allAfrica.com: Africa: New Books From Africafocus Subscribers

Washington, DC — his AfricaFocus Bulletin has recent books (2008 and 2009) from AfricaFocus subscribers, including authors, editors, contributors, and publishers. It's a very substantial list, but I'm sure some have escaped my notice. If you are an AfricaFocus subscriber, check this out for your own books and those by the your fellow subscribers. If you are an author or editor and don't find your recently published book here, do let me know (at africafocus@igc.org), and I'll add it below.

Almost all the books below are available through Amazon, but several of the most interesting are not: Ellen Namhila's Tears of Courage, Mukoma wa Ngugi's Nairobi Heat, and the collection of papers on Southern Africa, with a special focus on Angola, edited by Nuno Vidal and Patrick Chabal. If anyone can suggest a convenient way to order these books in Europe or North America, I would most appreciate getting the information to add it below.

For other recent book suggestions and CDs, and the much wider range of books listed in AfricaFocus Bookshop, see the links at the bottom of the page.

And finally, for your enjoyment, there is one recent book urged on me by an AfricaFocus subscriber in Zimbabwe. That's The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers (http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0307407977).

Written with humor and nuance, it's well worth the read. I am by instinct skeptical of books by white Zimbabweans, and I don't often quote Time magazine, but after reading the book, I must agreed with the magazine's reviewer:

"Do we really need another memoir by a white Zimbabwean? The surprising answer is yes, if it's as good as Douglas Rogers' The Last Resort .. [it moves] beyond memoir to become a chronicle of a nation. There is black and white, yes, but much more in the shades and tones of their mix - and it is in exploring them that Rogers, too, find his art." - Time

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New Books (2008 and 2009) by AfricaFocus Subscribers (authors, editors, or contributors)

For more books by AfricaFocus subscribers, see

http://www.africafocus.org/books/subscribers.php

Adekeye Adebajo, ed., From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141725

Adekeye Adebajo and Abdul Raufu Mustapha, eds., Gulliver's Troubles: Nigeria's Foreign Policy After the Cold War

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141482

Gary Baines, Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern Africa's Late-Cold War Conflicts

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1868884562

Dorina Bekoe, Implementing Peace Agreements: Lessons from Mozambique, Angola, and Liberia

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0230602592

Iris Berger, South Africa in World History

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?019533793X

Patrick Bond et al., eds., Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141415

Gerald Caplan, The Betrayal of Africa

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0888998244

Richard Dowden, Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1586487531

Premesh Lalu, The Deaths of Hintsa: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0796922330

Martha Honey, Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, Second Edition: Who Owns Paradise?

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1597261262

Gerald Horne, The End of Empires: African Americans and India

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1592139000

Bronwen Manby, Struggles for Citizenship in Africa

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1848133529

Guy Martin and Mueni wa Muiu, A New Paradigm of the African State: Fundi wa Afrika

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0230607802

Henning Melber and Roger Southall, eds., A New Scramble for Africa?: Imperialism, Investment and Development

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141717

Getachew Metaferia, Ethiopia and the United States- History, Diplomacy, and Analysis

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?087586645X

Alois Mlambo and Brian Raftopoulos, eds., Becoming Zimbabwe. A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1779220839

Marissa Moorman, Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0821418238

Sanusha Naidu and Kweku Ampiah, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?: Africa and China

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1869141504

Ellen Namhila, Tears of courage, five mothers, five stories, one victory, Footprint Series no.3: AACRLS, Windhoek.

Not yet available through international vendors, this oral history tells the stories of five women who were involved in the beginnings of Namibia's armed liberation struggle in 1965 and suffered torture, imprisonment, daily harassment and the loss of family members at the hands of the South African occupation regime. It is available from the National Archives of Namibia.

Mukoma wa Ngugi, Nairobi Heat

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0143026178

Mystery novel set in Nairobi and Madison, Wisconsin. Not currently available from Amazon or other international vendors. Available from http://etrader.kalahari.net/referral.asp?linkid=5&partnerid=7752&sku=34626184

Wafula Okumu and Samuel Makinda, eds., The African Union: Challenges of globalization, security, and governance

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0415403499

Sue Onslow, Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0415474205

Carina Ray and Salah Hassan, eds., Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0801475945

John Saul, Revolutionary Traveller: Freeze Frames from a Life

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1894037375

Hakan Thorn, Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0230234968

Samuel Totten and William Parson, eds., A Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0415990858