African Studies Blog

The Economist writes on how the coalition government in Kenya is functioning. After the election violence of 2007, the two main parties formed a government but the article states that arrangement is not working resulting in a dysfunctional government.

Read it at Economist.com

The Economist has an interesting article on the Nigerian government’s attempts to rebrand the image of the country to bring tourists and foreign investment to Nigeria, and generally to buff up the country’s image. The campaign’s slogan is “Nigeria: Good People, Great Nation”. 

Read it at Economist.com

Celebrating African Culture

 Experience African culture at Alden Library. Visit the 4^th Floor leisure reading area to see

the display of African artifacts and fabrics to celebrate African Cultural Week May 4-9, 2009.

New perspectives on Islam in Senegal : conversion, migration, wealth, power, and femininity. 1st ed.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

BR115.G59 H36 2008.

Hanciles, Jehu. Beyond christendom : globalization, African migration, and the transformation of the West.

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2008.

BR1360 .C476 2008.

Christianity in Africa and the African diaspora : the appropriation of a scattered heritage. London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.

BR1463.N5 C78 2008.

Crumbley, Deidre Helen. Spirit, structure, and flesh : gendered experiences in African Instituted Churches among the Yoruba of Nigeria. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.

D1065.A35 A369 2007x.

Africa and Europe : co-operation in a globalized world : conference of Scribani-European Jesuit Network.

M{232}unster : Lit, c2007.

DT13 .P74 2008x.

Preserving the cultural heritage of Africa : crisis or renaissance? Suffolk : James Currey ; [Pretoria] : Unisa Press, 2008.

DT29 .D47 2008.

Derrick, Jonathan. Africa’s “agitators” : militant anti-colonialism in Africa and the west, 1918-1939.

New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

DT38.9.C5 T394 2009.

Taylor, Ian. China’s new role in Africa. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.

DT154.9 .E88 2009.

Essien, Kwame. Culture and customs of Sudan. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2009.

DT515.59 .T37 2009x.

Tar, Usman A. The politics of neoliberal democracy in Africa : state and civil society in Nigeria.

London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, 2009.

DT515.844 .G85 2008.

Gulliver’s troubles : Nigeria’s foreign policy after the Cold War. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008.

DT554.15 .P39 2008.

Pazzanita, Anthony G. Historical dictionary of Mauritania.  3rd ed. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2008.

DT575.5 .A59 2008x.

Anyangwe, Carlson. Imperialistic politics in Cameroun : resistance & the inception of the restoration of the statehood of southern Cameroons. Bamenda, North West Province Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, c2008.

DT1768.S36 M67 2009.

Moran, Shane. Representing Bushmen : South Africa and the origin of language. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.

Good, Kenneth. Diamonds, dispossession & democracy in Botswana. Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : James Currey ; Auckland Park, SA : Jacana Media, 2008.

DT2972 .S28 2008.

Scarnecchia, Timothy. The urban roots of democracy and political violence in Zimbabwe : Harare and

Highfield, 1940-1964. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.

HC59.7 .S356 2009.

Schwenke, Chloe. Reclaiming value in international development : the moral dimensions of development policy and practice in poor countries. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.

HC60 .L44 2009x.

Learning from experience : perspectives on poverty reduction strategies from four developing countries.

London : Commonwealth Secretariat c2009.

HC800 .A56878 2008.

The African Union and new strategies for development in Africa. Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2008.

HC800 .A598 2008x.

Afro-regions : the dynamics of cross-border micro-regionalism in Africa. Stockholm : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2008.

HC800 .G54 2008x.

Glennie, Jonathan. The trouble with aid : why less could mean more for Africa. London ; New York : Zed Books in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council ; New York : distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

HC800 .G55 2008x.

Globalization and restructuring of African commodity flows. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2008.

HC800 .K563 2009.

Kimanuka, Oscar. Sub-Saharan Africa’s development challenges : a case study of post-genocide

experience. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

HC800 .M69 2009.

Moyo, Dambisa. Dead aid : why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2009.

HC800 .N455 2008.

Neoliberalism and globalization in Africa : contestations from the embattled continent. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

HC800 .P6523 2009.

The politics of aid : African strategies for dealing with donors. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

HC800 .R39 2008.

Readings in modernity in Africa. London : International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press, James Currey, Unisa Press, 2008.

HC800 .S58 2009.

Smart aid for African development. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.

HC890 .H355 2008.

Hanlon, Joseph. Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique? Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2008.

HC1055.Z9 I553 2009.

Akpan-Obong, Patience Idaraesit. Information and communication technologies in Nigeria : prospects and challenges for development. New York : Peter Lang, c2009.

HC1060 .E26 2008.

An economic history of Ghana : reflections on a half-century of challenges & progress. Oxfordshire, UK : Ayebia Clarke Pub. ; Osu, Accra, Ghana : Co-published with Centre for Intellectual Renewal ; Boulder, CO : Distributed by Lynne Rienner, 2008.

HC1060 .E279 2008x.

The economy of Ghana : analytical perspectives on stability, growth & poverty. Oxford : James Currey ; Accra, Ghana : Woeli Publishing Services, 2008.

The emergence of land markets in Africa : assessing the impacts on poverty,

equity, and efficiency. Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c2009.

HD968 .S55 2009.

Shipton, Parker MacDonald. Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

HD1333.A353 W66 2008x.

