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].

African American Language and Spirituality

African American Language and Spirituality

Nommo, Oral Tradition, and the Sacred Word

Adisa A. Alkebulan

An Afrocentric analysis revealing how African spirituality, orality, and communal values shape African American language beyond Eurocentric linguistic paradigms.

Hardback

9781801363075

March 2027

£ 80.00 / $ 120.00

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

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

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 Configurations

Black Configurations

The Ethos of “Tradition” from Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison, Volume I

Kimberly W. Benston

Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.

Hardback

9781785278679

September 2027

£ 80.00 / $ 120.00

Black Hauntologies

Black Hauntologies

Slavery, Modernity and Spectral Re-Vision, Volume II

Kimberly W. Benston

Black Hauntologies is the second volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.

Hardback

9781785278709

September 2027

£ 80.00 / $ 120.00

Black Refigurations

Black Refigurations

Facing, Naming and Voicing in African-American Literature, Volume III

Kimberly W. Benston

Black Refigurations is the third volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.

Hardback

9781785278730

September 2027

£ 80.00 / $ 120.00

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

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

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

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

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

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