Bøger i African Perspectives serien

Argues that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can hope to gain from political action. These interactions influence not only formal political behaviours, but also collective behaviour, political engagement, and subversive behaviours like tax evasion.

Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. This book demonstrates the importance of African writing to animal studies.

Situates South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.

Tells a history of photography alongside state formation to understand the process of decolonization and state development after colonial rule. At the centre of the analysis are an array of photographic and illustrated materials from Mozambique, South Africa, Portugal, and Italy.