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Africa: New Books from AfricaFocus Subscribers
AfricaFocus Bulletin
Dec 18, 2009 (091218)
(Reposted from sources cited below)
Editor's Note
This AfricaFocus Bulletin has recent books (2008 and 2009) from
AfricaFocus subscribers, including authors, editors, contributors,
and publishers. It's a very substantial list, but I'm sure some
have escaped my notice. If you are an AfricaFocus subscriber, check
this out for your own books and those by the your fellow
subscribers. If you are an author or editor and don't find your
recently published book here, do let me know (at
africafocus@igc.org), and I'll add it below.
Almost all the books below are available through Amazon, but
several of the most interesting are not: Ellen Namhila's Tears of
Courage, Mukoma wa Ngugi's Nairobi Heat, and the collection of
papers on Southern Africa, with a special focus on Angola, edited
by Nuno Vidal and Patrick Chabal, . If anyone can suggest a
convenient way to order these books in Europe or North America, I
would most appreciate getting the information to add it below.
[UPDATE 2010: Nairobi Heat is now available through Amazon; see link below.]
For other recent book suggestions and CDs, and the much wider range
of books listed in AfricaFocus Bookshop, see the links at the
bottom of the page.
And finally, for your enjoyment, there is one recent book urged on
me by an AfricaFocus subscriber in Zimbabwe. That's The Last
Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers
(http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0307407977).
Written with humor and nuance, it's well worth the read. I am by instinct skeptical of
books by white Zimbabweans, and I don't often quote Time magazine,
but after reading the book, I must agreed with the magazine's
reviewer:
"Do we really need another memoir by a white Zimbabwean? The
surprising answer is yes, if it's as good as Douglas Rogers' The
Last Resort .. [it moves] beyond memoir to become a chronicle of a
nation. There is black and white, yes, but much more in the shades
and tones of their mix - and it is in exploring them that Rogers,
too, find his art." - Time
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Update & Reminder
After these issues on new books, there will be one more AfricaFocus
in the coming days, before a holiday break of several weeks.
But don't forget, AfricaFocus still needs your support. If you are
able to make a voluntary subscription payment and have not yet done
so this year, go to http://www.africafocus.org/support.php to make
a secure on-line payment or print out a form to send in with your
check or money order. Your support is much appreciated.
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New Books (2008 and 2009) by AfricaFocus Subscribers (authors,
editors, or contributors)
For more books by AfricaFocus subscribers, see
http://www.africafocus.org/books/subscribers.php
Adekeye Adebajo, ed., From Global Apartheid to Global Village:
Africa and the United Nations
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141725
Adekeye Adebajo and Abdul Raufu Mustapha, eds., Gulliver's
Troubles: Nigeria's Foreign Policy After the Cold War
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141482
Gary Baines, Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern
Africa's Late-Cold War Conflicts
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1868884562
Dorina Bekoe, Implementing Peace Agreements: Lessons from
Mozambique, Angola, and Liberia
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0230602592
Iris Berger, South Africa in World History
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?019533793X
Patrick Bond et al., eds., Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil
Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141415
Gerald Caplan, The Betrayal of Africa
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0888998244
Richard Dowden, Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1586487531
Premesh Lalu, The Deaths of Hintsa: Post-Apartheid South Africa and
the Shape of Recurring Pasts
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0796922330
Martha Honey, Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, Second
Edition: Who Owns Paradise?
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1597261262
Gerald Horne, The End of Empires: African Americans and India
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1592139000
Bronwen Manby, Struggles for Citizenship in Africa
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1848133529
Dale McKinley and and Ahmed Veriava,
'Forgotten' Voices in the Present: alternative, post-1994 oral histories
from three poor communities in South Africa
No longer available in print but can be downloaded from South African History Archive,
http://www.saha.org.za
Henning Melber and Roger Southall, eds., A New Scramble for
Africa?: Imperialism, Investment and Development
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141717
Getachew Metaferia, Ethiopia and the United States- History,
Diplomacy, and Analysis
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?087586645X
Alois Mlambo and Brian Raftopoulos, eds., Becoming Zimbabwe. A
History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1779220839
Marissa Moorman, Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation
in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0821418238
Mueni wa Muiu and Guy Martin, A New Paradigm of the African State:
Fundi wa Afrika
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0230607802
Sanusha Naidu and Kweku Ampiah, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?:
Africa and China
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141504
Ellen Namhila, Tears of courage, five mothers, five stories, one
victory, Footprint Series no.3: AACRLS, Windhoek.
