James Currey
James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer since 2008, has long been recognized as the leading publisher of academic books on Africa.
Founded in 1984, when James Currey left Heinemann Educational Books, this independent imprint continued his personal engagement in African publishing, which began with his first job at Oxford University Press, Cape Town, and continued through his role as publisher of the Heinemann African Writers series (an account of those exciting years can be found in his book, Africa Writes Back, available in the UK from Boydell & Brewer).
We specialize in publishing research carried out across the African continent, particularly in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Politics, Economics, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, Theatre, Film Studies, and the Humanities and Social Sciences generally. We are well known for our longstanding series on Eastern Africa, Western Africa and African Issues, our annual volumes of African Literature Today and African Theatre, as well as numerous single authored books and edited collections which are published as standalone volumes. We have recently established the new series African Articulations and Religion in Transforming Africa.
We are dedicated to distributing books about Africa in Africa and have long been noted for co-publication with African co-publishers to make the books more affordable. This policy continues with Boydell & Brewer, wherever possible working with African publishers, or selling cheaper editions through our Africa reps. New titles in the James Currey imprint now also benefit from the Boydell & Brewer global marketing network, covering the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Founded in 1984, when James Currey left Heinemann Educational Books, this independent imprint continued his personal engagement in African publishing, which began with his first job at Oxford University Press, Cape Town, and continued through his role as publisher of the Heinemann African Writers series (an account of those exciting years can be found in his book, Africa Writes Back, available in the UK from Boydell & Brewer).
We specialize in publishing research carried out across the African continent, particularly in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Politics, Economics, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, Theatre, Film Studies, and the Humanities and Social Sciences generally. We are well known for our longstanding series on Eastern Africa, Western Africa and African Issues, our annual volumes of African Literature Today and African Theatre, as well as numerous single authored books and edited collections which are published as standalone volumes. We have recently established the new series African Articulations and Religion in Transforming Africa.
We are dedicated to distributing books about Africa in Africa and have long been noted for co-publication with African co-publishers to make the books more affordable. This policy continues with Boydell & Brewer, wherever possible working with African publishers, or selling cheaper editions through our Africa reps. New titles in the James Currey imprint now also benefit from the Boydell & Brewer global marketing network, covering the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

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Overcoming Boko Haram
Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria
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Faith, Power and Family
Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon
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The Eritrean National Service
Servitude for "the common good" and the Youth Exodus
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Written under the Skin
Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
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Competing Catholicisms
The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa
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Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya
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Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular
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Writing Spatiality in West Africa
Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel
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Overcoming Boko Haram
Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria
Price: £19.99
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 9781847013286
Format: Paperback
Faith, Power and Family
Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon
Price: £19.99
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781847013279
Format: Paperback
Nairobi in the Making
Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging
Price: £17.99
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781847013262
Format: Paperback
The Eritrean National Service
Servitude for "the common good" and the Youth Exodus
Price: £25.00
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781847013255
Format: Paperback
Written under the Skin
Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
Price: £16.99
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781847013248
Format: Paperback
Competing Catholicisms
The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa
Price: £65.00
Price: $99.00
ISBN: 9781847012715
Format: Hardcover
Pokot Pastoralism
Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya
Price: £70.00
Price: $99.00
ISBN: 9781847012968
Format: Hardcover
Sheng
Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular
Price: £19.99
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781847012081
Format: Paperback
Writing Spatiality in West Africa
Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel
Price: £17.99
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781847013231
Format: Paperback