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Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	African Masculinities Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present Lahoucine Ouzgane and Robert Morrell Palgrave Macmillan While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Black Death AIDS in Africa Susan Hunter Palgrave Macmillan To the surprise of many, George W. Bush pledged $10 billion to combat AIDS in developing nations. Noted specialist Susan Hunter tells the untold story of AIDS...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Africa Unchained The Blueprint for Africa's Future George B.N. Ayittey Palgrave Macmillan Why haven't the poorest Africans been able to prosper in the twenty-first century? Celebrated economist George Ayittey thinks the answer is obvious: economic...

Hardcover : $79.95 Buy	Science and Society in Southern Africa Studies in Imperialism Edited by Saul Dubow Manchester University Press This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	African Gender Studies A Reader Edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi Palgrave Macmillan This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Football in Africa Conflict, Conciliation and Community Edited by Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti Palgrave Macmillan This ground breaking collection provides the first detailed social analysis of football within Africa. The book features case-study essays that draw heavily on...

Hardcover : $99.95 Buy	Energy Services for the Urban Poor in Africa Issues and Policy Implications African Energy Policy Research Edited by Bereket Kebede and Ikhupuleng Dube Zed Books Africa has been experiencing higher rates of urbanization than any other continent, and today about one-third of the continent's population live in urban...

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	Reinventing Order in the Congo How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa Edited by Theodore Trefon Zed Books The populations of many Third World mega-cities have far outstripped any apparent economic basis for their size and survival. In this volume Congolese and...

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	Urban Africa Changing Contours of Survival in the City Africa in the New Millennium Edited by A. M. Simone and A. Abouhani Zed Books Amidst emergent cultural formations in Dakar, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Kisangani, Jos, Zaria, Cairo, and Marakesh, this collection focuses on diverse ways...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Issues in African Education Sociological Perspectives Edited by Ali A. Abdi and Ailie Cleghorn Palgrave Macmillan This book is one of the first to bring together the sociological views and analyses of African academics on the nature and scope of issues in African education...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Women and Collective Action in Africa Development, Democratization, and Empowerment Filomina Steady Palgrave Macmillan A clear, comprehensive examination of how women in throughout Africa use collective action.

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Africa's Elusive Quest for Development Mathurin C. Houngnikpo Palgrave Macmillan Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty, and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He...

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	Insiders and Outsiders Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa Africa in the New Millennium Francis B. Nyamnjoh Zed Books This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Poverty, AIDS and Hunger Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi Edited by Anne C. Conroy Palgrave Macmillan The numbers of Africans living in absolute poverty continues to increase. Through bolder and more innovative approaches, the poor can be helped, at very...

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	Intellectuals and African Development Pretension and Resistance in African Politics Africa in the New Millennium Edited by Björn Beckman and Gbemisola Remi Adeoti Zed Books This book looks at different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka, Ngugi, and Achebe, the military men in power and the...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Sudanese Women Refugees Transformations and Future Imaginings Jane Kani Edward Palgrave Macmillan This book examines the social, cultural, economic, and political transformations that have occurred among southern Sudanese women refugees as they experience...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Population Politics and Development From the Policies to the Clinics Lisa Ann Richey Palgrave Macmillan This book uses political and socio-anthropological theory to examine the relationship between power, interest, and agency within population and family planning...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	AIDS Treatment and Human Rights in Context Peris S. Jones Palgrave Macmillan The global AIDS epidemic has challenged states and societies in profound ways. The era of treatment now represents the hopes of millions of people living with...

Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	African Women and Apartheid Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa International Library of African Studies #25 Rebekah Lee Tauris Academic Studies A key mechanism of apartheid in South Africa was the set of restrictions placed on the movements of Africans; in particular, African women were subject to...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Environmental Justice in the New Millennium Global Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Human Rights Edited by Filomina Chioma Steady Palgrave Macmillan Environmental Justice is one of the most important human rights challenge today. It combats the targeting people of color and poor people for the burdens of...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	African Women Immigrants in the United States Crossing Transnational Borders John A. Arthur Palgrave Macmillan African Women Immigrants in the United States depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Gender and Power in Sierra Leone Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries Lynda Day Palgrave Macmillan This book uses Sierra Leone to explore gendered political authority, illuminating the roles it plays in women's history, political history, and political...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt Africa Connects Edited by Alastair Fraser and Miles Larmer Palgrave Macmillan This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia’s experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia’s...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Idea of African Literature Apollo Obonyo Amoko Palgrave Macmillan This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship...

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