ohio university press new & recent releases africa 2010 new and recent releases from ohio university press africa 2010 table of contents New African Histories 3–4 Africa in World History 4 Literature 5-6 Film 5 Transnational & Comparative 6–9 Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series 9 Southern Africa 9-11 Eastern Africa 14–15 Eastern Africa Studies Series 12-14 Eritrea/Ethiopia 12 Kenya 12-13 Tanzania/Zanzibar 13 Somalia 13 Uganda 13-14 Series in Ecology & History 14-15 Ecology in Africa 15-16 Western Africa 16-17 Research in International Studies Africa 17-18 Index 19 Order form 20 Cover photo: Pieter van der Houwe domestic violence in colonial and postcolonial Africa is Karen E. Flint NEW AFRIC an complex. Healing Traditions This collection brings into conversation historical, anthro- HISTORIES pological, legal, and activist perspectives on domestic African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and violence in Africa and fosters a deeper understanding of Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948 SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN the problem of domestic violence, the limits of interna- “An extremely timely book that will have immediate & ALLEN ISAACMAN tional human rights conventions, and local and regional impact on the heated current debates across several NEW efforts to address the issue. fields of study, forming part of a new and exciting Emily S. Burrill is an assistant professor of women’s debate emerging around new South African history. The Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola, eds. studies and history at the University of North Carolina, book has great potential to have a measurable impact on Recasting the Past Chapel Hill. Her articles have appeared in Slavery and the teaching of medicine and health…and the various pathways to healing and health in our current HIV/AIDS History Writing and Political Work Abolition, Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines, and Ultramarines: pandemic.”—Catherine Burns, University of KwaZulu- in Modern Africa Revue de l’Association des Amis des archives d’outre- mer. Richard L. Roberts is the Frances and Charles Field Natal The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. Professor of History and African History and director of Karen E. Flint is an associate professor of history at the We know very little about what Africa’s thinkers made the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. He University of North Carolina, Charlotte. of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of is author of Litigants and Household: African Disputes 2008 296 pages intellectual endeavor into view. The book takes its place and Colonial Courts in the French Soudan, 1895-1912 9. hc 978-0-8214-1849-9 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 alongside a small but growing literature that highlights and coeditor of Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: 10. pb 978-0-8214-1850-5 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 how, in autobiographies, historical and political writing, African Employees in the Making of Modern Africa. fiction, and other literary genres, African writers Elizabeth Thornberry is a doctoral candidate in African intervened creatively in their political world. history at Stanford University. Contributors: Derek R. Peterson, Giacomo Macola, 2010 336 pages 6 x 9 Marissa J. Moorman Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière, Richard Rathbone,T. C. 5. hc 978-0-8214-1928-1 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 McCaskie, David M. Gordon, Etienne Smith, Justin 6. pb 978-0-8214-1929-8 $28.95 SPECIAL $23 Intonations Willis, John Lonsdale A Social History of Music and Nation in 2008 280 pages Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times 1. hc 978-0-8214-1878-9 $49.95 SPECIAL $40 2. pb 978-0-8214-1879-6 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 Intonations tells the story of how Angola’s urban resi- FORTHCOMING dents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945–74) used Daniel R. Magaziner music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and The Law and the Prophets what they hoped to gain from independence. NEW Faith, Hope and Politics in South Africa, Moses E. Ochonu Marissa J. Moorman presents a social and cultural 1968–1977 history of the relationship between Angolan culture Colonial Meltdown The 1970s is a decade virtually lost to South African his- and politics. She argues that it was in and through Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression toriography. This was the decade that bridged the exile popular urban music, produced mainly in the capital city New African Histories 3–4 “This book is well researched, elegantly written, and and banning of the country’s best-known anti-apartheid Luanda’s musseques (urban shantytowns), that Angolans bound to reshape the debate on British imperialism in leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests forged the nation and developed expectations about Africa in World History 4 Africa.”