Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

アフリカにおける中国と中国人の賛否
Abidde, Sabella Ogbobode (ed.), Pros and Cons of China and the Chinese in Africa. 335 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-827>
ISBN 978-3-031-85692-1 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This volume offers a critical evaluation of China's programs and projects on the African continent, zooming in on: (a) whether China is preying on states and societies on the continent or, if indeed, she is a benevolent partner on the continent; (b) whether many of the projects are undeniably integral to the growth and development of the continent, or are mostly white elephant projects; (c) examine the cost-benefit of China's involvement on the continent economic and political space; and (d) why Euro-America countries complain about the role and place of China in Africa? Bringing together mostly African scholars, the research underlines the key pros and cons of China and the Chinese involvement in the continent.

Coetzee, Wayne Stephen / Putter, Dries (eds.), Drones in the African Battlespaces. (Southern Space Studies) 186 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <749-863>
ISBN 978-3-031-87146-7 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book, a collaborative endeavour by experts from various disciplines, meticulously investigates the increasing reliance on drones in conflicts across Africa, delving into their geopolitical, tactical, and ethical ramifications. By emphasising African perspectives, it examines the distinct dynamics of the region, highlighting the interactions between state actors, non-state actors, and external powers. The contributions explore the proliferation of armed and unarmed drones and their deployment by violent non-state actors alongside the rise of indigenous drone manufacturing. Topics include counterterrorism, sovereignty, and regional stability. The analysis is enriched with in-depth case studies, offering a nuanced understanding of the tactical, operational, and strategic implications of drones in African battlespaces. The book underscores the potential of drones to address Africa's unique security challenges, such as irregular warfare and porous borders, while also raising ethical concerns related to surveillance, civilian casualties, and dual-use technologies. Drones in the African battlespaces provide a timely, comprehensive examination of how unmanned systems are reshaping warfare and security across the continent, inviting policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to critically engage with the implications of this technological shift for Africa's future.

サヘルの安全保障化－外部の介入とその帰結分析
Wilen, Nina, Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences. (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations) 272 pp. 2026:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <749-890>
ISBN 978-0-19-898066-7 hard ¥34,426.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00
ISBN 978-0-19-898067-4 paper ¥8,679.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

アフリカの政治の脱植民地化
Amoah, Michael, Decolonizing African Politics: Bridging the Contours of Debate. (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development) 205 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-996>
ISBN 978-3-031-89217-2 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book serves as a unique contribution to the curriculum decolonizing agenda currently trending in universities. It approaches Politics and International Relations from the postcolonial and decolonial perspectives with empirical rebuttals to existing imperial and neocolonial false narratives. It examines key concepts and topics which regularly feature when teaching or discussing Africa at universities, such as: nationhood and nationalisms; neo-patrimonialism; arbitrary borders and tribes; francafrique; superpower relations; relationships with China & Russia; South-South cooperation and collaborations; foreign interventions; global justice; global governance and reform of the UN Security Council. This book explores the etymologies of these concepts or topics and their terminological application to Africa while bringing fresh perspectives to the debate. It appeals to scholars and students of African politics and international relations, and functions as a graduate and advanced under-graduate pedagogical tool.

Bester, Vidette, The Untold Story of Zama Zama Miners in South Africa: Unearthing Hope. (Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice) 160 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-999>
ISBN 978-3-031-82782-2 hard ¥24,746.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book results from a decade of in-depth research on the complexities of Zama Zama mining in South Africa, which has become a pressing issue of late. It critiques the overly simplistic portrayal of the miners negatively and as illegal immigrants. Through a sociological lens, this book explores the broader socio-economic conditions, the profound impact of South Africa's mining history, particularly the migrant labor system, on today's Zama Zama miners, and the role of women in the sector. This book is not just about mining; it interrogates issues around language, poverty, and power. It challenges dominant societal narratives and examines how labels can further marginalize vulnerable groups. Inspired by the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault on classification and language, the book questions who holds the power to label and shape mainstream discourses. Amplifying the voices of the Zama Zamas themselves, the book transforms the conversation around Zama Zama mining in South Africa and beyond, providing fresh insights into this complex and marginalized sector. This book is more than an original and insightful study on informal mining - it offers practical initiatives for businesses, government, and civil society to engage with and address this marginalized sector more sustainably.

