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

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

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

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

Lost Nationalism

Elena Vezzadini

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 31
• The 1924 Revolution was a watershed in Sudanese history, the first episode of anti-colonial resistance in which a nationalist ideology was explicitly ... 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
• The land issue, as in other parts of Africa, dominates life in Ethiopia, where agriculture accounts for 80 per cent of employment, but despite land re... Lees meer

The African Garrison State

Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R Mekonnen

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 21
• Examines Eritrea's development since independence in 1991, the growing deprivation of human rights in all aspects of its political and judicial organi... 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

The Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 48
• In the early 1990s, a wave of democratization swept through many African countries, but its prevailing election-centred liberal approach failed to res... 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

Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya

Jeremiah M Kitunda

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 52
• Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, a... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict

Suad M E Musa

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 39
• Analyses the involvement of the agro-pastoral al-Hakkamat Baggara women of Darfur in Sudan's recent civil wars and the implications of this for confli... Lees meer

Ploughing New Ground

Getnet Bekele

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 38
• An in-depth analysis of the politics and practice of food production and supply in Ethiopia, and their impact on the largely agricultural economy and ... Lees meer

Foundations of an African Civilisation

David W Phillipson

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 19
• A single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the roots of medieval Christian Ethiopia. This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-... Lees meer

Nairobi in the Making

Constance Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern Africa | nr. 46
• Examines the making and remaking of Nairobi, one of Africa's most fragmented, vibrant cities, contributing to debates on urban anthropology, the polit... Lees meer