Recent publications by members
Members are invited to send in details, including number of pages, ISBN numbers, price and publication date (where known), to Simon Heap at editor(AT)asauk.net
Archive: 2008 titles, 2007 titles, 2006 titles
2010
Stefan Andreasson (2010) Africa’s Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation. London: Zed Books. 258 pages, 978-1842779712, £70; 978-1842779729 £18.99; www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4317
2009
Akanmu G. Adebayo and Olutayo C. Adesina (eds) (2009) Globalization and Transnational Migrations: Africa and Africans in the Contemporary Global System. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 380 pages, 978-1-4438-0535-3; £44.99; orders(AT)c-s-p.org
Jennifer Cole and Lynn Thomas (eds) (2009) Love in Africa. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press. 280 pages, 978-226113524 (hardcover), £43.50; 978-022-6113531, £16.00 (paperback).
Richard Kareem Al-Qaq (2009) Managing World Order: United Nations Peace Operations and the Security Agenda. London: I.B. Tauris & Co Press), 272 pages, ISBN: 9781845115807, £47.50.
Duncan Brown (ed) (2009) Religion and Spirituality in South Africa – New Perspectives. University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 320 pages, 978-1-86914-167-7; www.ukznpress.co.za
Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman (eds) (2009) Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa. Bamenda: Langaa, and Leiden: African Studies Centre. 173 pages, ISBN 978-9956558537, 20 Euros; www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/
Patrick Chabal (2009) Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling. London: Zed Books. 208 pages; hardback, £65.00, 9781842779088; paperback, £16.99, 978-1842779095.
Lindiwe Dovey (2009) African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen. New York: Columbia University Press. 360 pages, Cloth, 978-0-231-14754-5: £52.50; paper, 978-0-231-14755-2, £19.00; www. cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14754-5/african-film-and-literature
Catherine Eagleton, Harcourt Fuller and John Perkins (eds) (2009) Money in Africa. London: British Museum Research Publications, 74 pages, 978-086159-171-8, £20.00; www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_publications.aspx
Toyin Falola and Ann Genova (2009) Historical Dictionary of Nigeria. Historical Dictionaries of Africa series no. 111. Lanham, MD, USA: Scarecrow Press. 466 pages, 978-0-8108-5615-8, £75.00; custserv(AT)rowman.com
Hans Holmen (2009) Snakes in Paradise: NGOs and the Aid Industry in Africa. Kumarian Press, 978-1-56549-301-8, 320 pages, paperback £22.99; www.kpbooks.com
Pieter Hugo (2009) Nollywood. London: Prestel. 112 pages; 978-3791343129; £35.00; sales(AT)prestel-uk.co.uk
Ben Knighton (ed) (2009) Religion and Politics in Kenya: Essays in Honor of a Troublesome Priest. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 316 pages, 978-0-230-61487-1 hardback, £55.00; www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=347730
Andrew Nash (2009) The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa. New York: Routledge. 264 pages, 978-0-415-97530-8, £60.00.
Darren Newbury (2009) Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa. Pretoria: University of South Africa (UNISA) Press. 345 pages; 978-1-86888-523-7, £19.95.
Insa Nolte (2009) Obafemi Awolowo and the Making of Remo: The Local Politics of a Nigerian Nationalist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/International African Library series. 296 pages, 978-0-7486-3895-6, £60.00; www.euppublishing/series/ial
Jeggan C. Senghor et al (2009) Going Public: How Africa's Integration can Work for the Poor. London: Africa Research Institute, 100 pages, 978-1-906329-07-5; free and downloadable from: www.africaresearchinstitute.org/research-papers.php
Roger Southall and Henning Melber (eds) (2009) A New Scramble for Africa?: Imperialism, Investment and Development. University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 544 pages, ISBN: 978-1-86914-171-4; www.ukznpress.co.za
Alex Thomson (2009) U.S. Foreign Policy towards Apartheid South Africa: Conflict of Interests. London: Palgrave-Macmillan. 260 pages, hardback: 9781403972279, £40.00; link.