el Nabolsy, Zeyad, Paulin Hountondji and the Science Question in Africa. (Political Epistemology) 161 pp. 2025:6 (Springer, GW) <749-70>
ISBN 978-3-031-89774-0 hard ¥27,221.- (税込) EUR 109.99

Mnisi, Sindiso, Alter-Native Constitutionalism: Common-ing 'Common' Law, Transforming Property in South Africa. (Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law) 290 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <749-531>
ISBN 978-1-009-31191-5 hard ¥28,930.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

South Africa presents the perplexing paradox of arguably having the most progressive Constitution in the world, marked by full-throated socio-economic rights protection, while also being one of the most unequal countries in the world. This book takes seriously increasing sociopolitical challenges to the legitimacy of South Africa's post-apartheid legal order and scorching critiques of the constitutional settlement, against which many in the legal establishment bristle. Sindiso Mnisi develops 'Alter-Native Constitutionalism,' which is distinguished by equitable amalgamation of customary and common law with vernacular (or 'living') law, as a more compelling and just model for South Africa to adopt in its future than the legal pluralism that largely represents the afterlives of colonialism. This book draws on and contributes to international debates about the role of law in decolonising post-colonial orders and economic redistribution, addressing issues of poverty and inequality, gender, race, indigeneity, and customary vs vernacular law.

Ayelazuno, Jasper Abembia / Aziabah, Maxwell Akansina, State Capture in the Militarized Fight Against Illegal Small-Scale Goldmining in Ghana. 160 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-608>
ISBN 978-3-031-82672-6 hard ¥9,896.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This slim book addresses one of the most vexed questions about governance and politics in natural resources-rich, albeit poor, countries across the world. Why have most states in natural resources-rich developing countries failed to regulate their artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) industries? This failure is both intellectually and politically puzzling, because these same states demonstrate capability in different functions and regulations of other sectors of the economy. Ghana is a quintessential example of this puzzle. Despite its legendary reputation as a relatively well-governed, peaceful, and democratic country, its ASGM sector is characterized predominantly by informality, criminality, and horrendous environmental and human-development effects, which include the ferocious denuding of the country's vegetation cover, toxic pollution of water bodies, and serious health and safety hazards inflicted on the rural populace in mining areas. This book seeks to contribute a fresh state-theoretical perspective, state capture, to unravel this puzzle. It argues that the chaotic, criminal, and ruinous Ghanaian ASGM sector - known in Ghanaian parlance as the galamsey menace - is caused by state capture. The Ghanaian state has been captured by the mining power-elites, something that allows them to undertake criminal and destructive mining with impunity. These state captors are not doing artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), but rather capitalist mechanized mining (CMM), which ravages the environment on a large scale and with breakneck speed. State capture in Ghana's ASGM sector is demonstrated clearly in the book through vivid description and rigorous analysis of the failed militarised fight against the galamsey menace between 2017 and 2022. This is the period the Head-of-State and Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) vowed to fight and defeat the perpetrators of this crime at the risk of losing his presidency. He then declared war on the perpetrators and commandeered the coercive apparatuses of state, led by the GAF, to fight it. The book argues that the state failed spectacularly to win this war, the evidence of which is the aggravation of the deleterious environmental and human effects of galamsey. For example, the rivers and water bodies of Ghana have witnessed unprecedented levels of poisoning with lethal chemicals. The rural populace in mining communities is inflicted with serious maternal and neonatal health hazards, such as hideous congenital and physical disorders of some babies born in these communities, and sadly, the deaths of these babies. Why, despite its overwhelming coercive capacity, did the Ghanaian state fail to win a war against a weak enemy: galamsey operators, who are mostly unarmed civilians, and operating in plain sight of state agencies? Using the lens of state captured, this book addressed this question, offering fascinating and penetrating insights into the puzzle. Being the first to do this, the book contributes to advancing theory, methods, and political praxis in the study and governance of the ASM industry in Ghana. As failed military crackdowns on illegal ASM are common across natural resources-rich developing countries, the contribution this book makes may be germane to these countries in, say, Latin America and Asia.

Zhou, Amy, Unequal Worlds of Care: Global Health in Malawi. 275 pp. 2026:3 (U. California Pr., US) <749-305>
ISBN 978-0-520-40918-7 hard ¥20,064.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40919-4 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Global health experts are optimistic that the end of AIDS is within reach. Yet while programs to combat HIV/AIDS have been critical, they often exist alongside public healthcare systems and social conditions that struggle to gain attention and support. Unequal Worlds of Care examines how policymakers, providers, and patients in Malawi navigate a healthcare system transformed unevenly by foreign aid. The book illustrates how actors contend with global health programs that only partially recognize their healthcare realities, through methods that include political resistance, refusal of treatment, and simply leveraging opportunities within unequal systems of care. Ultimately, these official programs' disregard for fundamental aspects of healthcare produced only partial recoveries. Amy Zhou's work provides a comprehensive portrait of the human costs of institutional constraints-as well as the essential ingenuity and dignity of the people continuing to pursue care within these uncertain pathways.

Pollio, Andrea, Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital. 256 pp. 2026:1 (U. California Pr., US) <749-202>
ISBN 978-0-520-42584-2 hard ¥20,064.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41308-5 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Heralded as Africa's "Silicon Savannah"-a cradle of innovation-Nairobi has become a technology and innovation capital for Kenya and for the continent at large. With a national strategy that has prioritized digital technology for the last two decades, many Chinese digital champions, smaller startups, and investors have since chosen Nairobi as their African landing pad. Mapping the interface between Nairobi's innovation scene and China's digital presence there, Silicon Elsewhere tells a unique story of ingenuity and adaptation, failure and speculation, and hopefulness and pragmatism. Andrea Pollio's ethnography draws on interviews with cautious venture capitalists, renegade entrepreneurs, dedicated bureaucrats, and ambitious data scientists to explore the competing meanings of contemporary techno-capitalism. Moving between leafy coworking spaces and the temperature-controlled rooms of brand-new data centers, Pollio locates Nairobi among the experimental capitals, not peripheries, of techno-capitalism in the early twenty-first century.

Schewel, Kerilyn, Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia. 288 pp. 2025:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <749-203>
ISBN 978-0-19-768071-1 hard ¥27,878.- (税込) US$ 132.00
ISBN 978-0-19-768072-8 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Yuni, Denis Nfor / Iloh, Emeka C. / Ngang, Carol (eds.), Colonial Heritage and the Socio-Economic Development of Africa. 258 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-205>
ISBN 978-3-031-73694-0 hard ¥34,646.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines the influence of prevailing colonial heritage in Africa on its socio-economic development. Colonisation of Africa and resulting agreements have shaped economic, political, educational, and health landscapes that have, in turn, affected continental economic development. In revisiting the question of independence from a comprehensive and transdisciplinary perspective, this book provides insight into various aspects of economic development in Africa. The book highlights areas of caution, identifies challenges and proposes recommendations relating to development from the current constrained post-colonial framework while exploring topics such as cross-border conflict, inherited colonial governance models, foreign aid, external debt, international trade, and foreign education. This book will be of special interest to students and scholars interested in African history, development studies, international relations, and economics. This book is also relevant to development professionals and policymakers, especially those with expertise in African development.

Ndhlovu, Emmanuel (ed.), African Food Systems: Rethinking Prospects for Continental Sustainable Transformation. 420 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-255>
ISBN 978-3-031-90822-4 hard ¥37,121.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores the evolving nature of food systems in Africa, which are at crisis point. The authors present case studies from across the continent to propose innovative and contextually relevant approaches to food systems resilience and food systems sustainable transformation. They investigate the contemporary challenges to food systems in Africa, including climate change, pandemics, energy challenges and war and conflict, inside and outside Africa. This book demonstrates how approaches to food can shift away from production, consumption and value chains toward safety, networks and complexity. This book brings new insight to the challenges in food systems from many disciplines, from agriculture, tourism, health, climate science, AI and digital science, political science and economics.

