James Currey imprint: 43 books
by Joseph Hanlon, Teresa Smart
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Is Mozambique an African success story? It has 7 percent a year growth rate and substantial foreign investment. Fifteen years after the war of destabilisation, the peace has held. Mozambique is the donors' model pupil, carefully following their prescriptions and receiving more than a billion dollars...
In the Name of the Mother
Reflections on Writers and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced...
Sects & Social Disorder
Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of intra-Muslim...
Creed & Grievance
Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development, accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the country,...
Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World
The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). This book looks at the commercial relations of two states which played a crucial role in the Atlantic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Already well-established in the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature in 2013, the most prestigious literary prize honouring Lusophone writers, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature...
Liberation Movements in Power
Party and State in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters...
South Africa - The Present as History
From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate, on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent...
Scoring Race
Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
What are the cultural implications of Louis Armstrong's 1960 visit to Africa? Why are so many postcolonial novels in French fascinated with jazz? In defining jazz as "black music", France's "jazzophilia" has had wide-reaching effects on contemporary perceptions of the artistic...
Out in Africa
Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-African context from the nineteenth century to the present. Reaching back to early...
Fighting for Britain
African Soldiers in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly...
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
Old Wars and New Wars (Expanded 3rd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide between Arabs and Africans, or to recent colonially constructed inequalities. This book attempts a more complex...
Ploughing New Ground
Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018. In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. While the Government claimed the riots stemmed from subversive...
Volunteer Economies
The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of governance, new social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been the real impact of volunteers...