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FEATURED BOOKS larger image No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000 A PANORAMIC VIEW OF U.S. ACTIVISM ON AFRICA FROM 1950 TO 2000. "We were part of a worldwide movement that continues today to redress the economic and social injustices that kill body, mind, and spirit. No Easy Victories makes clear that our lives and fortunes around the globe are indeed linked." - Nelson Mandela Other Featured Titles: 2007 BIOPIRACY OF BIODIVERSITY Global Exchange as Enclosure by Andrew Mushita and Carol B. Thompson The struggle for control of biodiversity is passionate: Corporate leaders assume they can make billions; many scientists aspire to manufacturing “new” species; the promise of new cures tantalizes. But no scientist, no patent lawyer, or economist can depict the whole picture. This book gives voice to those in Africa who know better—and are willing to help others see the horror of the biopiracy and enclosure behind the camouflage of advancing “innovation,” “land reform,” and “free trade.” Sharing bioresources requires not only different views of science, of law, of trade, but also of community. PRICE: $29.95   "IN-DEPENDENCE" FROM BONDAGE Claude McKay and Michael Manley Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations by Lloyd McCarthy "As black people around the world continue to search for "liberation blueprints" perhaps the work of Lloyd McCarthy might prove to be a guidebook. By looking at the intellectual development of Claude McKay and Michael Manley he mines the Afro-Jamaican traditions for its gold. Here is work that restores the importance of looking to the common man for leadership and moral direction. Poets and politicians can meet on the same road and at times, talk the talk. New World Africans need to listen." -E. Ethelbert Miller, Director, African American Resource Center, Howard University PRICE: $24.95   E-GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA From Theory to Action A Hand-Book on ICTs for Local Governance by Gianluca C. Misuraca This book presents the context, theory, and current thinking on the interaction between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and local governance, particularly in Africa. It discusses the shift from "government" to "e-governance," describes the role of local-level authorities, and presents the benefits and limitations of introducing ICTs in government operations. Case studies from Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda describe local governance/ICTs projects executed by civil society organizations, academic institutions, and government authorities. PRICE: $29.95   AFRICAN WOMEN IN REVOLUTION by W.O. Maloba This book is an ambitious, extensive and detailed analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutionary movements in post World War II Africa. The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in: Algeria, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The book describes and analyzes the nature and impact of women’s participation in these revolutionary movements. How did these revolutionary movements define women’s liberation? What is the linkage between feminist theories of liberation and national liberation? Did the national liberation movements betray women...? PRICE: $29.95   THE CROWN AND THE PEN The Memoirs of a Lawyer Turned Rebel by Bereket Habte Selassie This memoir recounts the extraordinary story of a man straddling two worlds—a progressive lawyer and high-ranking official of the government of Emperor Haile Selassie who struggled for justice within an archaic system. It is also the story of a man who has been touched by and in turn made his share of influence in some of the major events and developments of Ethiopia, Eritrea and the rest of Africa as well... PRICE: $29.95   2006 AFRICA IN RUSSIA, RUSSIA IN AFRICA Three Centuries of Encounters Edited by Maxim Matusevich “Once in a while in African studies there comes a book that is truly informative and a compelling read. This is one such book. It is an invaluable volume on a little explored subject, the long history of relations between Africa and Russia that goes back at least three centuries, a complex, sometimes contradictory, and constantly changing relationship marked by mutual curiosity and idealism, various contacts and exchanges, and revolutionary solidarity during the tumultuous years of colonialism and the cold war..." -Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor of African Studies and History, Pennsylvania State University PRICE: $34.95   AFRICA’S CHALLENGE Using Law for Good Governance and Development Edited by Ann Seidman, Robert B. Seidman, Pumzo Mbana and Hanson Hu Li The African continent exceeds in size and natural resources the combined territories of Europe, the United States and China. Yet most Africans must struggle for bare survival. The authors of this book’s chapters describe different African countries’ experiences, underscoring the need to use law to transform Africa’s inherited institutions. Chapter 2 outlines institutionalist legislative theory and methodology as a guide for designing laws to achieve good governance and people-oriented development... PRICE: $24.95   ASINAMALI University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa Edited by Richard Pithouse Asinamali marks CAFA's first enquiry into academic freedom in post-apartheid South Africa. Asinamali means 'We have no money' and is a phrase that was often sung in the struggles against apartheid. A key demand of the struggles against apartheid was, in the famous words of the Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People in 1955, that 'The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall be Opened". But in the ten years since the end of apartheid the South African university system has been rapidly commodified with the result that students who are poor are increasingly being excluded from university education, often at gunpoint, and research and teaching are once again being organized in the interests of elites. But the commodification of education in post-apartheid South Africa has been vigorously contested by student struggles. Thus the old language of resistance is back on South African campuses. PRICE: $19.95   BREAKING STONE SILENCE Giving Voice to Aids Prevention in Africa by Paul Terry Breaking Stone Silence is about the astounding struggle over life and land in Africa and the resounding relationship between principles of prevention, community organization, social justice and community health...Like African masks that symbolize both bravery and death, AIDS, community action and prevention education represent Africa’s harshest legacy as well as Zimbabwe’s heritage of hope... PRICE: $21.95   CONVERSATIONS WITH ERITREAN POLITICAL PRISONERS by Dan Connell In 2001, months after a devastating war with Ethiopia, a wide-ranging debate erupted within Eritrea over the conduct of leadership and the content of government policy, particularly around the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia, which many thought could have been averted. Much of the criticism was directed at the president, Isaias Afwerki, who refused to implement a newly ratified Constitution or to permit the formation of political parties or to conduct national elections. This national conversation came to an abrupt halt in September when the government arrested its most prominent critics, shut down the private press, and smothered all public political discussion. PRICE: $24.95   TIME IS TIGHT Urgent Tasks for Educational Transformation—Eritrea, South Africa, and the U.S. by Matt Meyer "Time Is Tight" is an important piece of literature for educators all over the world. If education is to produce a new generation of empowered people, then we need to support literature such as presented in this inspiring book. -Ela Gandhi, South African Member of Parliament (ANC), from the Foreword PRICE: $24.95   MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL CHANGE Constraints to Democratization in Africa Edited by John Mukum Mbaku and Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere This book is written by seasoned scholars of African Studies and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on democracy and democratization in the continent. It contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on the transition to democratic governance in Africa. It provides both students of African political economy and policymakers in the continent an in-depth analysis of the post-independence experiences of African countries with institutional reforms. PRICE: $34.95   2005 CHALLENGING HEGEMONY Social Movements, and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa Edited by Nigel Gibson Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements, and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa is a collection of essays by leading social movement activists and scholars that analyzes the emergence of new political struggles in post apartheid South Africa. PRICE: $29.95   I LAUGH SO I WON'T CRY Kenya’s Women Tell the Story of Their Lives by Helena Halperin This compelling book shows the full panorama of women’s struggles in sub-Saharan Africa without sacrificing the vivid details of individual lives. Subsistence farmers, herders, beggars, sex workers, office workers, hawkers, business executives and a few friends who stopped an ethnic war all speak in "I Laugh So I Won’t Cry." PRICE: $29.95   MAKERS & BREAKERS Children & Youth In Postcolonial Africa Edited by Alcinda Honwana and Filip de Boeck This collection navigates through stereotypes of “victim” and “perpetrator,” taking on themes of youth agency and the constructed nature of youth as a social category.It presents a new portrait of youth encompassing transition to a socially recognized adulthood, and an identity with its own social and cultural forms. PRICE: $29.95   2004 AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS Interconnections During the Slave Trade Edited by José C. Curto and Renée Soulodre-La France Africa and the Americas is a collection of recent scholarly essays reflecting an important structural feature of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. That is its circular nature, departing from Africa, coming to America, and then returning to Africa. Thus the volume is divided into three parts. Starting off, David Eltis, Stephen Behrandt and David Richardson, analyze the slave trade along its national lines and determine that the Portuguese were critically important in the carrying of slaves. PRICE: $29.95   LIBERIAN WOMEN PEACEMAKERS Fighting for the Right to be Seen, Heard, and Counted A Publication of the African Women and Peace Support Group Women are usually seen as victims of wars, as indeed they are. But they are also peacemakers, so that the riches of their land may be invested in their children's education and health services and in agriculture and industry. In this book, Liberian women and men who were caught in the civil war between 1989 and 2003, tell their own stories of assisting the afflicted, feeding the hungry, pleading with trigger-happy young soldiers to stop the killing, seeking to heal trauma, taking to the streets in protest, and storming peace conferences "to speak plainly and forcefully about the destruction of families, communities and the nation." This book celebrates them. PRICE: $19.95   NKRUMAH AND GHANA by Kofi Buenor Hadjor "Nkrumah...always managed to stay ahead of his time. If anything, his greatest tragedy was the fact that he was so much ahead of those around him. Very few were able to follow the implications of Nkrumah’s perspective. Even those who were often inspired by his vision could not, on their