African Studies Blog

Here is an uplifting article in the Washington Post on female entrepreneurialism in Rwanda and how that has greatly helped efforts to rebuild the country’s economy and the fight against poverty there. 

 

Here is a list of new additions to the Africana collection.

Adebajo, Adekeye, and Helen Scanlon, ed. A Dialogue of the Deaf:

Essays on Africa and the United Nations. Auckland Park: Fanele, 2006.

Agbese, Pita Ogaba, and George Klay Kieh, Jr, ed. Reconstituting the

State in Africa. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. Between Faith and History: A Biography of J.A.

Kufuor. 2nd ed. Banbury, UK: Ayebia Clarke, 2006.

Ahluwalia, Pal, et al., ed. Violence and Non-Violence in Africa. New

York: Routledge, 2007.

Akama, John S., ed. Ethnography of teh Gusii of Western Kenya: A

Vanishing Cultural Heritage. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Akol, Lam. Southern sudan: Colonialism, Resistance, and Autonomy.

Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 2007.

Alam, S. M. Shamsul. Rethinking Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya. 1st ed. New

York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Allman, Jean Marie. Tongnaab: The History of a West African God.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Argenti, Nicolas. The Intestines of the State: youth, Violence, and

Belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2007.

Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka, ed. Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall:

The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels. Trenton, NJ: Africa World

Press, 2007.

Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka, and Maureen Ngozi Eke, ed. Gender and Sexuality

in African Literature and Film. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007.

Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. Between Faith and History: A Biography of J.A.

Kufuor. Banbury, UK: Ayebia Clarke, 2006.

B?hre, Erik. Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South

African Township. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Barnard, Rita. Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the

Politics of Place. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Bart, Fran?ois, et al., ed. Mount Kilimanjaro: Mountain, Memory,

Modernity. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2006.

Barrett, Andrew G. Mude, ed. Decentralization and the Social Economics

of Development: Lessons From Kenya. Cambridge, UK: CABI, 2007.

Black, Richard. Migration and Development in Africa: An Overview. Cape

Town: Idasa, 2006.

Bond, Patrick. Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global

Reforms. 2nd ed. Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwa-Zulu-

Natal Press, 2006.

Borne, Francine van den. Trying to survive in Times of Poverty and

AIDS: Women and Multiple Partner Sex in Malawi. Amsterdam: Het

Spinhuis, 2005.

Boudraa, Nabil, and Joseph Krause, ed. North African Mosaic: A

Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities. Newcastle,

UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

Bridgman, Frederick Arthur. Winters in Algeria. 1st Gorgias Press ed.

Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.

Briggs, Philip. Africa: Continent of Contrasts. Cape Town: Struick,

2005.

Brown, Hamish M. The Mountains Look on Marrakech: A Trek Along the

Atlas Mountains. Dunbeath, Scotland: Whittles, 2007.

Butler, L. J. Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in Northern

Rhodesia, c. 1930-64. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Buur, Lars, ed. The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of

Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Cape Town: HSRC,

2007.

Carmody, P?draig Risteard. Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Security

in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Caron, Bernard, and Petr Zima, ed. Sprachbund in the West. Louvain,

Belgium: Peeters, 2006.

Chabal, Patrick, ed. African Alternatives. Boston: Brill, 2007.

Chabal, Patrick, and Nuno Vidal, ed. Angola: The Weight of History.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Chiwandamira, Lindlyn, and Moncia Makaula, ed. Perspectives on African

Governance. Cape Town: Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2006.

Chiwandamira, Lindlyn, ed. Perpectives on African Governance. Cape

Town: Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2006.

Christiansen, Catrine, et al., ed. Navigating Youth, Generating

Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context. Uppsala: Nordiska

Afrikainstitutet, 2006.

Cole Catherine, M., ed. Africa After Gender?. Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 2007.

Collins, Robert O. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Columbus, Frank, ed. Politics and Economics of Africa. Huntington, NY:

Nova Science Publishers, 2001.

