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RHETORIC

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NEW & FORTHCOMING 1

As She Was Discovering Tigony

Olympe Bhêly-Quenum, translated by Tomi Adeaga

A love match, the intrigues of a multinational corporation, and a regime’s teetering hold on power combine to mark the latest conjunction of the worldly and the personal in this novel about contemporary Africa.

978-1-61186-209-6▪ $29.95 ▪Paper274 pages

Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks

Boubacar Boris Diop, translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadj Moustapha Diop

The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye and his attempts to communicate with his grandson before he dies. 978-1-61186-214-0▪ $24.95 ▪ Paper328 pages

Contemporary African Cinema

Oliver Barlet

Contemporary African Cinema is an impassioned discussion of the evolution of African cinema.

978-1-61186-211-9▪ $39.95 ▪ Flexibind466 pages

Brazilian-African Diaspora in GhanaThe Tabom, Slavery, Dissonance of Memory, Identity, and Locating HomeKwame Essien

An original interpretation of reverse migrations, this text is a study of the ongoing search for identity and home.

978-1-61186-219-5 ▪ $49.95 ▪Paper420 pages

Decolonizing the RepublicAfrican and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946–1974Félix F. Germain

Decolonizing the Republic is a conscientious discussion of the French perception of the African diaspora in Paris in the post–World War II period. 978-1-61186-204-1▪ $39.95 ▪ Paper256 pages

978-0-87013-602-3 ▪ $29.95 ▪ Paper273 pages

The Cassava TransformationAfrica’s Best-Kept SecretFelix I. Nweke, Dunstan S. C. Spencer, and John K. Lynam

Cassava is Africa’s “poverty fighter” and second most important food crop. This book discusses Cassava’s real role and traces research over the past 65 years.

978-1-61186-187-7 ▪ $24.95 ▪ Paper167 pages

Yam in West AfricaFood, Money, and MoreFelix I. Nweke

Yam in West Africa examines a crop that has been sidelined and ignored for too long while being central to the existence of so many and consumed worldwide.

978-0-87013-816-4 ▪ $34.95 ▪ Paper244 pages

Conflicts Over Land & Water in AfricaCameroon, Ghana, Burkina Faso, West Africa, Sudan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, TanzaniaEdited by Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard, and Espen Sjaastad

An examination of the broader context for the re-emergence of land reform and resource conflicts in Africa.

NEW & FORTHCOMING

AGRICULTURE

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Transformation of Agricultural Research Systems in AfricaLessons from KenyaEdited by Cyrus G. Ndiritu, John K. Lynam, and Adiel N. Mbabu

This book analyzes Kenya’s experiences in transforming its Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) over time.

978-0-87013-984-0 ▪ $48.95 ▪ Cloth439 pages

International and Language Education for a Global FutureFifty Years of U.S. Title VI and Fulbright-Hays ProgramsEdited by David S. Wiley, and Robert S. Glew

The authors review the history of the programs, including their founding and their cumulative impacts on internationalizing the American university at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

978-0-87013-739-6 ▪ $29.95 ▪ Paper438 pages

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Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African DiasporaVolume 1, Part 1Edited by Ruth Simms Hamilton

Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide.

978-0-87013-632-0 ▪ $34.95 ▪Paper384 pages

HISTORY

978-0-87013-692-4 ▪ $34.95 ▪ Paper260 pages

Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African DiasporaVolume 1, Part 2Edited by Ruth Simms Hamilton

Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide.

978-0-87013-858-4 ▪ $39.95 ▪ Paper179 pages

Tsodilo HillsCopper Bracelet of the KalahariEdited by Alec Campbell, Larry Robbins, and Michael Taylor

Tsodilo Hills offers a fascinating glimpse into the history of the Kalahari Desert to the general reader, as well as an unsurpassed guide to an extraordinary world to the desert’s many tourists.

978-0-95705-080-8 ▪ $49.95 ▪ Cloth275 pages

When Animals Sing and Spirits DanceGule Wamkulu: the Great Dance of the Chewa People of MalawiClaude Boucher (Chisale)

An introduction to the diversity and drama that is the gule wamkulu, the “great dance,” of the Chewa people of Malawi.

