James Currey imprint: 43 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent? The editors have chosen eleven key countries to provide enlightening comparisons and...
by Michael Brett
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic discipline in its own right is little more than fifty years old. Since then the subject has grown enormously, but the question...
Reading Nuruddin Farah
The individual, the novel & the idea of home
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah, is one of the most important African writers today. The central question that this book investigates is the relationship between modern identity and the novel as a genre. Nuruddin Farah's novels are shown by Moolla to encompass the history of the novel: from the...
Electricity in Africa
The Politics of Transformation in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring at least minimum access to electricity for the majority of its population. Yet many sub-Saharan African countries struggle to meet demand. Why is this, and what can be done to reduce energy poverty and further Africa's...
Mandela's Kinsmen
Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost "tribal" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei,...
The Road to Soweto
Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
After a long process of peace negotiations the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The CPA raised initial hopes that it would be the foundation block for lasting peace in Sudan....
Markets on the Margins
Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
In 1987, workers in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike, and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them, the NUM set up a job creation programme, starting with worker co-operatives before shifting to wider enterprise development strategies....
Foundations of an African Civilisation
Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art-history,...
The Development State
Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personal lives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention...
Bulawayo Burning
The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
NEW LOW PRICE This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explore what historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary imagination. Responding...
Nyerere
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999), the first President of Tanzania, was a man whose political life was uniquely and inextricably bound into the history of the nation he created. Yet, though 'Baba wa Taifa', Father of the Nation, there is still no adequate biography. This book presents the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing...
Disrupting Territories
Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
"Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of...