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Anthropology

Death of a Discipline?

by Munyaradzi Mawere and Artwell Nhemachena

Reflections on the History, State, and Future of Social Anthropology in Zimbabwe This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an…

Anthropology Development Studies Migration Social Sciences

“Les Mbengis”-Migration, Gender, and Family

by Christina Atekmangoh

The moral economy of transnational Cameroonian migrants’ remittances This book is about transnational migration (familiarly called “bushfalling”) and remittance flows to Cameroon. With the…

Anthropology Archeology Social Sciences

Archives, Objects, Places and Landscapes

by Munyaradzi Mawere and Shadreck Chirikure

Multidisciplinary approaches to Decolonised Zimbabwean Pasts Dissatisfaction has matured in Africa and elsewhere around the fact that often, the dominant frameworks for interpreting the…

African Studies Anthropology History & Criticism Literature

Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd

by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to…

Anthropology Business Development Entrepreneurship Finance Migration Social Sciences

Iron Sharpens Iron

by Yanyin Zi

Social Interactions at China Shops in Botswana For centuries the continent of Africa has been characterised by negative images such as poverty, disease and…

African Studies Anthropology Social Sciences

Relationality and Resilience in a Not So Relational World?

by Artwell Nhemachena

Knowledge, Chivanhu and (De-)Coloniality in 21st Century Conflict-Torn Zimbabwe This book critically examines the relevance of the increasingly popular theories on relationality by interfacing…

Anthropology Religion Social Sciences

Religion, Occult and Youth Conflict in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

by Edlyne E. Anugwom

The book examines the nexus between youth conflict and the occult drawing its insights from the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria. It sees the…

Anthropology Environmental Management Nature and the Environment Social Sciences

Water and Soil in Holy Matrimony?

by Christopher Munyaradzi Mabeza

A smallholder farmer’s innovative agricultural practices for adapting to climate in rural Zimbabwe This book is a biography based on a qualitative ethnographic study…

Anthropology Medical Science Science, Technology, Medecine Social Sciences

The Vanishing Black African Woman: A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice (Volume Two)

by Yetunde Mercy Olumide

A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the…

Anthropology Medical Science Science, Technology, Medecine Social Sciences

The Vanishing Black African Woman: A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice (Volume One)

by Yetunde Mercy Olumide

A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the…

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Billan Omar, Doctoral Research Fellow at HUMA, University of Cape Town on Ringtone Stories: Voices from Bamenda’s Mobile Generation
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Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, Theologian, leading academic, Vice Chancellor and Principal, Tshwane University of Technology. on Uitlanders in Stellenbosch: Identities, English, and Learning to Live Together
Achirri Ismael, (PhD) Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Policy Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA. on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism
Viviane Koua, (PhD) Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Auburn University, Auburn AL. USA on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism