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M’hamed Oualdi, “A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa” (Columbia UP, 2020)

M’hamed Oualdi
A Slave between Empires
A Transimperial History of North Africa
Columbia University Press, 2020

New Books in African Studies New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network May 25, 2020 Nancy Ko

In light of the profound physical and mental traumas of colonization endured by North Africans, historians of recent decades have primarily concentrated their studies of North Africa on colonial violence, domination, and shock. The choice is an understandable one. But in his new monograph, A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial... Read More

Kwasi Konadu, “Our Own Way In this Part of the World” (Duke UP, 2019)

Kwasi Konadu
Our Own Way In this Part of the World
Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network May 7, 2020 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

In his new book Our Own Way In this Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture and Nation (Duke University Press, 2019), Kwasi Konadu tells the story Kofi Donko (1913-1995) and the many communities he served as a blacksmith, healer, farmer, leader and intellectual. The book starts... Read More

Anne Heffernan
Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa

James Currey, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in African Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network May 4, 2020 Amanda Joyce Hall

Anne Heffernan‘s new book Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa (James Currey, 2019) a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present. Heffernan focuses specifically on black student activism at the University of the... Read More

Jatin Dua, “Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean” (U California Press, 2019)

Jatin Dua
Captured at Sea
Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network April 1, 2020 Jeffrey Bristol

Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2019) is a pirate story of a different kind. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Somalia, the UK and other parts of Africa and the Middle East, Jatin Dua describes a tale that is not... Read More

Nicholas R. Jones, “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain” (Penn State UP, 2019)

Nicholas R. Jones
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Penn State University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society March 20, 2020 Elizabeth Spragins

Nicholas R. Jones’s book, Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (Penn State University Press, 2019), analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, when performing habla de negros—how Africanized Castilian was commonly referred to—was... Read More

Christopher J. Lee, “Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa” (Duke UP, 2014)

Christopher J. Lee
Unreasonable Histories
Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Duke University Press, 2014

New Books in African Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 19, 2020 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

In Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Duke University Press, 2014), Christopher J. Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia. By carefully reading fragmented correspondence, colonial reports, periodicals and oral testimonies, the author... Read More

David Morton, “Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique” (Ohio UP, 2019)

David Morton
Age of Concrete
Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique
Ohio University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 3, 2020 Jacob Doherty

Who built Africa’s cities? Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Ohio University Press, 2019) describes the incremental process through which Maputo’s suburbios – popular neighborhoods outside the formally planned city –... Read More

Peter Cole, “Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

Peter Cole
Dockworker Power
Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
University of Illinois Press, 2018

New Books in African American Studies New Books in African Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 19, 2020 Amanda Joyce Hall

Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press, 2018) is a fascinating, densely researched account of dockworkers and their organized responses to seismic economic and technological changes in the shipping industry between the 1940s and 1970s. Peter Cole examines the International... Read More