Law, Politics and Gender in Africa
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New Title Announcements
July 2011
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 Greetings!
This is the second newsletter for the season. Our focus in this issue is on "Law, Politics and Gender". We have 16 more new titles for the season, which we will be presenting to you this summer. In the meantime, please enjoy learning about the following new titles.
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Duse Mohamed Ali (1866-1945)
The Autobiography of a Pioneer Pan African and Afro-Asian Activist
Compiled/Introduced by Mustafa Abdelwahid
Duse Mohamed Ali was a pioneering Pan-Africanist of Egyptian and Sudanese heritage, whose realm of influence spanned Great Britain, North and West Africa, and the Americas. In 1912 in London, he founded the African Times and Orient Review, a political, cultural, and commercial journal that advocated pan-African-Asian nationalism and was a forum for African intellectuals and activists from all over the world.
In 1921 Duse travelled to the United States where he briefly worked for Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), contributing articles on African issues to Negro World and heading a department of African Affairs.
In 1931 he left the United States for West Africa, settling in Lagos, Nigeria. He founded and became the editor of The Comet, which in 1933 became Nigeria's largest weekly.
ISBN 1592213441 PB Price $24.95
ISBN 1592213433 HB Price $79.95
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Power and Paradox
Authority, Insecurity, and Creativity in Fon Gender Relations
by Douglas J. Falen
 Power and Paradox is an ethnographic study of contemporary gender relations among the Fon people, the dominant ethnic group in the South of the Republic of Benin, West Africa. The Fon hold a prominent place in African studies for their traditional Vodun (Voodoo) religion and their precolonial slave-trading kingdom of Dahomey, which included powerful female ministers and soldiers. Through an account of contemporary Fon gendered power strategies, highlighted by male perspectives on female power, the present study offers an important ethnographic update to this body of knowledge, as well as to the dialogue between Western and African feminisms.
ISBN 1592217885 PB Price $24.95
ISBN 1592217878 HB Price $84.95
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Outcast
The Plight of African Refugees
Part One: Pre Settlement
Compiled by Yilma Tafere Tasew
Yilma Tafere Tasew brings together a group of refugees, scholars, activists, and professionals to discuss the very important matter of African refugees. This book also includes his own autobiographical contribution, providing more details of his experience as a refugee at the Kakuma Camp, in northeast Kenya.
Tasew's contribution is heartfelt, blunt and revealing. For those of us used to encountering refugees in our own comfortable developed countries, his writings offer a window into a trauma from which the majority of us will be spared. This collection of diverse essays not only illuminates current refugee issues; it also brings together various perspectives on how best to tackle some of them.
ISBN 1569023492
Price $29.95
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Beyond Tradition
African Women and Cultural Spaces
Edited by Toyin Falola and S. U. Fwatshak
Beyond Tradition: African Women and Cultural Spaces contains twenty-three chapters that mirror the diversities in the lives and experiences of African women both within and outside the continent, in the public sphere and in the home-front. The book departs from earlier works based on its unique conceptual-ization, scope, and orientation. It is based on a multidisciplinary approach ranging from history, literature, drama, religion, journalism, sociology/anthropology, philosophy, to geography.
A wide range of readership, including scholars, students, educators, policy makers, and the general public will benefit from the accessibility of various issues of contemporary relevance.
ISBN 1592218474
Price $39.95
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Land Struggles and Civil Society
In Southern Africa
Edited by Kirk Helliker and Tendai Murisa
This volume captures the specificity of land struggles taking place within specific countries, including conflicts around national game parks, forests, land redistribution and private titling. The book is based on original field research on land struggles and civil society in Southern Africa, with chapters on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Zambia.
Most chapters are written by NGO and grassroots activists, and the richness of these accounts reflects their active engagement in the ongoing struggles.
ISBN 1592218164 PB Price $34.95
ISBN 1592218156 HB Price $109.95
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Islamic Law and Politics
In Northern Nigeria
by Ricardo René Larémont
Islamic Law and Politics in Northern Nigeria examines the meaning of justice in Islamic, Jewish, Continental European, and Anglo-American law and by contrasting Nigeria's experience with sharia with that of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sudan. This historical and political analysis of sharia and its application in Northern Nigeria examines these legal and political issues from a longue durée perspective, thereby acquainting the reader with the essentially uninterrupted application of Islamic law in Northern Nigeria. As this book explains, sharia has meaning for Muslims and Christians alike, whether it is perceived as promising or perilous.
"This book is a unique and valuable contribution that should command the attention not only of the specialists on Nigeria and Islamic law, but scholars of comparative law, political scientists, policy experts, and the general reader as well." -Muhammad Sani Umar, Associate Professor of Islam, Northwestern University
ISBN 1592218067 PB Price $29.95
ISBN 1592218069 HB Price $99.95
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Liberation Lite
The Roots of Recolonization in Southern Africa
by John S. Saul
"Based on his almost half century of immense political and intellectual contributions to African liberation struggles, John Saul once again shows that he is one of the few today who has the courage as well as the credentials to pose the sober question of 'what did "liberation" mean anyway'?
What is more, John Saul also shows here that he is one of the few with the confidence as well as the capacity to answer the question by drawing inspirational and strategic socialist and revolutionary conclusions."
-Leo Panitch, co-editor
Socialist Register
ISBN 1592218350
Price $19.95
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Gender, Sexuality and Mothering
In Africa
Edited by Toyin Falola and Bessie House-Soremekun
This volume fills an important gap in our understanding of the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the phenomenon of mothering in African societies. Essays present the social construction of marriage, mothering, and widowhood and discuss the impact of increasing teenage pregnancies and the myriad ways in which violence manifests itself in the lives of women, as viewed through the prisms of some literary works and dramas.
This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars, students, women's organizations, non-governmental organizations, politicians, public policy advocates, and members of the public at large.
ISBN 1592218628
Price $34.95
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Elections and Democratization
In West Africa, 1990-2009
Edited by Abdoulaye Saine, Boubacar N'Diaye, Mathurin Houngnikpo
This unique volume explores the extent to which elections as a vehicle of democratization have enhanced economic performance and well-being of citizens of the sub-region of West Africa. Today, elections have become the litmus test for democracy and its consolidation in much of the Third World.
Unlike any other volume, Elections and Democratization in West Africa argues that the emphasis on the formal attributes of democracy in scholarly literature pays scant attention on economic performance as a pre-condition for citizen welfare. Contributors to this volume include scholars from Africa, Europe, Canada and the USA, all of whom, in addition to being prominent Africanists are also experts on the countries on which they write. ISBN 1592217745 PB Price $39.95
ISBN 1592217731 HB Price $119.95
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Kinande/Konzo-English Dictionary
With and English-Kinande Index
by Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Kambale Kavutiwaki
This dictionary includes more than 7150 lexical entries with their roots and underlying tonal representations, more than 3400 English-Kinande words in the index, more than 240 phrasal expressions (ehisimo n'emisyo).
It also includes a brief grammatical sketch of Kinande and a map of the Nande and Konzo area.
Additional essays include information on Nande/Konzo culture, traditional beliefs, and medical and herbal knowledge.
ISBN 1592218318
Price $39.95
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