ISBN-13: 9780196440774

ISBN-10: 0196440777

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Year: 1970

Pages: 536

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 3:02 p.m.

Renowned Ugandan feminist and queer rights advocate Dr. Stella Nyanzi has released her second poetry book. The racy title preempts 147 poems, ten cartoons by East Africa’s best satirists, and two essays by leading Ugandan literati involved in the liberation struggle.

ISBN-13: 9789970743001

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Kisana Consults

Year: 2017

Pages: None

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 2:56 p.m.

"In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa."--Princeton University Press. Source: Publisher Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism is a 1996 book by the Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, published by Princeton University Press. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9789970020904

ISBN-10: 9970020900

Language: English

Publisher: Fountain Publishers

Year: 1996

Pages: 353

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 2:42 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9789966466310

ISBN-10: 9966466312

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 1994

Pages: 186

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 2:36 p.m.

Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ - the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow - decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, Wrestling with the Devil is Ngũgĩ's account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art Source: Publisher Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir is a 2018 memoir by Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The book was published by the New York City-based publisher The New Press. It is an edited version of Thiongo'o's 1981 memoir, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, which was never published in the United States. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9781473523753

ISBN-10: 1473523753

Language: English

Publisher: Random House

Year: 2018

Pages: 272

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 2:30 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9789966462763

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: East African Publishers

Year: 1986

Pages: None

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 2:26 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780394713519

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Vintage

Year: 1983

Pages: None

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:50 p.m.

Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9783110437201

ISBN-10: 3110437201

Language: English

Publisher: De Gruyter

Year: 2016

Pages: 374

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:41 p.m.

“Written on the heels of Black Lives Matter, Occupy, MeToo, RhodesMustFall, this is the novel of our time—rekindling the spirit of activism and revolution. Chaotic, confrontational, direct, and relentless, Zeilig takes on the world’s deftly disguised, seemingly well-meaning, but outrightly exploitative order. Woven around the story of an itinerant writer, activist, political theorist, this is no ordinary tale of Bianca—fighting to unravel a murder—but rather a treatise on anti-capitalist struggle narrated with revolutionary urgency….” Yusuf Serunkuma Bianca Ndour is a brilliant university professor and radical thinker. Originally from Senegal, she grew up in Nigeria, in a Shell oil compound, with her sister, Maïmouna and their friend Kaarina. A terrible incident shapes her life. In the present day, Bianca becomes involved in trying to solve the murder of the global elite, and as she travels around the world, to promote her books, these murders escalate into what becomes a social movement. Troubled by her past, Bianca rages against the rich who are destroying the world. What role does she play in events that are turning the world upside down? ‘The World Turned Upside Down is a political novel, with a black, lesbian, neurodivergent, messy, lead, and a call to seize the forces of history back to their rightful owners.’ Lena Anyuolo ‘The plot is insane and racy, the characterisation lively and a little insane, the self-honesty lacerating and playful, and the ideas solid and sound.’ Tariq Goddard

ISBN-13: 9781513685083

ISBN-10: 1513685082

Language: English

Publisher: Books Farm House & Publishers

Year: 2021

Pages: 342

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:34 p.m.