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Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Thomas Spear, Neil Kodesh, Tejumola Olaniyan, Michael G. Schatzberg, and James H. Sweet, Series Editors

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Historical, cultural, and political studies of both Africa and the Diaspora, focusing on pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary history; political history and politics; oral traditions and literature; anthropological approaches to contemporary problems and issues; and historical and cultural studies of Africans in the Diaspora.

Please send all inquiries to Tom Spear at tspear@wisc.edu.


Titles in the Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture series


Fall 2012
The Postcolonial State in Africa
Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010
Crawford Young


July 2012
Mau Mau's Children
The Making of Kenya's Postcolonial Elite
David P. Sandgren
Foreword by Thomas Spear


April 2011
Defeat is the Only Bad News
Rwanda under Musinga, 1896–1931
Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges
Foreword by Roger V. Des Forges
Edited by David Newbury


January 2005

Antecedents to Modern Rwanda
The Nyiginya Kingdom
Jan Vansina
Translated by the author
 

August 2005
A Hill Among a Thousand
Transformations and Ruptures in Rural Rwanda
Danielle de Lame
Translated by Helen Arnold


December 2005
Nachituti's Gift
Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa
David Gordon
 
December 2006
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks
African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa
Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts

November 2007
Power in Colonial Africa

Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870—1960
Elizabeth A. Eldredge

December 2009
Naming Colonialism
History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870—1960
Osumaka Likaka
 

April 2010
Being Colonized
The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960
Jan Vansina


May 2010
Spirit, Structure, and Flesh
Gendered Experiences in African Instituted Churches among the Yoruba of Nigeria
Deidre Helen Crumbley
 

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