Bøker utgitt av James Currey

Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threaten the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.

This first biography is now in paperback marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nigeria-Biafra War and the anniversary of the death of Christopher Okigbo, the most anthologized modern African poet.

Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan's new south and South Sudan.

The Standard Text Book.

Addresses the issues facing NGOs as their role and remits expand.

Ato Quayson gives a historical and literary framework for the writers' varied engagements with oral traditions.

This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in Africa.

An overview of African popular theatre, its history and contemporary forms

Intended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society.

Understanding colonial ideologies is central to understanding development across Africa.

This is an annotated bibliography of the literature on mass communication and the press in Africa.

Studies the impact of colonialism on a mountainous region of Tanzania.

First paperback edition with a new and updated author's introduction, and a Foreword by Douglas H. Johnson..

Traces Kabylia's history through French occupation, the Algerian war of independence, and the political turmoil that followed.

With a Preface reviewing some of the debates prompted by the earlier edition of this book.

This volume provides bibliographical references to writing about maps, both historical and contemporary, of Africa.

A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.

A new history of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the events leading to it in the preceding decade, that will transform our understanding of the historical evolution of the struggle against apartheid.

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery.

Analyses the roots of power, patriarchy, ecological destruction and capitalist dynamics, of anti-apartheid resistance and of on-going movements against inequality and injustice in contemporary South Africa, to show how its contemporary realities are rooted in its past history and earlier struggles for independence.

The first in-depth account of Darfur's history during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (from 1916).

The Sudanese peace agreement reached a crisis point in its final year. This book offers an analysis of the impact of the implementation of the agreement on different Sudanese communities and neighbouring regions.

Includes the playscript of Glass House by Fatima Dike with a brief introduction by Marcia Blumberg.

Interviews with a selection of African women writers.

'Basil Davidson's Black Star remains one of the most thoughtful and insightful views into the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)'.- Emmanuel Akyeampong, from the book's new Foreword

Provides a detailed introduction to archaeology as practised in the African continent.

Presents a range of views on the lives of young people around Africa.

These two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.

Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.