James Currey
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A Companion to African Literatures
Ruth RoweCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An easy-to-use and highly-acclaimed reference work on works by African authors written in English. A comprehensive guide to works by African autho...
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A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder
Prof Grace A MusilaCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been report...
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A History of Malawi: 1859-1966
John McCrackenCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99A distinguished scholar's magnum opus and the first full account of Malawi's colonial history. This is the first comprehensive history of Malawi d...
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A History of Malawi: 1859-1966
John McCrackenCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99A distinguished scholar's magnum opus and the first full account of Malawi's colonial history. This is the first comprehensive history of Malawi d...
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Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite
Terri OchiaghaCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016 The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Go...
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Africa-centred Knowledges: Crossing Fields and Worlds
James CurreyCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Proposes a dynamic new approach to the production of knowledge on Africa, one that is global, multiple and heterogeneous, elucidating this through ...
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African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya
Shola AdenekanCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move litera...
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African Theatre 16: Six Plays from East & West Africa
Jane PlastowCurrent price €79.79Original price €83.99A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untransla...
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African Theatre 17: Contemporary Dance
Chukwuma OkoyeCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99African dance is discussed here in its global as well as local contexts as a powerful vehicle of aesthetic and cultural exchange and influence. To...
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African Theatre 18
Chukwuma OkoyeCurrent price €73.07Original price €83.99Highlighted in this volume is the detective play The Inspector and the Hero by Femi Osofisan, one of Africa's leading playwrights. The play has unt...
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African Theatre 19: Opera & Music Theatre
James CurreyCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts. Music is often cited as a central...
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African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880
James CurreyCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atl...
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Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885
Silke StrickrodtCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99A uniquely detailed account of the dynamics of Afro-European trade in two states on the western Slave Coast over three centuries and the transition...
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After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan
Elke GrawertCurrent price €86.47Original price €93.99The Sudanese peace agreement reached a crisis point in its final year. This book offers an analysis of the impact of the implementation of the agre...
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Alex la Guma: A Literary and Political Biography
Roger FieldCurrent price €74.15Original price €80.60Best known as a novelist and political activist, Alex la Guma (1925-85) was also a journalist, comic strip artist, reviewer, sketcher, painter, sho...
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ALT 35: Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today
Ernest N. EmenyonuCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement. C...
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ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction: African Literature Today
Ernest N. EmenyonuCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY ALT 36 turns a queer eye on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sex...
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ALT 37: African Literature Today
Ernest N. EmenyonuCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY was established at a time of uncertainty and reconstruction but for 50 years it has played a leading role in nurturing ima...
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ALT 39: Speculative & Science Fiction
James CurreyCurrent price €74.75Original price €88.99Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and th...
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ALT 41: African Literature in African Languages
James CurreyCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and th...
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Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa
Yusuf M. JuwayeyiCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate...
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Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa
Yusuf M. JuwayeyiCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and ar...
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At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
Rebecca JonesCurrent price €79.89Original price €93.99Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contrib...
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At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
Rebecca JonesCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contrib...
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