own, follow on the right road..." -from the author's conclusion PRICE: $21.95   RACE AND IDENTITY IN THE NILE VALLEY Ancient and Modern Perspectives Edited by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and kharyssa rhodes This volume pioneers the examination of issues of race and racism, ethnicity and identity in the major Nile Valley countries of Sudan and Egypt from ancient times to the present. Two major events have forced the issue. The study of the ancient Nile Valley was challenged to confront the issue of race in antiquity with the publication of Martin Bernal’s two-volume work, "Black Athena" (1987; 1991) asserting the Afro-Asiatic roots of Western civilization, and its most famous rebuttal "Not Out of Africa" (1996). In the aftermath of these earlier works, the question of whether ancient Egypt was black or white became the most simplistic rendering of this not so collegial debate. In this tome, a new generation of critical archaeologists and anthropologists, freed from old Orientalist and Egyptological racialist and racist ideas, have written with greater objectivity about race and representation than their predecessors. PRICE: $29.95   2003 AMILCAR CABRAL Revolutionary Leadership and People’s War by Patrick Chabal In less than twenty years of active political life, Amilcar Cabral led Guinea-Bissau’s nationalists to the most complete political and military success ever achieved by an African political movement against a colonial power. At the time of his death in 1973, months before Guinea-Bissau became independent, his influence extended well beyond the Lusophone world and Africa. Friends and foes alike admired his political acumen and skills and saw in him a potential leader of a non-aligned movement. His writings have shown him to be a sophisticated analyst of the social, economic, and political factors which have affected and continue to affect the developing world. PRICE: $29.95   STRIKE A WOMAN, STRIKE A ROCK Fighting for Freedom in South Africa by Barbara Hutmacher Maclean In this trenchant and compelling book, Barbara Hutmacher MacLean reveals the lives of a cross section of South African women who courageously opposed apartheid in ways the world never knew: blacks who risked death and torture by opposing the government’s racial laws and whites who openly protested the same policies which gave them privilege... PRICE: $24.95   2002 AFRICAN VOICES ON STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT A Companion to OUR CONTINENT, OUR FUTURE Edited by Thandika Mkandawire and Charles C. Soludo This book is a response to the need for critical appraisal of the structural adjustment program (SAP) as a development strategy. The failure of SAP, the simplistic diagnosis and tendentious performance evaluation of the 1994 report, and what seems to be a changed African environment that is more permissive of alternative viewpoints, has convinced Africans to re-enter the debate. There is a growing call for “local ownership” of adjustment and for Africans to assume the leading role in defining the continent’s future. PRICE: $29.95   2001 OUR CONTINENT, OUR FUTURE African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment by Thandika Mkandawire and Charles C. Soludo For decades now, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have implemented the structural adjustment programs of the Bretton Woods Institutions. The results, however, have been less than sterling. Extreme poverty and underdevelopment continue to plague sub-Saharan Africa, and it is now generally agreed that a new approach is urgently required. "Our Continent, Our Future" presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. PRICE: $21.95

NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title) "IN-DEPENDENCE" FROM BONDAGE Claude McKay and Michael Manley Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations by Lloyd McCarthy "As black people around the world continue to search for "liberation blueprints" perhaps the work of Lloyd McCarthy might prove to be a guidebook. By looking at the intellectual development of Claude McKay and Michael Manley he mines the Afro-Jamaican traditions for its gold. Here is work that restores the importance of looking to the common man for leadership and moral direction. Poets and politicians can meet on the same road and at times, talk the talk. New World Africans need to listen." -E. Ethelbert Miller, Director, African American Resource Center, Howard University PRICE: $24.95 NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title)&no=2&product_no=2&searchpath=1375&smode=add> 'THE FREEDOM OF THE WRITER' (Tigrinya text) And Other Selected Literary and Cultural Essays by Ghirmai Negash In this richly researched and lucidly written collection of essays, ‘The Freedom of the Writer’ and Other Selected Literary and Cultural Essays, Ghirmai Negash provides solid analysis and information on some of the salient aspects of Eritrean literature and culture. PRICE: $19.95 NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title)&no=124&product_no=124&searchpath=1375&smode=add> A CREOLE EXPERIMENT Utopian Space in Kamau Brathwaite’s “video-style” Works by Melanie Otto In A Creole Experiment, Melanie Otto examines the utopian aspect of Brathwaite’s major “video-style” works while employing the concepts of Heimat (homeland) and “concrete utopia,” which were developed by philosopher Ernst Bloch in The Principle of Hope.  She also focuses on Brathwaite’s interrogation and reinterpretation of the conventions of magical realism. Unlike mainstream Latin American magical realism, Brathwaite’s work is radical in both form and content, developing a distinctly creole aesthetic.  In addition, Otto notes that Brathwaite’s vision of a “creole cosmos” does not refer to an ideal place. Instead, it reveals the tangibility of an often dismal day-to-day existence. PRICE: $34.95 NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title)&no=470&product_no=470&searchpath=1375&smode=add> A RHYME IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE Hip Hop and the Creation of a Political Philosophy by Carlton A. Usher "As historian, cultural critic, and politician, Usher offers a visionary study of Hip Hop Culture steeped in axiological clarity. At the juncture of Hip Hop's third decade and the twenty-first century's demand for practical leadership capable of deciphering puzzling trends in popular culture, Usher's approach resurrects traditional spirituality in order to guide lyricism back to its roots of linguistic function in aesthetic, communal, and political contexts of Black culture's oral tradition." —Christel N. Temple, University of Maryland, Baltimore County PRICE: $24.95 NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title)&no=6&product_no=6&searchpath=1375&smode=add> ADDIS ABABA Migration and the Making of a Multiethnic Metropolis, 1941-1974 by Getahun Benti Interdisciplinary in approach, historical in orientation and comparative in scope, this book examines the dynamics of migration to Addis Ababa from 1941 to 1974. Drawing from primary, secondary, archival and oral sources, reminiscences and newspapers, the book extensively discusses the political, economic and social transformations in Ethiopia during the period and their implications for the growth of Addis Ababa and migration to the city. PRICE: $29.95 NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title)&no=47&product_no=47&searchpath=1375&smode=add> AFRICA AND THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM Vol. 2: Country Case Studies Edited by Ademola Oyejide and Dominique Njinkeu This three-volume set presents results of a research project initiated by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Titled Africa and the World Trading System, the project intended to identify and examine the critical analytical and policy issues involved in Africa’s economic links with the rest of the world, particularly in the context of the emerging global trading system. PRICE: $34.95 NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title)&no=115&product_no=115&searchpath=1375&smode=add> AFRICA IN RUSSIA, RUSSIA IN AFRICA Three Centuries of Encounters Edited by Maxim Matusevich “Once in a while in African studies there comes a book that is truly informative and a compelling read. This is one such book. It is an invaluable volume on a little explored subject, the long history of relations between Africa and Russia that goes back at least three centuries, a complex, sometimes contradictory, and constantly changing relationship marked by mutual curiosity and idealism, various contacts and exchanges, and revolutionary solidarity during the tumultuous years of colonialism and the cold war..." -Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor of African Studies and History, Pennsylvania State University PRICE: $34.95 NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title)&no=111&product_no=111&searchpath=1375&smode=add> AFRICA ON A GLOBAL STAGE Edited by Tanya Lyons and Geralyn Pye Since the September 11, 2001 tragedy in the U.S. there has been a growing recognition of the role of collapsed states in the African region in undermining regional and international peace and security which has led to a renewed call for Western involvement in Africa. Written by authors from an international and multidisciplinary background, this book provides a unique and insightful commentary on the current concerns facing Africa and Africans, in particular questioning the extent globalization permits African participation in its processes. PRICE: $24.95 NEW AFRICA WORLD PRESS BOOKS (in order by title)&no=38&product_no=38&searchpath=1375&smode=add> AFRICA’S CHALLENGE Using Law for Good Governance and Development Edited by Ann Seidman, Robert B. Seidman, Pumzo Mbana and Hanson Hu Li The African continent exceeds in size and natural resources the combined territories of Europe, the United States and China. Yet most Africans must struggle for bare survival. The authors of this book’s chapters describe different African countries’ experiences, underscoring the need to use law to transform Africa’s inherited institutions. Chapter 2 outlines institutionalist legislative theory and methodology as a guide for designing laws to achieve good governance and people-oriented development... PRICE: $24.95 AFRICAN AFFIRMATIONS Songs for Patriots by Askia Toure “At a time when human existence is threatened by the absurdity of power and greed, Toure’ advances a poetry that celebrates and castigates, that kisses, curses and sings, reminding us as Blake, Whitman, Bly, Cardenal and Mackey that our soul emerges from soil; that we are tied to the cosmic umbilical of poetry and song; that even in the midst of foretold dangers, there is still time enough for dreaming and for reason…” -Tony Medina PRICE: $14.95 AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY The Analytic Approach by Barry Hallen African Philosophy: The Analytic Approach sets out to demonstrate that the analytic approach to philosophy, which is prominent in the world today, can both be applied to and derived from Africa’s indigenous cultural heritage. The author achieves this via critiques of the viewpoints of several leading scholars who maintain, for various reasons, that there is insignificant evidence of substantive philosophical thought in the indigenous African cultural context. PRICE: $34.95 AFRICAN WOMEN IN REVOLUTION by W.O. Maloba This book is an ambitious, extensive and detailed analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutionary movements in post World War II Africa. The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in: Algeria, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The book describes and analyzes the nature and impact of women’s participation in these revolutionary movements. How did these revolutionary movements define women’s liberation? What is the linkage between feminist theories of liberation and national liberation? Did the national liberation movements betray women...? PRICE: $29.95 ALA ANNUALS, Vol. 13 African Literatures at the Millennium Series Editor: Ousseynou Traore Editored by Arthur D. Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka & I. Peter Ukpokodu This selection of essays fairly represents the geographic and thematic range of presentations at the millennial conference of the African Literature Association (ALA) in Lawrence, Kansas, which explored enduring themes and new directions in African and African Diaspora literatures... PRICE: $34.95 AMINA A Novel by Mohammed Kabir Umar Novels in English by northern Nigerian writers are few, so the arrival of a new one is an exciting literary event. This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction--the legal status of Muslim women, the limitations imposed on them by traditional and religious conventions, the restrictions on their economic activities, the effects of a corrupt patriarchal system on the society at large and women in particular, the humiliations visited on women as a result of unquestioned male power in personal relationships--from a woman's point of view. Ingeniously conceived and deftly written, this is a story about the emancipation of women in Nigeria from within. Not simply a social document, it engages the reader's sympathy through its portrayal of the attractive and believable woman after whom it is titled--Amina. PRICE: $19.95 ANATOMY OF AN AFRICAN TRAGEDY Political, Economic and Foreign Policy Crisis in Post-Independence Eritrea by Kidane Mengisteab and Okbazghi Yohannes This timely and unique book is an analytical study of post-liberation Eritrea. The work offers an extraordinary account of the events and developments that have taken place in the country’s politics, economy and foreign relations and of the things that have gone wrong since independence. By focusing on the economy, constitutional development or lack thereof, and foreign relations, the book illuminates objectively the internal and external difficulties and constraints the country faced in building a democratic society, viable economy, and sustainable foreign policy after liberation... PRICE: $29.95 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT IN ETHIOPIA Essays on Underdevelopment, Democracy and Self-Determination Edited by Seyoum Hameso and Mohammed Hassen Since the creation of the Ethiopian empire in the 1880s, political, economic, social and military power has been dominated by the elites of two minority groups. The vast majority of the peoples in Ethiopia have been subjected to the political subjugation, economic marginalization and cultural dehumanization. While the ruling ethnic groups have sought to maintain the status quo, the oppressed majority have been struggling to free themselves from tyrannical rule. As a result, the contemporary Ethiopia is a mass of contradictions and contest revolving around the paradigms of oppression and liberation producing decades of civil wars, violation of human rights, poverty, famine and misery in monumental proportions. PRICE: $34.95 ASINAMALI University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa Edited by Richard Pithouse Asinamali marks CAFA's first enquiry into academic freedom in post-apartheid South Africa. Asinamali means 'We have no money' and is a phrase that was often sung in the struggles against apartheid. A key demand of the struggles against apartheid was, in the famous words of the Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People in 1955, that 'The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall be Opened". But in the ten years since the end of apartheid the South African university system has been rapidly commodified with the result that students who are poor are increasingly being excluded from university education, often at gunpoint, and research and teaching are once again being organized in the interests of elites. But the commodification of education in post-apartheid South Africa has been vigorously contested by student struggles. Thus the old language of resistance is back on South African campuses. PRICE: $19.95 ÌLÒ ÈDÈ ÀTI ÈDÁ ÈDE YORÙBÁ: APÁ KEJÌ Yorùbá Linguistics and Language Use: Part Two Edited by Harrison Adéníyì and Akinloyè Òjó ÌLÒ ÈDÈ ÀTI ÈDÁ ÈDE YORÙBÁ: APÁ KEJÌ (Yorùbá Linguistics and Language Use: Part Two) is the second installment of the collection of works on the form and function of the Yoruba language. The twelve chapters in the book focus on various aspects of Yorùbá language and linguistics. PRICE: $24.95 BEAUTIFUL. AND UGLY TOO by M. K. Asante, Jr. Beautiful. And Ugly Too, the critically-acclaimed, second poetry collection from award-winning author M.K. Asante, Jr., reveals through its delicate rhythm, the plurality of being alive. The poems, sketched from influences and drawn from experiences around the world, are colorful comments on the human condition. PRICE: $14.95 BEAUTY IN BLACK PERFORMANCE Plays for African American Youth by Carolyn Nur Wistrand The four plays in this book bring together aspects of American history and culture that dramatize the presence and contributions of Africans and African Americans in the shaping of the United States. Written for performance by junior and high school youth, the plays introduce students to The Middle Passage, The Antebellum South, Slave Revolts in 19th century America, Reconstruction & The Jim Crow Era, Lynching, Folktales of The Deep South, and The Harlem Renaissance. PRICE: $24.95 BIOPIRACY OF BIODIVERSITY Global Exchange as Enclosure by Andrew Mushita and Carol B. Thompson The struggle for control of biodiversity is passionate: Corporate leaders assume they can make billions; many scientists aspire to manufacturing “new” species; the promise of new cures tantalizes. But no scientist, no patent lawyer, or economist can depict the whole picture. This book gives voice to those in Africa who know better—and are willing to help others see the horror of the biopiracy and enclosure behind the camouflage of advancing “innovation,” “land reform,” and “free trade.” Sharing bioresources requires not only different views of science, of law, of trade, but also of community. PRICE: $29.95 BLOOD LUXURY Poems by Osayande Ewuare “In the Black Arts Tradition of Amiri and Abiodun, Askia and Larry Neal, Sis. Sonia and Jayne Cortez, Ewuare Osayande comes forth singing out of Philly's grim promise. Fiery and explicit, focused and unsparing, with echoes of Langston, David Walker, and Haki. The living voices of Ancestors ring in his superlative invocations of Memory: Malcolm, Robeson, embrace Gwendolyn Brooks. Explosive and spirited in his metaphor...Long may his raw hipness, sweetened in love, raise us above these hellish cities, and point our people on the stony road to Liberation.” -Askia M.Toure', poet, educator, activist, co-founder of Black Arts Movement PRICE: $16.95 BREAKING STONE SILENCE Giving Voice to Aids Prevention in Africa by Paul Terry Breaking Stone Silence is about the astounding struggle over life and land in Africa and the resounding relationship between principles of prevention, community organization, social justice and community health...Like African masks that symbolize both bravery and death, AIDS, community action and prevention education represent Africa’s harshest legacy as well as Zimbabwe’s heritage of hope... PRICE: $21.95 BUILDING A NATION Collected articles on the Eritrean Revolution (1983-2002), Vol. 2 by Dan Connell In April 1976, Dan Connell slipped into Eritrea’s besieged capital, Asmara, where he witnessed the assassination of a top-ranking Ethiopian official and its bloody aftermath—the summary execution of dozens of innocent civilians. His front page account in "The Washington Post" broke Ethiopia’s long-standing information blockade... PRICE: $29.95 CHALLENGING HEGEMONY Social Movements, and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa Edited by Nigel Gibson Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements, and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa is a collection of essays by leading social movement activists and scholars that analyzes the emergence of new political struggles in post apartheid South Africa. PRICE: $29.95 CHANGING CURRENTS Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism Edited by Emily Allen Williams and Melvin Rahming Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism is a groundbreaking text of fifteen essays that present new modes of access for, as well as alternative meanings to, a number of well-known and not so well-known literary works, authors, and cultural aspects of the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking areas of the Caribbean. PRICE: $34.95 CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AMONG MUSLIMS Sokoto Province, Nigeria 1935-1990 by Mukhtar Umar Bunza The book comprises of four chapters. The first chapter titled: “The Emergence of Islamic State in Sokoto and its relations with non-Muslims” attempts to study the spiritual position and significance of Sokoto to Muslims in West Africa, especially from 1804-1903. The consolidation, demography and political structure of the Sokoto caliphate as well as the rights and privileges of the non-Muslims living in the Caliphate are examined... PRICE: $29.95 CIRCLES OF LOVE Poems by Ifi Amadiume "...A celebratory voice singing the beauty of fall colors and the magic of Africa's star-studded sky and enchanted moonlit night is interlaced with a strong, unyielding moral voice that speaks against the injustice and bullying of the powerful, and the pillage and greed of empire..." -Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana University PRICE: $14.95 CONTEMPORARY AFRICANA THEORY, THOUGHT, AND ACTION A Guide to Africana Studies Edited by Clenora Hudson-Weems Contemporary Africana Theory, Thought, and Action is a comprehensive collection of essays covering a myriad of scholarly fields. With its nationally and internationally renowned contributors, the collection addresses some of the critical issues confronting Black survival and growth--physically, politically, economically, intellectually, socially, and spiritually--and puts forth solutions to its global plight. Projected to be the blueprint for a more positive and authentic Africana existence, this volume represents the fruition of a growing Africana paradigm for this new millennium. PRICE: $34.95 CONTESTED MEMORY The Icons of the Occidental Tradition by Tsenay Serequeberhan Focused on Kant, Hegel, and Marx the book explores the Eurocentric vista that structures the stance, of these iconic figures, on the non-Occidental world. The thesis is that the efforts of these thinkers--explicitly aimed at articulating the possibility of human freedom in history--in effect authorize and give metaphysical buttress and credence to Occidental hegemony. PRICE: $21.95 CONTESTING SACRED SPACE A Pilgrimage Study of the Mwali Cult of Southern Africa by Leslie S. Nthoi This is a study of pilgrimage to the Njelele shrine, a major sacred centre of the Mwali cult, the Southern Africa's cult of the High God. This study is mainly about the importance of sacred centres as central places, in a cult, which is nodally organized. It raises questions of mediation and intermediaries between the High God and the various congregations lying in the vast cult domain; the relationship between oracular cult centres and the low level shrines and affiliated congregations; the nature of and the volume of traffic of supplicants (pilgrims) between cardinal