Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize,
interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism …

James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which
states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues …

Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and
businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic …

Dependence on others has often figured, in liberal thought, as the opposite of freedom. But
the political anthropology of southern A frica has long recognized relations of social …

Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS
builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same …

Charles Feinstein surveys five hundred years of South African economic history from the
years preceding European settlements in 1652 through to the post-Apartheid era. Following …

Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism,
indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional …

Climate variability has been causally linked to the transformation of society in pre‐industrial
southeast Africa. A growing critique, however, challenges the simplicity of ideas that identify …

This book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project,
providing a radical and critical analysis of the fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism …

The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africa provides a comprehensive, current
introduction to the key themes and debates concerning the history of this controversial …