art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Kumasi Realism, 1951-2007 An African Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9781849040877, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
500 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Western approaches to Africa's visual culture have until recently separated 'traditional' from 'modern' as if the two categories had no common ground, and as if only the former was authentically African. Yet 'tradition' is also...
HB:
£40,00
QTY:
Mastering the Niger James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery
ISBN: HB: 9780226078069, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
In "Mastering the Niger", David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of "A New Map of Africa" in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery – as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political strugg...
HB:
£44,00
QTY:
Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables
Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...
PB:
£22,50
QTY:
HB:
£73,00
QTY:
Sierra Leone A Political History
ISBN: PB: 9781849043236, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and particular interest, however, obscured two crucial processes in this small Wes...
PB:
£22,50
QTY:
Why Occupy a Square? People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781849042659, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How...
PB:
£30,00
QTY:
Ancestors and Antiretrovirals The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780226064598, ISBN: HB: 9780226064451, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 7 tables
In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continen...
PB:
£28,00
QTY:
HB:
£82,00
QTY:
Ethiopian Revolution War in the Horn of Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780300204148, Yale University Press, July 2013
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...
PB:
£30,00
QTY:
Of Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780300198331, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing...
PB:
£10,99
QTY: