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<ejemhen.oconnell@africanbookscollective.com> The following are new titles available from African Books Collective. Please visit www.africanbookscollective.com for a full catalogue of our product. North American Customers are reminded to order books from Michigan State University Press : msupress@msu.edu History of the Church in Africa. A Survey Jonathan Hildebrandt What is the truth concerning the origin of Christianity in Africa? Common beliefs are that it is a religion imported from Europe; a recently new arrival; and a largely discontinuous historical process. But whilst the great expansion of the Christian Church in Africa has undoubtedly taken place during the last 100 years, there is evidence to suggest that the origins lie deeper in the past. This book attempts to establish where, when and how Christianity first came to Africa. The narrative begins in the first century AD, thence traces the major movements of the Christian faith on the continent over the centuries, emphasising the continuity of the development of the Church as a dynamic, worldwide faith. Some specific topics covered include: the North African Church AD200-AD700; the Nubian and Abyssinian churches; the challenge of Islam; the slave trade, its end and renewed missionary activity; Portuguese missionary activity; Christian expansion in South Africa; the work of Samuel Crowther and David Livingstone; the scramble for Africa, and the colonial period; political independence; and the development of the autonomous church. 0853523207 299pp. African Christian Press rev. ed. 1996 (1st publ. 1981) $27.95/£16.95 The African Quest. The Transition from the OAU to AU and NEPAD Imperatives. A Political & Economic History of Modern Africa & the Drive for the African Renaissance Kinfe Abraham The African Quest is a work of contemporary history, of the period 1945-2003. It addresses prospects for economic and political integration, dwindling aid and rising debt, external intervention, and the impact of globalisation on the agrarian and industrial sectors. The book addresses: inter- and intra-state conflicts; refugees and displacement of populations; corruption, insecurity and the far-reaching consequences of an underdeveloped infrastructure. The study further appraises the responses of organisations such as the OAU, COMESA, ECOWAS and IGAD and makes concrete proposals predicated on the structures of the new institutions of Nepad and the African Union to initiative necessary social transformation, and adjustment to the global economic realities. The author was Director General of Political and Humanitarian Affairs of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development IGAD), involved in the OAU/AU in the Horn of Africa region. 1145120032 714pp. 2003 [publ. 2004] Ethiopia Int. Institute for Peace & Development $49.95/£29.95 Climate Change, Trade and Modes of Production in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Felix Chami, Gilbert Pwiti & Chantal Radimilahy A further title in the series, Studies in the African Past, which also includes People, Contacts and the Environment in the African Past and Southern Africa and the Swahili World. The series brings together papers from the ‘African Archaeology Programme’, and scholars interested in the African past from many regions of Africa. Three papers focus on climate change in the Southern African region; demonstrating how archaeology can be used to show past climatic changes and human responses to it, and assessing cultural continuity in the Shashi-Limpopo from the perspective of environmental change. The third essay shows how the study of iron technology and climate change can assist an understanding of cultural change in the past. Other papers are research reports of particular sites. These demonstrate cultural sequence and other aspects such as pottery, resource utilisation and rock art; an example is the excavation of rock shelter in Namibia. One paper studies the pottery of central Madagascar showing different cultural groups and their mobility; and another shows how the people of Great Zimbabwe exploited various plant resources. The final group of papers focus on the evolution of culture and trade. Subjects covered are: how trade in the Indian Ocean affected the Mutapa Culture of Zimbabwe between 1500-1800; how the Indian Ocean trade network affected cultural activities in the Madagascar region in the second century AD; and the question of gender in archaeology, which draws on ethno-archaeological examples from the Tiv people of Nigeria. 