Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Neil Kodesh and James H. Sweet, Series Editors
Africa and the Diaspora presents historical, cultural, and political studies of both Africa and the Diaspora, focusing on precolonial, 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.
We invite submission of proposals and manuscripts of innovative work based on original research, critical reviews and syntheses of a field or area, and texts or critical anthologies designed for classroom use. We welcome interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work that addresses questions and debates of broad theoretical, empirical, methodological, and comparative significance in Africa and the Diaspora. We are also interested in co-publishing with European and African publishers and in translations of original works in French and other languages.
We are especially interested in works focusing on precolonial, 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 UW Press Senior Acquisitions Assistant Jacqueline Krass.
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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
Olufemi Vaughan
“Reading this was a joy. It is precisely the kind of book that will command attention not only among Africanists but in adjunct and cross-fertilizing disciplines and cultural contexts where tensions and contestations around kinship, filiation, and familism—moral and otherwise—persevere, giving modernist claims of isolated individuality a run for their affective money.”
—Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria
Casebound $79.95 S
ISBN 9780299341206
Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880–1963
Sean Redding
“An important contribution. Redding draws brilliantly on a range of archival sources to ask pointed questions about the history of violence in rural South Africa. Far from being an expression of atavistic African proclivities, the violence that marked white rule was, in fact, a response to the disruptions caused by that rule. Violent actions by African actors constituted a form of social navigation in a world over which they had limited control. Redding shows how it is possible to study violence historically without falling into tired tropes about ‘black-on-black violence.’”
—Jacob Dlamini, Princeton University
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Religious Entanglements
Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga
David Maxwell
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Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies
Itamar Dubinsky
Spring 2022
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Whose Agency
The Politics and Practice of Kenya's HIV-Prevention NGOs
Megan Hershey
Spring 2019
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Spirit Children
Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Aaron R. Denham
Spring 2019 (paperback)
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Senegal Abroad
Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries
Maya Angela Smith
Fall 2018
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Farming and Famine
Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889–1991
Donald E. Crummey; Edited by James C. McCann
Spring 2018
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Education as Politics
Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914
Kelly Duke Bryant
Spring 2015
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Cubans in Angola
South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Christine Hatzky
Fall 2014
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Mau Mau’s Children
The Making of Kenya’s Postcolonial Elite
David P. Sandgren Foreword by Thomas Spear
Spring 2012
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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
Spring 2011
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Spirit, Structure, and Flesh
Gendered Experiences in African Instituted Churches among the Yoruba of Nigeria
Deidre Helen Crumbley
Spring 2010
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Being Colonized
The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960
Jan Vansina
Spring 2010
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Naming Colonialism
History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870–1960
Osumaka Likaka
Fall 2009
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Nachituti’s Gift
Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa
David Gordon
Fall 2005
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