Africa
Counting Teeth
By Peter Midgley
With his nineteen-year-old daughter, a collection of maps and the help of an opinionated GPS, Peter Midgley sets out across Namibia. Visiting small-town museums and gravesites, crossing border checkpoints and changing tires, they travel its length and breadth. Stories about ... Read more
Dying to Live
By Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga
Translated by Casey Roberts
Into that Heaven of Freedom
By Mohamed M. Keshavjee
This book captures the history of the South African Ismaili families and some of the people among whom they lived from 1894, when the first Ismaili, Jeevan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, up to 1994, when the country attained its multiparty democracy ... Read more
Into that Heaven of Freedom
By Mohamed M. Keshavjee
This book captures the history of the South African Ismaili families and some of the people among whom they lived from 1894, when the first Ismaili, Jeevan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, up to 1994, when the country attained its multiparty democracy ... Read more
Popular Resistance to Xenophobic Violence
By Jemima Parker
The book is concerned with popular responses to the crisis of xenophobic violence in South Africa. It argues, that xenophobia itself is not primarily a reaction to poverty, inequality, or any other set of social conditions. Rather, xenophobia must be considered to be a collective ... Read more
Postcards from Congo
By Edmund Trueman
Foreword by Didier Gondola
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitarian rule. The country has played a crucial role in the economic growth of the Global ... Read more
Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa
By Robin Philpot
Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that “the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity. ” Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate ... Read more
Tanganyika Way, The
By Sophia Mustafa
Edited and introduced by Fawzia Mustafa.
Includes critical essays by Susan A Berger, Marjorie Mbilinyi & Ulla Vuorela.
The Tanganyika Way spans the political events of 1958-1961 that led to Tanganyika's independence from Britain. Sophia Mustafa participated in those events, ... Read more
What is to be Thought? The Dialectics of Emancipation in Africa
By Michael Neocosmos
Beginning from the understanding that it is imperative today to develop new concepts for the thinking of an emancipatory politics on the African continent (Fanon), this book proposes to focus on dialectical thought as the core subjective feature of all emancipatory political ... Read more