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Experiments in the Dark

Visualizing Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar

By Pamila Gupta
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

An in-depth study of the longest running photo studio in Zanzibar

Between Rebels and Relief

Negotiating Humanitarian Access in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Myfanwy James
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

How do humanitarian organizations negotiate access to areas controlled by rebel groups?

Grounding Practice

Dancing Haiti on Tè Glise

By Dasha A. Chapman
Subjects: Dance, Caribbean Studies, African Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

The worldmaking potential of Haitian folkloric dance

Hungry Subjects

Mapping Appetites in the African Cultural Landscape

By Njeri Githire
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Interrogating the plate, palate, and African literary imagination of food and eating

Out for Glamour in Africa

A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine

By Wanjiru G. Mbure
Subjects: African Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies, Caribbean Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Renegotiating Black femininities through Drum magazine

Across Continents

Writing Goans, Making Worlds

By R. Benedito Ferrão
Subjects: African Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia, Diaspora Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

A dialogue between postcolonial literature and Afro-Asiatic studies through an analysis of Goan characters

Exit of a Hero

Photography and the Visual Culture of Commemoration in Southern Nigeria

By Okechukwu Nwafor
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Photography, Art History, Cultural Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The transformation of commemorative practices alongside the development of a distinct visual culture reshaping southern Nigeria

The Post-Global City

Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa

Edited by Katrien Pype, Omolade Adunbi, and Michael M.J. Fischer
Subjects: African Studies, Urban Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources
Series: African Perspectives

Reimagining technological developments in urban Africa

The Education Alibi

Tracing Education's Entanglements Across Contemporary Africa

Edited by Elizabeth Cooper, Erdmute Alber, and Wandia Njoya
Subjects: African Studies, Education, Teacher Issues, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

Challenges conventional ways of thinking about global education goals and experiences of education in Africa

Malaika and the Seven Heavens

A Memoir of My Encounters with Islam

By Toyin Omoyeni Falola
Subjects: African Studies, Memoir, Religion

How a personal journey with Islam illuminates the transformative power of empathy, communication, and shared humanity

Dancing Opacity

Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal

By Amy E. Swanson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, African Studies

How contemporary dancers recalibrate constructions of gender, sexuality, and race while navigating the international dance circuit

The Banyamulenge Soldier

Genocide between Congo and Rwanda

By Christopher P. Davey
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

Revealing how violence and identity converge in genocide narrative identity

The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal

Intermarriage, Qur'anic Education, and Jihad

By Aly Dramé
Subjects: African Studies, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: African Perspectives

An exploration of the development of Islam in the Middle Casamance region

The Homeowner Ideology

Economic (F)Utility of Real Property Rights in Four African Cities

By Singumbe Muyeba
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, Development, Public Policy and Governance
Series: African Perspectives

Confronts neoclassical economic conventions on homeownership in sub-Saharan African cities

Speaking Our Selves

New Plays by African Women

Foreword by Esi Sutherland-Addy

Edited by Asiimwe Deborah Kawe & Robert H. Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African Studies

Bringing African drama to an English-speaking audience

Before Before

A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone

By Betsy Small
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reflecting on how building connections with others is necessary for humanity’s survival

Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights

The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana

By Ellie Gore
Subjects: African Studies, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examining the impacts of global development processes and HIV response on queer politics and activism in Ghana

Typologies of Humor in African Literatures

By Adwoa A Opoku-Agyemang
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examining humor and four of its archetypes in twentieth-century African literature

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, African Studies

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change

Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

By Ousseina D. Alidou
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society

The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony

Poems Translated by Ken Walibora Waliaula

By Abdilatif Abdalla
Edited by Annmarie Drury
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: African Perspectives

First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abdalla’s influential Voice of Agony

Transforming Vòdún

Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

By Sarah Politz
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies
Series: Musics in Motion

How musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions

Between Sahara and Sea

Africa in the Roman Empire

By David J. Mattingly
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, African Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

David Mattingly’s long-awaited book on North Africa and the Romans

Lagos Never Spoils

Nollywood and Nigerian City Life

By Connor Ryan
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the relationship between Nollywood and the city of Lagos

Congo Style

From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

By Ruth Sacks
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the impact of colonial Belgium’s influence on the Congo’s visual culture

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