Bøker utgitt av James Currey

Challenges some key assumptions of both the donors and the government about how development can be achieved in Mozambique.

Annotated, scholarly edition of the original landmark anthology, Voices of Ghana, containing poetry, plays, stories and essays first broadcast on radio in the years leading up to Ghana's independence.

A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand.

A detailed examination of the nature of post-conflict society and youth violence, with important implications for peacebuilding and post-conflict recovery.

An examination of the political instrumentalization of disorder.

Is democratic governance is well on the way to becoming a global entitlement, one that is increasingly promoted and protected by the collective international process?

Ngugi's words lead to a deeper understanding of colonial and postcolonial history.

Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa.

Updated and revised edition.

Joint winner of the 1989 Herskovits Award

Famine is preventable. The persistence of famine reflects political failings by African governments, western donors and international relief agencies.

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.

The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?'

Examines war and the impact of warfare on identity formation in Ethiopia.

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.

Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people.

A uniquely detailed account of the dynamics of Afro-European trade in two states on the western Slave Coast over three centuries and the transition from slave trade to legitimate commerce.

Designed as a textbook for the undergraduate and graduate levels.

A vivid account of modern pastoralist armed conflict.

Radio is 'Africa's medium', with an ability to transcend barriers to access, facilitate political debate and shape identities.

Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre.

Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.

Analyses the limits to democracy in Botswana.

Examines more than a decade of enterprise development strategies in marginal economic contexts in South Africa's mining communities and shows how this might impact on development strategies.