Our African Studies collection covers Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Literature and Cultural Studies, Politics, Development and Economics, Legal Studies, Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, Religion, and Gender Studies in relation to the African continent.
Founded in 1984, the James Currey imprint is a leading publisher of academic books on Africa and publishes longstanding series on Eastern Africa, Western Africa and African Issues.
Established in 1989, the University of Rochester Press publishes the Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora series, and Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology.
New and forthcoming
The Global Ethiopian Diaspora
Black Woman on Board
Party Politics and Populism in Zambia
Religious Plurality in Africa
Transactional Culture in Colonial Dakar, 1902-44
Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast
Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills
Islam in Uganda
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho
The Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
Competing Catholicisms
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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Eastern Africa Series
African Literature Today
African Issues
Western African Series
African Articulations
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