Africa

ISBN: 9781847012579
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Theatre
Volume: Volume 19
Music is often cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre on the continent in general, and to opera in particular, with the exceptions of a few noted genr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012289
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Literature Today
Volume: Volume 38
This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literary criticism addresses the implications of global environmental transformations. Does environmentalist literature offer new poss... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781648250064
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: Volume 81
This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migration crises, essays in the volume probe the ways... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012593
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
As colonial development took off after the Second World War, in the context of national food shortages, Britain's Labour Government initiated the Groundnut Scheme, an extraordinarily ambitious project to convert 3 million acres of bush in Tanganyi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012586
Published by : James Currey
In the wake of the civil wars in Congo from 1960 to 1973, international and internal struggles for power led to famines, the collapse of public health and a huge population of refugees. This book explores the role played by missionaries from the U... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781580469852
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: Volume 89
In 1959, King Kong, an interracial jazz opera, swept across South Africa and became a countrywide phenomenon. Its performances sold out, its LP record was widely heard, and its cast became recognized celebrities. Featuring an African compos... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012555
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Why, despite the introduction of new land laws beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in land grabbing in Kenya? Why has legislation failed to address long standing grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important book sug... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861592234
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 223
From AD 500–1000, the Indian Ocean emerged as a global commercial center, and by around 750–800 a sophisticated trade network had been established involving the movement of goods from Japan and China in the east, to southern Africa and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781580469845
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: Volume 88
In the decades following the 1940s, there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in African-styled traditions and the influence of these traditions upon the African diaspora. Africanized customs within the diaspora have elicited several schol... .... Learn More