Bøger i African Articulations serien

Key study on South African writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora through intellectual histories; a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studies, politics and creativity.

WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016 The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a re-assessment of this influential group of Nigerian writers in relation to the literary culture fostered by the school and its tutors.

Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated.

Unusable pasts; scandalous lives; political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across South Africa's unfinished transition.

Reveals the importance of the jazz craze in France between the two world wars and the French construction of jazz as a "black music" - an exoticization which had wide-reaching effects on the artistic output of the African diaspora and on contemporary perceptions of black writers, musicians and film makers.

A timely analysis that provides a pre-history to current debates on decolonisation, the politics of the moving image, and artistic engagements with anti-colonial archives.

Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipExamines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s.

The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media.

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century

Traces detective fiction's history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.