African Perspectives (Series)

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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
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 Abadalla’s influential Voice of Agony

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

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

Continuous Pasts

Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa

By Sakiru Adebayo
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Investigates the ways in which postcolonial African fiction deals with or, in some cases, becomes the source of memory friction

Writing on the Soil

Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa

By Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

How representations of land and landscape perform important metaphorical labor in African literatures

In Search of Tunga

Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town

By André Chappatte
Subjects: African Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

The lives of young male Muslim “adventurers” in a Malian town

Power / Knowledge / Land

Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa

By Laura German
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Governance
Series: African Perspectives

Explores contested truths surrounding land governance in Africa and beyond

The Infrastructures of Security

Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg

By Martin Murray
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The shift from dependence upon human decision-making in security services to Artificial Intelligence

African Performance Arts and Political Acts

By Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo
Subjects: African Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: African Perspectives

Explores how performance arts, whether staged or in daily life, regularly interface with political action across the African continent

There Used to Be Order

Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines

By Patience Mususa
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Privatization and social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia

There Used to Be Order

Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines

By Patience Mususa
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Privatization and social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia

Animated by Uncertainty

Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa

By Joshua D. Rubin
Subjects: African Studies, Sports
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the political significance of rugby in South Africa’s post-apartheid present

Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa

By Wale Adebanwi & Rogers Orock
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Studying elites through the framework of accountability

Aso Ebi

Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa

By Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The visual culture of aso ebi fashion in Nigerian and West African society

Filtering Histories

The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times

By Drew A. Thompson
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Highlights the role of photography and other forms of aesthetic practice in processes of state formation and bureaucratic transition

The Black and White Rainbow

Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa

By Carolyn Holmes
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

A multifaceted study of identity in South Africa exploring themes of nationalism, democracy, and nation building

Textile Ascendancies

Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria

Edited by Elisha Renne & Salihu Maiwada
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art Theory, Economics
Series: African Perspectives

The authors examine handwoven and manufactured textiles, aesthetic preferences as well as textile production, and trade in northern Nigeria

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

By Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series: African Perspectives

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

The Postcolonial Animal

African Literature and Posthuman Ethics

By Evan Mwangi
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Argues for an innovative and overdue posthuman reading of African postcolonial literature

Developing States, Shaping Citizenship

Service Delivery and Political Participation in Zambia

By Erin Hern
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: African Perspectives

In fledgling democracies marked by patronage, ethnic politics, and elite capture, what motivates citizens to participate in politics?

Nimrod

Selected Writings

By Frieda Ekotto
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Race and Ethnicity
Series: African Perspectives

The first English translations of key essays, stories, and poems by Nimrod, a major figure in contemporary African letters

Black Cultural Life in South Africa

Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics

By Lily Saint
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: African Perspectives

Explores the shaping of black ethical consciousness by popular culture in apartheid-era South Africa

The Rise of the African Novel

Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition

Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé

In and Out of Africa

By Judith G. Miller & Koffi Kwahule
Translated by Chantal Bilodeau
Subjects: African Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The first English translations of the surreal and violent work of one of Francophone Africa’s most accomplished living playwrights 

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