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].

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

Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal

Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal

Edited by Carol Bolton and Christopher Brown

Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary.

Hardback

9781839983405

September 2023

£ 120.00 / $ 165.00

Black Africa and the US Art World in the Early 20th Century

Black Africa and the US Art World in the Early 20th Century

Aesthetics, White Supremacy

P. A. Mullins

This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939.

Hardback

9781839989360

January 2024

£ 80.00 / $ 110.00

Black ‘race’ and the White Supremacy Saga

Black ‘race’ and the White Supremacy Saga

Kehbuma Langmia

This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? This book debates that concept.

Hardback

9781839989964

February 2024

£ 80.00 / $ 110.00

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

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

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

African Cinema and Urbanism

African Cinema and Urbanism

Marie-Paule Macdonald

This work brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine, through African screen media, how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the continent.

Paperback

9781839991073

December 2024

£ 20.99 / $ 24.95

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

An Ethos of Transdisciplinarity

An Ethos of Transdisciplinarity

Conversations with Toyin Falola

Sanya Osha

Toyin Falola is one of modern Africa’s most prolific public intellectuals. This project seeks to illuminate the mind of this modern master in an age of transnationalisation.

Hardback

9781839993206

April 2025

£ 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

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

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