Product Description: U.S.–Africa Relations: From Clinton to Obama is an examination and analysis of U.S.–Africa relations during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations. It covers the entire continent with an inclusion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Uganda, and Rwanda...read more

Product Description: This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region...read more

Product Description: In this fascinating study, an interdisciplinary team of scholars reflect on the complex conceptions, creation, and consumption of leisure in African cities from the nineteenth century to the present. Collectively, they bring together often unconnected modes of analysis, research, and debate on leisure in African studies and draw intriguing comparisons with leisure studies in Western Europe and North America...read more

Product Description: This book examines the role gender plays in African Studies. It discusses the challenges and difficulties women scholars face in their efforts to produce and disseminate scholarly knowledge. It begins with an analysis of the structural and institutional barriers that affect women’s productivity and publishing, and then it examines the growth and impact of women’s presses in Africa and the North and struggles to promote feminist scholarship in Africa, engender Diaspora Studies and forge productive linkages between African women on both sides of the Atlantic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)