Greetings African Studies Readers! We are happy to introduce many of our new titles for the 2nd quarter of 2011. There are over 30 new ttiles for this season, and we will introduce them to you periodically.
You will note that our logo has changed. It is more hip and attractive. We hope that you will like it. You will also note that the quality of our production has improved.
There is no better example of this than the captivating new release The Timbuktu Chronicles.
You will see below the cover for our new catalog, which we will be glad to send to you at your request. We hope that you can spread the word and also introduce it to your university librarian.
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TheTimbuktu Chronicles, 1493-1599
Ta'rikh al fattash
Edited by Christopher Wise
Translated by Christopher Wise and Haba Abu Taleb
The Tarikh al fattash is an eyewitness account of the rise and fall of the Songhay Empire, told from the Timbuktu based scribe al hajj Mahmud Kati's perspective as a key participant in many of the most important events in the era of the Askiyas. Although long valued as the most important historical document of the medieval period, Kati's chronicle is also a literary achievement that is comparable to the writings of figures like Chaucer, Rabelais, and Montaigne. Wise's introduction and study questions accompanying this translation provide contextualizing information for the non-specialist. The Tarikh al fattash is essential reading for all students of African literature and history.
ISBN: 1592218091
Price: $34.95
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 Kenisha
The Roots and Development of the Evangelical Church of Eritrea, 1866-1935
by Karl Johan Lundström
Edited by Ezra Gebremedhin
"This book deals with the background and development of the Evangelical Church of Eritrea between 1866 and 1935, a story marked by moving examples of a spiritual search for peace with God and the discovery of the Gospel of Grace. Furthermore, it describes and comments upon aspects of Eritrea's religious, cultural, social and political history for the same period. We highly recommend this story of the evangelistic efforts of the Swedish Evangelical Mission and The Evangelical Church of Eritrea to all who are interested in the history of not only Eritrea but also the Horn of Africa."
--Qeshi Asfaha Mehari, former President of the ELCE is the present Head of The Department of Studies of the ELCE
ISBN: 1569023506
Price: $34.95
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 Emancipados
Slave Societies in Brazil and Cuba
by Babatunde Sofela
This book provides definitive information on the identity and status of the e mancipados who were a special group of Africans in Brazil and Cuba in particular and Latin America in general. The author establishes the fact that the peculiar nature of the introduction of the emancipados into Brazil and America set them distinctly apart from freed Africans or slaves in the Brazilian and Cuban slave societies. Emancipados Slave Societies in Brazil and Cuba offers a penetrating insight into the African roots of the e mancipados. A pioneer work in the comparative analysis of the emancipadosin Brazil and Cuba, it opens up a useful understanding of the Luzo-Hispanic content of Latin American history and society.
ISBN: 1592216021
Price: $29.95
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Mending the Broken Pieces
Indigenous Religion and Sustainable Rural Development in Northern Ghana
by Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
This book engages the existing polarized debate in which Africa's religio-cultural traditions are viewed as militating against its development. Pitched between the desire for development and the apparent lack of any significant progress within the context of a globalized world, the study finds its expression within the ambit of indigenous religions and sustainable rural development. Using the Nankani of Northern Ghana as an example, the book illustrates how the religio-cultural traditions of Africans undergird both their thought processes and development. With an overview of the Nankani and their worldview, the study underscores how the African religio-cultural systems constitute a frame of thought that is influential to their analysis of contemporary practices and discourses.
ISBN: 1592218148
Price: $34.95
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 Crossing Memories
Slavery and African Diaspora
Edited by Ana Lucia Araujo, Mariana P. Candido, and Paul E. Lovejoy
This volume examines the history and the memory of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the period of the transatlantic slave trade until the present day. Using diverse approaches and a myriad of sources, the contributors investigate how slavery has shaped the past and the present lives of African diaspora populations.
'Never Again!' should be the slogan of this highly remarkable set of papers as it reminds us of the evils of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and how its past-experienced in blood and pain-is reinterpreted, reconstructed and reinvented in multiple spaces and in different eras in the Atlantic world...
-Toyin Falola, Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Research Professor
ISBN: 1592218202
Price: $29.95
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 The African Christian Presence in the West
New Immigrant Congregations and Transnational Networks in North America and Europe
Edited by Frieder Ludwig and J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
This volume is the first of its kind which represents research results both from North America and Europe. One contribution compares the experiences of Muslim and Christian immigrant groups, but in general the book is confined to the study of transnational dynamics in African Christianity. It includes a broad denominational spectrum from (Oriental) Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant, to Pentecostal and Charismatic churches. While the contributors from Africa, North America and Europe represent a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches, together they engage in an interdisciplinary exchange on the significant role of African Christians in the West in one volume.
ISBN: 1592218083
Price: $39.95
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 Race and the Civilizing Mission
Their Implications for the Framing of Blackness and African Personhood, 1800-1960
by Waibinte E. Wariboko
Europeans had militarily subjugated and occupied Africa in part because they were on a "civilizing mission" to rescue Africans from savagery and barbarism. This book explores one central question, among many others, while interrogating and problematizing this notion: How does understanding "race" help us to better appreciate the subtle ideological motivations and underpinnings of the European "civilizing mission"?
ISBN: 1592217702
Price: $19.95 |
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