Cronin, Stephanie, ed. Subalterns and Social Protest: History From

Below in the Middle East and North Africa. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Cross, Catherine, et al., ed. Views on Migration in Sub-Saharan

Africa: Proceedings of an African Migration Alliance workshop. Cape

Town: HSRC Press, 2006.

Crush, Jonathan, et al. States of Vulnerability: The Future Brain

Drain of Talent to South Africa. Kingston, Canada: Southern African

research Centre, Queen’s University, 2006.

Davis, John. African and the War on Terrorism. Burlington, VT:

Ashgate, 2007.

Dan, Henk. The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African

Environment. New York: Palgrave, 2007.

Daly, M.W. Darfur’s Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. New

York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

De Villiers, Marq. Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fables City of Gold. 1st

U.S. ed. New York: Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.

De Vletter, Fion. Migration and Development in Mozambique: Poverty,

Inequality and Survival. Kingston, Canada: Southern African Research

Centre, Queens University, 2006.

Drayton, Arthur D. African Literature Association. Meeting (26th:

2000: University of Kansas, Lawrence). Trenton, NJ: Africa World

Press, 2007.

Edward, Jane Kani. Sudanese Women Refugees: Transformations and Future

Imaginings. 1st Ed. New York: Palgrave macmillan, 2007.

Eldredge, Elizabeth A. Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and

Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin

Press, 2007.

Endeley, Joyce Bayand Mbongo. The Social Impact of the Chad-Cameroon

Oil Pipeline: How Industrial Development Affects Gender Relations,

Land Tenure, and Local Culture. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.

Fadlalla, Amal Hassan. Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and

Regeneration in Eastern Sudan. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin

Press, 2007.

Falola, Toyin, and Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, ed. Population Movements,

Conflicts and Displacements in Nigeria. Trenton, NJ: Africa World

Press, 2008.

Falola, Toyin, and Niyi Afolabi, ed. Trans-Atlantic Migration: The

Paradoxes of Exile. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Fiedler, Klaus. Gospel Takes Roots on Kilimanjaro: A History of the

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Old Moshi-Mbokomu (1885-1940). Zomba,

Malawi: [distributed by] Michigan State University Press, 2006.

Fig, David. Staking their Claims: Corporate Social and Environmental

Responsibility in South Africa. Scottsville, South Africa: University

of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2007.

Gaim, Kibreab. Critical Reflections on the Eritrean War of

Independence: Social Capital, Associational Life, Religion, Ethinicity

and Sowing Seeds of Dictatorship. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2008.

Graeber, David. Lost People: magic and the Legacy of Slavery in

Madagascar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Graham, Paul, ed. Inheriting Poverty? The Link Between Children’s

Wellbeing and Unemployment in South Africa. Cape Town: IDASA, 2006.

Grasdorff, Eriv van. African Renaissance and Discourse Ownership in

the Information Age: The Internet as a Factor of Domination and

Liberation. M?nster, Germany: LIT, 2005.

Gray, Doris H. Muslim Women on the Move: Moroccan Women and French

Women of Moroccan Origin Speak Out. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.

Guyer, Jane I. Vision and Policy in Nigerian Economics: The Legacy of

Pius Okigbo. Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan Univeristy Press, 2005.

Harrison, Philip. Planning and Transformation: Learning From the Post-

Apartheid Experience. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic

Slave Route. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Hartwig, Elisabeth. Rural African Women as Subjects of Social and

Political Change: A Case Study of Women in Northwestern Cameroon.

M?nster, Germany: Lit, 2005.

Hebinck, Paul, and Peter C. Lent, ed. Livelihoods and Landscapes: The

People of Guquka and Koloni and Their Resources. Boston: Brill, 2007.

Henk, Dan. The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African

Environment. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Holt, Clive. At Thy Call We Did Not Falter. New ed. Cape Town: Zebra

Press, 2005.

Huchzermeyer, Marie, and Aly Karam, ed. Informal Settlements: A

Perpetual Challenge? Cape town: UCT PRess, 2006.

