African Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Doing Justice without the State

   The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria Model

   By Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi

   Series: African Studies

   This study examines the principles and practices of the Afikpo (Eugbo) Nigeria indigenous justice system in contemporary times. Like most African societies, the Afikpo indigenous justice system employs restorative, transformative and communitarian principles in conflict resolution. This book...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Role of the Press and Communication Technology in Democratization

   The Nigerian Story

   By Aje-Ori Anna Agbese

   Series: African Studies

   In the 1990s, Nigeria, like several countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigeria’s democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free Nigeria from over 20 years of authoritarian...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Epic Trickster in American Literature

   From Sunjata to So(u)l

   By Gregory E. Rutledge

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa

   Five Decades of Misrule

   Edited by Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003)

   Edited by E. Ann McDougall

   Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa

   By Chima J. Korieh, Raphael Chijioke Njoku

   Series: African Studies

   Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Nefer

   The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt

   By Willie Cannon-Brown

   Series: African Studies

   This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India

   Edited by Kunal Sen

   Series: Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics

   When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles to growth, than when the two sides fail to co-operate or engage in harmful collusion. This...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. Urban Poverty in the Global South

   Scale and Nature

   By Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite

   One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. Managing Organizational Behavior in the African Context

    By David Zoogah, Constant Beugré

    Managing Organizational Behavior in an African Context discusses management and organization science theories as they apply within the social, cultural and economic contexts in which organizations operate in Africa. The first organizational behavior book to cover the entire continent, it uses...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge