Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture

Thomas Spear, Neil Kodesh, Tejumola Olaniyan, Michael G. Schatzberg, and James H. Sweet, Series Editors

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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ISBN 978-0-299-30624-3

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ISBN 978-0-299-30620-5

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Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913
The Breakdown of a Moral Order
Jelmer Vos

“Exhaustively documented and carefully argued, this is a Kongo-centered view of how the country entered into the Portuguese domains, but also how its elite guided that entrance with their own agenda. An insightful view of the onset of colonialism in Central Africa.”
—John K. Thornton, Boston University

Cloth $64.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-31120-9

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Spirit Children
Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Aaron R. Denham

“A brilliant, sensitive, and moving book about the heartbreaking phenomenon of infanticide. This is a book to be taken seriously by hospital personnel, public health policymakers, NGO workers, and anyone interested in the fate of the world's most vulnerable young children.”
—Alma Gottlieb,coauthor of A World of Babies

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