Human Science Research Council. State of the Nation: South Africa.

Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2003.

Hunter, Archie. Power and Passion in Egypt: A Life of Sir Eldon Gorst.

London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Hunwick, John O. West Africa, Islam, and the Arab World: Studies in

Honor of Dasil Davidson. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006.

Hulterstr?m, Karolina. Political Opposition in African Countries: The

Cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Uppsala: Nordiska

Afrikainstitutet, 2007.

Iliffe, John. Africans: The History of a Continent. 2nd ed. Cambridge,

UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Irinoye, A.I., ed. Optimal Management of Health Care Organisations.

Ibadan, Nigeria: Safari Books, 2004.

Isubikalu, Prossy. Stepping-Stones to Improve Upon Functioning of

Participatory Agricultural Extension Programmes: Farmer Field Schools

in Uganda. Wageningen, the Netherlands: Wageningen Academic

Publishers, 2007.

Jelen, Sheila E. Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern

Hebrew Renaissance. 1st ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Jell-Bahlsen, Sabine. The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of

Oguta Lake. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008.

Jennings, Michael. Surrogates of the State: NGOs, Development, and

Ujamaa in Tanzania. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2008.

Jok, Jok Madut. Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence. Oxford, UK:

Oneworld, 2007.

Juul, Kristine. Tubes, Tenure and Turbulence: The Effects of Drought

Related Migration on Tenure Issues and Resource Management in Northern

Senegal. M?nster, Germany: Lit, 2005.

Kakuru, Doris Muhwezi. The Combat for Gender Equality in Education:

Rural Livelihood Pathways in the Context of HIV/AIDS. Wageningen, the

Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2006.

Kane, Thomas Leiper. Tigrinya-English Dictionary. Springfield, VA:

Dunwoody Press, 2000.

Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield. African Art and the Colonial Encounter:

Inventing a Global Commodity. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University

Press, 2007.

Kieh, George Klay. The First Liberian Civil War: The Crises of

Underdevelopment. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

King, Alison Jill. Domestic Service in Post-Apartheid South Africa:

Deference and Disdain. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Pub. Company, 2007.

Kiernan, James, ed. The Power of the Occult in Modern Africa:

Continuity and Innovation in the Renewal of African Cosmologies.

London: Global, 2006.

Khadiagala, Gilbert M. Meddlers or Mediators? African Interveners in

Civil Conflicts in Eastern Africa. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007.

Kolap, Femi J., and Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, ed. African Agency and

European Colonialism: Latitudes of Negotiations and Containment:

Essays in Honor of A.S. Kanya-Forstner. Lanham, MD: University Press

of America, 2007.

Korieh, Chima J., and Femi J. Kolapo, ed. The Aftermath of Slavery:

Transitions and Transformations in Southeastern Nigeria. Trenton, NJ:

Africa World Press, 2007.

Kraus, Jon, ed. Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa.

1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Kugle, Scott Alan. Rebel Between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq,

Sainthood, and Authority in Islam. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University

Press, 2006.

Kusow, Abdi M., ed. From Mogadishu to Dixon: The Somali Diaspora in a

Global Context. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2007.

Laurence, Tony. The Dar Mutiny of 1964: And the Armed Intervention

that Ended It. Brighton, UK: Book Guild, 2007.

Lawrence, Benjamin N. Locality, Mobility, and “Nation”: Periurban

Colonialism in Togo’s Eweland, 1900-1960. Rochester, NY: University of

Rochester Press, 2007.

Legassick, Martin. Towards Socialist Democracy. Scottsville, South

Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.

Lipton, Merle. Liberals, Marxists and nationalists: Competing

Interpretations of South African History. New York: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2007.

Loimeier, Roman, ed. The Global Worlds of teh Swahili: Interfaces of

Islam, Identity and Space in 19th and 20th-Century East Africa.

Berlin: Lit, 2006.

Lubjemann, Stephen C. Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social

Condition in War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

MacGonagle, Elizabeth. Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007.

