Books in the African Issues series

A timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and economically.

Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa.

A vivid account of modern pastoralist armed conflict.

This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in Africa.

Analyses the limits to democracy in Botswana.

Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.

Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.

Interrogates the narratives of "land grabbing" and "agricultural investment" through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy.

An examination of the political instrumentalization of disorder.

Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle.

Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into 'state collapse'?

Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development politics in African states.

This collection analyses the approach taken by the current government of Ethiopia to deal with the massive human rights violations that took place from 1974 to 1991 under the Derg.

Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan's new south and South Sudan.

Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people.

Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession.