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

African Miracle, African Mirage

Abou B Bamba

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multi... Lees meer

Internal Frontiers

Jon Soske

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Cong... Lees meer

Colonial Meltdown

Moses E Ochonu

• Paperback | 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

Water Brings No Harm

Matthew V Bender

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro's Chagga-s... 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

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

Age of Concrete

David Morton

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the p... 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

A Country of Defiance

Mark W Deets

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• A historiographical analysis of human geography and a social history of nationalist separatism and cultural identity in southern Senegal. This book is... 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

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

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

• 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

Carceral Afterlives

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Drawing upon social history, political history, and critical prison studies, this book analyzes how prisons and other instruments of colonial punishme... Lees meer

The Muridiyya on the Move

Cheikh Anta Babou

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Highlights the role of transnational space making in the construction of diasporic Muridiyya identity. The construction of collective identity among t... Lees meer

Unruly Ideas

Nicole Eggers

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious prac... 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

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

Buying Time

Thomas F McDow

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• In Buying Time, Thomas F. McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies as well as economic and social history to explain h... Lees meer

Village Work

Alice Wiemers

• Hardcover | Engels | New African Histories
• A robust historical case study that demonstrates how village development became central to the rhetoric and practice of statecraft in rural Ghana. Com... 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