Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture

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.

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Health in a Fragile State
Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
John M. Janzen

“This is a highly original work in medical anthropology that, rare to see, uses survey data, timelines, and graphic evidence while combining multiple epistemological approaches. Scholars will be fascinated to read this new disease-based and global health approach from the ever-pioneering John Janzen.”
—Nancy Rose Hunt, author of A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

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Whose Agency
The Politics and Practice of Kenya’s HIV-Prevention NGOs
Megan Hershey

“In vivid detail, Hershey provides the rare, truly nuanced view of development interventions. She argues that small, local NGOs can be successful emissaries of HIV/AIDS programming, even while they fail to achieve the true participatory development for which such NGOs are most lauded. A must-read for researchers interested in the on-the-ground politics of development program implementation.”
—Jennifer Brass, Indiana University

The Names of the Python
Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930
David L. Schoenbrun
Spring 2021

Spirit Children
Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Aaron R. Denham
Spring 2019 (paperback)

Senegal Abroad
Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries
Maya Angela Smith
Fall 2018

Farming and Famine
Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889–1991
Donald E. Crummey; Edited by James C. McCann
Spring 2018

Postcolonial Paris
Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Lights
Laila Amine
Spring 2018

Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860-1913
The Breakdown of a Moral Order
Jelmer Vos
Fall 2017 (paperback)

Education as Politics
Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914
Kelly Duke Bryant
Spring 2015

Cubans in Angola
South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Christine Hatzky
Fall 2014

Early African Entertainments Abroad
From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians
Bernth Lindfors
Fall 2014

Whispering Truth to Power
Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda
Susan Thomson
Fall 2013

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

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

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

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

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

Naming Colonialism
History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870–1960
Osumaka Likaka
Fall 2009

Power in Colonial Africa
Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870–1960
Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Fall 2007

Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks
African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa
Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts
Fall 2006

Nachituti’s Gift
Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa
David Gordon
Fall 2005

Antecedents to Modern Rwanda
The Nyiginya Kingdom
Jan Vansina
Translated by the author
Fall 2004