Marsh, Wendell H., Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities. (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future) 312 pp. 2025:10 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-134>
ISBN 978-0-231-21070-6 hard ¥30,624.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21071-3 paper ¥7,814.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

Textual Life is a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial nation. It makes a case for a new literary and intellectual-historical approach to Islam in Africa.The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara (1864-1945) wrote History of the Blacks, a monumental history of West Africa, in a time when colonial discourses asserted that Africans lacked both writing and history. He sought to publish a bilingual Arabic and French edition of the book by working with humanists in colonial institutions, but the project was ultimately undermined by the disregard of the French state.Textual Life considers Kamara's story as a parable about the fate of the humanities amid epistemic and technological change. Wendell H. Marsh argues that Kamara's scholarship reflected what he calls the textual attitude, an orientation to the world mediated by reading. Colonial humanists shared this attitude even while upholding racial and religious hierarchies, and they took an interest in African texts and traditions. The bureaucrats and technocrats who succeeded them, however, disdained such dialogue-for reasons that bear a striking resemblance to the algorithmic antihumanism that is ascendant today.Drawing on Kamara's body of work, colonial archival documents, and postcolonial knowledge production within Senegal, Textual Life offers a decolonial vision of the humanities. By engaging with African and Muslim intellectual resources, Marsh shows how thinkers like Kamara who were subjected to colonialism can help us find a future after empire.

De Lorenzi, James, Feasting on History: Ethiopia and the Orientalists. (Columbia Studies in International and Global History) 464 pp. 2025:7 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-1001>
ISBN 978-0-231-21775-0 hard ¥33,792.- (税込) US$ 160.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21776-7 paper ¥8,448.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

During the brutal Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1936-1941), the country descended into endless counterinsurgency and mass violence, which specifically targeted local intellectuals with the sanction of Italy's leading experts. Yet these atrocities followed decades of dialogue between Ethiopian and Italian researchers, and in the postcolonial era, their successors continued to debate Ethiopia's past and future as survivors and perpetrators. This historical reckoning unfolded against the backdrop of Third World liberation, disputed colonial guilt, and the search for postcolonial justice.Feasting on History is a wide-ranging intellectual history of the Italian-Ethiopian relationship, told through the intertwined lives of Heruy Waeldae Sellase, an Ethiopian writer and civil servant, and Enrico Cerulli, an Italian Orientalist and colonial official. It takes place on the battlefields and detention sites of fascist empire, within the evolving institutions of the international system, and throughout the interlinked intellectual worlds of Europe, Africa, and the African diaspora. James De Lorenzi documents the violence perpetrated by experts across these spaces as well as the pioneering Ethiopian effort to address the crimes of empire through international law. He also explores a distinctive European tradition of Africa-focused Orientalism and its critical reception by Ethiopian, African, and Black American scholars, reconstructing a bold multilingual commentary on colonial knowledge, self-determination, and the global color line.Challenging conventional narratives of African and European intellectual history, Feasting on History vividly illuminates the links among weaponized research, colonial trauma, and the modern international order.

Makombe, Rodwell, Comedy and Satire in Zimbabwe: The Poetics and Politics of Resistance After Mugabe. (Palgrave Studies in Comedy) 257 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-1003>
ISBN 978-3-031-87432-1 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The book is about comedy, the nation, and resistance in Zimbabwe, following the fall of Robert Mugabe in 2017. It explores how satiric comedies and comic texts in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe contest hegemonic narratives of the nation and authorise alternative narratives from the margins. Drawing on postcolonial theories of the nation, it analyses subversive comedies and social media texts that contest official political narratives in Zimbabwe, including the comedies of four Zimbabwean comedians-Kapfupi and Marabha, Doc Vikela, and Sabhuku Vharazipi-as well as social media texts on President Mnangagwa's Facebook Page and cartoons published by the Zimbabwean newspaper ZimDaily. Primarily found via social media platforms (Facebook and Youtube), these texts centre alternative views and narratives of ordinary citizens, contesting established truths and providing a counter-narration to official hegemonic discourses of the nation. Where existing scholarship on post-Mugabe politics in Zimbabwe focuses on issues such as the coup, militarisation, and discourses of "newness", little attention has been paid to the forms of resistance used in everyday discourse by Zimbabweans, and particularly via satire and comedy. These comic texts, shared by comedians and normal citizens on social media, can provide a useful alternative perspective to make sense of the politics and political performances that characterize the new political dispensation after Mugabe.

