Books published by James Currey

Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.

Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa.

Investigates the production, trade and consumption of the bouquets sold in European supermarkets and the consequences of this for the globalised economy.

Timely examination of sustainability partnerships, their effectiveness and the forms of sustainability they produce.

This volume lists all the important work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1992 and 1996.

This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999.

A study of gult from the 13th century to 1910 revealing much about the history of highland Christian Ethiopia.

Brenda Cooper examines the work of the new generation of African writers who have placed migration as central to their writing.

The author argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social movements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy in South Africa.

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond.

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery.

Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works.

Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects.

Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipThe author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.

Gives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today.

Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Innovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa.

Innovative and challenging study that provides fresh insights on the anthropology of death and postcolonial politics.

A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets.

Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens".

Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.

A reinterpretation of the history of Sokoto that provides a new assessment of its leaders and their visions for the Muslim state.

The first full-length examination of the archaeology and history of the Namib Desert.

Of interest to linguists, artists, ma-youth, scholars of urban studies, educationalists, policy makers and language planners who are grappling with the challenges of multilingualism and language of education in Kenya.

An invaluable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling, a key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies.