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 …

In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in
southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than …

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 …

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal
social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves …

" Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs
free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These …

“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry's
theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book …

This article exploits variation between and within countries to examine the legacy of
recorded conflicts in Africa in the precolonial period between 1400 and 1700. There are …

Savage Systems examines the emergence of the concepts of" religion" and" religions" on
colonial frontiers. The book offers a detailed analysis of the ways in which European …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the “savages at Hyde Park Corner,” an
exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances …