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  • - Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa
    by Professor Pim (Royalty Account) Higginson
    £71.49

    Reveals the importance of the jazz craze in France between the two world wars and the French construction of jazz as a "black music" - an exoticization which had wide-reaching effects on the artistic output of the African diaspora and on contemporary perceptions of black writers, musicians and film makers.

  • - Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera
    by Professor Arlene A. (Royalty Account) Elder
    £64.49

    The hybrid novels of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing, and Yvonne Vera address contemporary African politics in contrasting styles but complementary religious, cultural, and feminist approaches.

  • - Konso Landscape, Culture and Development
    by Elizabeth E. Watson
    £78.99

    Living Terraces is both an ethnographic and historical account of the terraces of Konso in southern Ethiopia.

  • - Violence, History and Representation on an African Frontier
    by Mark Leopold
    £58.49

    This work examines the relationship between violence, narrative and memory in the former West Nile district of Uganda.

  • - Kinship and Community in Meganisi
    by Roger Just
    £78.99

    This volume reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater.

  • by Timothy Holmes
    £78.99

    As the research to this book proceeded there were major finds of papers previously unknown even to the David Livingstone Research Project in Edinburgh.

  • by Nicholas Westcott
    £30.99 - 71.49

  • - Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria
    by Kate Meagher & Abdul Raufu Mustapha
    £69.49

    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.

  • - African Literature Today
    by Ernest N (Author) Emenyonu
    £93.49

    ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression among Africans on the continent, and abroad.

  • by Femi Osofisan, Chukwuma Okoye, Amy Bonsall, et al.
    £78.99

    Highlighted in this volume is the detective play The Inspector and the Hero by Femi Osofisan, one of Africa's leading playwrights. The play has until now only been published in Nigeria.

  • - African Literature Today
    by Ernest N. Emenyonu, Akachi Ezeigbo, Alexander Opicho, et al.
    £78.99

    AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY was established at a time of uncertainty and reconstruction but for 50 years it has played a leading role in nurturing imaginative creativity and its criticism on the African continent and beyond.

  • - Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
    by Rebecca (Royalty Account) Jones
    £93.49

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA FIRST BOOK AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

  • - Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Engagements, From the 1960s to the Present
    by Gerhard Seibert, Paulo Fagundes Visentini, Analucia Danile Pereira & et al.
    £64.49

    Fills an important gap in the study of Africa's international relations and its engagement with rising economies in the Global South.

  • - Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria
    by Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Jibrin Ibrahim, David Ehrhardt, et al.
    £20.49 - 107.99

    Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threaten the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.

  • by Andreas Eckert & Stefano Bellucci
    £40.49 - 141.49

    The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.

  • - A Comparative Perspective
    by Anna Mdee, Andrew Coulson, David Potts, et al.
    £93.49

    An up-to-date, comparative, examination of the developing economy of Tanzania and its grass roots progress out of poverty, with pointers to its wider implications for policymakers, NGOS and practitioners.

  • by Joshua Williams, Yvette Hutchison, Chukwuma Okoye, et al.
    £45.49

    African dance is discussed here in its global as well as local contexts as a powerful vehicle of aesthetic and cultural exchange and influence.

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