shrines at Njelele and the periphery of the cult domain; and the symbolic exchange involved in the pilgrimage tradition in this cult of the High God. PRICE: $29.95 CONVERSATIONS WITH ERITREAN POLITICAL PRISONERS by Dan Connell In 2001, months after a devastating war with Ethiopia, a wide-ranging debate erupted within Eritrea over the conduct of leadership and the content of government policy, particularly around the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia, which many thought could have been averted. Much of the criticism was directed at the president, Isaias Afwerki, who refused to implement a newly ratified Constitution or to permit the formation of political parties or to conduct national elections. This national conversation came to an abrupt halt in September when the government arrested its most prominent critics, shut down the private press, and smothered all public political discussion. PRICE: $24.95 DECISIONS IN THE SHADE Political and Juridical Processes among the Oromo-Borana by Marco Bassi Translated by Cynthia Salvadori Due to the debate that has developed around the political significance of their Gada system of generational classes, the Oromo-Borana (a pastoral people living in Ethiopia and Kenya) have become a classic reference of comparative anthropology. In this study the author looks at the subject from the point of view of the dynamics that characterize Borana decision-making, brought to light through rigorous ethnographic investigation. PRICE: $34.95 DREAM KINGDOM New and Selected Poems by Tijan M. Sallah "[This selection] offers us the [the poet's] new work and work selected from previous collections. His touch is still sure; the images sharp; and the phrasing precise. And he has a continuous awareness of contemporary events —particularly shown in references to Mandela and the women of Soweto. ... a welcome new collection." —Prof. Dennis Brutus, distinguished South African poet PRICE: $19.95 E-GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA From Theory to Action A Hand-Book on ICTs for Local Governance by Gianluca C. Misuraca This book presents the context, theory, and current thinking on the interaction between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and local governance, particularly in Africa. It discusses the shift from "government" to "e-governance," describes the role of local-level authorities, and presents the benefits and limitations of introducing ICTs in government operations. Case studies from Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda describe local governance/ICTs projects executed by civil society organizations, academic institutions, and government authorities. PRICE: $29.95 ECOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF MUSLIM TRADE IN WEST AFRICA by Paul Lovejoy This collection brings together the key essays on the economic and social history of West Africa of Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University and holder of the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. Lovejoy’s work explores the organization of trade and production in the interior of West Africa, and specifically in the regions of modern Nigeria, Niger, Benin, and Ghana in the pre-colonial era before c. 1900, when Muslim merchants and entrepreneurs dominated economy and society. PRICE: $34.95 elobi by patrice nganang translated by cullen goldblatt “in yaounde, elobi is a swampy town for thousands of poor of the poorest. nganang's voice comes from the inmost depths of Africa today. his angry words express the tears and espouse the rhythm of the people's struggles.” -ambroise kom PRICE: $12.95 EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AKÍNWÙMÍ ISOLÁ Edited Akíntúndé Akínyemí and Tóyìn Fálolá This book provides debates and representations of society to be found in the works of Akínwùmi Ìs?ò?lá, one of the leading contemporary writers in African-language. His numerous creative works have received national and international attention, and many of them have been translated into other languages and adapted as scripts and texts for plays and films. His imagination, vision, and craft distinguish him as a creative writer of the very first rank and one of the few literary scholars that Nigeria has produced. PRICE: $39.95 EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AMINATA SOW FALL The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels Edited by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo This concise text explores an encounter between the real and the imaginary in Aminata Sow Fall’s oeuvre in which neither term is quite distinct from the other, yet maps a new possibility in human endeavor well beyond the target audience of undergraduate and graduate students to general readers with interest in realism, fantasy, and the esoteric. The contributors include Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, Lucy M. Schwartz, Kahiudi C. Mabana, Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier, Mame S. Diouf Ndiaye, Marco D. Roman, and Léa Kalaora. PRICE: $34.95 ENDANGERED BODIES Women, Children and Health in Africa Edited by Toyin Falola and Michael M. Heaton "Endangered Bodies: Women, Children and Health in Africa" brings together perspectives on issues related to child and maternal health from a variety of different angles. While diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and others continue to threaten the lives of women and children in sub-Saharan Africa, there is more to combating these epidemics than eradicating the vectors responsible for them. Social factors also play a major role in bringing awareness, legislation and funding to bear on issues that affect the health of women and children. Therefore, the chapters in this book discuss such social and legal issues as women’s abortion rights and practices in Africa, the rights of HIV-infected children and AIDS orphans, and the prevalence of violence against women with its associated health risks, among many others. Overall, "Endangered Bodies" portrays the precarious circumstances under which women and children must battle for equal access and treatment in inhospitable environs. PRICE: $29.95 ERITREA—THE MAKING OF A NATION, 1890-1991 by Redie Bereketeab This book examines the century-long process of the making of the Eritrean nation. Developments that culminated in the emergence of the State of Eritrea in 1991 are investigated and elaborated as they are traced from their beginnings in 1890, when Italy declared the creation of its new Colony of Eritrea. The study argues that the act of territorial delineation initiated the creation of Eritrea, followed by various phases of transformation that shaped its formation. This century-long process is divided into three distinct periods, Italian rule, the British administration and Ethiopian rule... PRICE: $34.95 Eritrean Studies Review Volume 5, Number 1 2007 ERITREA ON THE EVE OF EUROPEAN COLONIAL RULE Guest Editor, Bairu Tafla Executive Editor, Gebre H. Tesfagiorgis The Eritrean Studies Review has become one of the premier journals for the discussion of scholarly issues on the Horn of Africa. The Review is a publication of the Eritrean Studies Association (ESA). PRICE: $25.00 ERITREAN STUDIES REVIEW Vol. 4 No. 2, 2005 Executive Editor, Gebre Hiwet Tesfagiorgis The Eritrean Studies Review has become one of the premier journals for the discussion of scholarly issues on the Horn of Africa. The Review is a publication of the Eritrean Studies Association (ESA) and is published twice a year. PRICE: $30.00 EROS MUSE Poems and Essays by Opal Palmer Adisa Eros Muse examines the love affair between the poet and her muse. Personifying the muse as her ultimate, possessive lover, the poet explores what it means to be a writer. The essays are more pragmatic in tone and approach and explore the dual role of mother and writer. Yet the poems are more flirtatious, a dance of language and process, a prance, a trot, a sweeping waltz in which the poet and language shimmy across the room. PRICE: $19.95 GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND FILM Edited by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Maureen Eke The editors and eminent contributing scholars to this volume—Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, Maureen Ngozi Eke, Christiane P. Makward, Miriam C. Gyimah, Keith M. Harris, and Chukwuma Okoye—draw attention to the paucity of homosexuality as an abiding theme in African creative and artistic activities, emphasizing the need to separate sex from gender, investigate the correlation between gender and sex as categories of human identities, and between gender and creative artistic practices. They look at characterization, textual and filmic structure and plot in terms of identification, and this not always traditionally. PRICE: $34.95 GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA Edited by Diery Seck and Dipo Busari As the collective effort of leading African social science research and academic institutions that seek to advance the current debate, this volume includes scholarly studies on diverse and complementary development challenges facing Africa.  It proposes a research-based African perspective on development issues, ranging from sectoral and macroeconomic policy to governance, gender, and globalization.  A variety of approaches, both quantitative and qualitative, are used to investigate the link between economic growth and development, with the intended result of formulating a new development paradigm for the region.   The volume’s scope offers an accurate indication of the understanding of development by African knowledge institutions in the twenty-first century; it also provides a set of cohesive solutions. No doubt, this volume will be of considerable value to public policy managers and analysts as well as to practitioners and scholars. PRICE: $39.95 HELD TOGETHER BY PINS Liberal Democracy under Siege in Africa by Tatah Mentan This book is a must read for scholars and students of democracy in underdeveloped societies rattled by political and economic earthquakes engendered by the rampaging forces of corporate capitalism. It would be particularly useful for its incisive deconstruction of government-sponsored “alternative” democratic frameworks and the political calculations at their heart. PRICE: $29.95 HEROIC AGE IN SINNAR by Jay Spaulding This book analyzes the decline and fall of the Funj kingdom of Sinnar, the last in a long sequence of ancient, medieval and early modern kingdoms centered in the Nile valley Sudan. Over the course of the century from 1750 to 1850 the old social order disintegrated, and the new partisans who came to dominate affairs could neither restore peace nor prevent the annexation of the kingdom to Egypt in 1821. PRICE: $34.95 HIGHER EDUCATION IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA Paradigms of Development, Decline and Dilemmas by Michael O. Afoláyan Few regions of the world can boast of having the same level of potential and natural endowments as Africa. Yet, it is a tragic irony that the continent is incontestably the most unsuccessful in providing the human and capital resources to sustain itself. It is thus a reasonable intellectual quest to query the intrinsic and foreign factors that account for the illusiveness of success in this realm. It seems, then, that the most logical social institution to turn to at such a time as this is education, most especially higher education. This book, Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa: Paradigms of Development, Decline and Dilemmas is thus a response to such an enigmatic paradox. PRICE: $34.95 HIGHTOWER Ibhayu Poetry by Omohan Ebhodaghe "Hightower" is a collection of poems that delves into the milieu that