James Currey imprint: 43 books
The African Garrison State
Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
When Eritrea gained independence in 1991, hopes were high for its transformation. In two decades, however, it became one of the most repressive in the world, effectively a militarised "garrison state". This comprehensive and detailed analysis examines how the prospects for democracy in the...
Christopher Okigbo 1930-67
Thirsting for Sunlight
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Christopher Okigbo, once described as 'Africa's most lyrical poet of the twentieth century' was killed in September 1967, fighting for the independence of Biafra. The Sunday Times described his death as 'the single most important tragedy of the Nigerian civil war'. The manner in which Okigbo died...
The Politics of Peacemaking in Africa
Non-State Actors' Role in the Liberian Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
'Throws light on the role of several key agents in bringing to an end one of the darkest episodes in post-independence African history.' Ebenezer Obadare, University of Kansas Until the 1990s, conflict resolution and peacemaking fell to states, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations. In...
Empire, Development and Colonialism
The Past in the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on...
by Jock McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread...
Africa Rising?
BRICS - Diversifying Dependency
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth comes improved governance and endogenous dynamics; that the emerging economies, and especially the BRICS...
Voices of Ghana
Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955-57 (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Ghana's first radio programme of original literature, The Singing Net, began in 1955 as part of the development of a national radio station in the years leading to independence in 1957. Its central aim was to bring Ghanaian writers to the forefront of cultural programming as part of the Africanisation...
Ngugi
Reflections on his Life of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution...
Remaking Mutirikwi
Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The Mutirikwi river was dammed in the early 1960s to make Zimbabwe's second largest lake. This was a key moment in the Europeanisation of Mutirikwi's landscapes, which had begun with colonial land appropriations in the 1890s. But African landscapes were not obliterated by the dam. They remained active...
The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa
Beyond the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities...
Gender, Home & Identity
Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their 'homes' in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able...
The War Within
New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book re-evaluates this period from a number of different local perspectives in an...
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
African Literature Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry,...
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
War on the Reef
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while both deserved the plaudits they received for entering the negotiations...