One of the most important facts about African political development is the relative absence oflarge states along Eurasian lines. For some reason, African communities placed a high value onautonomy and independence, and/or were particularly concerned about the potential forabuse by...
In The Determined Wound, Abraha Weldu has transformed two year in Wuqro and Adigrat, during the terrible genocidal war against the Tigray people,into a powerful account that reads as much like a diary as it does like a work of social science.
This book grapples with complex contemporary politics of knowledge from a decolonial epistemic perspective and gestures towards constructions of pluriversal knowledges amenable to pluriversal worlds. It begins with the long story of how the global architecture of knowledge came to...
In Post-Colonial Statehoods in the Global Order, the author explores the implications of turbulence in the global system interacting with endogenous value and attitudinal transformations in Africa. The consolidation or deconsolidation of African statehoods had created profound divergences in their...
This study investigates the role of women and gender dynamics in six communities of freedom that constitute the Returned African Diaspora in West Africa after the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. It argues that women played central and leadership roles in social...
Saʿīd bin Jubayr is a legendary figure from the first century of Islam. He is renowned as a scholar of the Qurʾān who famously rebelled against the governor of Iraq, al-Hajjāj. His altercation with al-Hajjāj and his subsequent beheading earned...
Colin Chasi’s riveting book overturns commonly held epistemological premises of the philosophy of ubuntu. Chasi goes further to uncover and position ubuntu as a resource for counterhegemonic struggles. It is a must read not only for all those interested in taking...
Everything in Her Power has so much history and hope contained in four words. Afitting title for a singular novel that successfully exposes the root of crippling patriarchy whilst offering a multi-dimensional portrayal of what it means to experience womanhood. Dr....