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A divine season
How Zambian Pentecostal activists worked to transform their country into a self-styled “Christian nation”In 2015, Zambia began an ambitious program to “actualize” the country’s constitutional declaration that it was a “Christian nation.” For Pentecostal Christian nationalist activists, this was a...
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Africans in harlem
The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem.From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellectual and cultural center of the Black world. The Harlem Renaissance movement brought together Black writers, artists, and musicians from different back...
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Compromised bodies
This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal’s 1999 national ban on “female genital mutilation”The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in 1999. Because only a third of the Senegalese population practiced female genital ...
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Decolonizing african studies
Examines transformational moments and liberation movements in the decolonization of inherited Western academic traditions in Africa.This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide liberationist knowledge to question and replace the hegemony of Western knowledge systems imposed on ...
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Dream the size of freedom
A look at how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970sDream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagem...
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Every household its own government
An up-close account of how Nigerians’ self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians and state institutions of Africa’s r...
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Headstrong
Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei navigate precarity, bringing into sharp relief how racialization, rooted in histories of colonialism and enslavement, undergi...
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Modern studies in african society
Omeihe & Harrison, both global scholars, strip down modern African society to its core elements. As editors, they focus on what defines a modern African society & for whom, carefully curating chapters that relate to and illustrate these questions through key topics such as migration, equa...
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Negotiating mistrust
Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. It offers a holistic study of the medical lands...
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Performing arts and gender in postcolonial western uganda
Focusing on runyege, the main traditional performance genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda.Drawing on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the regions of Buny...
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The wretched of the earth
“This century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism.”—Angela DavisThe sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction ...
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The years of blood
Winner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC WriterISELE MAGAZINE | EDITOR'S CHOICE: 25 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025 THE MODACULTURE | 10 ANTICIPATED AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2025 OPEN COUNTRY MAGAZINE | ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025In this unflinching debut collection, Adedayo ...
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Transforming africa
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. As Africa stands at the threshold of rapid global and technological change, Transforming Africa offers a timely, agenda-setting response to the urgent call for bold, future-oriented innovation across the continent.
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Undesirable immigrants
How the racist legacy of colonialism shapes global migrationThe Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restriction on naturalization to free White persons of “good character.” By the 1980s, the rest o...
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Writing timbuktu
The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West AfricaPrinted books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century. And yet, between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, literate and curious readers throughout the region found books to read—books that were written ...
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Xhosa masculinities and manhood in south africa
Sipungu provides an interdisciplinary exploration of what it means to be a traditionally initiated Xhosa man with a visible physical disability. Employing qualitative methods, including interviews, group discussions, and auto-ethnographic reflections, this unique study presents a rich tapestry of...
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