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Moving People in Ethiopia
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 80.00Development worldwide has increasingly involved displacement. Ethiopia is no exception; population displacement resulting from development as well as conflict, drought and conservation has been on the increase since the 1960s. The recent history of confli more...
Narrative Shape-Shifting
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 80.00Responding to many of the same neo-colonial concerns as earlier African writers, Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera bring contemporary, hybrid voices to their novels that explore spiritual, cultural and feminist solutions to Africa's complex post-ind more...
Village Matters
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 80.00Kabylia is a Berber-speaking, densely populated mountainous region east of Algiers, that has played an important part in Algerian pre- and post-independence politics, and continues to be troublesome to central government. But 'Kabylia' is also an ideal, s more...
Identity Economics
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 29.95Identity Economics traces the rise of two dynamic informal enterprise clusters in Nigeria, and explores their slide into trajectories of Pentecostalism, poverty and violent vigilantism. Drawing on over twenty years of empirical research on African informa more...
Intimate Stranger
Archipelago Books 2009; US$ 15.00Breytenbach's 'Letters to a Young Poet': A generous meditation on the act and art of writing. more...
Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 155.00Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: first, the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the nineteenth century about the position of women; and, second, the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through... more...
Tropic Moon
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 12.95Newly translated for this edition. A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But in the oppressive heat and glare of the equator, Timar doesn?t know what to do with himself, and no one seems inclined to help except Adèle, the hotel... more...
Hemingway and Africa
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 80.00Africa was a major factor in Hemingway's life and work, serving as setting and theme for two of his best-known stories and important sections of his novel 'The Garden of Eden', and giving rise to a considerable amount of journalism, book-length accounts of his two safaris, and a great deal of witty correspondence. But surprisingly little... more...
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 85.00J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two Booker Prizes. The present volume makes critical views of this important writer accessible to the general reader as well as the... more...
Ancient Egyptian Literature
University of California Press 2006; US$ 27.95First published in 1973 ? and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 ? this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world?s earliest civilizations. Volume I outlines the early and gradual evolution of Egyptian literary genres, including... more...









