Recent publications by members
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David Anderson, Susan Beckerleg, Degol Hailu and Axel Klein (2007) The Khat Controversy: Stimulating the Debate on Drugs. Oxford: Berg. 272pp. Paperback: 978-1-84520-251-4, £19.99; hardback, 978-1-84520-250-7, £55.00.
Seifudein Adem and Abdul S. Bemath (eds) (2007) The Politics of War and the Culture of Violence: North-South Essays by Ali A. Mazrui. Trenton, New Jersey, USA: Africa World Press. 320pp. $29.95. Click for details
Ray Bush (2007) Poverty and Neoliberalism: Persistence and Reproduction in the Global South. London: Pluto Press. 237pp ISBN: 978-0-74531-960-5, £19.99.
L.J. Butler (2007) Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930-64. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 440pp, 978-0-230-55526-6, £60.00.
Basil Davidson (2007) Black Star: A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah. Oxford: James Currey. New edition with a Foreword by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, 225pp. ISBN 978-1-84701-010-0, £14.95.
Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard and Espen Sjaastad (2007) Conflicts Over Land and Water in Africa. Oxford: James Currey Ltd. Paperback: 978-0-85255-888p1, £17.95.
Ruth Finnegan (2007) The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa. Oxford: James Currey Ltd. 272pp, paperback: 978-1-84701-001-8, £16.95; hardback: 978-1-84701-000-1, £50.00.
Patrick Harries (2007) Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa. Oxford: James Currey. 312pp, 978-0-85255-984-0 (cloth) £55.00; 978-0-85255-983-3 (paper) £19.95.
Elizabeth MacGonagle (2007) Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique [the Ndau of southeast Africa]. University of Rochester Press. £45.00, 208pp, ISBN: 978-1-58046-257-0. Click for details
Gugulethu Moyo and Mark Ashurst (eds) The Day After Mugabe: Prospects for Change in Zimbabwe. London: Africa Research Institute. 214pp. Free copies (subject to availability) from Africa Research Institute
David Murphy and Patrick Williams (2007) Postcolonial African Cinema, Ten Directors. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 272pp. ISBN: Paperback: 978-0-7190-7203-1, £15.99.Hardback: 978-0-7190-7202-4, £55.00.
William Wolmer (2007) From Wilderness Vision to Farm Invasions: Conservation and Development in Zimbabwe’s South-east Lowveld, Oxford: James Currey. 256pp. ISBN 978-0-85255-436-4, £17.95.
Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-1987 (2007) London: Pathfinder, 2nd edition. In English and French: 978-0-87348-986-7 (English); 978-0-87348-987-4 (French), £16. Available from: admin@pathfinderbooks.co.uk
John McIlwaine (2007) Africa: A Guide to Reference Material. Lochcarron: Hans Zell Publishing. 2nd revised and expanded edition. 672pp. ISBN: 0-9541029-3-7, £130. Contact: hanszell@hanszell.co.uk
Cedric Pulford (2007) Casualty of Empire: Britain’s Unpaid Debt to an African Kingdom. Woodford Halse: Ituri Publications. 146pp. ISBN: 978-095364307-3 (paperback), £11.99. Website: www.pulfordmedia.co.uk
Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute: Special Discount for ASAUK members
Edinburgh University Press and the International African Institute would like to offer members of the ASAUK and Royal African Society the opportunity to subscribe to Africa at a discounted rate from 2008 onwards. To subscribe at the discounted rate of £41.25 (regular subscription: £65), phone 0131-650-4218 or marketing@eup.ed.ac.uk
Call for papers: ‘New, Emergent, or Alternative Expressions of African Christianity’, Nova Religio: the Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
A special edition of Nova Religio will be dedicated to the theme of the changing nature of African Christianity. English-language articles of original research are invited on any expression of African Christianity that may be defined as new, emergent, or alternative. Initial enquiries to the guest editor, Dr Joel E. Tishken: tishken_joel@colstate.edu
AEGIS Announces Africa Book Series with Brill
The Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies is pleased to announce the AEGIS Brill Africa Book Series. Books will represent all fields of study within the humanities and social sciences, and will include both individually-authored works and edited collections on focused themes. The series will comprise titles reflecting on long-standing debates within African Studies as well as those based upon new research and the development of innovative approaches. Included among series authors will be both senior and junior scholars and the Editors wish to encourage the publication of outstanding recent doctoral theses. Discounted purchase prices will be offered to AEGIS members as well as to scholars in Africa. Authors are requested to submit a prospectus up to 1,000 words providing a summary of the work, a description of its intended audience, a word count, and the current status of the manuscript (which should not be sent until specifically requested by the editors). The prospectus, accompanied by a brief covering letter and CV, should be sent to AEGIS Brill Africa Book Series, attn: Angelica Baschiera, Centre of African Studies, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG.
The Journal of Eastern African Studies
The Journal of Eastern African Studies is a new international publication of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, published three times per year in both print and online formats. It aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary boundaries. It seeks to foster inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives, and research employing the most significant theoretical or methodological approaches for the region. The Editors welcome submissions from all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, international relations, literatures and languages, political economy, politics, social policy and sociology. Subscription is £280 (online)/£295 (online and print) institutional, £57 individual. For submissions, contact: jeas@sant.ox.ac.uk
