Authors:Marjorie Jones,  Eldred Durosimi Jone,
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: african, literature, africa, southern, south, alt
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-10-17
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0852555237
ISBN-13: 9780852555231

The end of the apartheid era in South Africa has meant the opening up of the country’s culture, languages and literatures to the outside world. Within South Africa the literature of protest need no longer dominate creative output and there has been a move towards a rediscovery of the ordinary . The realities of post-independence Zimbabwe as expressed in song and literature are also examined. North America: Africa World Press

Author: Christopher Ehret
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: history, africa, civilizations
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0852554753
ISBN-13: 9780852554753

This book gives serious play to ancient history right across the African continent and it ties these eras into the currents of wider world history. Chris Ehret has skilfully woven archaeology and linguistics into the historical narrative to provide a text from the deep past until 1800. North America: University Press of Virginia

Author: Roger Tangri
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: private, enterprise, privatization, parastatals, patronage, africa, politics
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0852558341
ISBN-13: 9780852558348

This is a general survey of the influence of political factors (especially patronage) on economic performance throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with case studies drawn from Ghana, Zambia and Uganda. North America: Africa World Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers

Author: Leroy Vail
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: africa, southern, tribalism, creation
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 085255043X
ISBN-13: 9780852550434

’The great virtue of this book is that it is the first major study to focus exclusively on the historical evolution of ethnic identity over a broad region from Zaire ... to South Africa.’ - John McCracken, University of Stirling

Author: C.J. Driver
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: pan, africanist, african, south, duncan, patrick
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0852557736
ISBN-13: 9780852557730

Born son of a Governor-General of South Africa, Patrick Duncan rejected the attitudes of his privileged background to follow the Gandhian way of passive reistance, even to jail. This biography traces the life and times of Duncan and the changes and struggles in late-twentieth century South Africa.

Authors:Eustace Palmer, Marjorie Jones, Eldred Durosimi Jone
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: african, literature, poetry, written, oral, alt
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1989-06-15
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0852555164
ISBN-13: 9780852555163

The contemporary poet in Africa is continuing a long tradition of poetry which in many places pre-dated the advent of writing. North America: Africa World Press

Authors:Bruce Berman, John Lonsdale,
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: eastern, african, studies, africa, kenya, valley, conflict, unhappy
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 1992-04-23
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0852550995
ISBN-13: 9780852550991

The authors investigate major themes. These include the conquest origins and subsequent development of the colonial state, the contradictory social forces that articulated African societies to European capitalism, and the creation of new political communities and changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of social differentiation and class formation. There is substantial new work on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and civic virtue in Kikuyu political thought. The authors make a fresh contribution to a deeper historical understanding of contemporary Kenyan society