from ideological, political, economic and social perspectives.…

lieferbar ab 20.10.2026.

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