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The Pate Chronicle

Edited by Marina Tolmacheva

This historical work stands as the most important indigenous source for Swahili history, the history of the Swahili language, its dialects, and its written tradition.

978-0-87013-336-7 ▪ $55.00 ▪ Cloth607 pages

978-0-87013-339-8 ▪ $44.95 ▪ Cloth214 pages

A Black Corps d’ÉliteAn Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and its Survivors in Subsequent African HistoryRichard Hill, and Peter Hogg

The text provides a particularly thorough account of the deployment of 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City, under Napoleon III.

Medicine and Health in AfricaMultidisciplinary PerspectivesEdited by Paula Viterbo, and Kalala Ngalamulume

This collection, including contributions by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and biologists, emphasizes the social and cultural contexts of African health, paying particular attention to the history of the colonial public health system and its legacy.978-0-87013-991-8 ▪ $34.95 ▪ Paper256 pages

978-0-87013-359-6 ▪ $35.00 ▪ Cloth285 pages

Thus Ruled Emir AbbasSelected Casese from the Records of the Emir of Kano’s Judicial CouncilEdited by Allen Christelow

An important new research tool that reveals much about daily life in Kano, the wealthiest and most populous emirate of the African Sokoto Caliphate.

HISTORY

978-0-87013-507-1 ▪ $28.95 ▪ Paper324 pages

Africa & Africans in Antiquity

Edited by Edwin M. Yamauchi

Africa and Africans in Antiquity assesses recent historical research and archaeology under way in Egypt, North Africa, the Sudan, and the Horn of Africa.

978-0-87013-808-9 ▪ $19.95 ▪ Paper395 pages

Cultural Life

Edited by Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer

Cultural Life is a volume within the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (SSBE), a unique research, study, and teaching resource for professors and students of Black Studies.

978-0-87013-283-4 ▪ $34.74 ▪ Cloth281 pages

The Development of Higher Education and Social Change

Teshome Wagaw

This study examines the development of the institutions of higher education and the roles they played in transforming traditional Ethiopian society.

978-0-87013-325-1 ▪ $29.95 ▪ Cloth125 pages

The Emperor’s ClothesA Personal Viewpoint of Politics and Administration in the Imperial Ethiopian Government, 1941-1974Gaitachew Bekele

An engaging personal account of a public service career in the period leading to the 1974 revolution.

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978-0-87013-810-2 ▪ $29.95 ▪ Paper371 pages

The GuardianThe History of South Africa’s Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid NewspaperJames Zug

Combining a scholar’s attention to facts with a journalist’s sense of the dramatic, Zug recreates a tumultuous and dangerous era.

978-0-87013-527-9 ▪ $25.95 ▪ Paper263 pages

Letters from Robben IslandA Selection of Ahmed Kathrada’s Prison Correspondence, 1964-1989Edited by Robert D. Vassen

Letters From Robben Island contains a selection of 86 of the more than 900 pieces of correspondence South African activist Ahmed Kathrada wrote during his 26 years on Robben Island and at Pollsmoor Prison.

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Malaria, Poems

Cameron Conaway

Malaria, Poems testifies to the importance of bridging the chasm between science and art.

978-1-61186-144-0 ▪ $16.95 ▪ Paper80 pages

Requiem, Rwanda

Laura Apol

This new collection is a rich testimonial to the strength of a nation and its people.

978-1-61186-158-7 ▪ $19.95 ▪ Paper104 pages

978-1-61186-182-2 ▪ $19.95 ▪ Paper126 pages

Stray TruthsSelected Poems of Euphrase KezilahabiEdited by Annmarie Drury

A stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa’s major living authors, published here for the first time in English.

POETRY / FICTION

978-1-61186-199-0 ▪ $26.95 ▪ Cloth82 pages

Citizens of BeautyPoems of Jean SénacJean Sénac

Now available for the first time in English, this collection celebrates revolution, love, and the body.

POETRY / FICTION

978-0-87013-475-3 ▪ $54.95 ▪ Cloth753 pages

Collected Works of Nana Asma’uDaughter of Usman ‘dan Fodiyo (1793-1864)Edited by Jean Boyd, and Beverly Mack

This volume contains annotated translations of works by the 19th-century intellectual giant, Nana Asma’u, who rallied public opinion behind a movement devoted to the revival of Islam in West Africa, and organized a public education system for women.

