Sacred Economies examines how church and mosque infrastructure in Uganda enables local efforts to address poverty. It focuses especially on the role of Christian and Muslim leaders who create interfaith networks of community care and the ways in which faith and economic activity intertwine to sustain these networks.
People as Protection explores civilian self-protection in Nigeria’s struggle to overcome Boko Haram, focusing on the Civilian Joint Task Force, a grassroots response to the insurgency. Merging emotional insight and cultural analysis, it uncovers how hope, patriotism, and community drove ordinary citizens to confront violence and reclaim dignity.
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger
Scott Youngstedt
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512828825
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. Author Scott M. Youngstedt offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections between three medical sectors: traditional, Islamic, and biomedical.
Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles illustrates how race, sexuality, and gender manifest in the daily labor and lives of kayayei.
How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism
R. Joseph Parrott
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512827675
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Dream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s and how these grassroots movements helped define a New Left Internationalism that injected Global South priorities into US political debates.
Children and Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal
Chelsie Yount
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827569
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Paperback
196 Pages
Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families in Paris and Dakar negotiate “economic moralities,” and how French-born children of middle-class Senegalese, acutely aware of prejudice against Muslims in Europe, forge connections abroad that reproduce transnational kinship.
Cultural Imperialism, Agency, and the Ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in Senegal
Sarah O'Neill
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827231
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Senegal’s 1999 ban on female genital cutting (FGC) sparked resistance in Fouta Toro, and opposition to the ban in this region has long seemed unified. This ethnography unravels political tensions surrounding the ban and presents a more complicated reality, where ordinary women and men continue to debate the practice and meaning of FGC.
Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone
Jennifer Moore
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827279
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Drawing on seven years of interviews with women activists across communities in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone, Jennifer Moore shows that when women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained in postconflict societies.
An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
Lindsay O'Neill
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827200
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
The Two Princes of Mpfumo brings to life East African individuals caught up in the eighteenth-century slave trade—known in the historical record as Prince James and Prince John—and shows how their stories reveal an emerging global British empire, one in which competing organizations and interests created a chaotic situation on the ground.
In this book, Chandan Deuskar explores how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the urban poor in exchange for their support, demonstrates how this impacts urban growth, and suggests innovative and practical ways in which urban planners can try to be more effective in this political context.
