Africa – December 2013 to July 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 26, 2015|Africa|

Africa

Business & Industry

• The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective / Lindsay Whitfield

Film & Media

• Identity in postmillennial German film narratives on Africa / Shikuku Emmanuel Tsikhungu.
• Images of Africa : Creation, negotiation and subversion / Julia Gallagher.
• Through African eyes / editors, Mahen Bonetti and Prerana Reddy.

History

• Understanding Africa / E. Jefferson Murphy ; illustrated by Louise E. Jefferson.

Literature

• Mysteries of Africa / Eugene Schleh, editor.

Politics and governance

• Africa and the new world era : from humanitarianism to a strategic view / edited by Jack Mangala.
• Authoritarian origins of democratic party systems in Africa / Rachel Beatty Riedl. [on order]
• Democracy in Africa : successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform / by Nic Cheeseman.
• Real governance and practical norms in sub-Saharan Africa : the game of rules / edited by Tom de Herdt and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.

Reference works

• Afurikagaku jiten / Nihon Afurika Gakkai hen. アフリカ学事典 / 日本アフリカ学会編

Religion

• Pentecostalism in Africa. Presence and impact of pneumatic Christianity in postcolonial societies. Martin Lindhardt.

Security

• The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development / Jessica Piombo [on order]

Algeria

• Empire of landscape : space and ideology in French colonial Algeria / John Zarobell.

Angola

• Magnificent and beggar land : Angola since the Civil War / Ricardo Soares de Oliveira.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Violent capitalism and hybrid identity in the Eastern Congo / Timothy Raeymaekers.

Diaspora

• African and American : West Africans in post-civil rights America / Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson.
• Freedom time : Negritude, decolonization, and the future of the world / Gary Wilder.
• The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker
• Song of the shank : a novel / Jeffery Renard Allen.
• The two princes of Calabar : an eighteenth-century Atlantic odyssey / Randy J. Sparks.

Ethiopia

• Between bombs and good intentions : the Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 / Rainer Baudendistel.
• Emperor Haile Selassie / Bereket Habte Selassie.
• Ethiopian theatre : ideas on modernity and nation building / Zerihun Birehanu Sira.
• The evangelical movement in Ethiopia : resistance and resilience / Tibebe Eshete.
• Health system, sickness, and social suffering in Mekelle (Tigray-Ethiopia) / edited by Pino Schirripa.
• Made in Africa : Industrial policy in Ethiopia / Arkebe Oqubay
• A political history of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (1975-1991) : revolt, ideology and mobilisation in Ethiopia / Aregawi Berhe.
• The life and times of Lïj Iyasu of Ethiopia : new insights / edited by Éloi Ficquet and Wolbert G.C. Smidt.
• Understanding contemporary Ethiopia / edited by Gérard Prunier and Éloi Ficquet. [on order]

Ghana

• Sensational movies : video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana / Birgit Meyer [on order]

Kenya

• African re-creation of western impressions : a focus on the Kenyan film / Rachael Diang’a.
• Indian doctors in Kenya, 1890-1940 : the forgotten history / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala.

Languages

• Chasu : kamusi ya Chasu-Kiingereza-Kiswahili = Chasu-English-Swahili dictionary / Abel Y. Mreta.
• Kimatengo-Wörterbuch / P. Johannes Häflinger.
• Sawabantu : eine vergleichende Untersuchung der Küstensprachen Kameruns (Bantu A.20 und A.30) / Carl Ebobissé.
• The Swahili people and their language / Dainess M. Maganda and Lioba M. Moshi [Also available as an e-book from ebrary]

Liberia

• Redemption Road : the quest for peace and justice in Liberia / Elma Shaw.

Malawi

• From home and exile : a negotiation of ideas about home in Malawian poetry / Joanna Woods.

Morocco

• The ethnographic state : France and the invention of Moroccan Islam / Edmund Burke III
• Moroccan feminist discourses / Fatima Sadiqi.

Nigeria

• Deeper Life : the extraordinary growth of the Deeper Life Bible Church / Alan Isaacson ; with a foreword by W.F. Kumuyi.
• Nigerian Pentecostalism / Nimi Wariboko.
• Religion, history, and politics in Nigeria : essays in honor of Ogbu U. Kalu / edited by Chima J. Korieh and G. Ugo Nwokeji ; foreword by Obioma Nnaemeka. [on order]
• The spiritual highway : religious world making in megacity Lagos / photographs by Akintunde Akinleye ; curated by Marloes Janson

North Africa

• Official stories : politics and national narratives in Egypt and Algeria / Laurie A. Brand.

Senegal

• Ousmane Sembene and the politics of culture / edited by Lifongo J. Vetinde and Amadou T. Fofana.

Sierra Leone

• Evaluating Transitional Justice Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-conflict Sierra Leone / Kirsten Ainley, Rebekka Friedman, Chris Mahony (eds). [on order]

South Africa

• Multilingual universities in South Africa : reflecting society in higher education / Edited by Liesel Hibbert and Christa van der Walt.
• Performing migrancy and mobility in Africa : cape of flows / edited by Mark Fleishman.

Sudan and South Sudan

• Emerging orders in the Sudans / editors, Sandra Calkins, Enrico Ille, Richard Rottenburg.

Uganda

• Elections in a hybrid regime : revisiting the 2011 Ugandan polls / Sandrine Perrot, Sabiti Makara, Jérôme Lafargue et Marie-Aude Fouéré (éds)
• Museveni’s Uganda : paradoxes of power in a hybrid regime / Aili Mari Tripp.

Western Sahara

• From camp to city : refugee camps of the western Sahara / edited by Manuel Herz in cooperation with ETH Studio Basel.
• The ideal refugees : gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi politics of survival / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh.
• Perspectives on Western Sahara : myths, nationalisms, and geopolitics / edited by Anouar Boukhars and Jacques Roussellier.
• Western Sahara : war, nationalism, and conflict irresolution / Stephen Zunes and Jacob Mundy. [also available as an e-book from ebrary]