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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 for mat and is distributed worldwide.

Series Editors
Gillian Berchowitz, Ohio University Press
Executive Editor
Diane Ciekawy, Ohio University
Consultant

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Swahili beyond the Boundaries

Literature, Language, and Identity

By Alamin Mazrui

Africa 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.…


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Nigerian Video Films

Revised and Expanded Edition

Edited by Jonathan Haynes

Nigerian 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

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Not White Enough, Not Black Enough

Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community

By Mohamed Adhikari

The 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


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The Political Economy of Health in Africa

Edited by Toyin Falola and Dennis Ityavyar

This book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa’s underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care less accessible for most people.…

Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 60

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Portugal and Africa

By David Birmingham

Portugal 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


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Religious Pluralism & the Nigerian State

By Simeon O. Ilesanmi

In the case of Nigeria, scholarship on religious politics has not adequately taken into account the pluralistic context and the idealistic pretensions of the state that inhibit the possibility of forging an enduring civic amity among Nigeria’s diverse groups.…

Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 66

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The Sacred Door and Other Stories

Cameroon Folktales of the Beba

By Makuchi

The 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


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Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa

By Wayne Dooling

Slavery, 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

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South Africa’s Resistance Press

Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid

Edited by Les Switzer and Mohamed Adhikari

South 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


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The Struggle for Meaning

Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa

By Paulin J. Hountondji

The 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

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Succession to High Office in BotswanaOn Sale

Three Case Studies

Edited by Jack Parson

This book examines the process through which the mantle of leadership passed from one leader to another in Botswana. It concerns the succession to high office in Botswana over the course of more than half a century from the colonial time to the present.…

Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 54


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Swahili beyond the Boundaries

Literature, Language, and Identity

By Alamin Mazrui

Africa 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

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The Twelve Best Books by African Women

Critical Readings

By Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Tuzyline Jita Allan

In 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.…

Available December 2008 (est.)

Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 88


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Voices from Madagascar/Voix de Madagascar

An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Anthologie de littérature francophone contemporaine

Edited by Jacques Bourgeacq and Liliane Ramarosoa

There 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

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Wanasema

Conversations with African Writers

Edited by Donald Burness

There is a tendency to regard African literature as a homogenous product. Certainly it is true that African writers have created a vibrant, modern literature. Nevertheless, they come from specific societies and reflect vastly differing worlds.…

Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 46


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The Western Bahr Al Ghazal under British Rule, 1898–1956

By Ahmad Alawad Sikainga

Western Bahr al-Ghazal is perhaps one of the least known places in Africa. Yet this remote part of the Republic of Sudan can be regarded as a historical barometer, registering major developments in the history of the Nile valley.…

Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 57

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Witchcraft Dialogues

Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges

Edited by George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy

Witchcraft 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


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Your Madness, Not Mine

By Makuchi

Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state.…

Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 70


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