Ohio University Press: 522 books
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions...
The Conscript
A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature.
The...
by Saul Dubow
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
The human rights movement in South Africa’s transition to a postapartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. It was a key aspect of the political transition, often referred to as a miracle, which brought majority rule and democracy to South Africa. The country’s...
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow—microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable...
by Stacy Pratt McDermott
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
In the antebellum Midwest, Americans looked to the law, and specifically to the jury, to navigate the uncertain terrain of a rapidly changing society. During this formative era of American law, the jury served as the most visible connector between law and society. Through an analysis of the composition...
by Colin Bundy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Govan Mbeki (1910–2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political...
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770–1873
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1987
The rise of Zanzibar was based on two major economic transformations. Firstly slaves became used for producing cloves and grains for export. Previously the slaves themselves were exported. Secondly, there was an increased international demand for luxuries such as ivory. At the same time the price...
Feeding Globalization
Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600–1800
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Between 1600 and 1800, the promise of fresh food attracted more than seven hundred English, French, and Dutch vessels to Madagascar. Throughout this period, European ships spent months at sea in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, but until now scholars have not fully examined how crews were fed during...
Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean
Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today’s finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith,...
Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto weSizwe
South Africa’s Liberation Army, 1960s–1990s
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century—but it never got to “march triumphant into Pretoria.” MK—as it was known—was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa’s liberation movement, that challenged...
by Bahru Zewde
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2002
Bounded by Sudan to the west and north, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the southeast, and Eritrea and Djibouti to the northeast, Ethiopia is a pivotal country in the geopolitics of the region. Yet it is important to understand this ancient and often splintered country in its own right.
In A...
A Modern History of the Somali
Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
This latest edition of A Modern History of the Somali brings I. M. Lewis's definitive history up to date and shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organization. Lewis's history portrays the ingeniousness with which the Somali way of life has been adapted to all forms of modernity.
No Money, No Beer, No Pennants
The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The Cleveland Indians of 1928 were a far cry from the championship team of 1920. They had begun the decade as the best team in all of baseball, but over the following eight years, their owner died, the great Tris Speaker retired in the face of a looming scandal, and the franchise was in terrible shape....
African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World’s Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2010
From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity.
African...