Africana Studies Titles
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Africa, Empire and Globalization: Essays in Honor of A. G. Hopkins
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Emily Brownell
2014, 682 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-352-5
$65.00
Africa, Volume 1: African History and Culture Before 1900, Second Edition
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Steven J. Salm
2019, 896 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1281-6
$85.00
Africa, Volume 2: African Cultures and Societies Before 1885
by Toyin Falola
2000, 356 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-769-0
$33.00
Africa, Volume 3: Colonial Africa, 1885-1939
by Toyin Falola
2002, 480 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-770-6
$45.00
Africa, Volume 4: The End of Colonial Rule: Nationalism and Decolonization
by Toyin Falola
2002, 564 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-202-2
$45.00
Africa, Volume 5: Contemporary Africa
by Toyin Falola
2003, 1000 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-203-9
$59.00
The African American Studies Reader, Second Edition
Edited by: Nathaniel Norment, Jr.
2007, 944 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-155-2
$67.00
The African Civil Service Fifty Years after Independence: With Case Studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria
Edited by: Emmanuel M. Mbah, Augustine E. Ayuk
2017, 184 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-910-0
$28.00
African Entrepreneurship in Jos, Central Nigeria, 1902-1985
2011, 264 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-846-9
$35.00
African Humanity: Creativity, Identity and Personhood
Edited by: Abimbola Asojo, Toyin Falola
2021, 552 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1756-9
$73.00
An African Music and Dance Curriculum Model: Performing Arts in Education
2011, 360 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-004-6
$45.00
African-Centered Psychology: Culture-Focusing for Multicultural Competence
2003, 344 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-122-3
$35.00
Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora, Fourth Edition
Edited by: Mario Azevedo
2019, 776 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-732-5
$74.00
Against the Predators' Republic: Political and Cultural Journalism, 2007-2013
2016, 684 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-792-2
$75.00
The Art of Livelihood: Creating Expressive Agri-Culture in Rural Mali
2009, 206 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-731-8
$30.00
Asante, Kingdom of Gold: Essays in the History of an African Culture
by Tom McCaskie
2015, 1082 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-61163-592-8
$150.00
Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria
2012, 482 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-023-7
$55.00
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors, and the State
by Jim Igoe, Tim Kelsall
2005, 330 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-017-3
$40.00
Black Pearls of Wisdom: Voicing the African-American Journey for Freedom, Empowerment, and the Future
Edited by: Donald Spivey
2014, 290 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-483-9
$40.00
The Bukusu of Kenya: Folktales, Culture and Social Identities
2011, 200 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-025-1
$30.00
Carrying My Father's Torch: A Memoir
by Kalu Ogbaa
2014, 306 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-61163-494-5
$35.00
The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law
by Toyin Falola, Matt D. Childs
2009, 536 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-594-9
$55.00
Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in Honor of J.D.Y. Peel
by Toyin Falola
2005, 696 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-135-4
$65.00
Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619–1865
2019, 212 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1617-3
$25.00
Conflict Resolution in Africa: Language, Law, and Politeness in Ghanaian (Akan) Jurisprudence
2018, 294 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1022-5
$37.00
Contentious Politics in Africa: Identity, Conflict, and Social Change
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Wanjala S. Nasong'o
2016, 378 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-742-7
$37.00
Contesting Islam in Africa: Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920-2010
2013, 296 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-916-9
$44.00
Continuity and Change in a West African Society: Globalization's Impact on the Sisala of Ghana
2001, 440 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-637-2
$40.00
Converging Identities: Blackness in the Modern African Diaspora
Edited by: Julius O. Adekunle, Hettie V. Williams
2013, 362 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-137-1
$42.00
Creative Incursions: Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora
Edited by: Abikal Borah, Bisola Falola, Toyin Falola
2019, 302 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1309-7
$43.00
Culture, Society, and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts
2002, 200 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-142-1
$20.00
The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing
2005, 272 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-058-6
$25.00
The Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa
Edited by: Toyin Falola
2005, 496 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-582-5
$45.00
Decolonizing the University, Knowledge Systems and Disciplines in Africa
Edited by: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Siphamandla Zondi
2016, 304 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-833-2
$40.00
Democracy in Africa: Political Changes and Challenges
Edited by: Saliba Sarsar, Julius O. Adekunle
2012, 346 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-002-2
$42.00
Democradura: Essays on Nigeria's Limited Democracy
2017, 450 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-270-5
$58.00
Dialogues of Negritude: An Analysis of the Cultural Context of Black Writing
2003, 264 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-149-0
$30.00
Diaspora and Imagined Nationality: USA-Africa Dialogue and Cyberframing Nigerian Nationhood
2012, 204 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-926-8
$30.00
Endangered Species: Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest
2002, 296 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-238-1
$33.00
Esu: Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers
Edited by: Toyin Falola
2013, 416 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-222-4
$67.00
Etches on Fresh Waters
by Toyin Falola, Aderonke A. Adesanya
2009, 386 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-587-1
$90.00
Ethnicities, Nationalities, and Cross-Cultural Representations in Africa and the Diaspora
Edited by: Gloria Chuku
2015, 410 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-663-5
$49.00
The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia: From 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse
2005, 336 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-212-1
$45.00
Falolaism: The Epistemologies and Methodologies of Africana Knowledge
2018, 532 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-548-5
$70.00
The Fetha Nagast: The Law of the Kings
by Abba Paulos Tzadua, Peter L. Strauss
2009, 392 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-661-8
$62.00
Fire From the Soul: A History of the African-American Struggle
2003, 448 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-432-3
$37.50
Food Crop Production, Hunger, and Rural Poverty in Nigeria's Benue Area, 1920-1995
2011, 312 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-848-3
$37.00
Frontiers of Legal Knowledge: Business and Economic Law in Context
by Kenneth K. Mwenda, David A. Ailola
2003, 464 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-508-5
$55.00
Gendering African Social Spaces: Women, Power, and Cultural Expressions
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Wanjala S. Nasong'o
2016, 336 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-741-0
$45.00
Ghana During the First World War: The Colonial Administration of Sir Hugh Clifford
2013, 338 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-360-3
$50.00
Globalization: The Politics of Global Economic Relations and International Business
2012, 214 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-129-6
$28.00
Globalization and Politics in the Economic Community of West African States
by Eric M. Edi
2007, 220 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-283-2
$47.00
Globalization and the African Experience
Edited by: Emmanuel M. Mbah, Steven J. Salm
2012, 318 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-158-6
$40.00
Health Knowledge and Belief Systems in Africa (Paperback)
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Matthew Heaton
2008, 564 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1230-4
$60.00
A History of Class Formation in the Plateau Province of Nigeria, 1902-1960: The Genesis of a Ruling Class
2014, 286 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-847-6
$35.00
Horror in Paradise: Frameworks for Understanding the Crises of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Edited by: Christopher LaMonica, J. Shola Omotola
2014, 332 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-355-9
$45.00
Imagery of Identity in South African Education: 1880-1990
1999, 360 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-727-0
$42.00
Imperialism, Economic Development and Social Change in West Africa
2013, 556 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-976-3
$65.00
In Praise of Greatness: The Poetics of African Adulation
by Toyin Falola
2019, 1056 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-5310-1186-4
$110.00
In Search of African Diasporas: Testimonies and Encounters
2012, 592 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-056-5
$65.00
The Indigenous African Criminal Justice System for the Modern World
2016, 318 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-746-5
$35.00
Intercourse and Crosscurrents in the Atlantic World: Calabar-British Experience, 17th-20th Centuries
2012, 230 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-006-0
$30.00
Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships across the Color Line
by Earl Smith, Angela J. Hattery
2009, 144 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-496-6
$18.00
Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century, Second Edition
Edited by: Earl Smith, Angela J. Hattery
2013, 190 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-103-6
$22.00
Issues in African Political Economies
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Jamaine Abidogun
2016, 424 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-879-0
$53.00
Julius Nyerere, Africa's Titan on a Global Stage: Perspectives from Arusha to Obama
Edited by: Ali A. Mazrui, Lindah L. Mhando
2013, 416 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-085-5
$47.00
"Life Not Worth Living": Nigerian Petitions Reflecting an African Society's Experiences During World War II
Edited by: Chima J. Korieh
2014, 314 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-607-9
$45.00
Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism
2005, 208 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-848-2
$22.00
Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature
2007, 654 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-564-1
$50.00
Local Government in South Africa Since 1994: Leadership, Democracy, Development and Service Delivery in a Post-Apartheid Era
2013, 392 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-090-9
$50.00
Malcolm X: A Historical Reader
Edited by: James L. Conyers, Jr., Andrew P. Smallwood
2008, 418 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-228-2
$40.00
Mandela: Tributes to a Global Icon
Edited by: Toyin Falola
2014, 358 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-61163-651-2
$80.00
Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi, Aderonke A. Adesanya
2008, 510 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-460-7
$55.00
The Muse of Anomy: Essays on Literature and the Humanities in Nigeria
2016, 340 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-700-7
$45.00
Narratives of Struggle: The Philosophy and Politics of Development
2012, 468 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-087-9
$60.00
The National War Museum, Umuahia
by Development Alternatives and Resource Center
2016, 160 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-61163-880-6
$50.00
Nature of a Sistuh: Black Women's Lived Experiences in Contemporary Culture
by Trevy A. McDonald, T. Ford-Ahmed
1999, 335 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-859-8
$25.95
Nigeria and the Politics of Everybody: Social Media, Idealism, and Activism
by Toyin Falola