978-1-61186-153-2 ▪ $19.95 ▪ Paper204 pages

The Knight and His Shadow

Boubacar Boris Diop

The Knight and His Shadow tells the tale of Lat-Sukabé’s quest to find his former lover, Khadidja, who writes him to “come before it’s too late.”

978-0-87013-390-9 ▪ $39.50 ▪ Cloth368 pages

KujibizanaQuestions of Language and Power in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry in KishwahiliAnn Biersteker

The author argues that reading poetry in Kiswahili provides important insights into discussions of socialist practice in East Africa and East African resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism.

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Liberation and DevelopmentBlack Consciousness Community Programs in South AfricaLeslie Anne Hadfield

The book particularly explores the power that youth, women, and churches had in leading change in a hostile political environment.

978-1-61186-192-1 ▪ $39.95 ▪ Paper270 pages

Mozambique’s Experience in Building a National Extension System

Helder Gemo, Carl K. Eicher, and Solomon Teclemariam

This work highlights the Ministry of Agriculture’s drive to develop and test both local and imported extension models and share its experience with other African countries.

978-0-87013-763-1 ▪ $13.95 ▪ Paper128 pages

978-0-87013-990-1 ▪ $34.95 ▪ Paper256 pages

Ethnographic ChiasmusEssays on Culture, Conflict, and RhetoricEdited by Ivo Strecker

The essays assembled in this volume are shaped by conditions that can perhaps best be described as an “ethnographic chiasmus,” the surprise and reversal of position that are characteristic of fieldwork.

978-0-87013-851-5▪ $34.95 ▪ Paper368 pages

With Faith in the Works of WordsThe Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, 1985–1995Erik Doxtader

The first book to look behind the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and examine reconciliation’s larger and fundamental role in the transition from apartheid to nonracial democracy.

SOCIOLOGY

RHETORIC S RHETORIC RHETORIC

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978-0-87013-321-3 ▪ $39.50 ▪ Cloth352 pages

An Enchanting Darkness The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth CenturyDennis Hickey, and Kenneth C. Wylie

This ambitious and stimulating study, couched in terms accessible to general readers while firmly rooted in scholarship, surveys twentieth-century American images of and attitudes toward Africa.

978-1-61186-166-2 ▪ $39.95 ▪ Paper422 pages

The Forge and the FuneralThe Smith in Kapsiki/Higi CultureWalter E. A. van Beek

The Forge and the Funeral describes the position of the smith in the culture of the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria.

978-0-87013-852-2 ▪ $24.95 ▪ Paper220 pages

The Uncertain Business of Doing GoodOutsiders in AfricaLarry Krotz

This text examines important questions: How have we come to think the way we do about Africa and its people? What has motivated us to action, for good or ill?

SOCIOLOGY

978-0-87013-838-6 ▪ $24.95 ▪ Paper272 pages

The Black Condition

Edited by Howard Dodson, and Colin Palmer

The Black Condition is a volume within the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (SSBE), a unique research, study, and teaching resource for professors and students of Black Studies.

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978-0-87013-778-5 ▪ $37.95 ▪ Paper522 pages

State of the NationSouth Africa 2005–2006Edited by Sakhela Bulungu, John K. Daniel, Roger Southall, and Jessica Lutchman

It is the third in the Human Sciences Research Council’s annual volume of essays on aspects of contemporary politics, economics, society, and international relations in South Africa.

978-161186-136-5 ▪ $29.95 ▪ Paper314 pages

The African Union’s AfricaNew Pan-African Initiatives in Global GovernanceRita Kiki Edozie, and Keith Gottschalk

An examination of the initiatives of the Pan-African global governance institution the African Union (AU) as the organization and its precursor commemorate their Jubilee as international actors.

978-0-87013-838-6 ▪ $24.95 ▪ Paper272 pages

Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

Edited by Bernd Reiter, and Kimberly Eison Simmons

This book brings together diverse reflections from scholars, activists, and funding agency representatives working to end racism and promote human rights in the Americas.

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