African Cultural Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Social Development and Social Work

   Learning from Africa

   Edited by Alice Butterfield, Tasse Abye

   Africa has a long experience with reducing poverty and vulnerability. In the contemporary period, social development and social work are at the forefront of dealing with abject poverty and some of the world’s most difficult problems. This book brings research in Africa to the forefront so that...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Moral Education in sub-Saharan Africa

   Culture, Economics, Conflict and AIDS

   Edited by Sharlene Swartz, Monica Taylor

   The term ‘moral’ has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa). In contrast to moral education as a vehicle of cultural imperialism and social control, this volume shows moral education to be concerned with both private...

   Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge
3. Africa, Cultural Studies and Difference

   Edited by Keyan Tomaselli, Handel Wright

   Cultural Studies has evolved and continues to evolve primarily along regional lines. However uncomfortable this might be, the genie of British cultural studies cannot be returned to the bottle of history. Thus, national versions of cultural studies have arisen in a few African countries. This book...

   Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature

   Edited by Simon Gikandi

   ‘A useful starting point.... It is the breadth of the coverage that makes the Encyclopedia of African Literature stand out.’ – Booklist/RBB‘[A] comprehensive work for general readers.... Highly recommended.' –Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Best Reference Titles The most comprehensive...

   Published May 27th 2009 by Routledge
5. Time, Space and the Unknown

   Maasai Configurations of Power and Providence

   By Paul Spencer

   Published May 16th 2009 by Routledge
6. The Human Cost of African Migrations

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing...

   Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Diaspora Strikes Back

   Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning

   By Juan Flores

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the...

   Published August 6th 2008 by Routledge
8. Planning and Transformation

   Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

   By Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience. In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa,...

   Published August 29th 2007 by Routledge
9. African Literature, Animism and Politics

   By Caroline Rooney

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory,...

   Published August 31st 2006 by Routledge
10. The Samburu

    A Study in Geocentracy, 2nd Edition

    By Paul Spencer

    Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies

    Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge