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Africa

Collecting Food, Cultivating People Subsistence and Society in Central Africa

De Luna Kathryn M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218534, Yale University Press, September 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study...

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Africa

Understanding Zimbabwe From Liberation to Authoritarianism and Beyond

Rich Dorman Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781849045834, ISBN: HB: 9781849045827, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Zimbabwe's recent history has been shaped by battles about who speaks for the nation, one fought out in struggles for control of political institutions, the media, and civil society. In her book Sara Rich Dorman examines the in...

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Africa

Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

McDonnell Terence E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382159, ISBN: HB: 9780226382012, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 line drawing

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate peopl...

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Current Affairs

How Long Will South Africa Survive? The Looming Crisis

Johnson R. W.

ISBN: PB: 9781849047234, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1977, R.W. Johnson's bestselling "How Long Will South Africa Survive?" offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in go...

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Africa

Political Science

Guinea-Bissau Micro-State to "Narco-State"

Chabal Patrick, Green Toby

ISBN: PB: 9781849045216, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since 1998 Guinea-Bissau has suffered a series of coups which outside analysts have linked to its emergence as West Africa's first "narco-state". Yet what does this mean for the country and the nature of the state in postcoloni...

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Africa

Burundi The Biography of a Small African Country

Watt Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9781849045094, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events,...

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Africa

Gaza as Metaphor

Tawil-Souri Helga, Matar Dina

ISBN: PB: 9781849046244, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, "Gaza" immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza:...

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Political Science

Africa

Eat the Heart of the Infidel The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram

Walker Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781849045582, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Boko Haram's appetite for violence and kidnapping women has thrust them to the top of the global news agenda. In a few years, they have all but severed parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state and largest economy, from th...

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Political Science

Africa

How South Africa Works And Must Do Better

Herbst Jeffrey, Mills Greg

ISBN: PB: 9781849046565, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces, and has to date failed to address, is unemployment, which falls especially on African youths who were promised a better future after 1994. If the current unemployment challeng...

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Africa

Political Science

Petro-Developmental State in Africa Making Oil Work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea

Ovadia Jesse Salah

ISBN: HB: 9781849044769, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions what kinds of development are possible through natural resource extraction and arg...

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