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 Entrepreneurship
Muslim Fula Merchants in Sierra Leone
By Alusine JallohBetween 1961 and 1978, Muslim Fula immigrants from different West African countries became one of the most successful mercantile groups in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. African Entrepreneurship, published by Ohio University Press on December 31, 1999, examines the commercial activities of Fula immigrants and their offspring in Sierra Leone.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 71
Your Madness, Not Mine
By MakuchiWomen'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
A Most Promising Weed
A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890–1945
By Steven C. RubertA Most Promising Weed examines the work experience, living conditions, and social relations of thousands of African men, women, and children on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 69
The Moral Economy of the State
Conservation, Community Development, and State-Making in Zimbabwe
By William A. MunroThe Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period through the first decade of independence. Drawing on the works of Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, and James Scott, William Munro develops a theory of “moral economy” that explores negotiations between rural citizens and state agents over legitimate state incursions in social life.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 68
Gender Violence and the Press
The St. Kizito Story
By H. Leslie SteevesOn the night of Saturday, July 13, 1991, a mob of male students at the St. Kizito Mixed Secondary School in Meru, Kenya, attacked their female classmates in a dormitory. Nineteen schoolgirls were killed in the melee and more than 70 were raped or gang raped.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 67
Religious Pluralism & the Nigerian State
By Simeon O. IlesanmiIn 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
Katutura: A Place Where We Stay
Life in a Post-Apartheid Township in Namibia
By Wade C. PendletonKatutura, located in Namibia’s major urban center and capital, Windhoek, was a township created by apartheid, and administered in the past by the most rigid machinery of the apartheid era. Namibia became a sovereign state in 1990, and Katutura reflects many of the changes that have taken place.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 65
Colonialism in the Congo Basin, 1880–1940
By Samuel H. NelsonThis exceptional study of the Mongo people of the upper Congo River basin focuses on the evolution of Mongo work patterns from the period of the late nineteenth century to 1940, the high-water mark of the colonial period.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 64
Echoes of the Sunbird
An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry
Edited by Donald BurnessThis volume presents a broad overview of the work of seven of Africa’s leading poets. Five of them have received international recognition: Niyi Osundare and Chinua Achebe, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Osundare and Antonio Jacinto, the Noma Prize; and Jose Craveirinha, the Camoes Prize.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 62
Moral Philosophy and Development
The Human Condition in Africa
By Tedros KirosAlthough development issues generally have been considered in a framework of economic theory and politics, in this volume Tedros Kiros looks to European ideas of moral philosophy to explain the underdevelopment of Africa and the persistent African food crisis.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 61
The Political Economy of Health in Africa
Edited by Toyin Falola and Dennis ItyavyarThis 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
The Krobo People of Ghana to 1892
A Political and Social History
By Louis E. WilsonThis book presents a broad analytical framework for the history of southeastern Ghana within the context of a representative study of one of the country’s most important political and economic forces.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 58
Cannabis, Alcohol, and the South African Student
Adolescent Drug Use, 1974-1985
By Brian M. du ToitDu Toit examines the results of two surveys which he made a decade apart among high school students of Black, Indian, White, and Colored backgrounds. The initial survey showed some acceptance of the use of these substances among a small proportion of high school students but a high degree of intolerance of such use by the majority.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 59
The Western Bahr Al Ghazal under British Rule, 1898–1956
By Ahmad Alawad SikaingaWestern 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
In the Heart of the Hausa States
By Paul StaudingerEdited by Johanna E. Moody
Consequent upon the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885), the Africanische Gesellschaft in Deutschland launched the Niger-Benue expedition to investigate possible riverine communications throughout the Niger-Benue river system.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 56
Succession to High Office in Botswana
Three Case Studies
Edited by Jack ParsonThis 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
Khaki and Blue
Military and Police in British Colonial Africa
By Anthony Clayton and David KillingrayDrawing upon a survey of former police officers in the six British colonies of Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Malawi, Clayton and Killingray examine the work of colonial law enforcement during the last years of British supremacy.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 51
African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
By M. Akin MakindeFor over two centuries, Western scholars have discussed African philosophy and culture, often in disparaging, condescending terms, and always from an alien European perspective. Many Africans now share this perspective, having been trained in the western, empirical tradition.…
Research in International Studies, Africa Series n° 53
Wanasema
Conversations with African Writers
Edited by Donald BurnessThere 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
Media and Dependency in South Africa
A Case Study of the Press and the Ciskei “Homeland”
By Les SwitzerSwitzer looks at how South Africa’s communications industry, the largest and most powerful on the continent, promotes dependency among the subject African populations. This study of the Ciskei “Homeland”, which has long been a fountainhead of African nationalism and a zone of conflict between blacks and whites, focuses on the privately owned, commercial press and its role in helping to frame a consensus in support of the political, economic and ideological values of the ruling alliance.…
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