E. Ike Udogu and A. B. Zack-Williams (2009) African Mosaic: Political, Social, Economic and Technological Development in the New Millennium. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 200 pages, 978-1443801843, £39.99; orders(AT)c-s-p.org
Elizabeth E. Watson (2009) Living Terraces in Ethiopia Konso Landscape, Culture and Development. Oxford: James Currey, 256 pages, 978-1847010056, £45.00; www.boydell.co.uk
Selena Axelrod Winsnes (translator) (2009) Two Views from Christiansborg Castle Volume 1. A Brief and Truthful Description of a Journey to and from Guinea, by Johannes Rask. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers. 234 pages, 978-9988647896, £34.95; Volume 2. A Description of the Guinea Coast and Its Inhabitants by H. C. Monrad. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers. 296 pages, 978-9988647773, £29.95; www.africanbookscollective.com
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (2009) Barack Obama and African Diasporas: Dialogues and Dissensions. Banbury: Ayebia Clarke; 978-0955507960, 240 pages, Paperback £16.99.
East Asian Transnational Flows in Africa and the Middle East Guest Editor Nobuko Adachi of Illinois State University invites papers focusing on East Asian transnational flows in the cultural, social, political, and economic development of Africa and the Middle East. Ethnographic studies related to migratory flows will receive particular attention, though perspectives from all disciplines and theoretical perspectives will be considered. Topics include, but are not limited to, economic development, political empowerment, identity, ethnic community, education and acculturation, and internationalization and transnationalism. For further information: www.encounters.zu.ac.ae 5,000 to 10,000 word papers by 15 June 2010 to: encounters(AT)zu.ac.ae and nadachi(AT)ilstu.eduResearch in African Literatures
The journal is preparing a special issue on ‘Asian African Literatures in Africa and its Diaspora’. It invites contributors to engage with the rapidly growing body of literature written by Asian African writers from all regions of Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean, as well as by writers who may be considered to be part of the Asian African diaspora. Papers on canonical writers such as M.G. Vassanji, Peter Nazareth, and Ahmed Essop are welcome, but the editor particularly seeks articles on more recent writers such as (and this list is not exhaustive), Ronnie Govender, Imraan Coovadia, Praba Moodley, and Jameela Siddiqi. The Guest Editor, Gaurav Desai of Tulane University – gaurav(AT)tulane.edu – encourages potential contributors to establish an early contact so as to help fashion an issue that is broad in its scope. Full papers are due by 1 September 2010.
African Theatre 10: Media and Performance
African Theatre, an international annual journal, is seeking articles, reviews or reports in the field of performance and media. The editor interprets this topic in a broad sense. It could thus cover drama and performance embedded in the media, such as radio drama, TV drama/performance, documentaries, Reality TV, or cinema and video drama/performance. Alternatively it could involve the incorporation of mixed media techniques (such as slides, video clips or ‘canned’ music) into ‘live’ performance. The editor would be particularly interested in the use of New Media, such as cell-phone technology or the internet (through YouTube, performance clips in blogs or group emails, or drama downloads to cell-phones). Abstracts by 15 May, with accepted papers up to 5,000 words due by 31 August 2010 to Guest Editor, Professor David Kerr: kerrdavid42(AT)yahoo.co.uk and kerr(AT)mopipi.ub.bw
Sembene Ousmane and the Politics of Culture
Sembene Ousmane passed away in June 2007 leaving behind an extraordinary literary and film corpus. In a 1974 lecture, he underscored the centrality of culture in human society, noting that “Culture is political in all respects... the sum total of Man’s spiritual and material needs… It is the link between the cradle and the tomb”. In his works, Sembene sought to demonstrate the dynamic relationship between culture and the discourse of African liberation. More so than most artists of his time, Sembene challenged his audiences and readers to explore the internal dynamics of the relationship between Africa and its former colonizers. He often shed light on controversial aspects of indigenous traditions and was critical of emerging cultural formations that compromised the progressive transformation of African societies. He was therefore critical of racialist and/or sectarian approaches in the quest for independence that disregarded the complicity of the traditional and contemporary African elite. Consequently, Sembene’s legacy requires a critical reassessment of the ideological underpinnings of culture and its complex relationship in current discourses on Africa in the era of globalization.
