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Centre of African Studies

 
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 Book Series with Ohio University Press

Along with Ohio University Press, the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series publishes work that emanates from our rich intellectual life.  Many of our books have resulted from the Centre’s weekly seminar series and from other workshops and events. Several of our Visiting Fellows have published their work in this book series and many of the books reflect collaboration between scholars based in Africa and Cambridge-based academics.

The aim of the series is to foster dialogue across a broad range of disciplines in African studies and between scholars based in Africa and elsewhere. We are especially interested in receiving book proposals for inter-disciplinary work. Most of the books have been edited collections, but occasionally we publish single or multi-authored monographs.

If you are interested in publishing with us, please contact one of the series editors below. More information about Cambridge Centre of African Studies Book Series can also be found at  Ohio University Press/Swallow Press.

Editor(s)

Dr Devon Curtis, University of Cambridge

Dr Mike Degani, University of Cambridge

Prof Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh 


 

Pursuing justice in africa

Pursuing Justice in Africa: Competing imaginaries and contested practices (2021)

Edited by Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
Afterword by Kamari Maxine Clarke

Anxiety in and about Africa

Anxiety in and about Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Approaches (2020)

Edited by Andrea Mariko Grant and Yolana Pringle

Talkative Polity

Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda (2019)

By Florence Brisset-Foucault

Religion, media and marginality

Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa (2018)

Edited by Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, and Marie Rodet

Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa

Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present (2016)

Edited by Emma Hunter

Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa

Making and unmaking public Health in Africa; ethnographic and historical perspectives (2013)

Edited by Ruth J. Prince and Rebecca Marsland

 

 

pages book peacebuilding

Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa (2012)

Edited by Devon Curtis and Gwinyayi A Dzinesa

pages book christianity

Christianity and public culture in Africa (2011)

Edited by Harri Englund

pages book abolitionism

Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic (2010)

Edited by Derek R Peterson

 

The Centre occasionally publishes books or collections of seminar papers arising out of a Cambridge scholars' work.  The titles are available free for download below.

Every effort has been made to contact the authors of these works, or their next-of-kin, prior to digitizing them. However, should you have any comments or queries regarding the publications below, please contact the Centre Administrator.

An Annotaded Bibliography of the Climate of Sudan

By M Hulme, Cambridge African Occasional Papers no 5, African Studies Centre (1987), ISBN 0902993208

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Annual Reports of Bende Division, South Eastern Nigeria, 1905-1912

By G I Jones, Cambridge African Occasional Papers no 2, African Studies Centre (1986)

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Asante Brass Casting, Lost-wax casting of gold-weights, ritual vessels and sculptures, with handmade equipment

By Christine Fox, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 11, African Studies Centre (1988), ISBN 0902993240

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Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introductory Bibliography for the Social Sciences

By Janet Seeley, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 5, African Studies Centre (1985), ISBN 0902993127

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Environmental Issues in African Development Planning

Edited by J A Seely and W M Adams, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 9, African Studies Centre (1988), ISBN 0902993216

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Famine in Africa: A Guide to Bibliographies and Resource Centres

Compiled by J A Seely, Cambridge African Occasional Papers no 1, African Studies Centre (1986), ISBN 0902993135

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Famine in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Select Bibliography (Excluding the Sahel) from 1978

Compiled by J A Seely, Cambridge African Occasional Papers no 3, African Studies Centre (1986), ISBN 0902993151

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From Mau Mau to Harambee

By Tom Askwith. edited by Joanna Lewis, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 17, African Studies Centre (1995), ISBN 0902993305

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From Slaves to Palm Oil

By G I Jones, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 13, African Studies Centre (1989), ISBN 0902993267

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Human Rights and the Making of Constitutions: Malawi, Kenya, Uganda

Edited by Joanna Lewis, Peggy Owens, Louise Pirouet, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 18, African Studies Centre (1995), ISBN 0902993313

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Irrigation in tropical Africa, Problems and Problem Solving

Edited by W M Adams and A T Grove, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 3, African Studies Centre, ISBN 0902993100

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Marriage and Divorce among the Asante

By T E Kyei, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 14, Cambridge Africa Centre (1992), ISBN 0902993275

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Mariage, Divorce and Inheritance; The Uganda Council of Women's Movement for Legislative Reform

By Winifred Brown, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 10, Cambridge Africa Centre (1988), ISBN 0902993232

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Metal in Africa

Metal in Africa

By A McKeating and D Phillipson (with advice and assistance from Rachel Maclean), Cambridge Africana (1996), ISBN 0902993321

Metal in Africa was published jointly by the African Studies Centre and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1996, and produced in conjunction with a special exhibition, Metal in Africa, at the Cambridge University Museum of Archeology and Anthropology (26 September 1996 - 28th February 1998)

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Militants or Proletarians? The Economic Culture of Underground Gold Miners in Southern Ghana, 1906-1976

By Don Robotham, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 12, Cambridge Africa Centre (1989), ISBN 0902993259

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Nandi Resistance to British Rule; The Volcano Erupts

By A T Matson, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 15, Cambridge Africa Centre (1984)

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No Blade of Grass: Rural Production and State Intervention in Transkei, 1926-1960

By Terence C Moll, Cambridge African Occasional Papers no 6, African Studies Centre (1988), ISBN 0902993224

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Provincialisation of Rhodesia and Rational and Irrational Elements 1968-1969

By H R G Howman and edited by C G Passmore, Cambridge African Occasional Papers no 4, African Studies Centre, ISBN 090299316X

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Response of some Rural Communities in South-East Ghana to Economic Recession 1982

By N G Chisholm, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 2, African Studies Centre (1983), ISBN 0902993097

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Smallholder Agriculture in Colonial Kenya: The Official Mind and the Swynnerton Plan

By Anne Thurston, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 8, African Studies Centre (1987), ISBN 0902993194

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South Africa in Question

Edited by John Lonsdale, African Studies Centre in Association with James Currey London and Heineman Portsmouth NH, (1988), ISBN 0852553250

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Studies in District Administration in the East Africa Protectorate (1895-1918)

By T H R Cashmore, Jesus College Cambridge (1965)

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Talking with Ewe Seine Fishermen and Shallot Farmers

By Polly Hill, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 6, African Studies Centre (1986), ISBN 0902993178

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Teaching Conservation

Edited by Simon Albrecht and Janet Seely, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 7, African Studies Centre (1987), ISBN 0902993186

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Uganda's First Republic: Chiefs, Administrators and Politicians 1967-1971

Edited by A F Robertson, African Studies Centre (1982), ISBN 0852553089

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Villagers, Villages and the State in Modern Tanzania

Edited by R G Abrahams, Cambridge African Monograph Series no 4, African Studies Centre (1985), ISBN 0902993119

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Why Angola Matters

Edited by Keith Hart and Joanna Lewis, African Studies Centre in Association with James Curry London, ISBN 0852553943

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Witchcraft in Contemporory Tanzania

Edited by Ray Abrahams. Cambridge African Monograph Series no 16 (1994), ISBN 0902993291

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