Hunting Game

Louisa Lombard

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 61
• Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the govern... Lees meer

Islamic and Caste Knowledge Practices Among Haalpulaaren in Senegal

Roy Dilley

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library
• This book examines in historical perspective the hitherto little-studied relationship between Islam and caste among the Haalpulaaren of Senegal. The I... Lees meer

Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, C.1850-Present

Meera Venkatachalam

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library | nr. 49
• Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anl... Lees meer

An African Niche Economy

Jane L Guyer

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library
• Of the several forces reshaping West African rural societies and economies in the post-colonial period, one of the most pervasive is the rapid growth ... Lees meer

From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland

Harri Englund

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library | nr. 26
• From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland is the first full-length ethnography to tell villagers' stories from war to peace in Mozambique.... Lees meer

Pioneers of the Field

Andrew Bank

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 51
• Focusing on the crucial contributions of women researchers, Andrew Bank demonstrates that the modern school of social anthropology in South Africa was... Lees meer

The Middle Class in Mozambique

Jason Sumich

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 57
• In recent years, the growth of a middle class has been a key feature of the 'Africa Rising' narrative. Here, Sumich explores the formation of this mid... Lees meer

Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia

Marloes Janson

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library | nr. 45
• This monograph deals with the sweeping emergence of the Tablighi Jama'at - a transnational Islamic missionary movement that has its origins in the ref... Lees meer

Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana

Carola Lentz

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 33
• Drawing on two decades of research this social and political history of North-Western Ghana traces the creation of new ethnic and territorial boundari... Lees meer

Inside African Anthropology

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library | nr. 44
• Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. ... Lees meer

After Rape

Holly Porter

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 53
• Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, mis... Lees meer

In Search of Gender Justice

Jessica Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 58
• What might gender justice look like in matrilineal Malawi? Ideas about gender and human rights have exerted considerable influence over African policy... Lees meer

Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa

Isak Niehaus

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 43
• Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa reconstructs the biography of an ordinary South African, Jimmy Mohale. Born in 1964, Jimmy came of age i... Lees meer

Hunting Game

Louisa Lombard

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library | nr. 61
• Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the govern... Lees meer

Race for Education

Mark Hunter

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 60
• Following the end of apartheid in 1994, the ANC government placed education at the centre of its plans to build a nonracial and more equitable society... Lees meer

An African Niche Economy

Jane L Guyer

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 18
• Of the several forces reshaping West African rural societies and economies in the post-colonial period, one of the most pervasive is the rapid growth ... Lees meer

Salafism in Nigeria

Alexander Thurston

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library | nr. 52
• The spectre of Boko Haram and its activities in Nigeria dominates both media and academic analysis of Islam in the region. But, as Alexander Thurston ... Lees meer

Race for Education

Mark Hunter

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library | nr. 60
• Following the end of apartheid in 1994, the ANC government placed education at the centre of its plans to build a nonracial and more equitable society... Lees meer

War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone

Krijn Peters

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 41
• The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholar... Lees meer

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa

Ilana Van Wyk

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library | nr. 47
• The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attractin... Lees meer

Art, Performance, and Ritual in Benin City

Charles Gore

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 37
• This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the charismatic priests and priest... Lees meer

Inventing an African Alphabet

Ramon Sarró

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 69
• In 1978, Congolese inventor David Wabeladio Payi (1958-2013) proposed a new writing system, called Mandombe. Since then, Mandombe has grown and now ha... Lees meer

'Half-London' in Zambia: Contested Identities in a Catholic Mission School

Anthony Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | International African Library
• This book describes and analyses life in 'St Antony's', a Zambian Catholic boys' mission boarding school in the 1990s, using the context-sensitive met... Lees meer

Rainforest Relations

Melissa Leach

• Hardcover | Engels | International African Library | nr. 13
• With environmental change and conservation in West Africa's tropical rainforests becoming topics of increasing political and academic interest, this b... Lees meer