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Malaika and the Seven Heavens

A Memoir of My Encounters with Islam

By Toyin Omoyeni Falola
Subjects: African Studies, Memoir, Religion

How a personal journey with Islam illuminates the transformative power of empathy, communication, and shared humanity

The Banyamulenge Soldier

Genocide between Congo and Rwanda

By Christopher P. Davey
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

Revealing how violence and identity converge in genocide narrative identity

Dancing Opacity

Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal

By Amy E. Swanson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, African Studies

How contemporary dancers recalibrate constructions of gender, sexuality, and race while navigating the international dance circuit

The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal

Intermarriage, Qur'anic Education, and Jihad

By Aly Dramé
Subjects: African Studies, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: African Perspectives

An exploration of the development of Islam in the Middle Casamance region

Before Before

A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone

By Betsy Small
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reflecting on how building connections with others is necessary for humanity’s survival

Speaking Our Selves

New Plays by African Women

Foreword by Esi Sutherland-Addy

Edited by Asiimwe Deborah Kawe & Robert H. Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African Studies, Women's Studies

Bringing African drama to an English-speaking audience

Typologies of Humor in African Literatures

By Adwoa A Opoku-Agyemang
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examining humor and four of its archetypes in twentieth-century African literature

Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights

The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana

By Ellie Gore
Subjects: African Studies, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examining the impacts of global development processes and HIV response on queer politics and activism in Ghana

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change

Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

By Ousseina D. Alidou
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society

The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony

Poems Translated by Ken Walibora Waliaula

By Abdilatif Abdalla
Edited by Annmarie Drury
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: African Perspectives

First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abadalla’s influential Voice of Agony

Transforming Vòdún

Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

By Sarah Politz
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies
Series: Musics in Motion

How musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions

Between Sahara and Sea

Africa in the Roman Empire

By David J. Mattingly
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, African Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

David Mattingly’s long-awaited book on North Africa and the Romans

Congo Style

From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

By Ruth Sacks
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the impact of colonial Belgium’s influence on the Congo’s visual culture

Lagos Never Spoils

Nollywood and Nigerian City Life

By Connor Ryan
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the relationship between Nollywood and the city of Lagos

Continuous Pasts

Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa

By Sakiru Adebayo
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Investigates the ways in which postcolonial African fiction deals with or, in some cases, becomes the source of memory friction

Writing on the Soil

Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa

By Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

How representations of land and landscape perform important metaphorical labor in African literatures

Peace, Preference, and Property

Return Migration after Violent Conflict

By Sandra F Joireman
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Human Rights, African Studies

A bottom-up analysis of what displaced people need rather than what states want

In Search of Tunga

Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town

By André Chappatte
Subjects: African Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

The lives of young male Muslim “adventurers” in a Malian town

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

By Sara Pugach
Subjects: German Studies, African Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization

Power / Knowledge / Land

Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa

By Laura German
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Governance
Series: African Perspectives

Explores contested truths surrounding land governance in Africa and beyond

The Evolution of Settlement Systems in the Region of Vohémar, Northeast Madagascar

By Henry T. Wright, Robert E. Dewar, Chantal Radimilahy, and Lucien Marie Aimé Rakotozafy
Subjects: Archaeology, History, African Studies
Series: Memoirs

In this monograph, Henry T. Wright reports on the results of a four-year archaeological survey on the northeast coast of Madagascar, near the town of Vohémar. Researchers found evidence of a roughly 600-year-old port site; early estuarine villages of the 7th and 8th centuries; and a rock shelter with microlithic tools.

The Infrastructures of Security

Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg

By Martin Murray
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The shift from dependence upon human decision-making in security services to Artificial Intelligence

Disability and Social Justice in Kenya

Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation

By Nina Berman & Rebecca Monteleone
Subjects: African Studies, Disability Studies

The first interdisciplinary and multivocal study of its kind to review achievements and challenges related to the situation of persons with disabilities in Kenya today

Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency

The Routes of Terror in an African Context

By Daniel E Agbiboa
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Urban Politics

Mobility as the driving force of armed conflict

African Performance Arts and Political Acts

By Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo
Subjects: African Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: African Perspectives

Explores how performance arts, whether staged or in daily life, regularly interface with political action across the African continent

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