Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan

Guma Kunda Komey

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 9
• The conflict in the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan illustrates how state policies concerning the control of land can cause local conflicts to escalat... Lees meer

Imperialism and Development

Nicholas Westcott

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 50
• A compelling exploration of one of the most ill-advised and calamitous interventions in colonial development history. As colonial development took off... Lees meer

Ethiopian Warriorhood

Tsehai Berhane-Selassie

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 41
• The history of the often-overlooked chewa Ethiopian warriors and their crucial role in defending their homeland against invasion, as well as their str... Lees meer

Lost Nationalism

Elena Vezzadini

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 31
• Winner of the African Studies Association 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize A lively account of the 1924 Revolution in Sudan and the way in which the c... Lees meer

Decolonising State & Society in Uganda

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 56
• Key book on the debates surrounding the knowledge economy and decolonialization of African Studies, that brings the subject up to date for the 21st ce... Lees meer

A Political Ecology of Kenya's Mau Forest

Lisa Elena Fuchs

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 58
• A timely and important examination of the environmental crises, investigating their biophysical, political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects, that... Lees meer

Land Tenure Security

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 44
• An alternative analysis of the impact of the 1975 land reforms on peasant land rights, rural inequality and development in Ethiopia's Amhara highlands... Lees meer

The Quest for Socialist Utopia

Bahru Zewde

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 18
• A lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and its... Lees meer

Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya

Jeremiah M Kitunda

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 52
• A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociolog... Lees meer

The African Garrison State

Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R Mekonnen

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 21
• Examines Eritrea's deprivation of human rights since independence and its transformation into a militarised "garrison state". WINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outs... Lees meer

The Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 48
• Analyses the structural and institutional obstacles to democratization in transitional societies - fractured societies, fragmented economies and insti... Lees meer

Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa

Elizabeth Daley

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 1
• In the context of increasing privatization and land reform these case studies reveal how reforms impact on women's rights to land and how these rights... Lees meer

The Eritrean National Service

Gaim Kibreab

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 37
• 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... Lees meer

Dealing with Government in South Sudan

Cherry Leonardi

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 16
• Essential reading for scholars of Sudan, of Africa and of local governance, as well as policy-makers and practitioners, this study explores chiefly au... Lees meer

The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia

Mohammed Mohammed Hassen

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 27
• First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in shapi... Lees meer

The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia

Mohammed Mohammed Hassen

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 27
• First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in shapi... Lees meer

Dealing with Government in South Sudan

Cherry Leonardi

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 16
• Explores various aspects of chiefly authority in South Sudan from its historical origins and evolution under colonial, postcolonial and military rule,... Lees meer

The Eritrean National Service

Gaim Kibreab

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 37
• 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... Lees meer

Resurrecting Cannibals

Heike Behrend

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 11
• This is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom o... Lees meer

Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia

Katrin Bromber

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 53
• Innovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa. Sports in Ethiopia was always more than a means of useful recreation. It was also a way... Lees meer

Gender, Home & Identity

Katarzyna Grabska

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 23
• Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 Analyses the experiences of exile and return of Nuer women and men of all ages a... Lees meer

Moving People in Ethiopia

Francois Piguet

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 3
• One consequence of development has been that large numbers of people have been displaced from their land - the editors provide an analysis of such pop... Lees meer

Remaking Mutirikwi

Joost Fontein

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 25
• Finalist for the African Studies Association 2016 Melville J. Herskovits Award A detailed ethnographic and historical study of the implications of fas... Lees meer

Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia

Günther Schlee, Abdullahi A Shongolo

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 13
• A study of the longue durée of a marginalized part of northern Kenya, examining the process of territorialization and the role of Islam in politicizin... Lees meer