9976603924 210pp. 2003 Dar es Salaam Univ. Press (Studies in the African Past series, 3) $29.95/£17.95 The Political Economy of Land in Zimbabwe Henry V. Moyana Revised, updated, and still centrally relevant, this book focuses on the centrality of the land question, in the study of modern Zimbabwean history. It reviews previously published studies, and introduces new material. The study covers: the genesis of the land segregation legislation in Rhodesia; the Land Apportionment Act, and the economic effects of the Act; land and mass nationalism between 1945 and 1965; the dispossession of the people in Gazaland and the Tangwena people by white settlers; the Lancaster House negotiations; and land reform in the post-independence period. The book further discusses the many theories of racism and segregation propounded by the defenders of the regime, and the rationalisation for white rule and the economic exploitation of people and land. The author, a historian of the first generation of radical black Zimbabwean historians, has been a farmer and diplomat; and specialises in Zimbabwean, pan-African and African-American history. 086922767X 224pp. rev. ed. 2002 [1st publ. 1984] Mambo Pres s $27.95/£16.95 The Amalgamation and its Enemies. An Interpretive History of Modern Nigeria Edited by Richard A Olaniyan Amalgamation has become an ideal – the ideal of Nigerian nationhood. The question however, is whether this ideal is achievable. The thesis of this study is that the political history of the Nigerian state since 1914 has been a story of the struggle between the forces of hegemony, caused by the historical imbalance of the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates; and the need to promote integration. The contributors discuss how this has resulted in an unrelenting struggle between the threat of disintegration on the one hand, and advocacy of constitutional remodelling to achieve a more cohesive federation, on the other. The editor is Professor of Diplomatic History and American Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University. Other contributors are professors and lecturers at the same university. 9781361344 265pp.ill.maps 2003 Obafemi Awolowo Univ. Press $30.95/£18.95 Edited by Isaria N. Kimambo This collection of seventeen papers focuses on the processes of social change engendered by the processes of globalisation in the developing world. They critically re-examine concepts and theories that are informing contemporary discourse, which, in the collective opinion of the contributors, is largely a discourse in which people are considered targets; and human processes, strategies and operations. The book is divided into sections on: theoretical perspectives and dominant paradigms; democratic governance and the international environment; university governance and academic freedom; democracy and languages; and gender and human rights for children. Specific studies include: political sicnece and ‘paradigmatic shifts’ in the social sciences in Africa; the teaching of dynamic political economy; rethinking democracy in the post-nationalist state; teaching and researching public policy in contemporary African universities; the role of universities in achieving democratic governance; cost provision and the provision of university education in Uganda; language, identity and democracy, language policy, and Kiswahili as the defining feature of democracy in Tanzania; mainstreaming gender in the humanities and social sciences disciplines, and human rights and child welfare in sub-Saharan Africa. The editor is Professor of History at the University of Dar es Salaam; and the contributors are drawn from the University of Dar es Salaam, as well as universities in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, and the USA. 9976603819 382pp. 2003 Dar es Salaam Univ. Press $39.95/£23.95 Oil and Violent Conflicts in the Niger Delta Edited by Charles Ukeje, Adetanwa Odebiyi, Amadu Sesay et al. A publication of the Centre for Development and Conflict Management Studies (CEDCOMS), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The study provides an overview of the relationship of the Nigerian State with oil; and of the oil communities’ engagement in violent conflict. It outlines the nature and causes of conflicts in the Niger Delta including grievances of oil communities, women, and youth. The final chapters present proposals for the management of violent conflicts in the oil regions; the promotion of peace of stability in the region; and the roles of state institutions and NGOs in providing a framework for socio-economic development in oil producing areas. 0954538471 53pp. 2002 [publ. 2003] Obafemi Awolowo Univ. Press (CEDCOMS series, 1)$9.95/£5.95 Edited by Olabisi Aina, Adelanwa Odebiyi Amadu Sesay et al. A further publication of the Centre for Development and Conflict Management Studies (CEDCOMS), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. This study provides an overview of the problem of cultism in Nigerian higher education and some conceptual background. It presents findings of surveys into cult activities in Nigeria’ s major universities, including details on secret cults; variations in cult activities; explanations of why students are attracted to cults; factors for the increase in cult activities in the Nigerian tertiary sector; and the effects of cults on education. It presents a strategy to curb cults and outlines the policy implications. 095453848X 2003 Obafemi Awolowo Univ. Press (CEDCOMS series, 2) $9.95/£5.95 Sales and Marketing Officer African Books Collective The Jam Factory 27 Park End Street Oxford OX1 1HU www.africanbookscollective.com
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