has prevailed in Nigeria under both the military regimes and civilian administrations that have governed the country since independence in 1960. The collection also focuses on the spirituality of the people including issues concerning "Osonobula" (God), the family, formal education, judgment, service to mankind, jobs, religions, quality food, friendship, monarchy, class, illnesses, racism, death and the afterlife. "Ibhayu" literally means “I did not die” and the poems are dedicated to the survival of the Esan ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria from among whom the poet hails. PRICE: $14.95 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF GONDAR by Solomon Getahun The city of Gondar served as a permanent seat of government in Ethiopia for about four centuries. During these times, the city witnessed the evolution of various quarters such as Ichage Bet, Abun Bet, Kayla Meda, Islam Bet (Adis Alam), and Digaye. While some of these quarters pre-date the city itself, others like Che Che La are new additions that are related to the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, 1935-1941. These quarters also tell their own stories about the socio-economic and cultural operations in Gondar; and about its Judaio-Christian and Islamic population—in a city that boasts of forty-four churches. PRICE: $29.95 HURLING WORDS AT CONSCIOUSNESS Poems by Mukoma wa Ngugi “By turns soothingly tender or implacably harsh, "Hurling Words at Consciousness" is an unflinching meditation on our globalized inequities. It is thoughtful and richly rewarding.” -Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison PRICE: $14.95 I LAUGH SO I WON'T CRY Kenya’s Women Tell the Story of Their Lives by Helena Halperin This compelling book shows the full panorama of women’s struggles in sub-Saharan Africa without sacrificing the vivid details of individual lives. Subsistence farmers, herders, beggars, sex workers, office workers, hawkers, business executives and a few friends who stopped an ethnic war all speak in "I Laugh So I Won’t Cry." PRICE: $29.95 IGBO ART AND CULTURE And Other Essays by Simon Ottenberg Edited by Toyin Falola This volume encompasses over forty years of scholarly research on African art, both traditional and modern, by the anthropologist, Simon Ottenberg. Focus is on the arts of the Afikpo, an Igbo group in southeastern Nigeria and on Bafodea Limba of northern Sierra Leone. The essays discuss art objects and music in the context of their use in performance and ritual, and the symbolism of aesthetic forms and behavior. Stress in the writing is placed on obtaining Africans’ conceptions of their own arts blended with Western viewpoints. The writing is based on extensive research in Africa. PRICE: $39.95 IGBO HISTORY AND SOCIETY The Essays of Adiele Afigbo Edited by Toyin Falola "Igbo History and Society: The Essays of Adiele Afigbo" provides stimulating and original accounts of the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria from the ancient times to the present. It incorporates all the leading issues and findings on this major group. The chapters are organized to pay attention to critical themes and issues. The voice is that of the preeminent scholar and guru among the Igbo. Professor Afigbo brings out the best in the Igbo, while concentrating on aspects of their interactions in the larger African world. PRICE: $39.95 IGBO RELIGION AND SOCIAL LIFE And Other Essays by Simon Ottenberg Edited by Toyin Falola In this volume Emeritus Professor Simon Ottenberg presents a number of detailed essays on the religious life of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria and on the Limba of northern Sierra Leone, based on extensive anthropological field research over many years. Ottenberg stresses the important of looking at African religious life in terms of ritual activity and change over time. There are also chapters on the growth of Abakaliki, an Igbo town, and essays reflecting on the author’s field experiences in Africa over time. The volume concludes with two general papers, one on the question of peasantry in Africa and the other a survey of anthropological and historical research in southeastern Nigeria. PRICE: $39.95 IMAGINING EVIL Witchcraft Beliefs and Accusations in Contemporary Africa Edited by Gerrie ter Haar Here is a book on witchcraft written mostly by Africans—scholars, but also human rights activists and religious practitioners. It discusses witchcraft beliefs and accusations in various parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Witchcraft—as the title of the book says—is a way of imagining evil. The belief in witchcraft is as strong as it is widespread in Africa, and many commentators have suggested a significant increase in witchcraft accusations in recent years. Reports relating to belief in witchcraft or to witchcraft accusations are a popular topic for discussion in African mass media. An alarming element of witchcraft accusations is the lynching or killing of alleged witches that often follows. PRICE: $29.95 INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE by Bayo Ogunjimi and Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah This new book puts together in a single cover, two earlier volumes by the authors, now revised to meet the challenges of a twenty-first century scholarship in African performance and cultural studies. Topics covered range from sources of African oral traditions, relevance of cosmology to African oral performance, fieldwork practice and research methodology, archetypes, folktales, myths and legends, performance and stylistic features, to various areas of poetic performances like praise poetry, religious poetry, topical, occupational and heroic poetry, their performances and more. PRICE: $24.95 ISLAM Between Globalization and Counterterrorism by Ali A. Mazrui This book examines the stresses and strains of relations between Islam and the West in this era of tense globalization. Issues of church and state within societies interact with issues of ideology and power in foreign relations. This book ranges from the creation of the state of Israel to the aftermath of 9/11 and the historical forces that led to both these momentous events. PRICE: $29.95 KWAME NKRUMAH’S LIBERATION THOUGHT A Paradigm for Religious Advocacy in Contemporary Ghana by Robert Yaw Owusu Using both secular and religious sources and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study reappraises the precolonial social and political system in Ghana and assesses the impact of British colonial and postcolonial hegemonies on the state, religion, and civil society. With a view to reconstructing a new advocacy role for themselves in the Ghanaian society in the recapitulation of Ghana’s self-appraisal, self-dignity, self-realization, self-subsistence, and self-assertion, it is argued here that the diverse religious communities, the state, and multi-ethnic groups (indigenous states, aman) in Ghana must endeavor to coexist peacefully, eliminate ethnocentrism, act with courage and hope, and affirm and practice equitable co-existence. PRICE: $29.95 LION-MAN AND OTHER STORIES by Peter Vakunta Lion-Man & Other Stories is a collection of short stories culled from the culture and folklore of the indigenous people of Bamunka. Bamunka is a small village with a population of approximately 76,500 located in the grass fields of the North-West Province in the Republic of Cameroon. The greater majority of the natives depend on subsistence farming, rice cultivation, fishing and the tapping of palm wine for a living. PRICE: $14.95 LIVING IN BABYLON by Esther Iverem Esther Iverem’s new collection of poems is a wide-ranging meditation that proves the adage that the personal is political, and the political is profoundly personal. As an active member of DC Poets Against the War, she represents a new generation of poets actively engaged in speaking truth to power in a new era of global empire. PRICE: $14.95 LIVING ON A HORIZON Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining by Desiree Lewis Bessie Head’s writing illustrates a rich fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences. "Living on a Horizon" explores this range by drawing both on postcolonial and feminist theories and on the variety of cultural references that Head acknowledges and that her writing evokes. Focusing on Head's acute sensitivity to wide-ranging social and historical experiences, the book deals with Head's use of myths and trans-cultural fictions that convey critical knowledge about her immediate world and the historical domains beyond it. PRICE: $29.95 LOSS OF EMPIRE Legal Lynching, Vigilantism, and African American Intellectualism in the 21st Century by L. V. Gaither “Providing a detailed, scholarly connection among the institutionalization of lynching,capital punishment, the escalation of the imprisonment of Black youth, and theimprisonment of Black political activists, Loss of Empire presents an intellectual andpolitical challenge to Black public intellectuals and political leaders whose political rhetoricunveils their compromising acceptance of the social, economic, and political control ofthe Black citizen as well as these high-profile leaders’ relationship to White class privilege.This book provides a most cogent argument for why the destructive nature of capitalismin America will remain intact until we fully grasp the presence of slavery in our nationalconsciousness and understand how this presence manifests in contemporary legal, social,economic, and political systems.” -Joyce A. Joyce, Professor, English Department, Temple University, Author, "Black Studies as Human Studies: Critical Essays and Interviews" PRICE: $19.95 MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL CHANGE Constraints to Democratization in Africa Edited by John Mukum Mbaku and Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere This book is written by seasoned scholars of African Studies and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on democracy and democratization in the continent. It contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on the transition to democratic governance in Africa. It provides both students of African political economy and policymakers in the continent an in-depth analysis of the post-independence experiences of African countries with institutional reforms. PRICE: $34.95 MY MOTHER WHO IS ME Life Stories from Jamaican Women in New York by Jacqueline Bishop “Jacqueline Bishop has presented us with a rare gift in this fine collection of life stories. This never-before-assembled chorus of voices with its wide-ranging repertoire is truly remarkable. From powerful personal tales of courage and survival to more complicated testaments of lives lived in rare privilege, or on the margins of society, these narratives speak eloquently to the wisdom, ingenuity, and resourcefulness of Jamaican women.” -Lorna Goodison, Author of Controlling the Silver PRICE: $19.95 MYTH, HISTORY AND SOCIETY The Collected Works of Adiele Afigbo Edited by Toyin Falola The basic idea in this book is that Nigerian historians, indeed historians of Africa, have from the birth of the new African historiography seen and pursued historical studies and historical writing as part of the larger effort to create, consolidate and run modern and modernizing states in Africa. It is this larger process that Professor Adiele Afigbo refers to as statecraft. PRICE: $39.95 NGUGI WA THIONG'O SPEAKS Interviews with the Kenyan Writer Edited by Reinhard Sander & Bernth Lindfors with the assistance of Lynette Cintrón Ngugi wa Thiong'o's evolution as a thinker can be discerned in the conversations collected here. The earliest, recorded forty years ago, reflect his interest