Africa

ISBN: 9781847012630
Published by : James Currey
While there have been many books on South Africa's liberation struggle during the 1980s and early 1990s, the story of the involvement of African girls and young women has been all but missing. This book tells their story, analysing what life was l... .... Learn More

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: 9781847012647
Published by : James Currey
Series: Western Africa Series
While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012654
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
WINNER OF THE 2019 AIDOO-SNYDER BOOK PRIZE

Al-Hakkamat Baggara women hold an instrumental position in rural Sudan, wielding agency, social and political power. This book uncovers their significant, but widely overlooked, role during the w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971553
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Rural Settlement and Economic Activity is a key new addition to literature on the rural economy of Tripolitania during Antiquity. The chapters explore the geography and climate of the area and present the results of the author’s archa... .... 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: 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