—Elias Mandala, author of Work and Control in renewed after the Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976. independence. a Peasant Economy Scholars thus know that something happened—yet they Marissa J. Moorman is an assistant professor of African Literature 5-6 In the current climate of global economic anxieties, have only begun to explore how and why. history at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work has Ochonu’s analysis will enrich discussions on the transna- The Law and the Prophets is an intellectual history of appeared in Research in African Literatures and Interna- Film 5 tional ramifications of economic downturns. It will also the period between 1968 and 1977; it follows the for- tional Journal of African Historical Studies. challenge the pervasive narrative of imperial economic mation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of that era’s 2008 320 pages, includes CD compilation of Angolan music Transnational & Comparative 6–9 success. Black Consciousness movement. It differs from previous 11. hc 978-0-8214-1823-9 $52.95 SPECIAL $42 12. pb 978-0-8214-1824-6 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 Cambridge Centre of African Moses E. Ochonu is an assistant professor of African anti-apartheid historiography, however, in that it is more history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of many about ideas than people and organizations. Its singular Studies Series 9 journal articles and book chapters. contribution is its exploration of South African politics’ ‘theological’ turn during this time period. Magaziner Southern Africa 9-11 2009 272 pages 3. hc 978-0-8214-1889-5 $55.00 SPECIAL $44 argues that only by understanding how ideas about Marc Epprecht 4. pb 978-0-8214-1890-1 $24.95 SPECIAL $20 race, faith, and self-hood developed and transformed in Eastern Africa 14–15 this period might we begin to understand the dramatic Heterosexual Africa? changes that took place during these years. The History of an Idea from the Age of Eastern Africa Studies Series 12-14 “No nation can win a battle without faith,” Steve Biko Exploration to the Age of AIDS Eritrea/Ethiopia 12 FORTHCOMING wrote, and as the book demonstrates, the combination “Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of Kenya 12-13 of ideological and theological exploration proved a boundaries and blind spots in the history of African Tanzania/Zanzibar 13 Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts potent motivator. & Elizabeth Thornberry, eds. scholarship. This book should make for valuable Somalia 13 Daniel R. Magaziner is an assistant professor of history controversy—both intellectually and politically—in con- Uganda 13-14 Domestic Violence and the Law in at Cornell University. He has published articles in Radical temporary Africa.”—T. Dunbar Moodie History Review, International Journal of African Historical Colonial and Postcolonial Africa Heterosexual Africa? explores how Africa came to be Series in Ecology & History 14-15 Studies, History in Africa and elsewhere. defined as a “homosexual-free zone”and why this idea Domestic Violence and the Law in Africa reveals the 2010 280 pages 6 x 9 still flourishes. Ecology in Africa 15-16 ways in which domestic space and domestic relation- 7. hc 978-0-8214-19175 $59.95 SPECIAL $48 Marc Epprecht is an associate professor in the depart- ships take on different meanings in African contexts 8. pb 978-0-8214-19182 $26.95 SPECIAL $22 ments of history and global development studies at Western Africa 16-17 that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, Queen’s University and 2006 winner of the Canadian and dependency. The term domestic encompasses kin- Association of African Studies Joel Gregory Prize. Research in International based violence, marriage-based violence, gender-based Studies Africa 17-18 violence, as well as violence between patrons and 2008 240 pages illus. 13. hc 978-0-8214-1798-0 $39.95 SPECIAL $32 clients who share the same domestic space. As a lived 14. pb 978-0-8214-1799-7 $19.95 SPECIAL $16 Index 19 experience and as a social and historical unit of analysis, Order form 20 ohio university press | africa 2010 | 3 Jan Bender Shetler Cheikh Anta Babou Imagining Serengeti Fighting the Greater Jihad AFRIC A IN A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the WORLD HISTORY from Earliest Times to the Present Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913 “This remarkable work on the Serengeti area in Tanzania In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the SERIES EDITORS: will be of great value to Africans and non-Africans alike, single most influential religious organization, including DAVID ROBINSON & JOSEPH C. MILLER including researchers in African history, anthropology, among its numbers the nation’s president. and geography. Highly recommended.”—Choice Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a NEW Jan Bender Shetler is an associate professor of African wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in James C.