MacKenzie, John M. The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity, Identity,

Gender and Race, 1772-1914. Manchester, UK: Manchester University

Press, 2007.

Malaquis, Assis. Rebels and Robbers: Violence in POst-Colonial Angola.

Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007.

Mangu, Andr? Mbata B., ed. Nationalisme, Panafricanisme et

Reconstruction Africaine. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2007.

Mashabela, Harry. A People on the Boil: Reflections on June 16, 1976

and Beyond. 30th Anniversary ed. Johannesburg: Guyo Buguni, 2006.

Marq, De Villiers. Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fables City of Gold. New

York: Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.

Mazrui, Ali Al Amin. The Politics of War and the Culture of Violence:

North-South Essays. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008.

McDonald, David A., ed. World City Syndrome: Neoliberlaism and

Inequality in Cape Town. New York: Routledge, 2008.

McIlwaine, John. Africa: A Guide to Reference Material. 2nd rev. and

expanded ed. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell, 2007.

Mhlongo, Nicholas. Dog Eat Dog. 1st ed. Cape Town, South Africa: Kwela

Books, 2004.

Middleton, John, ed. New Encyclopedia of Africa. Detroit: Thomson/

Gale, 2008.

Milkias, Paulos. Haile Selassie, Western Education, and Political

Revolution in Ethiopia. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press, 2006.

Minter, William, ed. No Easy Victories: African Liberation and

American Activists Over a Half Century, 1950-2000. Trenton, NJ: Africa

World Press, 2008.

Mohamoud, Abdullah A., ed. Shaping a New Africa. Amsterdam: KIT

Publishers, 2007.

Mohamoud, Abdullah A. State Collapse and Post-Conflict Development in

Africa: The Case of Somalia. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University

Press, 2006.

Moon, Claire. Narrating Political Reconiliation: South Africa’s Truth

and Reconciliation Commission. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.

Mortimer, Mildred P. Writing From the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and

Imaginative Space in Francophone Women’s Fiction of Africa and the

Caribbean. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

Murray, No?leen, et al., ed. Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity

in the Post-Apartheid City. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Mwenda, Kenneth Kaoma. Legal Aspects of Combating Corruption: The Case

of Zambia. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press, 2007.

Nattrass, Nicoli. Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for

Antiretrovirals in South Africa. Scottsville, South Africa: University

of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.

Ndigirigi, Josphat Gichingiri. Ng?ug?i wa Thiong’o’s drama and the

Kam?ir?i?ith?u popular theater experiment. Trenton, NJ: Africa World

Press, 2007.

Njoh, Ambe J. Planning Power: Town Planning and Social Control in

Colonial Africa. New York: UCL PRess, 2007.

Nogu, Nneoma V. Shaping Truth, Reshaping Justice: Sectarian Politics

and the Nigerian Truth Commission. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

Ntongela, Masilela. The Cultural Modernity of H.I.E. Dhlomo. London:

Turnaround, 2007.

Nwagwu, ‘Emeka O. Cyprian. A Proposal for the Re-Founding of Nigeria:

What to do After the Total Collapse of an African State. Lewiston, NY:

Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Nwankwo, Peter. Social Development in Rural Communities in South-

Eastern Nigeria: A Mission of Charity. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag F?r

Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2006.

Odamtten, Vincent O., ed. Broadening the Horizon: Critical

Introductions to Amma Darko. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers,

Inc., 2007.

Ogundiran, Akinwumi, ed. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the

African Diaspora. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. Juju Fission: Women’s Alternative Fictions

from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between. New York:

Peter Lang, 2007.

Okafor, Chinyere Grace. The New Toyi Toyi: A Play. Trenton, NJ: Africa

World Press, 2007.

Olaniyan, Tejumola, and Ato Quayson, ed. African Literature: An

Anthology of Criticism and Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.

Oliveira, Ricardo Soares de. Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Olonisakin, ‘Funmi. Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The Story of

UNAMSIL. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.

