Africa – new journal issues
All four issues of Africa Vol. 78 (2008) are now published. For details of the current issue, see Edinburgh University Press .
Special Issue: Knowledge in Practice: Expertise and the Transmission of Knowledge. Edited by Kai Kresse and Trevor Marchand.
This volume focuses on the study of knowledge in Africa. From the perspective of Africa as a self-confident, forward-looking centre of knowledge-production, the authors engage with knowledge in practice, and a multiplicity of channels for the constitution of knowledge and the negotiation of expertise are explored. See the full Table of Contents.
For details of a launch event see Africa – special issue – launch.
Africa Bibliography 2007
Edited by T. A. Barringer.
A new volume of the institute’s leading bibliographical instrument in African studies, published in December 2008, is available. The volume includes an essay from the Director General of Tanzania Library Services Board, Alli Mcharazo, Serving the bibliographic needs of scholars in Tanzania: a case study of the Tanzania Library Services Board, providing an authoritative and insightful survey of the state of bibliography and bibliographic needs in Tanzania. See Edinburgh University Press for further details.
The IAI at AEGIS 2009
The IAI annual Council meeting will take place during the AEGIS conference in Leipzig, 3-4 June 2009. The IAI-sponsored Lugard Lecture will be given by Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza on 4 June, 3-5pm.
The IAI is organising two panels at the conference: Nation-building and the politics of belonging and Africanists and the Occult.
The latter panel is linked to a new issue of the journal Africa (79/3). Two papers being presented respond to an article by Terence Ranger in Africa 77/2. Read more about this on our Africa page.
Remembering
John Middleton, Honorary Fellow, IAI
John Middleton (1921–2009)
The Institute notes and commemorates the sad and irretrievable loss of John Middleton who passed away on 27 February 2009 at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Read more.
Africa journal – special offers
The IAI in association with Edinburgh University Press is pleased to offer free access to the electronic edition of its journal Africa to libraries, research and educational and non-profit institutions in Africa. Click here for more information (PDF).
Deeply discounted subscriptions to the journal are available to ASAUK and Royal African Society members. Please contact journals[AT]eup.ed.ac.uk for further information.
African Arguments Online
African Arguments Online has been established to promote the IAI’s African Arguments series.
The International African Library
IAI author, Ben Jones, is providing in-depth background analysis to the Guardian’s ‘Katine’ development project in Uganda. Read more.
The International African Institute (IAI) aims to promote the scholarly study of Africa's history, societies and cultures. The institute realizes its aims primarily by means of scholarly publishing. Read more about us.
The IAI publishes the long established and prestigious journal, Africa , the annual Africa Bibliography , the International African Library series, the African Arguments series ; and the Readings in… series , for use in tertiary level teaching of African studies.
New titles
Readings in African Modernity
Edited by Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer, Peter Pels
Scholars have felt the urgency to understand modernity in present-day Africa, and have tried to make sense of these desires to ‘develop’. Yet, people often regard ‘modernity’ as an abomination as much as a blessing, and yearn nostalgically for a vanished past. These varied forms of modernity are the focus of this volume.
9780852558980, 240pp. Oct 2008, £15.95
Published for the IAI by James Currey Publishers.
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Media and Identity in Africa
Edited by Kimani Njogu and John F M Middleton
Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. Read more.
9780748635221, 320pp. Apr 2009
Published for the IAI by Edinburgh University Press .
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Obafemi Awolowo and the Making of Remo: the local politics of a Nigerian nationalist
Insa Nolte
This book examines the evolution of a distinctive Yoruba community, Remo, and the central role played in this process by the Remo-born Nationalist politician and Yoruba leader Obafemi Awolowo (1909–87). Read more.
ISBN 9780748638956 296pp.
Published for the IAI by Edinburgh University Press .
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