Anthem Africology Series

The Anthem Africology Series critically examines African theories, cultures, practices and phenomena on the continent of Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The series takes as its point of departure an alternative perspective, offering a contextual analysis of the epistemological failures manifested in the systemic workings of the racial imaginary, which threaten African ideas and ideals globally. Titles in the series are both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, transgenerational and transcontinental, engaging the what and why, with regard to the assertion of African agency in narrative and critical situations.
 

Series Editor
Dmitri M. Bondarenko – Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; HSE University (National Research University "Higher School of Economics"), Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia
Kehbuma Langmia – Howard University, USA
 

Editorial Board
Taharka Adé San – Diego State University, USA
Adisa Alkebulan – San Diego State University, USA
Sally-Ann Ashton – Edge Hill University, UK
Nah D. Dove – Temple University, USA
Toyin Falola – University of Texas, USA
Dawn Marie Gibson – Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Lewis R. Gordon – University of Connecticut, USA
Daryl Taiwo Harris – Howard University, USA
Wilbert St. Hilaire – Stockton University, USA
Gerald Horne – University of Houston, USA
Alain Vilard Ndi Isoh – ICT University, South America
Agnes Lucy Lando – Daystar University, Kenya
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni – University of Bayreuth, Germany
Ronald J Stephens – Purdue University, USA
Christel Temple – University of Pittsburgh, USA
 

Proposals
We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works from emerging and established scholars that meet the criteria of our series. We make prompt editorial decisions. Our titles are published in print and e-book editions and are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. Should you wish to send in a proposal for a monograph (mid-length and full-length), edited collection, handbook or companion, reference or course book, please contact us at: [email protected].

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Africa

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Africa

Scrambling for a New Africa

Taharka Ade

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois’s writings on Africa and Pan-Africanism.

Paperback

9781839998010

February 2026

£ 25.00 / $ 35.00

Transforming Healthcare in Africa

Transforming Healthcare in Africa

A Comparative Analysis

Edited by Robert Dibie

The current available books and literature that shed light on health policies in many African countries are limited. This book examines the key players in the health system game in many African countries. It explores the regulatory regimes that impact the health systems, such as the Ministry of Health. It also provides few case studies of the relationship between the government, the public health environment, and their citizens.

Hardback

9781839991202

January 2025

£ 80.00 / $ 110.00

The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance

The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance

From Palace to Academy

Emmanuel Cudjoe

This book is an Afrocentric exploration of the royal Indigenous dance known as the Kete dance-music, as an analytical path for reassessing African movement systems in the 21st century. It validates the agency of the Black dancing body as a critical element for the generation and use of Indigenous knowledge systems of the Africans/diaspora and explores critical perspectives on the role dancing plays in the cultural emancipation of African knowledge systems globally.

Hardback

9781839991820

November 2024

£ 80.00 / $ 110.00

Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty in Africa

Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty in Africa

A Natural Resource-based Industrialisation Perspective

Horman Chitonge

This book has discussed the critical question of why the continent, despite being the most endowed place on the planet, with a diverse range of natural and human resources, has remained the most impoverished region on the planet. The book shows that this is largely due to lack of economic sovereignty.

Hardback

9781839993336

April 2025

£ 80.00 / $ 110.00

Political Parties and Democratic Governance in Africa

Political Parties and Democratic Governance in Africa

Challenges, Prospects, and the Nigerian Experience

E. Ike Udogu

This book examines the challenges political parties pose to democratic governance in Africa, focusing on political stability, elections, accountability, and democratic consolidation, with particular attention to Nigeria.

Hardback

9781801362306

February 2027

£ 80.00 / $ 120.00

Narratives of Peace and Conflict

Narratives of Peace and Conflict

Lived Experiences and the Politics of Origin in Southern Kaduna

Benjamin Maiangwa

Drawing on community voices and lived experience, this book explores conflict, peace, and belonging in Southern Kaduna, revealing how land, identity, and historical power relations continue to shape intercommunal life and possibilities for coexistence.

Hardback

9781801361101

September 2026

£ 80.00 / $ 120.00

Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory

Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory

Edited by James L. Conyers, Jr. and Christel N. Temple

Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Ali’s identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the discipline’s subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Ali’s influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance. 

Paperback

9781839992315

May 2024

£ 25.00 / $ 35.00

Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa

Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Inocent Moyo, Zainab Monisola Olaitan and Jabulile H Mzimela

The book engages the need to embrace Indigenous knowledge-based entrepreneurship as a path towards achieving sustainable development in Africa. It advances a decolonization of knowledge systems that have undergirded entrepreneurship in Africa to pave ways for Indigenous knowledge systems.

Hardback

9781839996818

September 2026

£ 80.00 / $ 120.00

Emerging Voices

Emerging Voices

Contemporary Nigeria’s Literary, Filmic and Entertainment Platforms

Edited by Alex Chinwuba Asigbo and Gloria Emeagwali

Emerging Voices: Contemporary Nigeria’s Literary, Filmic and Entertainment Platforms is a collection of fresh perspectives and opinions in the creative interventions on the Nigerian literary and entertainment space. Tackling issues from different authorial perspectives, the authors of the book chapters bring a freshness that comes with unsullied critical and creative innocence in their analysis of the different aspects of Nigeria’s literary, filmic, and entertainment engagements.

Hardback

9781839998515

October 2026

£ 80.00 / $ 120.00

Dramatic Movement of African American Women

Dramatic Movement of African American Women

The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class

Yuvraj Nimbaji Herode

This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic movement of African American women who write plays to protest against racism, sexism, and classism. It challenges the oppressive ideology of white patriarchy and African American male dominance. Therefore, the book enables the audience in understanding the dramas and theatre movements of all the oppressed sections of society from across the globe.

Paperback

9781801360456

August 2026

£ 25.00 / $ 35.00

Developing Africa?

Developing Africa?

New Horizons with Afrocentricity

Lehasa Moloi

The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.

Hardback

9781839990823

March 2024

£ 80.00 / $ 110.00

Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood

Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood

Media, Literature and Theory

Edited by Marquita M. Gammage and Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers

"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false perceptions.

Hardback

9781783089376

March 2019

£ 80.00 / $ 125.00

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