Thursday, 26 May 2011

A selection of new books - Africa

Some new books added to the catalogue this month:

Gender mainstreaming experiences from eastern and southern Africa. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, c2010.

Rwanda presidential elections : 9 August 2010 / the report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.

Akonor, Kwame. African economic institutions. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Barkan, Joel D. (ed) Legislative power in emerging African democracies. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.

Barume, Albert Kwokwo. Land rights of indigenous peoples in Africa : with special focus on Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2010.

Beinart, William and Marcelle C. Dawson (eds). Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa. Johannesburg : Witwatersrand Univ Press, 2010.

Bray, Rachel et al. Growing up in the new South Africa : childhood and adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town. Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2010.

Brownell, Josiah. The collapse of Rhodesia : population demographics and the politics of race. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Carson, Tracy M. Tomorrow it could be you : strikes and boycotts in South Africa, 1978-1982. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.

Couper, Scott. Albert Luthuli : bound by faith. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010.

Crush, Jonathan et al, Migration, remittances and "development" in Lesotho. Cape Town : Southern African Migration Programme, 2010.
 
Cruvellier, T. Court of remorse : inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / translated by Chari Voss.  Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.

de Silva Jayasuria, Shihan. African diaspora in Asian trade routes and cultural memories, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.
 
Ejiogu, E. C. The roots of political instability in Nigeria : political evolution and development in the Niger Basin. Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2011.

Endo, Isaku et al. Uganda's remittance corridors from United Kingdom, United States, and South Africa : challenges to linking remittances to the use of formal services. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2011.

Fourie, Pieter. The politics of AIDS denialism : South Africa's failure to respond. Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Pub., c2010.

Fujii, Lee Ann. Killing neighbors : webs of violence in Rwanda. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.

Goldberg, Denis. The mission : a life for freedom in South Africa. Johannesburg : STE Publishers, 2010.

Grunebaum, Heidi. Memorializing the past : everyday life in South Africa after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2011.

Hebinck, Paul and Charlie Shackleton (eds). Reforming land and resource use in South Africa : impact on livelihoods. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Hodgson, Rica. Foot soldier for freedom : a life in South Africa's liberation movement. Johannesburg : Picador Africa, 2010.

Jansen, Jonathan D. Knowledge in the blood : confronting race and the apartheid past. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Kasrils, Ronald. The unlikely secret agent. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2010.

Kidombo, Pius K. The architecture of corruption in Kenya. Nairobi : Sino Printers and Publishers, 2007.

Lambright, Gina M. S. Decentralization in Uganda : explaining successes and failures in local governance. Boulder, Colo. : FirstForumPress, 2011.

Ley, Astrid. Housing as governance : interfaces between local government and civil society organisations in Cape Town, South Africa. Berlin : Lit, 2010.

Magubane, Bernard. Bernard Magubane : my life & times / by Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane with Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010.
 
Marais, Hein. South Africa pushed to the limit : the political economy of change. London : Zed, 2011.

Marschall, Sabine. Landscape of memory : commemorative monuments, memorials and public statuary in post-apartheid South-Africa. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J and James Muzondidya (eds). Redemptive or grotesque nationalism? : rethinking contemporary politics in Zimbabwe. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.

Obadare, Ebenezer. Statism, youth, and civic imagination : a critical study of the National Youth Service Corps Programme in Nigeria. Dakar, Senegal : Codesria, c2010.

Obi, Cyril and Siri Aas Rustad (eds). Oil and insurgency in the Niger Delta : managing the complex politics of petro-violence.  London ; New York : Zed Books Ltd., c2011

Osei, Philip D. and Joan N Nwasike. The contract system of employment for senior government officials : experiences from Africa. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.

Piper, Laurence. To serve and protect : the Inkathagate Scandal / as told to Laurence Piper by Brian Morrow. Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2010.

Quinn, Joanna R. The politics of acknowledgement : truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.

Sadomba, Zvakanyorwa Wilbert. War veterans in Zimbabwe's revolution : challenging neo-colonialism & settler & international capital. Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2011.

Sarkin-Hughes, Jeremy. Colonial genocide and reparations claims in the 21st century : the socio-legal context of claims under international law by the Herero against Germany for genocide in Namibia, 1904-1908. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2009.

Sherwood, Marika. Origins of Pan-Africanism : Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa and the African diaspora. New York : Routledge, 2011.

Stapleton, Timothy. A military history of South Africa : from the Dutch-Khoi wars to the end of apartheid. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

Vickers, Michael. A nation betrayed : Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2010.

No comments: