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, Urban Studies, Religion, Gender Studies, Literature, 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, more recently established series on African Articulations and Religion in Transforming Africa, and our annual volumes of African Literature Today, as well as numerous single-authored books and edited collections which are published as standalone volumes. We have recently begun a new series Making and Remaking of the African City: Studies in Urban 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. Outside Africa, apart from our original paperback series African Issues, we publish first in hardback, with a guaranteed paperback within two years of the first publication. Alongside the hardback we publish both epdf and epub ebooks worldwide. New titles in the James Currey imprint also benefit from the Boydell & Brewer global marketing network. Our newsletter African Griot includes articles on the books published and special offers; if you wish to subscribe please click here.
In March 2019, the James Currey Collection was opened at the University of Oxford’s St Cross College, containing copies of every book published by James Currey since its foundation. St Cross continues to receive a copy of every book published by us.
We specialize in publishing research carried out across the African continent, particularly in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Politics, Economics, Development Studies, Urban Studies, Religion, Gender Studies, Literature, 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, more recently established series on African Articulations and Religion in Transforming Africa, and our annual volumes of African Literature Today, as well as numerous single-authored books and edited collections which are published as standalone volumes. We have recently begun a new series Making and Remaking of the African City: Studies in Urban 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. Outside Africa, apart from our original paperback series African Issues, we publish first in hardback, with a guaranteed paperback within two years of the first publication. Alongside the hardback we publish both epdf and epub ebooks worldwide. New titles in the James Currey imprint also benefit from the Boydell & Brewer global marketing network. Our newsletter African Griot includes articles on the books published and special offers; if you wish to subscribe please click here.
In March 2019, the James Currey Collection was opened at the University of Oxford’s St Cross College, containing copies of every book published by James Currey since its foundation. St Cross continues to receive a copy of every book published by us.

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Contesting Catholics
Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda
Price: £18.99
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781847013651
Format: Paperback
The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Price: £18.99
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781847013668
Format: Paperback
Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa
Commodifying the ‘Wild’
Price: £29.99
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781847013408
Format: Paperback
Spiritual Contestations – The Violence of Peace in South Sudan
Price: £25.00
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781847013385
Format: Paperback
African Literature in the Digital Age
Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya
Price: £16.99
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781847013637
Format: Paperback
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
New Directions and Global Contexts
Price: £29.99
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781847012302
Format: Paperback
Young Women against Apartheid
Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle
Price: £17.99
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 9781847013620
Format: Paperback
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights Volume 1
Political, Intellectual & Cultural Origins
Price: £110.00
Price: $160.00
ISBN: 9781847013538
Format: Hardcover
A Political Ecology of Kenya’s Mau Forest
The Land, the Trees, and the People
Price: £90.00
Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9781847013477
Format: Hardcover
Kenya's and Zambia's Relations with China 1949-2019
Price: £65.00
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781847013392
Format: Hardcover
State-building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa
Decolonizing the Means of Coercion 1958–1974
Price: £25.00
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781847013422
Format: Paperback
Decolonising State & Society in Uganda
The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life
Price: £75.00
Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9781847012975
Format: Hardcover