Women’s land rights & privatization in eastern Africa. Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey ; Kampala [Uganda] : Fountain Publishers ; Nairobi [Kenya] : EAEP ; Dar es Salaam [Tanzania] : E&D Vision, 2008.

HD9000.5 .D475 2008.

Devereux, Stephen.  Seasons of hunger : fighting cycles of quiet starvation among the world’s rural

poor. London : Pluto Press in association with Action Against Hunger, ACF International Network, 2008.

HD9577.N52 A73 2009.

Ariweriokuma, Soala. The political economy of oil and gas in Africa : the case of Nigeria. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

HE195.5.A35 T47 2009.

Teravaninthorn, Supee. Transport prices and costs in Africa : a review of the main international

corridors. Washington, DC : World Bank, c2009.

HN773.5 .D384 2009.

Deegan, Heather. Africa today : culture, economics, religion, security. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

HN794.Z9 S623 2008.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne. Conflict transformation and social change in Uganda : remembering after

violence. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

HN801.A8 R63 2008x.

Robins, Steven L. From revolution to rights in South Africa : social movements, NGOs & popular

politics after apartheid. Woodbridge [England] ; Rochester, NY : James Currey ; Scottsville, South Africa

: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2008.

HN820.Z9 C735 2009.

Kabia, John M. Humanitarian intervention and conflict resolution in West Africa : from ECOMOG

to ECOMIL. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2009.

HN831.A8 N545 2008.

Nigeria : economic, political, and social issues. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008.

HQ76.2.S6 T83 2009.

Tucker, Andrew. Queer visibilities : space, identity and interaction in Cape Town. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

HQ784.W3 E33 2009.

Eichstaedt, Peter H. First kill your family : child soldiers of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army. Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2009.

HQ792.E75 W675 2007x.

The world of girls and boys in rural and urban Ethiopia. Addis Abeba, Ethiopia : FSS, Forum for Social Studies, 2007.

HV551.5.A35 D57 2009.

Disaster risk reduction : cases from urban Africa. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.

JA84.A33 C43 2009x.

Chabal, Patrick. Africa : the politics of suffering and smiling. London ; New York : Zed ; Pietermaritzburg, S.A. : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

JQ1875.A55 D4233 2008.

Decentralisation in Africa : a pathway out of poverty and conflict? Amsterdam : Amsterdam University, 2008.

JQ1875 .D46 2008.

Deng, Francis Mading. Identity, diversity, and constitutionalism in Africa. Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008.

JQ1875 .M82 2009.

Muiu, Mueni wa. A new paradigm of the African state : fundi wa Afrika. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

JQ1875 .S63 2009.

Socio-political scaffolding and the construction of change : constitutionalism and democratic governance in Africa. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2009.

JV8790 .C85 2007.

Cultures of migration : African perspectives. Munster : Lit ; New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Global [distributor in N. America], c2007.

 JV8790 .M473 2008x.

Mercer, Claire. Development and the African diaspora : place and the politics of home. London ; New York : Zed Books, 2008.

JZ5584.A35 D45 2009.

De Maio, Jennifer L. Confronting ethnic conflict : the role of third parties in managing Africa’s civil wars.

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.

K5302 .H34 2009.

Hagan, John. Darfur and the crime of genocide. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

KQC145.M55 C48 2008.

Children’s rights in Africa : a legal perspective. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

KTA481 .H34 2008x.

Harnischfeger, Johannes. Democratization and Islamic law : the Sharia conflict in Nigeria. Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag ; Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press [distributor], c2008.

KTL4415 .J87 2008.

Justice and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

LA1567 .M45 2009.

Meinert, Lotte. Hopes in friction : schooling, health, and everyday life in Uganda. Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub., c2009.

LB1028.5 .I108 2008x.

ICT and changing mindsets in education = Repenser l’éducation à l’aide des TIC .

LC67.68.A357 A23 2008.

Accelerating catch-up : tertiary education for growth in SSA. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2008.

P119.32.A3 L364 2008.

Language and national identity in Africa. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

P119.32.S6 O76 2008x.

Orman, Jon. Language policy and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa. [Dordrecht, Netherlands] : Springer, c2008.

PE1068.Z35 C43 2008x.

Chanda, Casmir. Teaching and learning of English in secondary schools : a Zambian case study in

improving quality. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2008.

PJ7519.I84 K48 2008.

Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine. Self and secrecy in early Islam. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

PL8005 .G58 2008.

Globalization and language vitality : perspectives from Africa.

London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.

PL8010 .A4 no. 26.

War in African literature today : a review. Oxford : James Currey, 2008.

PL8014.N6 R33 2008x.

Radical essays on Nigerian literatures. Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press, 2008.

 PR9340 .C66 2008.

Cooper, Brenda. A new generation of African writers : migration, material culture & language. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey ; Scottsville, S.A. : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008.

PR9340.5 .O96 2008.

Owomoyela, Oyekan. The Columbia guide to West African literature in English since 1945. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

RA643.86.A35 A345 2008.

AIDS, culture, and Africa. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2008.

RA643.86.A35 E385 2004.

Education and HIV/AIDS : a sourcebook of HIV/AIDS prevention programs. Washington, DC : World Bank, 2004.

RA643.86.A356 S87 2009.

Susser, Ida. AIDS, sex, and culture : global politics and survival in southern Africa. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

RA643.86.U33 T46 2008.

Thornton, Robert J. Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa.

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

UA10.5 .P43 2008x.

Peace and conflict in Africa. London : Zed Books, 2008.