Research in International Studies, Africa Series
About Research in International Studies, Africa Series
This series of publications on Africa is designed to present significant research, translation, and opinion to area specialists and to a wide community of persons interested in world affairs. The editors seek manuscripts of quality in a wide range of disciplines.The editor works closely with authors to produce a high-quality book. The series, published in association with the Center for International Studies at Ohio University, appears in paperback format and is distributed worldwide.
All books in the series are published in association with the Center for International Studies at Ohio University.
Series Editor(s)
Gillian Berchowitz, Executive Editor
Research in International Studies
Ohio University Press
Featured Titles
Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa
By Wayne DoolingSlavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South African War in 1899.…
Twelve Best Books by African Women
Critical Readings
By Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Tuzyline Jita AllanIn 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve literary books by African women were included for the first time in the category of “Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century.…
African Video Movies and Global Desires
A Ghanaian History
By Carmela GarritanoAfrican Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 91
African Intellectuals and Decolonization
Edited by Nicholas M. CrearyDecades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 90
Screening Morocco
Contemporary Film in a Changing Society
By Valérie K. OrlandoSince 1999 and the death of King Hassan II, Morocco has experienced a dramatic social transformation. Encouraged by the more openly democratic climate fostered by young King Mohammed VI, filmmakers have begun to explore the sociocultural and political debates of their country while also seeking to document the untold stories of a dark past.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 89
Twelve Best Books by African Women
Critical Readings
By Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Tuzyline Jita AllanIn 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve literary books by African women were included for the first time in the category of “Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 88
Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa
By Wayne DoolingSlavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South African War in 1899.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 87
The Sacred Door and Other Stories
Cameroon Folktales of the Beba
By MakuchiThe Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 86
Swahili beyond the Boundaries
Literature, Language, and Identity
By Alamin MazruiAfrica is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa’s lingua franca, and its cultures.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 85
Empire in Africa
Angola and Its Neighbors
By David BirminghamThe dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 84
Not White Enough, Not Black Enough
Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community
By Mohamed AdhikariThe concept of Colouredness—being neither white nor black—has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 83
Negotiating Power and Privilege
Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria
By Philomina E. Okeke-IhejirikaEven with a university education, the Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria face obstacles that prevent them from reaching their professional and personal potentials. Negotiating Power and Privilege is a study of their life choices and the embedded patriarchy and other obstacles in postcolonial Africa barring them from fulfillment.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 82
Portugal and Africa
By David BirminghamPortugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniquely accessible historical essays, surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 81
The Children of Africa Confront AIDS
From Vulnerability to Possibility
Edited by Arvind Singhal and W. Stephen HowardAIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy by twenty-two years.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 80
Broken Lives and Other Stories
By Anthonia C. KaluIn her startling collection of short stories, Broken Lives and Other Stories, Anthonia C. Kalu creates a series of memorable characters who struggle to hold displaced but dynamic communities together in a country that is at war with itself.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 79
Voices from Madagascar/Voix de Madagascar
An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Anthologie de littérature francophone contemporaine
Edited by Jacques Bourgeacq and Liliane RamarosoaThere is currently in Madagascar a rich literary production (short stories, poetry, novels, plays) that has not yet reached the United States for lack of diffusion outside the country. Until recently, Madagascar suffered from political isolation resulting from its breakup with France in the 1970s and the eighteen years of Marxism that followed.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 75
The Struggle for Meaning
Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa
By Paulin J. HountondjiThe Struggle for Meaning is a landmark publication by one of African philosophy's leading figures, Paulin J. Hountondji, best known for his critique of ethnophilosophy in the late 1960s and early 1970s.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 78
Flickering Shadows
Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe
By J. M. BurnsEvery European power in Africa made motion pictures for its subjects, but no state invested as heavily in these films, and expected as much from them, as the British colony of Southern Rhodesia. Flickering Shadows is the first book to explore this little-known world of colonial cinema.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 77
Witchcraft Dialogues
Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges
Edited by George Clement Bond and Diane M. CiekawyWitchcraft Dialogues analyzes the complex manner in which human beings construct, experience, and think about the “occult.” It brings together anthropologists, philosophers, and sociologists, from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, to engage the metaphysical properties of “witchcraft” and “sorcery” and to explore their manifestations in people's lived experiences.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 76
South Africa’s Resistance Press
Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid
Edited by Les Switzer and Mohamed AdhikariSouth Africa's Resistance Press is a collection of essays celebrating the contributions of scores of newspapers, newsletters, and magazines that confronted the state in the generation after 1960.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 74
Nigerian Video Films
Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited by Jonathan HaynesNigerian video films—dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes—are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 73
African Apocalypse
The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet
By Robert R. Edgar and Hilary SapireThe devastating influenza epidemic of 1918 ripped through southern Africa. In its aftermath, revivalist and millenarian movements sprouted. Prophets appeared bearing messages of resistance, redemption, and renewal.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 72
