Social Sciences
Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa
The issue of biofuels has already been much debated, but the focus to date has largely been on Latin America and deforestation - this highly original work breaks fresh ground in looking at the African perspective. Most African governments see...
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Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Since the early 1990s, the seventeen-fold growth in South African sport hunting has made the South African wildlife ranching industry the sixth largest contributor to South Africa’s agricultural sector, bringing in $680 million per annum. Biltong Hunting as a Performance...
$150.00
$115.00
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
The essays in this book examine the question of whether African development has historically been weighted in favor of the urban areas. The authors worry that the benefits of urban development are being lost in current adjustment approaches. What is...
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$55.00
Beyond Tribal Lines: Reimagining Communities and Boundaries in Africa
Beyond Tribal Lines: Reimagining Communities and Boundaries in Africa is about the perceptions, understandings, and experiences of difference between selves and communities in Africa and beyond. It focuses on the nature of difference in its many manifestations - social and communal,...
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Beyond the Sociology of Development: Economy and Society in Latin America and Africa
Conceived as a response to the economic naïvety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of ‘the sociology of development’ , this volume, first published in 1975, provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the...
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Beyond the Primary Commodity Trap: Essays on Politics and Poverty in Africa
Beyond the Primary Commodity Trap offers an alternative paradigm for analysing African development from the current "aid and aids" narrative. Taking as its point of departure Africa's failure to extricate itself from over dependence on raw materials and its seeming inability...
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Beyond the Nile: Gods and Legends from the Heart of Africa
Growing up, I felt disconnected from my African roots since there was virtually nothing in literature, mainstream media, or the entertainment industry that referenced the rich history and culture that exists there.I grew weary of reading and watching the mythos of other...
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Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in Africa's Gay Capital
Beyond The Mountain: Queer Life in "Africa’s Gay Capital" contributes to the body of knowledge on the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) communities in Cape Town. The book provides insight on the lives of the...
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$57.00
Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in Africa's Gay Capital
Beyond The Mountain: Queer Life in "Africa’s Gay Capital" contributes to the body of knowledge on the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) communities in Cape Town. The book provides insight on the lives of the...
$234.00
$180.00
Beyond Structural Adjustment in Africa: The Political Economy of Sustainable and Democratic Development
This book brings into sharp focus the problems of development under conditions of structural adjustment and their relation to democratic change in Africa. Contributors to this volume are interested in specific countries such as Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, etc., but...
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$80.00
Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town
A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence.Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has...
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$37.00
Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town
A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence.Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has...
$169.00
$130.00
Beyond Feminism and Islamism: Gender and Equality in North Africa
Are women in North Africa and the Middle East 'feminist'? Or is being a Muslim incompatible with feminism? Is there such a thing as 'Islamic feminism'? Through interviews with Moroccan activists and jurists - both male and female - and...
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$45.00
Beyond Cuban Waters: Africa, La Yuma, and the Island's Global Imagination
Twenty-first-century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of "blackness." The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural...
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Beyond Cuban Waters: Africa, La Yuma, and the Island's Global Imagination
Twenty-first-century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of "blackness." The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural...
$52.00
$40.00
Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa
Recent critiques of neoevolutionary formulations that focus primarily on the development of powerful hierarchies have called for broadening the empirical base for complex society studies. Redressing the neglect of sub-Saharan examples in comparative discussions on complex society, this book considers...
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Between Union and Liberation: Women Artists in South Africa 1910-1994
The essays collected here investigate art made by women in South Africa between 1910, the year of Union, and 1994, the year of the first democratic election. During this period, complex political circumstances and the impact of modernism in South...
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Between Union and Liberation: Women Artists in South Africa 1910-1994
The essays collected here investigate art made by women in South Africa between 1910, the year of Union, and 1994, the year of the first democratic election. During this period, complex political circumstances and the impact of modernism in South...
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$62.00
Between the Lines: Africa in Western Spirituality, Philosophy, and Literary Theory
Africa’s history has been misrepresented by the outside world, especially by the Judeo-Christian West. An awareness of such a bias in historiographical discourse explains much of the difficulty Africans and peoples of African descent have in formulating a viable identity...
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$140.00
Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire
Winner of the 2024 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Classics Winner of the 2025 Vinson Sutlive Book Prize and Lecture Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire challenges orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman...
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