Offers access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa including books, journal articles, maps and music recordings. Some materials are in full-text. Covers 19th century-present.
Provides abstracts of journal articles and books in the social sciences relating to Africa. Covers 2003-2017.
Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies
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Offers authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes concise treatment of large topics such as "Slavery in Africa" or "Famine" to quickly get you up to speed and expert recommendation on the best works available in African Studies whether it be a chapter, a book, a journal article, a Website, blog, or data set.
Brand New Books in African/Africana Studies
Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century by Melanie Bunce (Editor); Suzanne Franks (Editor); Chris Paterson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781138962323
Publication Date: 2016-07-06
Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century examines the international media's coverage of sub-Saharan Africa.
Bodies of Truth by Rita Kesselring
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ISBN: 9780804798488
Publication Date: 2016-10-12
Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.
The scale at which violent racial pasts have been incorporated into South African national historical narratives is lacking in the U.S. Desegregating the Past considers why this is the case, tracking the production and display of historical representations of racial pasts at museums in both countries and what it reveals about underlying social anxieties, unsettled emotions, and aspirations surrounding contemporary social fault lines around race.
Dissent, Protest and Dispute in Africa by Toyin Falola (Editor); Emmanuel Mbah (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781138220034
Publication Date: 2016-10-26
This book provides perspectives on different aspects of dissent, protest and disputes and how these have, in turn, continued to pose challenges in Africa. The contributors argue that, dissent, protest and most forms of disputes in Africa are the result of daily challenges that its people have faced and continue to encounter to this day.
The Twilight of Cutting by Saida Hodzić
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ISBN: 9780520291997
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
The book looks at NGOs not as solutions but as sites of "problematization." The purpose of understanding these Ghanaian campaigns, their transnational and regional encounters, and the forms of governmentality they produce is not to charge them with providing answers to the question, how do we end cutting? Instead, it is to account for their work, their historicity, the life worlds and subjectivities they engender, and the modes of reflection, imminent critique, and opposition they set in motion.