May 25, 2022
Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya by Hauke-Peter Vehrs is the first book in Future Rural Africa, a new series from James Currey. Dr Vehrs shares… READ MORE
March 16, 2022
We are delighted to share a recent interview with Tom Lodge where he discusses his book Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party 1921 –… READ MORE
March 7, 2022
The question of the churches’ response to mass violence or mass oppression has been raised in many contexts. Think of the debate on Pope Pius XII’s silence on the Holocaust…. READ MORE
February 8, 2022
Decolonizing African Studies answers a variety of questions: How can African Studies be Decolonized? In what ways are current scholarships responding to ideas around decoloniality? How is the academy responding… READ MORE
December 6, 2021
Published this month, West African Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army, 1860-1960 by Timothy Stapleton, explores the history of Britain’s colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers… READ MORE
November 22, 2021
The book, Women and Peacebuilding in Africa, (edited by Ladan Affi, Liv Tønnessen and Aili Tripp) looks at the cost of women’s exclusion and the strategies for inclusion of women… READ MORE
October 27, 2021
Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award – Scholarship Writing Spatiality in West Africa examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined… READ MORE
October 20, 2021
Hedley Twidle discusses his publication: Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa from James Currey African Articulation series. This article was originally published in the African Griot. Experiments with Truth is a… READ MORE
Walking in Encroached Pastoral Landscapes