African Studies
Some of the titles are a part of the series Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture; Critical Human Rights; or Women in Africa and the Diaspora.
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Religious Entanglements
Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga
David Maxwell Spring 2022
![Burning Ambition: cover depicting an illustrated, lit match whose orange flame contains the title text.](../books/images/6109-90t.jpg)
Burning Ambition
Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya
Elizabeth Cooper Spring 2022
![Entrepreneurial Goals: cover depicting black, female soccer players wearing blue and pink jerseys. One looks directly at the viewer with a stoic expression. The title text is written in white font above the girls.](../books/images/5936-90t.jpg)
Entrepreneurial Goals
Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies
Itamar Dubinsky Spring 2022
![After Genocide](../books/images/5740-90t.jpg)
After Genocide
Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Nicole Fox Spring 2021
![A Bold Profession](../books/images/5923-90t.jpg)
A Bold Profession
African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa
Leslie Anne Hadfield Spring 2021
![Whose Agency](../books/images/5685-90t.jpg)
Whose Agency
The Politics and Practice of Kenya's HIV-Prevention NGOs
Megan Hershey Spring 2019
![Silenced Resistance](../books/images/5757-90t.jpg)
Silenced Resistance
Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Joanna Allan Fall 2021
![Senegal Abroad](../books/images/5763-90t.jpg)
Senegal Abroad
Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries
Maya Angela Smith Spring 2020
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African Science
Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin
Douglas J. Falen Spring 2020
![Farming and Famine](../books/images/5585-90t.jpg)
Farming and Famine
Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889–1991
Donald E. Crummey; Edited by James C. McCann Spring 2018
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Spirit Children
Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Aaron R. Denham Spring 2019
![From War to Genocide](../books/images/5310-90t.jpg)
From War to Genocide
Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994
André Guichaoua, Translated by Don E. Webster, Foreword by Scott Straus Spring 2017
![Education as Politics](../books/images/5337-90t.jpg)
Education as Politics
Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914
Kelly Duke Bryant
Spring 2015
![Cubans in Angola](../books/images/5216-90t.jpg)
Cubans in Angola
South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Christine Hatzky
Fall 2014
![Trickster and Hero](../books/images/5095-90t.jpg)
Trickster and Hero
Two Characters in the Oral and Written Traditions of the World
Harold Scheub
Fall 2012
![Flammable Cities](../books/images/4865-90t.jpg)
Flammable Cities
Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World
Edited by Greg Bankoff, Uwe Lübken, and Jordan Sand
Fall 2011
![Remaking Rwanda](../books/images/4876-90t.jpg)
Remaking Rwanda
State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf
Spring 2011
![Rising Anthills](../books/images/3935-90t.jpg)
Rising Anthills
African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960–2000
Elisabeth Bekers
Spring 2010
![African Women Writing Resistance](../books/images/4738-90t.jpg)
African Women Writing Resistance
An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
Edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, and Anne Serafin
Spring 2010
![Court of Remorse](../books/images/4589-90t.jpg)
Court of Remorse
Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Thierry Cruvellier
Spring 2010
![Being Colonized](../books/images/4673-90t.jpg)
Being Colonized
The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960
Jan Vansina
Spring 2010
![Naming Colonialism](../books/images/4571-90t.jpg)
Naming Colonialism
History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870–1960
Osumaka Likaka
Fall 2009
![Spirit, Structure, and Flesh](../books/images/4046-90t.jpg)
Spirit, Structure, and Flesh
Gendered Experiences in African Instituted Churches among the Yoruba of Nigeria
Deidre Helen Crumbley
Fall 2008
![Embodying Honor](../books/images/2855-90t.jpg)
Embodying Honor
Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan
Amal Hassan Fadlalla
Fall 2007
![The Theatre of Genocide](../books/images/4352-90t.jpg)
The Theatre of Genocide
Four Plays about Mass Murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia
Edited and with an introduction by Robert Skloot
Fall 2007
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Engaging Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Ousseina D. Alidou
Fall 2005
![Nachituti’s Gift](../books/images/3678-90t.jpg)
Nachituti’s Gift
Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa
David M. Gordon
Fall 2005
![The Blind African Slave](../books/images/2584-90t.jpg)
The Blind African Slave
Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
Jeffrey Brace, as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq.
Fall 2004
![Tired of Weeping](../books/images/2304-90t.jpg)
Tired of Weeping
Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
Jónína Einarsdóttir
Fall 2004
![Nowhere in Africa](../books/images/2958-90t.jpg)
Nowhere in Africa
An Autobiographical Novel
Stefanie Zweig, Translated by Marlies Comjean
Spring 2004
![The Lunda-Ndembu](../books/images/3112-90t.jpg)
The Lunda-Ndembu
Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa
James A. Pritchett
Spring 2001
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Story
Harold Scheub
Fall 1998
![People of the Plow](../books/images/0000-90t.jpg)
People of the Plow
An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800–1990
James C. McCann
Spring 1995
![Desert Frontier](../books/images/0116-90t.jpg)
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Desert Frontier
Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600–1850
James L. A. Webb Jr.
Fall 1994
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Living Under Contract
Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts
Spring 1994
![Breaking the Chains](../books/images/0075-90t.jpg)
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Breaking the Chains
Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia
Edited by Martin A. Klein
Fall 1993
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Confronting Historical Paradigms
Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia C. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern
Spring 1993
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River of Blood
The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, c. A.D. 1600
J. Matthew Schoffeleers
Fall 1992
![Kings and Clans](../books/images/0300-90t.jpg)
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Kings and Clans
Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780–1840
David Newbury
Spring 1992
![Parables and Fables](../books/images/0026-90t.jpg)
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Parables and Fables
Exegesis, Textuality, and Politics in Central Africa
V. Y. Mudimbe
Fall 1991
![Way of Death](../books/images/0401-90t.jpg)
Way of Death
Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830
Joseph C. Miller
Fall 1988
![Red Gold of Africa](../books/images/1279-90t.jpg)
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Red Gold of Africa
Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
Eugenia W. Herbert
Spring 1984
![Slavery in Africa](../books/images/1502-90t.jpg)
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Slavery in Africa
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff
Spring 1977
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Africa and the West
Intellectual Responses to European Culture
Edited by Philip D. Curtin
Spring 1972
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