Not yet available through international vendors, this oral history
tells the stories of five women who were involved in the beginnings
of Namibia's armed liberation struggle in 1965 and suffered
torture, imprisonment, daily harassment and the loss of family
members at the hands of the South African occupation regime. It is
available from the National Archives of Namibia.
Mukoma wa Ngugi, Nairobi Heat
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0143026178
Mystery novel set in Nairobi and Madison, Wisconsin. Also available
from
http://etrader.kalahari.net/referral.asp?linkid=5&partnerid=7752&sku=34626184
Wafula Okumu and Samuel Makinda, eds., The African Union: Challenges of
globalization, security, and governance
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0415403499
Sue Onslow, Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black
Liberation
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0415474205
Carina Ray and Salah Hassan, eds., Darfur and the Crisis of
Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0801475945
John Saul, Revolutionary Traveller: Freeze Frames from a Life
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1894037375
Tom Schachtman, Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy,
Tom Mboya and 800 East Africa Students changed their world and Ours
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0312570759
Hakan Thorn, Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil
Society
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0230234968
Samuel Totten and William Parson, eds., A Century of Genocide:
Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0415990858
Nunu Vidal with Patrick Chabal, eds., Southern Africa: Civil
Society, Politics and Donor Strategies
Published in Luanda and Lisbon. Not yet available from
international vendors.
Immanuel Wallerstein, Alternatives: The United States Confronts the
World
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1594510679
Geoff Wisner, A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books that Capture the Spirit
of Africa
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1770092064
Kasahun Woldemariam, The Rise of Elective Dictatorship and the
Erosion of Social Capital:
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1592216692
Forthcoming New Books from AfricaFocus Subscribers
Peter Alegi, Africa Soccerscapes
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0896802787
Deborah Bräutigam, The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0199550220
James H. Mittelman, Hyperconflict: Globalization and Insecurity
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0804763763
Selected New Books from AfricaFocus Subscribers (publishers)
For more books from these publishers, visit their websites (links
available at http://www.africafocus.org/books/publishers.php)
Aflame Books
Chris Barnard, Mahala
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1906300046
Nathacha Appanah, Blue Bay Palace
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1906300070
Africa World Press
Behnaz Mirzai et al., eds., Slavery, Islam & Diaspora
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1592217052
Leigh Brownhill, Land, Food, Freedom: Struggles for the Gendered
Commons in Kenya, 1870 to 2007
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1592216919
Fahamu Books
Issa Shivji, Where is Uhuru?: Reflections on the Struggle for
Democracy
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?190638746X
Yash Tandon, Ending Aid Dependence
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1906387311
Pluto Press
Bonnie Campbell, Mining in Africa
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?074532939X
Jeremy Keenan, The Dark Sahara
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0745324525
Zed Books
Stephen Chan, The End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1848133049
Camille Toulmin, Climate Change in Africa
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1848130155
More Book Links
New Books on South Africa
http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/sab0912.php
Gift Music CDs
http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/cds0912.php
New Books 2009
http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/nb0905.php
Gift Books Issue 2008
http://www.africafocus.org/docs08/book0811.php
Gift Music CDs Issue 2008
http://www.africafocus.org/docs08/cds0812.php
For a much wider range, including selected African countries and
topics, visit the AfricaFocus Bookshop home page at
http://www.africafocus.org/books/afbooks.php or
http://www.africafocus.org/books/afbooks_uk.php
Books on specific African countries can be found under the regional
pages:
http://www.africafocus.org/books/southern.php or
http://www.africafocus.org/books/southern_uk.php
http://www.africafocus.org/books/central.php or
http://www.africafocus.org/books/central_uk.php
http://www.africafocus.org/books/east.php or
http://www.africafocus.org/books/east_uk.php
http://www.africafocus.org/books/north.php or
http://www.africafocus.org/books/north_uk.php
http://www.africafocus.org/books/west.php or
http://www.africafocus.org/books/west_uk.php
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