Global Africa
About the Book Series
This series will produce new scholarship on African experiences within the field of global history, globalization, African Diaspora, Atlantic History, etc. It is our goal to publish works that view African ideas from a global perspective and vice versa, thus placing Africa squarely within the framework of globalization, and change the perception of African people vis-a-vis the world, creating an innovative source of new works about Africa and the world.
This new series will serve several important functions. First and foremost, it will create a space for scholars and educators to find resources that aid in the understanding of Africa’s place in the world’s global and regional economic political and intellectual spheres throughout history. Second, our monographs will incorporate African experiences into broader historical theories that have hitherto marginalized Africans within the realm of global history. We aim to provide competing views of Africa’s place in various global systems can be studied in a systemic fashion without resorting to pseudo-historical themes that ultimately harm our understanding of the African past.
Most importantly, we will take up the mantle of African production of knowledge on a global scale, and emphasize how Africans, who have long been marginalized in global intellectual traditions, have shaped the very civilizations that shunned the former’s contributions. The resulting marginalization has resulted in many of the ills that African peoples face today. By redeeming the African place in the global intellectual tradition, we will also help emphasize the African political and economic past in ways that place the continent front and center in the creation of the world we all inhabit. As a result, it will form an innovative platform where scholars put forward new ideas regarding Africa’s role in world affairs that have long been overlooked and underemphasized.
For submissions and enquiries, please contact:
Toyin Falola: [email protected]
Roy Doron: [email protected]
Helena Hurd: [email protected]
Emotions in Muslim Hausa Women's Fiction: More than Just Romance
1st Edition
By Umma Aliyu Musa
March 31, 2021
This book examines the emotions expressed in Hausa women’s prose fiction in northern Nigeria, showing how Hausa Muslim women writers use fiction in their indigenous language to demonstrate and express their anger about the problems they face in a patriarchal society.Umma Aliyu Musa shows how Hausa ...
Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria: A History of Dàdàkúàdá
1st Edition
By Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah
March 31, 2021
This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the history, cultural identity, performance ...
Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola
December 18, 2020
Africa’s modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were forcefully taken away as slaves during the infamous Atlantic slave trade; to the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century where European countries ...
Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa
1st Edition
By Paul E. Lovejoy
December 18, 2020
The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.The study ...
The African Metropolis: Struggles over Urban Space, Citizenship, and Rights to the City
1st Edition
Edited
By Toyin Falola, Bisola Falola
September 01, 2020
On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, Africa. African metropolises are harbingers of the urban challenges that lie ahead as societies grapple with the fractured social, economic, and ...
Children, Education and Empire in Early Sierra Leone: Left in Our Hands
1st Edition
By Katrina Keefer
August 14, 2020
Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone presented a unique situation historically as the focal point of early abolitionist efforts, settlement within West Africa by westernized Africans, and a rapid demographic increase through the judicial emancipation of Liberated Africans. Within this complex and often ...
Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria: Towards a Tradition of Nigerian Philosophy
1st Edition
By Adeshina Afolayan
August 14, 2020
What does it imply for Nigerian philosophers to conscientiously and engagingly reflect on Nigeria as a place of philosophy and as a dynamic plural context of socioeconomic, political, cultural and ethnic problems? Any answer to this question automatically constitutes the opening salvo to the ...
The Right to Development in the African Human Rights System
1st Edition
By Serges Djoyou Kamga
August 14, 2020
The right to development (RTD) seeks to address global inequities hidden in world politics and global institutions through the game of influences played by powerful actors. The negative impacts of the Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, and the subjugation of Africa through globalisation and its ...
Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Odey, Toyin Falola
December 18, 2019
A fundamental question about contemporary Africa is why does Africa remain so poor, long after the departure of the European Colonial domination and in the midst of so many natural resources? Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa provides new understandings of the persistent issue of poverty in ...
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora: Contesting History and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Toyin Falola, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
December 12, 2019
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together ...
Literature and Culture in Global Africa
1st Edition
By Tanure Ojaide
December 12, 2019
Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts ...
Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa: Fulani Migrations and Land Conflict
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Mbah
September 27, 2018
Economic, political, and ethnic favoritism are common themes in the historiography of colonial Africa. Land ownership and control, and the abilities of the respective landscapes to sustain Africa’s growing population amidst the throes of climate change, have created recurrent identity crises ...