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Some books are available for a thirty-day period for as little as Series editors: $5. Please check the book pages at ohioswallow. David Robinson com to see the available formats for the books & Joseph C. Mller you want to purchase or use for classes. Cover photo: Edwin Wes NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES segregation, also saw their activities in South Africa as a Daniel R. Magaziner divinely ordained mission to establish “Africa for Africans,” NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES liberated from European empires. Though these liberation The Law and the Prophets Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977 SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN prophecies went unfulfilled, black South Africans contin- & ALLEN ISAACMAN ued to view African Americans as inspirational models and “Among the many threads woven together by the Black as critical partners in the global antiapartheid struggle. The Consciousness movement, Magaziner convincingly shows The series builds on the significant achievements of social Americans Are Coming! is a rare case study that places the absolute centrality of Christian theology, of the revolu- historians over the past two decades, while pushing the African history and American history in a global context tionary ‘Black Christ.’ This is an astonishing book. It is intel- boundaries of African social history in exciting new direc- and centers Africa in African Diaspora studies. lectual history of the first order, and the best treatment tions—theoretically, methodologically, and conceptually. so far of the most important anti-Apartheid movement of New African Histories promotes continued research on 2011 236 pages 2. pb 978-0-8214-1986-1 $32.95 SPECIAL $26 1970s South Africa.”—Paul S. Landau, author of Popular the lived experiences of Africans in their households, com- Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400 –1948 munities, workplaces, and classes, as well as in the clubs, associations, and social movements they have created. It “Scholars and students of African and South African libera- insists on the centrality of gender, generation, and social Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts, tion history, theology, and intellectual history will find The identity to African historiography, while it seeks to expose and Elizabeth Thornberry, eds. Law and the Prophets provocative and enlightening. The the constraints at local, national, and transnational lev- prose is a pleasure to read and the book is skilfully woven els that structure the daily lives of the poor and disadvan- Domestic Violence and the Law in together. More importantly, Magaziner challenges us taged. Social historians have long maintained that there Colonial and Postcolonial Africa to more seriously consider the implications of Black Con- can be no social history without economic history. We con- sciousness in history.”—South African Historical Journal Contents: INTRODUCTION Domestic Violence and the tend that it is increasingly imperative that politics, envi- 2010 280 pages ronment, and culture receive far greater attention in the Law in Africa by Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts, and 5. hc 978-0-8214-1917-5 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 exploration of daily life. Elizabeth Thornberry. 6. pb 978-0-8214-1918-2 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 PART I Domestic Violence, Relationships of Ser- Books in this series are published with support from the vitude, and the Family Domestic Violence, Colonial Moses E. Ochonu Ohio University National Resource Center for African Courts, and the End of Slavery in French Soudan, 1905– Studies. 12 by Emily S. Burrill and Richard L. Roberts • Domestic Colonial Meltdown Violence and Child Circulation in the Southeastern Gold Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression Coast, 1905–28 by Cati Coe • Continuum of Gendered “This book is well researched, elegantly written, and Violence: The Colonial Invention of Female Desertion as a bound to reshape the debate on British imperialism in NEW Customary Criminal Offense, French Soudan, 1900–49 by Africa.”—Elias Mandala, author of Work and Control in Emily Lynn Osborn Marie Rodet • Violated Domesticity in Italian East Africa, a Peasant Economy Our New Husbands Are Here 1937–40 by Martina Salvante “An informative, well-argued . historical narrative that PART II Narrating Domestic Violence Sex, Violence, invites further, comparative investigation of the impact of Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African and the Family in South Africa’s Eastern Cape by Eliza- the great depression on colonial economies.”—Journal of State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule beth Thornberry • Child Marriage and Domestic Violence: Colonialism and Colonial History “Original and stimulating, Our New Husbands Are Here Islamic and Colonial Discourses on Gender Relations and 2009 272 pages Female Status in Zanzibar, 1900–1950s by Elke E. Stock- 7. hc 978-0-8214-1889-5 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 challenges traditional historical accounts of gender and 8. pb 978-0-8214-1890-1 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 tests new concepts and frameworks that promise insight- reiter • Fatal Families: Narratives of Spousal Killing and ful openings in African studies.” Domestic Violence in Murder Trials in Kenya and Nyasa- —Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University land, c. 1930–56 by Stacey Hynd • Domestic Dramas and Jan Bender Shetler Occult Acts: Witchcraft and Violence in the Arena of the “Emily Osborn gives us a deep and fascinating insight into Intimate by Katherine Luongo Imagining Serengeti the important inland center of Kankan which has been PART III Domestic Violence, Conjugal Relationships, A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania sadly and strangely neglected in the historiography and and the Politics of the State in Postcolonial Africa “I from Earliest Times to the Present anthropology of West Africa. She makes an enduring con- killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new “This remarkable work on the Serengeti area in Tanzania tribution to African history with ripples into the political sci- hairstyle.”: Gender-Based Violence, Laws, and Impunity in will be of great value to Africans and non-Africans alike. ence and anthropology of household and gender.” Senegal by Codou Bop • The Logics of Controversy: Gen- . Highly recommended.”—Choice —David Robinson, Michigan State University der Violence as a Site of Frictions in Ghanaian Advocacy by “Pathbreaking in its findings and approach, this elegantly Saida Hod˘zi´c • Constructing Law, Contesting Violence: “Shetler’s book provides a completely new analysis of the written study explores the intimate relationship between The Senegalese Family Code and Narratives of Domestic Serengeti debate by adding the voices of a forgotten pop- household-building and state-building in West Africa over Abuse by Scott London • Domestic Violence as a Human ulation, the peoples of the western Serengeti. The cen- a span of three centuries. Through a sophisticated interro- Rights Violation: The Challenges of a Regional Human trality of the landscape to Serengeti peoples’ identitites, gation of oral and archival sources, Osborn has produced a Rights Approach in Africa by Benedetta Faedi the complexity of local environmental knowledge, and the new understanding of statecraft that bridges the artificial AFTERWORD Finding Gendered Justice in the Age of deep historical and emotional attachments to place are divide between the precolonial and colonial and anchors Human Rights by Pamela Scully thus illustrated in vivid detail.”—African Studies Review women firmly at the core.”—Elizabeth Schmidt, Loyola 2010 336 pages 2007 392 pages, illus. 3. hc 978-0-8214-1928-1 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 9. hc 978-0-8214-1749-2 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 2011 288 pages 10. pb 978-0-8214-1750-8 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 1 pb 978-0-8214-1983-0 $32.95 SPECIAL $26 4. pb 978-0-8214-1929-8 $28.95 SPECIAL $23 NEW Marc Epprecht Robert Trent Vinson FORTHCOMING Heterosexual Africa? The Americans are Coming! SPRING 2012 The History of an Idea from the Age Benjamin N. Lawrance and of Exploration to the Age of AIDS Dreams of African American Liberation Richard R. Roberts, eds. in Segregationist South Africa Finalist, African Studies Association Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake Melville J. HERSKOVITS Award For more than half a century before World War II, black Law and the Experience of Women “Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of bound- South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians— and Children in Africa aries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship.” —T. Dunbar Moodie established close institutional and personal relationships James R. Brennan that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful “Epprecht’s own interview material and his close reading South African and American antiapartheid movements. Taifa of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the conti- Many African Americans, regarded initially by the South Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania nent reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied African government as “honorary whites” exempt from HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they OHIOSWALLOW.COM 3 new african histories • africa in world history have been told and have read that there is no homosexual- como Macola Belinda Bozzoli ity in Africa.