Atlantic Virginia–Now in Paperback
03/21/2007
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century April Lee Hatfield 320 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 9 maps Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1997-5 | $22.50 |… READ MORE
Category: African Studies
Marking the Birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois
02/22/2007
February 23 is a special day in American, African American, and world history. It is the birthday of W. E. B. Du Bois, perhaps the nation’s greatest intellectual and activist…. READ MORE
Child Soldiers in Africa–Now in Paperback
01/25/2007
Child Soldiers in Africa Alcinda Honwana 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3911-9 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1987-6 |… READ MORE
Female Circumcision–Now in Paperback
01/23/2007
Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Editor 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1941-8 | $19.95 | £13.00 A volume in the… READ MORE
Besteman Reconnects with Refugees
12/15/2006
Penn Press author and Colby College professor Catherine Besteman discussed her involvement with Maine’s growing African immigrant community in a recent New Yorker article by William Finnegan. A year ago,… READ MORE
Now Available–Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya
12/06/2006
Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya Bilinda Straight 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3964-4 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in… READ MORE
Child Soldiers is “groundbreaking”
11/15/2006
PsycCRITIQUES, the APA Review of Books, recently examined Child Soldiers in Africa by Alcinda Honwana. The reviewers praised Honwana for contributing to social research on Lusophone African nations, such as… READ MORE
Now Available–African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam
09/22/2006
African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im 216 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3962-8 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania… READ MORE
