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Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
Introducing poetry, prose, songs and theatre from Nigeria, this engaging volume blends translated extracts with a rich commentary on the historical development and modern context …
Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City
This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the charismatic priests and priestesses who are possessed by a …
Ranching and Enterprise in Eastern Botswana
While Botswana's economic development has been extraordinary, little is known about how different social groups have adapted to the new economic opportunitites, This …
Islamic and Caste Knowledge Practices Among Haalpulaaren in Senegal
This book examines in historical perspective the hitherto little-studied relationship between Islam and caste among the Haalpulaaren of Senegal. The Islamic uprising of the 1770s, …
The Advance of African Capital
Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, this study is the most detailed, most extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business yet published. It examines …
Man-Leopard Murders
This book is an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. Its narrative leads to events …
Tears of the Dead
Illuminating 100 years of family history in Western Zimbabwe, from the colonial period to the present, this social biography is the first account of its kind for southern Africa. …
Masquerades of Modernity
How do those on the margins of modernity face the challenges of globalization? This book demonstrates that secrecy is one of the means by which a society on the fringe of modernity …
Islam and the Prayer Economy
At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers an alternative perspective …
The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast
The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga …
Songs of the Women Migrants
This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and …
Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho
Medicine murder involved the cutting of body parts from victims, usually while they were still alive, to be used for the preparation of medicines intended to enhance the power of …