The editors invite original contributions for a book on Sembene Ousmane to be published in 2011. They are interested in receiving proposals for substantial articles in English and French from scholars interested in re-evaluating Sembene’s intellectual and artistic legacy framed around any of the following rubrics: globalization; gender; race and ethnicity; eco-consciousness; historiography; Panafricanism; women’s rights; (im)migration; space and time; film music; aesthetics and ideological interventions. 300-word abstracts by 31 May 2010 to co-editors Lifongo Vetinde: lifongo.vetinde(AT)lawrence.edu or Amadou Fofana: afofana(AT)willamette.edu
Childhood in Africa: An Interdisciplinary Journal
This is a new online peer-reviewed journal launched by Ohio University’s Institute for the African Child. “The journal is about bringing an Africanist perspective into childhood studies,” said Andria Sherrow, assistant director of the Institute for the African Child and managing editor of the journal. The semi-annual publication is intentionally interdisciplinary; academic researchers as well as NGOs are encouraged to submit manuscripts. Collaborations between on-the-ground organizations and academic researchers are encouraged. It is an open access journal, meaning there is no fee to submit or to subscribe. All content is available online, including searchable PDFs of individual articles. The journal’s copyright license allows for full reprints of articles as long as the author is credited. To access the journal directly: www.afrchild.ohio.edu/CAJ/index.html.
African Journal of Economic and Management Studies (AJEMS)
This is a new peer-reviewed journal published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. AJEMS aims to advance both theoretical and empirical research, inform policies and practices, and improve understanding of how economic and business decisions shape the lives of Africans. AJEMS is a multidisciplinary journal and welcomes papers from all the major disciplines in economics, business and management studies including (but not limited to): management; marketing; strategy; finance and investment; organizational management; international trade; business economics; entrepreneurship; and economic development AJEMS aims to places management and leadership at the centre-stage of business and organizational research in Africa and emphasizes an understanding of how theories and models support management practices. The journal offers its readers with insights into how African executives practice management. It therefore carries a section that stimulates practitioner-based dialogue. For more information, including details of how to submit papers for possible inclusion in AJEMS, see the website: www.emeraldinsight.co/ajems.htm
Sudan’s Wars and Peace Agreements
The Sudan has suffered from chronic conflict since its independence in 1956, with only eleven years of relative peace between 1972 and 1983. Sudan is home to diverse communities whose traditions, beliefs and preferred modes of livelihood differ one from another. It enjoys one of the world’s oldest recorded histories, over the course of which the terms of peaceful co-existence among its constituent communities have repeatedly become strained to the breaking point. Although serious conflict is one of the major themes in Sudanese history, so is the countervailing theme of settlement through compromise and accommodation. The patterns of conflict and settlement deeply rooted in history have rarely been as conspicuous as they are today in Sudan‘s recent history of wars and peace agreements since 1983, and after the al-Bashir regime seized power in 1989. In addition to difficulties and opportunities generated through indigenous processes, the contemporary Sudan must also respond to economic, political and cultural influences that derive from its participation in an increasingly complex wider world, especially its unpopular allies, such as Iran and its vulnerable friends, such as Egypt.
The Sudan Studies Association (founded in 1981) dedicated its 2008 annual conference in Tallahassee to examination of the Sudan’s Wars and Peace Agreements from both historical and contemporary analytical perspectives. The papers read at the conference itself inspired a new round of studies offered in supportive elaboration and critical response. Given the timeliness and exceptional quality of the discussion these studies cumulatively bear, the Sudan Studies Association leadership has assembled an editorial team to organize them and offer them to the world of scholarship within a sensitive and appropriate interpretive setting. Chapter-length studies pertinent to the theme of the volume may be submitted to up to 30 January 2010 to Professor Stephanie Beswick, President, Sudan Studies Association: sfbeswick(AT)bsu.edu
The British Library’s Archival Sound Recordings 2 Project
As part of the Archival Sound Recordings 2 Project, the British Library has digitised approximately 970 recordings from our collection of the Decca West Africa yellow label series. Our aim with this collection is to provide free universal access to these recordings for the sole purposes of teaching, learning and research through audio streaming via our website. The collection includes music recorded in Benin, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Ghana between circa 1948-1961 and encompasses a wide range of genres including Konkomo, Highlife, Rhumba and Calypso. We are in the process of conducting rights research for these recordings, and would appreciate input or assistance from anyone who has been in contact with the musicians involved, or those who are familiar with the Decca West African yellow label series through their research. If you feel you can be of assistance, or for further information about the project, please contact Ellen Hebden: ellen.hebden(AT)bl.uk
North African Ethnomusicology
The editor is currently seeking previously unpublished essays for a new book on the musical cultures, modern/historical musical traditions, and instrumentation for the countries of North Africa (Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Egypt). Open to students, ethnomusicologists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and Africanists with an expertise in Saharan ethnomusicology. The book will also include instrument glossary and notable recordings (CDs/LPs) by country. Essays on aspect of musical traditions of this region may be on a specific artist, musical genre, instrument, or include performance, aesthetics, modernity, diaspora, media, or folklore elements. They may be written from individual field research, a dissertation/thesis, college paper, journal-calibre articles, or written especially for this book. The papers should be unpublished and currently not being considered for publishing elsewhere. Submissions anytime during 2009 to the Editor, Matthew J. Forss: worldmusicman2002(AT)yahoo.com
Lagos Historical Review
Dr Funke Adeboye of the Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos is the new editor of the Lagos Historical Review. The journal can be viewed here. All correspondence relating to the journal should now be directed to Dr Adeboye: funks29adeboye(AT)yahoo.co.uk.
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (JOOP) special issue
JOOP announces a special issue focusing on African leadership and management, to be published in September 2011’s issue. The issue seeks to bring together a compendium of papers that begin to advance a science of leadership and management in the African context with the goal of examining what is unique, what generalizes, and what doesn’t generalize from the West and East to Africa, as well as within different regions of Africa itself.
The editors are calling for a broad and indeed innovative approach to studying leadership and management that includes a better understanding of leaders, followers, peers and the emergent influences of groups, teams and organizations.
Papers that address the following topics are encouraged. The historical context in which African leadership/organizations are embedded, including the economic, social and political forces shaping leadership and management in Africa; leadership, ethics and corruption in Africa; cultural differences compared to Western and Eastern societies; within-African cultural differences impacting leadership and management; strategies, models, and methods for developing leaders in Africa; unique philosophical frameworks shaping African leadership (Ubuntu); globalization’s impact on African leadership values, norms, behaviours and expectations; generational differences in African leaders and followers; and NGOs and African leadership models. Manuscripts by 1 February 2010. Questions about possible papers to guest editors: Sam Aryee: s.aryee(AT)aston.ac.uk or Fred Walumbwa: Fred.Walumbwa(AT)asu.edu or Bruce Avolio: bavolio(AT)u.washington.edu
Ife Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (IJSA)
IJSA is a bi-annual publication of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The journal is set to provide an international forum for the dissemination of scholarly works on issues relating to the African environment, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Problems, Politics, Change and Development, Globalisation, Economics, Psychology, Public Policy, Management Studies, and other related disciplines concerned with the shaping of human behaviour; and the structure of institutions and customs in the African continent. IJSA welcomes scholarly contributions from both African scholars, and scholars elsewhere working on African issues and concerns. Manuscripts could be any of the following: original research, review articles, short reports, and book reviews. Manuscripts can be submitted any time in the year to the Editor, Professor M. A. O. Aluko: niyialuko(AT)oauife.edu.ng and ijsanig(AT)yahoo.com
The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy
Papers intended for publication should be in the areas of the history of philosophy and ideas, African philosophy and other branches of philosophy. Proposals to the Editor, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria: thenigerianjournalofphilosophy(AT)yahoo.com
The Africa Book Centre has moved
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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(AT)eup.ed.ac.uk
Journal of African Cinemas
...explores the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages. The editors seek papers that expound on the identity or identities of Africa and its peoples. Initial inquiries as soon as possible (full papers due by 30 June 2009) to Keyan Tomaselli: Tomasell(AT)ukzn.ac.za
African Development Affairs
African Development Affairs (ADA) is a new quarterly inter-disciplinary journal that aims to contribute to policy-making both inside and outside Africa, by exploring the development options for Africa from an Africa-centric perspective, through peer-reviewed articles of the highest academic standard, contributing to debate on solutions to the historic and complex social struggles confronting Africans. Proposals, articles and opinion pieces to the editor, Desmond Davies: ddavies(AT)africaweekmagazine.com
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(AT)sant.ox.ac.uk