in exploring events in Kenya's colonial past that had a profound impact on his own people, the Kikuyu, and ultimately on his own life. More recent discussions focus on present conditions in Kenya and other parts of the Third World. PRICE: $29.95 NGUGI WA THIONG’O'S DRAMA AND THE KAMIRIITHU POPULAR THEATER EXPERIMENT by Gichingiri Ndigirigi Kamiriithu has attracted considerable critical attention over the last twenty-five years. In this ground-breaking study of Kamiriithu, the author puts pressure on some of the assumptions driving earlier research. Moving from a savvy discussion of all extant Ngugi plays and their contexts, Ndigirigi then reconstructs Kamiriithu—its aesthetics, its ideology, its politics and ultimately, its theorizing—in a way that no other critic has done before. PRICE: $29.95 NIGERIAN CITIES Edited by Toyin Falola and Steve Salm The growth of Nigeria’s urban population has been phenomenal, with Lagos abeing one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Rapid growth also brings problems, notably the shortage of social amenities, crime and violence. Drawing on specific examples from Lagos, Abeokuta, and Kano, among others, the book examines various issues on the management of modern Nigerian cities. The movement of peoples and goods, improving sanitation, and minimizing ethnic tension in the cities engage readers in the volume. PRICE: $29.95 NIGERIAN HISTORY, POLITICS AND AFFAIRS The Collected Essays of Adiele Afigbo Edited by Toyin Falola These essays attempt to focus the light of history on Nigeria, Nigerians and their contemporary condition and thus to help show the way forward. The root idea here is that fundamental to all historical works – that when the mind interacts with the past or facts of the past, the result is something like a torchlight whose beam is focused on the present, thus enabling us to achieve a better understanding of the problems which face us and to attempt a rational solution to them. Afigbo has probed deep into Nigeria’s past, bringing out all the facets, all the elements, and all the issues that are necessary to improve the present. PRICE: $39.95 ORISA Yoruba Gods and Spiritual Identity in Africa and the Diaspora Edited by Toyin Falola and Ann Genova For members of Yoruba diaspora, temporal and geographic distance has not fully erased their memory or cultural activism. Orisa worship remains one of the most prominent and recognizable evidence of this connection. With millions of Orisa practitioners in the world, Yoruba gods are very much alive and form part of the Nigerian and Yoruba diasporan religious experience. PRICE: $39.95 OROMIA AND ETHIOPIA State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868-2004 by Asafa Jalata Focusing on the development of the class and nation-class contradictions manifested in the continuing crisis of the Ethiopian state, Jalata examines why the reorganization of that state in the 1970s and again in the 1990s failed to change the nature of Ethiopian colonialism. He challenges the assumptions of many modernization and mainstream Marxist theories that colonized peoples like the Oromo would disappear through a process of assimilation. To the contrary, the Oromo case serves as an apt demonstration that colonialism and imperialism have not been successful in destroying the cultural identity of colonized people, nor their desire for self-determination and democracy. PRICE: $29.95 OROMO DEMOCRACY An Indigenous African Political System by Asmarom Legesse This book reveals the many creative solutions an African society found for problems that people encounter when they try to establish a democratic system of governing their affairs. In much of what has been written about Africa, the common image is that of people governed by primitive customs and practices, in which only feudal roles of elders, kings, chiefs, sultans, and emirs have been acknowledged by Western observers. Little is ever shown of indigenous African democratic systems, under which there is distribution of authority and responsibility across various strata of society... PRICE: $29.95 OSSOBO Essays on the Literature of Sao Tome and Principe by Donald Burness This is the first book in English devoted solely and specifically to the literature of Sao Tome and Principe. The three essays discuss themes that no critic in any language has dealt with to any serious degree. Ossobo explores literary themes of Sao Tome and Principe, themes that are unique to this African country. PRICE: $24.95 PEOPLE THEATER AND GRASSROOTS EMPOWERMENT IN CAMEROON by Gilbert Doho Translated from the French by Marie Lathers In the late 1990s, Gilbert Doho, then professor of theater at the University of Yaounde, Cameroon undertook with a colleague the establishment of “people theater” workshops throughout the country, which was in political and social turmoil. In "People Theater and Grassroots Empowerment in Cameroon," Doho introduces the history of this artistic genre in Cameroon; and presents in fascinating detail several of the workshops he and his colleague set up. In East Cameroon, they worked with local Mekong people to create a play, "Alien in My Land," modeled after the story of the prodigal son and staging the deforestation of the homeland by Western developers. In "The Visionary of the Sacred Wood," women become activists to salvage the sacred area of their village; in "Little Spice," the problems of sexuality, HIV, and AIDS are explored, in "Forced Marriages" human rights violations are strongly condemned. PRICE: $24.95 POSTCONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION IN AFRICA Edited by Ahmad Sikainga and Ousseina Alidou This book is a collection of essays by prominent scholars, NGOs, and policy makers who explored reconstruction efforts currently taking place in a number of war-affected African countries. In addition to analyzing the various approaches and theoretical paradigms for the study of conflict resolution, democratization, reconciliation, healing, and nation-building, the book explores such topics as ethno-cultural dimensions of reconstruction; gender, regeneration, and conflict; rehabilitation of child conscripts, particularly girls; strategies for psycho-social healing; demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, and economic dimension of reconstruction... PRICE: $29.95 POWER, POVERTY AND PRAYER The Challenges of Poverty and Pluralism in African Christianity, 1960-1996 by Ogbu U. Kalu "Power, Poverty and Prayer: The Challenges of Poverty and Pluralism in African Christianity, 1960-1996" inquires into the role Christianity plays in African political and socio-economic life. Colonialism is over, but the drums of liberation are still throbbing. Christianity paved the way for colonialism, but also produced the champions of independence. What role, if any, is Christianity playing toward the Second Liberation of the continent? The author writes on a topic that is at the heart of the Second Liberation of Africa, analyzing the dialectics of power, poverty and prayer in post independence Africa in general. PRICE: $29.95 PRE-COLONIAL NIGERIA Essays in Honor of Professor Toyin Falola Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran This multidisciplinary book offers, for the first time, a richly textured long-term history of precolonial Nigeria, from the foundations of agricultural communities about 5,000 years ago to the revolutionary transformations of the nineteenth century. The twenty-five chapters are all products of new research, and they cover wide-ranging topics on the complex economic, political, and sociocultural transformations in one of the most important regions in Africa. This third volume of the festschriften in honor of Toyin Falola, distinguished scholar and teacher, opens up new imprints in the historiography of precolonial Nigeria and challenges us to think of African precolonial history in new ways. PRICE: $39.95 PRISONS AND PUNISHMENT Reconsidering Global Penality Edited by Mechthild Nagel and Seth N. Asumah Indubitably, the United States leads the world in mass incarceration. The U.S. is also exporting its retributivist and anti-terror ideologies overseas, feeding into nations’ moral panic from France, through Malawi, to South Africa. While it is important to analyze the North American punishment industry, often called prison industrial complex by prison critics, one can no longer afford to ignore global trends of punishment models. Therefore, contributors to this volume explain how the US prison complex has expanded globally, throughout many developing nation states, backed by private security companies and drug and juvenile justice legislation. PRICE: $29.95 RETHINKING AGE IN AFRICA by Mario Aguilar Rethinking Age in Africa explores an old cultural problem in new ways: how do we deal with ageing within societies in which the young are so numerous? How do we deal with age changes and the life cycle in contemporary Africa? While biology has suggested that there is a common universal way of dealing with ageing, African societies show an enormous diversity, an extraordinary resilience and an ever-growing adaptation to social change and difficulties... PRICE: $29.95 RUINED BY "RACE" Afro-Caribbean Missionaries and the Evangelization of Southern Nigeria, 1895-1925 by Waibinte Wariboko The transition from the episcopate of Bishop S. A. Crowther to that of Bishop H. Tugwell in the Niger Mission was marked by sociopolitical and economic problems around the end of the nineteenth century. In addition to the problems posed by the separation of the Niger Delta Pastorate Church under Archdeacon D.C. Crowther, the Niger Mission was also faced with an acute shortfall in its workforce due in large part to the loss of its traditional Sierra Leone supply market for African missionaries. As a result, Tugwell turned to the West Indies for the recruitment of black West Indians for service in Southern Nigeria. Informed by the notion of racial affinity between black West Indians and West Africans, Tugwell and his allies in the Caribbean and London required the former to make Africa their home so that they could be perceived and rewarded like African agents. However... PRICE: $24.95 SACRED DRUMS OF LIBERATION Religions and Music of Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora by Don C. Ohadike "Sacred Drums of Liberation" chronicles the struggle for peoples of African descent to overcome slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonial hegemony. Tracing resistance movements from the colonial period into the 20th century through music and religion, the pursuit of freedom and the practice of resistance extend beyond the borders of Africa into popular culture in the United States, the Caribbean, and South Africa. Music and cultural resistance movements from Maji Maji, Mau Mau, Rumba, Samba, Capoeira, Steelband, Rasta, Reggae, Blues, Hip Hop, and Rap are all evaluated as resistance and a search for equality. PRICE: $29.95 SCHOOLING FOR THE SLAVERY Black Industrial Education, 1868-1915 by Donald Spivey Schooling For The New Slavery: Black Industrial Education, 1868-1915 is one of the most damning and compelling critiques of the New South, Northern benevolence, and the race leadership of Booker T. Washington since W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. PRICE: $19.95 SEEING THE WORLD IN BLACK & WHITE by Linus T.Ogbuji Seeing the World in Black and White recounts the author’s peripatetic life. Starting in colonial Nigeria, it unfolds as a trek through the times and places in Africa where the “wind of change” was blowing thick and fast, and through Europe in summer hitch-hiking forays while a student. It ends with the author’s extended sojourn in the USA as an academic and a scientist. PRICE: $24.95 SHELL, THE STATE AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF THE NIGER DELTA OF NIGERIA A Study in Environmental Degradation by Daniel Omoweh Shell, the State and Underdevelopment of the Niger Delta of Nigeria: A Study in Environmental Degradation deals with the origins, nature and trend of capitalist development promoted by Shell Petroleum Development Company (Shell) and the Nigerian State in the Delta region. It is no longer in doubt after the Ogoni uprising that the activities of Shell, the largest oil transnational in Nigeria, which accounts for more than 50 percent of the country’s total oil production, are degrading the environment of its host communities in the Niger Delta... PRICE: $29.95 SLAVERY, COMMERCE AND PRODUCTION In the Sokoto Caliphate of West Africa by Paul E. Lovejoy This collection brings together the key essays on the history of slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate in West Africa of Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University and holder of the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. Lovejoy’s work explores the role of slavery in the consolidation of the largest state in Africa in the 19th century, particularly in relation to the interior of modern Nigeria, Niger, and Benin before c. 1900, when Muslim merchants and entrepreneurs dominated economy and society. PRICE: $34.95 STATESMANSHIP ON THE BENCH The Judicial Career of Sir Adetokunbo Ademola, 1939 – 1972 by Akin Alao The book examines the judicial performance of Sir Adetokunbo Ademola (1939 – 1972), vis a vis the inter-relationship of the executive and the judiciary to conceptualize his understanding of judicial independence and the principle of separation of powers. A chronological approach within the context of unfolding historical events revealed that the jurisprudence of Adetokunbo Ademola reflected four major concerns, which invariably coincided with the major phases of his judicial career. As a magistrate and judge under colonial rule, Adetokunbo Ademola was concerned with the need to use the courts as an effective agency of legal control... PRICE: $34.95 SWEET REVENGE A Play by Irene Salami “Oronsaye-Salami explores the subjugation of women by the patriarchal system and the attempt of women to subvert it. Critical issues such as motherhood by experience, power, female resistance, diasporatic issues nationalism, sexism, empowerment, etc are all tackled in the play. In Sweet Revenge, Oronsaye-Salami offers a new perspective to womanhood, privileging her, reconfiguring her image and moving her from margin to centre." -ThisDay Newspaper, Lagos, Nigeria PRICE: $14.95 THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN MIND Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Criticism Edited by Niyi Afolabi, Márcio Barbosa and Esmeralda Ribeiro Bi-lingual This multilingual reader brings together literary and cultural critics from Africa, Europe, and the Americas to validate and re-evaluate the legitimacy of Afro-Brazilian studies and culture as a field of academic inquiry worthy of canonical inclusion. The thirty two multifaceted essays adopt an interdisciplinary approach in order to uncover the intellectual nature of Afro-Brazilian cultural production. Issues addressed include race relations, Afro-Atlantic Diaspora, gender, sexuality, identity formation, cultural diversity, performance, and popular culture. PRICE: $39.95 THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY Transitions and Transformations in Southeastern Nigeria Edited by Chima J. Korieh and Femi J. Kolapo The contributors present an in-depth survey of the impact of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Lower Niger Basin of Nigeria. The book provides critical perspectives on the economic, social, and political changes that occurred in the region following the abolition of the external slave trade. By adopting various cultural, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors provide insightful analyses on the changing economic, political, and social landscape of African societies in the aftermath of the Atlantic slave trade. PRICE: $24.95 THE BUILDING OF AN EMPIRE Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia by Haile M. Larebo Italy’s longstanding aspiration for “a place in the sun” was materialized by the Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, whose greatest achievement was perhaps the conquest of Ethiopia in 1935-36. The focus of this carefully researched book is the economic policy and practice of Italy during its six years of occupation of Ethiopia. Larebo explores the way in which the invaders tried, and miserably failed, to turn their cherished prize to the economic advantage of metropolitan Italy. The Italian experience is developed against the backdrop of Ethiopia’s modernization effort in the early twentieth century and in a comparative context with other relevant European colonial policies elsewhere in Africa. PRICE: $29.95 THE CROWN AND THE PEN The Memoirs of a Lawyer Turned Rebel by Bereket Habte Selassie This memoir recounts the extraordinary story of a man straddling two worlds—a progressive lawyer and high-ranking official of the government of Emperor Haile Selassie who struggled for justice within an archaic system. It is also the story of a man who has been touched by and in turn made his share of influence in some of the major events and developments of Ethiopia, Eritrea and the rest of Africa as well... PRICE: $29.95 THE CULTURAL MODERNITY OF H. I. E. DHLOMO by Ntongola Masilela Herbert Isaac Ezra Dhlomo, like all other New African intellectuals active in the wake of the advent of Xhosa Intellectuals of the 1880s, was preoccupied with how to transform European modernity, which was informed by Christianity, modern education, European civilization, in South Africa into New African modernity within the powerful political currents generated by Ethiopianism, Pan-Africanism, the African National Congress, New African Nationalism, and Shembe-ism... PRICE: $29.95 THE END-TIME ARMY Charismatic Movements in Modern Nigeria by Matthews A Ojo This volume is a study of Charismatic movements in modern Nigeria, a religious phenomenon that emerged in Western Nigeria in the 1970s. Since the beginning of sustained missionary enterprises in Nigeria in the 1840s, no other development has had such an intense effect on the contextualisation of Christianity in Africa. New Charismatic movements have attained much social prominence in Nigeria because of their adroit use of the media, by the attention given to them by the secular media, and because of their large membership mostly comprised of educated youth. PRICE: $29.95 THE HORSEMEN AND OTHER POEMS by Obi Nwakanma "Okigbo comes alive here, in searing strains that resound through passages of love and death, no less than of the urgent problems of contemporary society, especially the Africa of this poet's birth and growth. There is a freshness here, grounded nonetheless in the confident idioms of Nwakanma's poetic forebears. Even more, there is solid promise of tomorrow's harvest." -Isidore Okpewho PRICE: $14.95 THE LAW OF THE SOMALIS A Stable Foundation for Economic Development in the Horn of Africa by Michael van Notten Edited by Spencer Heath MacCallum Written by a trained and sympathetic observer, this book shows how Somali customary law differs fundamentally from most statutory law. Lawbreakers, instead of being punished, are simply required to compensate their victim. Because every Somali is insured by near kin against his or her liabilities under the law, a victim seldom fails to receive compensation. Somali law, being based on custom, has no need of legislation or legislators. It is therefore happily free of political influences. The author notes some specific areas that stand in need of change, but finds such change already implicit in further economic development. PRICE: $24.95 THE MILITARY AND THE NIGERIAN STATE, 1966-1993 A Study of the Strategies of Political Power Control by Adegboyega Ajayi "The Military and the Nigerian State" establishes the circumstances of military incursion into Nigerian politics and examines the civil war and how it enhanced the military’s control of political power. It highlights and analyses the strategies which the military rulers consciously employed to monopolise political power in Nigeria between 1966 and 1993... PRICE: $24.95 THE TOYI TOYI A Play by Chinyere Grace Okafor “Chinyere Okafor has not hesitated to tackle an interrelated mixture of explosive themes in her earnest and sincere new play, The New Toyi Toyi. Set in a contemporary Southern African nation, her drama explores issues of male dominance, rape, ignorance, AIDS, and female rebellion, all pursued in a panoramic style embracing song, dance, poetry and ritual. With this offering, Ms. Okafor adds to her rising stature as one of Africa’s most promising contemporary writers.” -William B. Branch, Playwright, Director, and Professor Emeritus, Cornell University PRICE: $14.95 THE POLICY PARADOX IN AFRICA Strengthening Links between Economic Research and Policymaking Edited by Elias T. Ayuk and Mohamed Ali Marouani It is becoming increasingly clear that without sweeping changes to both domestic and international policies, Africa will not reach the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. While there seems to be a consensus on increasing aid to Africa, donors will undoubtedly favour democratic countries that adopt sound development policies. For development policies to be sound, however, they must not only meet short-term political expediencies, they must also tap the broad knowledge base that is furnished by policy research in Africa... PRICE: $29.95 THE POLITICS OF GOD IN EAST AFRICA Oromo Ritual and Religion Mario I. Aguilar This volume, with a preface by Paul Baxter, outlines some of the central themes of the study of the Boorana, the central ritual group of the Oromo in East Africa. The aim of this work is to highlight the importance, variety and richness of Oromo ritual through essays that cover history, initiation, knowledge, identity, divination, intention, ritual performance, dance, memories, post-coloniality, the role of children, and the particular social life of the Oromo in the towns of Garba Tulla and Isiolo in eastern Kenya PRICE: $29.95 THE RAPE OF FATIMAH A Play by Nabie Yayah Swaray The Rape of Fatimah is a metaphor and allegory for the rape of Sierra Leone and the innocent young girls, who like Fatimah, lost their virginity in the most violent and inhumane way. Let the play speak for those victims: “For murder, though it has no tongue, will speak with the most miraculous organ.” The Rape of Fatimah is an African tragedy that seeks to unearth the complexities of Africa’s political and moral dilemma. In short, the rape of Fatimah is the rape of Africa. The only cruel irony about this rape is that Africans are to blame. PRICE: $21.95 THE RESPONSIBLE CRITIC Essays on African Literature in Honor of Professor Ben Obumselu Edited by Isidore Diala The Responsible Critic is a critical anthology offered as a tribute to a founding father of African literary criticism, Professor Ben Obumselu. The collection of seventeen scholarly articles examines the state of literary studies in Africa (with particular emphasis on Nigeria) and covers a period spanning well over a hundred years of creative writing in Africa. PRICE: $34.95 THE RISE OF ELECTIVE DICTATORSHIP AND THE EROSION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL Peace, Development, and Democracy in Africa by Kasahun Woldemariam Unable to cope with the changing international political climate of the late 1980s and the growing demand for benevolent leadership, dictatorial regimes in many African countries either stepped aside disgracefully or were forced out of power reluctantly. Subsequently, with the sole exception of Eritrea, African governments had in general liberalized the economic marketplace and promulgated constitutions purportedly to allow PRICE: $34.95 THE SUN BY NIGHT A Novel by Benjamin Kwakye "The Sun by Night," recipient of the 2006 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best African Fiction, unravels the secrets surrounding the death of an Accra prostitute. Framed around a court case involving Manu, a respectable and wealthy businessman, it is a gripping tale of murder, courtroom shenanigans, and intense societal conflicts... PRICE: $21.95 THE WATER GODDESS IN IGBO COSMOLOGY Ogbuide of Oguta Lake by Sabine Jell-Bahlsen “This evocative study of a water Goddess among the Igbo of Lake Oguta in southeastern Nigeria, thoroughly explores the rituals, beliefs and social organization associated with rituals of women's power ... the analysis of this powerful Goddess, based on many years of research, is a notable contribution to African female ritual studies, long neglected by scholars.” --Dr. Simon Ottenberg, University of Washington, Seattle PRICE: $34.95 THE ZIMBABWE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S UNION, 1961-87 A Political History of Insurgency in Southern Rhodesia by Eliakim M. Sibanda Formed on December 17, 1961, Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) became the first revolutionary, national, movement to explicitly call for majority rule on the basis of one-man, one-vote. During the early years of its struggle, it employed non-violent means to try and achieve its goal for majority rule and a non-racial society. Because of the belligerency of the white settler regime, however, ZAPU added armed resistance to its strategy of non-violence and went on to build a formidable army. PRICE: $29.95 THEATER IN SIERRA LEONE Five Popular Plays Edited by Iyunolu Osagie The five plays in the volume are from some of the most recognizable dramatists in the country, dramatists who have made the most significant contributions to the climate of theater in Sierra Leone since the 1960s: Dele Charley, John Kolosa Kargbo, Julius Spencer, Tonie French and Mohamed Sheriff. The collection begins with a very succinct introduction by the editor, placing the plays within the context of the historical development of Sierra Leonean drama. Offering a brief critical analysis of each play, the editor also highlights some of the social, political, and historical issues that playwrights have grappled with, such as colonial arrogance, the ambivalence of history, the exploitation of African womanhood, and the consequences of modernity. PRICE: $29.95 TIME IS TIGHT Urgent Tasks for Educational Transformation—Eritrea, South Africa, and the U.S. by Matt Meyer "Time Is Tight" is an important piece of literature for educators all over the world. If education is to produce a new generation of empowered people, then we need to support literature such as presented in this inspiring book. -Ela Gandhi, South African Member of Parliament (ANC), from the Foreword PRICE: $24.95 TOLD BY STARLIGHT IN CHAD by Joseph Brahim Seid Translated by Karen Haire Hoenig Romantized scenes from Seid's boyhood, as well as stories from the golden age of empires and other timeless tales in this collection evoke positive images of Chad and Africa more generally. African readers, young and old, regardless of locality, will hear echoes of the folktales, fables, and legends narrated by their grandmothers of an evening under the stars or by the fireside. PRICE: $14.95 TRADITIONAL AND MODERN HEALTH SYSTEMS IN NIGERIA Edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton Health related topics in African countries tend to be viewed negatively. With HIV infection rates soaring and health sectors ill equipped to handle the needs of the general population in most sub-Saharan African countries, there seems to be little worth celebrating in terms of health care options for Africans. Historically, Nigeria has fit well into this assessment. The essays in this book, however, do more than catalogue the failures of the Nigerian health sector. They raise practical issues about how the Nigerian health sector can and perhaps is improving the health outlook for its citizens in the twenty-first century... PRICE: $39.95 UNDER THE NORTH STAR Black Communities in Upper Canada before Confederation by Donald Simpson Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy Based on detailed research, Under the North Star – Black Communities in Upper Canada examines what happened to black refugees once they arrived in Canada. Fugitive slaves and free blacks alike fled to Canada, especially after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and in making this move, they revealed the intense resistance to slavery and racism in North America. Like the maroons, cimarones, palenque, and kilombo in the Caribbean, Hispanic America and Brazil, the black communities of Upper Canada asserted their dignity through their independence, hard work, and persistence in maintaining sanctuaries from slavery. PRICE: $34.95 URBAN LEGENDS, COLONIAL MYTHS Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa Edited by James Ogude and Joyce Nyairo This book deals with popular media, ranging from inscriptions on matatu (taxis) to cartoon strips and fiction columns in newspapers. If cartoon strips and humour columns in popular periodicals provide alternative sites of expression in a fast-evolving socio-cultural formation, then the matatu discourses signal a radical avant-garde African cultural expression. The book also provides a compelling reading of how urban legends, rumours and jokes proliferate alongside pop music to express a sub-culture that is at once a critique and a celebration of modernity and its fragments. PRICE: $29.95 UTENZI, WAR POEMS, AND THE GERMAN CONQUEST OF EAST AFRICA Swahili Poetry as Historical Source by Jose Arturo Saavedra Casco This book examines Swahili narrative poetry that in spite of being available in published editions for many years, has not previously been studied from an historical perspective. The poems were written on the eve of the First World War by the authors who were all residents of the Swahili coastal towns of mainland Tanzania- formerly Tanganyika Territory. This poetry narrates the stories of episodes in the wars of conquest, fought between the German colonial forces and indigenous Africans. PRICE: $29.95 WAITING FOR THE HATCHING OF A COCKEREL (A Neo-Epic Song) by Tanure Ojaide In Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel, the poet assumes the persona of a minstrel (Aminogbe) guided by a divine mentor (Aridon) to narrate and reflect on multifarious experiences. Aminogbe ranges on the side of good against evil in the new wars which are no longer only physical but multi-faceted in nature. The new heroes are thus not just physical warriors but activists in an array of struggles to realize a fair and just world for all PRICE: $19.95 WASHING THE NEGRO WHITE The Evolution of Thinking on African Economic Development by Kwaku Adu-Opako "Washing the Negro White" addresses the idea-historical recapitulation of the negative image of the African, which in the western concept of progress since the 17th century has been the focal point of his redemptive reconstruction. The crucial epistemological phases of such reconstruction are the concept of the Great Chain of Being, by which the enslavement of Africans was theologically justified, the theory of social evolution, which provided the intellectual justification for the western racist and colonial domination of African people, and the current and post-colonial concepts of social modernization to strip Africans of their cultural identity and render them to exploitation in the global economic and financial system. PRICE: $34.95 WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER Dynamics of Race and Class in Dubuque, Iowa (1800-2000) by Mohammad Chaichian This book examines almost two hundred years of race and ethnic relations and white-on- black racism in Dubuque, Iowa’s oldest industrial city, in connection with political and economic developments at the local, state, and national levels. Dubuque made the national headlines when there was a sudden eruption of hate crimes during the 1989- 1991 period. Subsequently a group of concerned citizens devised a five-year racial diversity plan to attract one hundred “families of color” to Dubuque, but failed to achieve their objective due to a lack of community support... PRICE: $24.95 WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR by Egodi Uchendu This book, for the first time, provides a detailed analysis of Anioma women war-time roles during the Nigerian civil war, also called the Biafran war. Anioma, the Igbo homeland west of the River Niger, was for long absent in the accounts on the civil war; yet, the Anioma like their Igbo kith and kin east of the River Niger (who led the Biafran revolution and fought the Nigerian federal government from 1967 to 1970) were as involved militarily and otherwise as Biafrans in the confrontation with the federal government all through that period of crisis. In analyzing Anioma women war-time roles, the book draws largely on interviews with women who survived the war, some of whom were adults during the crisis and others who were children at the time. PRICE: $29.95 WOMEN TO WOMEN Young Americans in South Africa Edited by Dan Connell "Women to Women" shines a light on the complexities of daily life in the new South Africa—women who change the world by day but must don their aprons and serve their families once at home, women who lose everything but find the will to rebuild their lives, homes and communities—one brick at a time—and women who channel their considerable pain and anger into new music, art and poetry that both reflect and refract this drama even as they alter it. PRICE: $15.95 WOMEN'S SPACES, WOMEN'S VISIONS Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women’s Drama by Katwiwa Mule “This will be the first book that I am aware of that takes a sustained critical look at the works of African female dramatists across various geographical regions of the continent and deals with plays in more than one language. Examining the works of eleven female dramatists from East, West and South Africa without succumbing to the superficiality of a survey is a commendable achievement of its own. And then to do this with the degree of depth and coherence that is evidenced in the study is a remarkable feat of scholarly research..." -Harry Garuba, University of Cape Town, South Africa PRICE: $29.95 WORDS AND WORLDS African Writing, Theatre, and Society A Commemorative Publication for Eckhard Breitinger Edited by Susan Arndt and Katrin Berndt Western notions of cultural and social developments in African countries are still often fogged by age-old clichés and stereotypes born in the era of Transatlantic Slave Trade and colonialism. Those who choose to look beyond the myths will discover that literatures from Africa are a treasure; a complex marketplace with its many contradictions – a place of encounters and negotiations between public and private, learning and unlearning, the local and the global, and the ordinary and the exceptional. Writers ruminate about the worlds that move and challenge them. They focus on the details without losing sight of the big picture. Sometimes, writers leave the spaces most familiar to them – the spaces of fiction – and turn to critical writing, which they enrich with their poetic vision. The essays in this volume reflect this vision. PRICE: $34.95

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