To Speak and Be Heard

Holly Hanson, Holly Elisabeth Hanson

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• A history of a political practice through which East Africans have sought to create calm, harmonious polities for five hundred years. "To speak and be... Lees meer

In Idi Amin's Shadow

Alicia C Decker

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Finalist for the 2015 Aidoo-Snyder Prize In Idi Amin's Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women's complex and sometimes paradoxical rel... Lees meer

Reel Pleasures

Laura Fair

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global me... Lees meer

Ambivalent

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gat... Lees meer

Africanizing Oncology

Marissa Mika

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African cancer institute has shaped l... Lees meer

The Krio of West Africa

Gibril R Cole

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Sierra Leone's unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of... Lees meer

Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence

Meredith Terretta

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped... Lees meer

An Uncertain Age

Paul Ocobock

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They al... Lees meer

Invisible Agents

David M Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional histo... Lees meer

Football and Colonialism

Nuno Domingos

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist José Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican footb... Lees meer

Crossing the Color Line

Carina E Ray

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Winner of the 2017 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize Winner of the 2016 American Historical Association's Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora Finalist for th... Lees meer

An Uncertain Age

Paul Ocobock

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They al... Lees meer

Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on differen... Lees meer

Colonial Meltdown

Moses E Ochonu

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Historians of colonial Africa have largely regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity. In... Lees meer

Living with Nkrumahism

Jeffrey S Ahlman

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists, in... Lees meer

We Are Fighting the World

Gary Kynoch

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas. With thous... Lees meer

Ambivalent

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gat... Lees meer

The Power to Name

Stephanie Newell

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. Afr... Lees meer

To Speak and Be Heard

Holly Hanson, Holly Elisabeth Hanson

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• A history of a political practice through which East Africans have sought to create calm, harmonious polities for five hundred years. "To speak and be... Lees meer

Unruly Ideas

Nicole Eggers

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo recounts the multifaceted history of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala from its colonial beginnin... Lees meer

Fighting the Greater Jihad

Cheikh Anta Babou

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's... Lees meer

The Americans Are Coming!

Robert Trent Vinson

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and "American Negroes"-a group that included African Americans and black West I... Lees meer

Who Shall Enter Paradise?

Shobana Shankar

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Who Shall Enter Paradise? recounts in detail the history of Christian-Muslim engagement in a core area of sub-Saharan Africa's most populous nation, h... Lees meer

Cartography and the Political Imagination

Julie MacArthur

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic name-"Luyia"-appeared on the official census in 1948. The emergence ... Lees meer