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<coxju@msu.edu> The following are new books available from African Books Collective. The books are available from Michigan State University Press in North American and African Books Collective, UK throughout the rest of the world. If you would like to receive monthly new title information from African Books Collective in PDF format please send an email to Justin Cox - coxju@msu.edu For more information visit - http://msupress.msu.edu/series.php?seriesID=22 All new titles are now permanently available. Stock is printed in the UK and the US and is no longer shipped from Africa. We hope this will address some problems we have had in the past with erratic supply from some publishers. Archaeology and Culture History in the Central Niger Delta Abi Alabo Derefaka This book is a new contribution to existing archaeological research relevant to the cultural and anthropological history of Central Ijöland, situated in the Central Niger Delta. It draws primarily on oral traditions, local and internal histories in the reconstruction of the past. By tracing patterns of migration and dispersals within and from the region and examining material cultural items, the author attempts to reconstruct phases, settlements and ways of life. The work considers both the saltwater mangrove swamps sub-zone in the eastern region, and the freshwater swamp and forest sub-zone of the central Delta region. It sets out a reliable chronology of this sub-region. Finally, it highlights the cultural relationships and differences between the Ijö and other communities of the Eastern Delta. The author is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=3205 Church, State and Society in Malawi. An Analysis of Anglican Ecclesiology James Tengatenga Missionary history in Africa asserts that political history on the continent cannot be understood without an in depth understanding of the workings of the missions: missionary activities and ideologies were central to political consciousness. The Anglican Church was involved in society, education, health and politics right from its first foray into Malawi. This study considers the nature of the involvement of that Church in society, and how it engaged with the State from its genesis in the colonial period through the post-independence period to the new post-Banda political dispensation in 1994. It illustrates how the Church was involved on both sides of the independence struggle; and interrogates why it fell conspicuously silent thereafter. James Tengatenga, a theologian based at the University of Malawi, further considers the theological traditions which have informed the Anglican behaviour in matters of Church and State, and how those traditions have been interpreted historically. http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=3206
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