2023, 788 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-2654-7
$99.00
Nigeria in the Twentieth Century
Edited by: Toyin Falola
2002, 1064 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-328-0
$75.00
Nollywood: Popular Culture and Narratives of Youth Struggles in Nigeria
by Paul Ugor
2016, 188 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-777-9
$29.00
Not Yet Democracy: West Africa's Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism
by Boubacar N'Diaye, Abdoulaye S. Saine, Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
2005, 238 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-533-7
$25.00
The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law
2008, 544 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-383-9
$68.00
Pan-Africanism in Ghana: African Socialism, Neoliberalism, and Globalization
2016, 200 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-747-2
$28.00
Perspectives on Feminism from Africa
Edited by: 'Lai Olurode
2013, 212 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-011-4
$28.00
Perspectives on the Religious Landscape in Africa
Edited by: Lady Jane Acquah, Toyin Falola
2020, 458 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-0731-7
$64.00
The Philosophy of Nimi Wariboko: Social Ethics, Economy, and Religion
Edited by: Toyin Falola
2021, 456 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1024-9
$60.00
Pioneer, Patriot, and Nigerian Nationalist: A Biography of the Reverend M. D. Opara, 1915-1965
2010, 464 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-805-6
$55.00
Playing for Life: Performance in Africa in the Age of AIDS
2003, 344 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-125-4
$48.00
Poetic Imagination in Black Africa: Essays on African Poetry
1996, 168 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-855-0
$20.00
Poetry, Performance, and Art: Udje Dance Songs of the Urhobo People
2003, 192 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-230-5
$30.00
Political Economy of Development: Public Policy Alternatives and Progressive Ideas in Nigeria
by Tayo Oke
2024, 362 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-2650-9
$53.00
Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa: Essays in Honor of Don Ohadike
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Salah M. Hassan
2008, 502 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-490-4
$55.00
Race, Sport and the American Dream, Third Edition
by Earl Smith
2014, 322 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-487-7
$37.00
Rastafari Women: Subordination in the Midst of Liberation Theology
1998, 214 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-836-9
$22.95
Resisting State Iconoclasm Among the Loma of Guinea
2007, 386 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-218-4
$50.00
Sangalan Oral Traditions: History, Memories, and Social Differentiation
2005, 288 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-104-0
$35.00
Satires of Power in Yoruba Visual Culture
by Yomi Ola
2013, 272 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-037-4
$48.00
Scoundrels of Deferral: Poems to Redeem Reflection
by Toyin Falola, Vik Bahl
2006, 220 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-338-9
$65.00
Someone Had to Be Hated: Julian LaRose Harris: A Biography
by Gregory C. Lisby, William F. Mugleston
2002, 368 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-631-0
$45.00
The Third Bagre: A Myth Revisited
by Jack Goody, S.W.D.K. Gandah
2003, 512 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-229-9
$60.00
The Tiv and Their Southern Neighbours, 1890-1990
by Emmanuel Chiahemba Ayangaôr
2011, 292 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-845-2
$40.00
Toyin Falola: The Man, The Mask, The Muse
Edited by: Niyi Afolabi
2010, 1116 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-754-7
$65.00
The United States' Foreign Policy in Africa in the 21st Century: Issues and Perspectives
Edited by: Adebayo Oyebade
2014, 202 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-297-2
$28.00
Teacher's Manual available
Urban Challenges and Survival Strategies in Africa
Edited by: Adeshina Afolayan, Toyin Falola
2017, 270 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-0060-8
$29.00
Urbanization and African Cultures
by Toyin Falola, Steven J. Salm
2005, 480 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-558-0
$48.00
The Vile Trade: Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
Edited by: Abi Alabo Derefaka, Wole Ogundele, Akin Alao, Augustus Babajide Ajibola
2015, 374 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-198-2
$50.00
Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania
by Johanna Bond
2005, 456 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-124-7
$45.00
War and Peace in Africa
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Raphael Chijioke Njoku
2010, 652 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-745-5
$65.00
West Africa: An Introduction to Its History, Civilization and Contemporary Situation
2002, 660 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-649-5
$56.00
Teacher's Manual available
The Wisdom of the Maasai: Oral Literature as Entertainment Education
by Benson P. Fraser, Steven L. Kiruswa, William J. Brown
Forthcoming June 2024, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-2661-5
The Women's War of 1929: A History of Anti-Colonial Resistance in Eastern Nigeria
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Adam Paddock
2011, 936 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-931-2
$90.00
Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Nana Akua Amponsah
2013, 374 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-153-1
$45.00
Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery
2005, 384 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-021-9
$45.00
Yoruba Creativity: Cultural Practices of the Modern World
2022, 282 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-826-4
$45.00
The Yoruba Frontier: A Regional History of Community Formation, Experience, and Changes in West Africa
2012, 268 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-384-6
$35.00
The Yoruba in Brazil, Brazilians in Yorubaland: Cultural Encounter, Resilience, and Hybridity in the Atlantic World
Edited by: Niyi Afolabi, Toyin Falola
2017, 460 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-591-1
$47.00
The Yoruba in Transition: History, Values, and Modernity
Edited by: Toyin Falola, Ann Genova
2006, 536 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-134-7
$55.00