Olukoshi, Adeybayo, ed. Beyond the State: Nigeria’s Search for

Positive Leadership. Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan University Press, 2005.

Opoku-Mensah, Aida, ed. African E-Markets: Information and Economic

Development. Utrecht: International Books, 2007.

Osman, Abdulahi A, and Issaka K. Souare, ed. Somalia at the

Crossroads: Challenges and Perspectives in Reconstituting a Failed

State. 1st ed. London: Adonis & Abbey, 2007.

Ossman, Susan, ed. Places We Share: Migration, Subjectivity, and

Global Mobility. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji, and Dorothy McCormick, ed. Industrial

Clusters and Innovation Systems in Africa: Institutions, Markets, and

Policy. New York: United Nations University Press, 2007.

Pakia, Mohamed. African Traditional Plant Knowledge Today: An

Ethnobotanical Study of the Digo at the Kenya Coast. Piscataway, NJ:

Transaction Publishers, 2006.

Parle, Julie. States of Mind: Searching for Mental Health in Natal and

Zululand, 1868-1918. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-

Natal Press, 2007.

Patterson, Rubin, ed. African Brain Circulation: Beyond the Drain-Gain

Debate. Boston: Brill, 2007.

Pendleton, Wade, et al. Migraiton, Remittances and Development in

Southern Africa. Cape Town: Southern African Migration Project, 2006.

Pillay, Venitha. Academic Mothers. Pretoria: UNISA, 2007.

Pirio, Gregory Alonso. The African Jihad: Bin Laden’s Quest for the

Horn of Africa. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2007.

Price, Bill. Tutankhamun: Egypt’s Most Famous Pharaoh. Harpenden, UK:

Pocket Essentials, 2007.

Primorac, Ranka. The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern

Zimbabwe. New York: Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan,

2006.

Prunier, G?rard. Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press, 2007.

Quartey, Seth. Missionary Practices on the Gold Coast, 1832-1895:

Discourse, Gaze, and Gender in the Basel Mission in Pre-Colonial West

Africa. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press, 2007.

Razafimahefa, Ivohasina Fizara. International Competitiveness in

Africa: Policy Implications in the Sub-Saharan Region. New York:

Springer, 2007.

Rice, Laura. Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the

Transcultural Invention of Africa. Albany, NY: State University of New

York Press, 2007.

Roscoe, Adrian A. The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in

English Since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Richey, Lisa Ann. Population Politics and Development: From the

Policies to the Clinics. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Sa?d?aw?i, Naw?al. Woman at Point Zero. New ed. London: Zed Books, 2007.

Samuelson, Meg. Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? Stories of

the South African Transition. Scottsville, South Africa: University of

Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2007.

Sanders, Mark. Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the

Time of a Truth Commission. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.

Saavedra Casco, Jos? Arturo. Utenzi, War Poems, and the German

Conquest of East Africa: Swhili Poetry as a Historical Source.

Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007.

Salt, Henry. The Sphinx Revealed: A Forgotten Record of Pioneering

Excavations. London: British Museum, 2007.

Schafer, Jessica. Soldiers at Peace: veterans and Society After the

Civil War in Mozambique. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Schmidt, Peter R., et al, ed. The Archaeology of Ancient Eritrea.

Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2008.

Seckinelgin, Hakan. International Politics of HIV/AIDS: Global Disease

- Local Pain. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Sesay, Amadu. Does One Size Fit All? The Sierra Leone Truth and

Reconciliation Commission Revisited. Uppsala: Nordiska

Afrikainstitutet, 2007.

Simms Hamilton, Ruth, ed. Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African

Diaspora. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2007.

Shoka, Tabona. Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe: Health and

Well-Being. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

Shorrocks, Bryan. The Biology of African Savannahs. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2007.

Skaine, Rosemarie. Women Political Leaders in Africa. Jefferson, NC:

McFarland & Co., 2008

Southall, Roger, ed. South Africa’s Role in Conflict Resolution and

Peacemaking in Africa: Conference Proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press,

2006.

Squire, Corinne. HIV in South Africa: Talking About the Big Thing. New

York: Routledge, 2007.

St. Clair, William. the Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast

Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: BlueBridge, 2007.

Sutherland, Jonathan. Ancient Egypt. Edison, NJ: House Publishing, 2007.

Syrotinski, Michael. Deconstruction and the Postcolonial: At the

Limits of Theory. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Tesfaye, Tefesse. The Migration, Environment and Conflict Nexus in

Ethiopia: A Case Study of Amhara Migrant-Settlers in East Wollega

Zone. Addis Ababa: Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern

and Southern Africa, 2007.

Twagilimana, Aimable. Historical Dictionary of Rwanda. Lanham, MD:

Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Twigger, Robert. Lost Oasis: In Search of Paradise. London: Weidenfeld

& Nicolson, 2007.

Udeani, Chibueze C. Inculutruation as Dialogue: Igbo Culture and the

Message of Christ. New York: Rodopi, 2007.

Udogu, Emmanuel Ike. African Renaissance in the Millenium: The

Political, Social and Economic Discourses on the Way Forward. Lanham,

MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

Ufford, Letitia Wheeler. The Pasha: How Mahemet Ali Defied the West,

1839-1841. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007.

Utz, Robert J. Sustaining and Sharing Economic Growth in Tanzania.

Washington: World Bank, 2008.

Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi. African Oral Story-Telling Tradition and the

Zimbabwean Novel in English. 1st ed. Pretoria: Pretoria Unisa Press,

2004.

Waal, Alex de, ed. War in Darfur and the Search for Peace. Cambridge,

MA: Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University, 2007.

Wijsen, Frans Jozef Servaas. Seeds of conflict in a haven of peace:

From religious studies to interreligious studies in Africa. New York:

Rodopi, 2007.

Worden, Nigel. The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid,

Democracy. 4th ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Wynn, L. L. Pyramids & Nightclubs: A Travel Ethnography of Arab and

Western Imaginations of Egypt, from King Tut and a Colony of Atlantis

to Rumors of Sex Orgies, Urban Legends About a Marauding Prince, and

Blonde Belly Dancers. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.

Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian S. Representing Africa in Children’s Literature:

Old and New Ways of Seeing. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Yoshikuni, Tsuneo. African Urban Experiences in Colonial Zimbabwe: A

Social History of Harare Before 1925. Harare: Weaver Press, 2007.

Youde, Jeremy R. AIDS, South Africa, and the Politics of Knowledge.

Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

Young, Michael and Jeanne Gamble, ed. Knowledge, Curriculum and

Qualifications for South African Further Education. Cape Town: HSRC

Press, 2006.

Zabus, Chantal J. Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s

Experiental Texts and Human Contexts. Stanford: Stanford University

Press, 2007.

Zamperetti, Francesca. Sharing Trust: Women and Microcredit in

Eritrea. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2008.

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe, ed. The Study of Africa. Dakar: CODESIRA, 2006.

 

 

 

 

The ALC Newsletter reviews African titles of note in each issue under the Book Reviews section which is worth reading.  The latest issue includes a review of the 4th revised and expanded edition of Hans Zell’s The African Studies Companion by our own Loyd Mbabu formerly of Ohio University Libraries.

Each issue of the Africana Librarian’s Council Newsletter  lists newly published Africana titles of note under the section New Resources Noted. It includes both print and online resources. 

Arnold, Guy.  Historical dictionary of civil wars in Africa. 2nd ed.  Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Anyanwu, Livinus Azoro.  Owerri (Igbo) laws and custom [sic]. Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria : Okson, 2006.

Simon, David John.  Historical dictionary of Zambia.  3rd ed.  Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Singh, Satyendra.  Business practices in emerging and re-emerging markets. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Society : the case of Mozambique. Matola, Mo{240}cambique : Centro de Forma{240}c{228}ao Jur{226}idica e Judici{226}aria ; Coimbra, Portugal : CES ; Dakar : Codesria ; Oxford, U.K. : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, c2006.