African Studies

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

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.

This unique interdisciplinary study of biosocial medicine examines how traditional African bonesetter practices inexorably, and relentlessly, clash with ‘Western’ care protocols. These long-standing traditional vs. contemporary patient-care collisions in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe were documented over eight years via one-on-one interviews with bonesetters, their patients, and in-country orthopedic surgeons.  

The book’s primary goal is to propose local solutions for South African communities’ peace and security challenges, emphasising peacebuilding approaches. It aims to publish lessons learned from the real-life experiences of scholars and practitioners regarding solutions for preventing violence in South African communities through transformative approaches to mediation.

Human Tapestries is a book that shares the stories of individuals of African descent who drew inspiration from the classical tradition.

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.

This book examines how Algerian artist Denis Martinez, particularly through 7 murs revisités (1989), drew on Amazigh art and other marginalized visual forms to articulate alternative forms of belonging in postcolonial Algeria. By integrating these traditions into modern painting, Martinez challenged nationalist frameworks and reimagined Algerian art as a practice of cultural recognition and inclusion.

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.

This book focuses on experiences of six children from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworld’s of children.

This unique interdisciplinary study of biosocial medicine examines how traditional African bonesetter practices inexorably, and relentlessly, clash with ‘Western’ care protocols. These long-standing traditional vs. contemporary patient-care collisions in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe were documented over eight years via one-on-one interviews with bonesetters, their patients, and in-country orthopedic surgeons.