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Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration.

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads.

Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day.

This volume chronicles the volatile history of the resurgence of South Africa, once an international pariah, as a respected and influential African state.

Volume 2 of the first available biography of this great classical actor, covering the final years of his career.

Examines land management programs pushed by the colonial government in western Kenya between 1920 and 1963, analyzing how those programs were negotiated or contested by the local community.

A methodical analysis of relations of domination and subordination through media narratives of nationhood in an African context.

An important contribution to the debate on forms of civil society in Africa and elsewhere, and to the global literature on dissent.

A compelling account of the establishment of Tanzania's stable and ambitious government in the face of external threats and internal turmoil.

Western Frontiers of African Art navigates the problems and prospects of prometheusis in creative cultural productions. Artists, writers, musicians, and other creative practitioners share icons, ideas, images, and paraphernalia across cultures, mediums, and disciplines in many ways including borrowing, copying, adoption, adaptation, abbreviation, distortion, and even outright pilfering. Their reasons for sharing creative elements range from admiration to subversion, pedagogical innovation, criticism, hegemony, revenge, anger, fear, malice, and even pathology. Once shared these artistic materials become links and crossroads that complicate creativity and culture with prometheusis. But what is prometheusis? How does it work and how is it evaluated? Drawing on the visual arts, this book elaborates on prometheusis as a general theory of cultural exchange, productivity, and analysis. Examples focus on theintersections and frontiers of western modernity and African art. Moyo Okediji is Director of the Center for Art of Africa and its Diasporas at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of several books on African art.