Ng'weno, Bettina Amilie, No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi. 300 pp. 2025:9 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1007>
ISBN 978-0-520-42320-6 hard ¥20,064.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-42121-9 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Nairobi, known as the Green City in the Sun, has taken shape through anti-urban ideologies that insist that the city cannot be home for most residents. Based on decades of experience in rapidly changing Nairobi, No Place Like Home in a New City traverses rivers, cemeteries, parks, railways, housing estates, roads, and dancehalls to explore how policies of anti-urbanism manifest across time and space, shaping how people live in Nairobi. With deeply personal insights, Bettina Ng'weno highlights how people contest anti-urbanism through their insistence on building life in the city, even in the current dynamic of ubiquitous demolition and reconstruction. Through quotidian practices and creative resistance, they imagine alternatives to displacement, create belonging, and build new urban futures.

Onoma, Ato Kwamena, The Undulating Capacity of the State: Autochthony and Infrastructure Development in African Cities. (Elements in the Politics of Development) 75 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <749-1008>
ISBN 978-1-009-69837-5 hard ¥14,461.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-69839-9 paper ¥4,918.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element weaves together literatures on autochthony and belonging and on African urbanism to shed new light on the ability of the African state to undertake development interventions in some of the most important urban centers on the continent. It explains variations in levels of trust in the African state that shape neighborhoods' responses to states' development interventions. Focusing on the Senegalese state's construction of the VDN 2 highway on the outskirts of the capital, Dakar, the author argues that in major African cities with colonial origins, whether neighborhoods project themselves as 'autochthonous' or 'migrant' communities shapes general attitudes toward the state and influences the capacity of the state to carry out development interventions in these areas. In these cities, states are more likely to successfully intervene in neighborhoods dominated by 'new' migrants to the city than in those neighborhoods that portray themselves as 'autochthones' of these cities.

Pelican, Michaela / Zafer, Karim / Bollig, Michael (eds.), Decolonising the Future Academy in Africa and Beyond: Institutional Development and Collaboration. (Postcolonial Studies 54) 240 S. 2025:2 (Transcript, GW) <749-1009>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7596-2 paper ¥11,137.- (税込) EUR 45.00

What does it mean to decolonise academia in Africa? Is this important project limited to the humanities? Is it a project for the future? Are there forerunners at African universities today? The contributors to this volume show different trajectories for anthropology as a discipline and for decolonising academia across the continent and beyond. They offer a variety of perspectives, especially regarding collaboration between African and German scholars in the areas of research, teaching and institutional development: While some are hopeful and take inspiration from earlier experiences of disciplinary and methodological developments in academic decolonisation and international collaborations, others remain critical and call for more radical attempts at decolonisation.

Royston, Reginold A., Pan-African Futurism: Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Development. 270 pp. 2025:10 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1011>
ISBN 978-0-520-42341-1 hard ¥20,064.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-42342-8 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Ghana has been a crucial site of encounters between the West and Africa and a historic center for twentieth-century Pan-African independence movements. Today, it has also emerged as an important node of technology-driven development in the Global South. Ghana's activist software developers and digital diaspora are redefining the role of technology, not simply as a means for economic growth, but as a tool for greater African political autonomy. In this rich ethnography, Reginold A. Royston uses the term "Pan-African futurism" to describe the redemptive ethos among technologists working on development projects on the ground in Africa today. Royston charts the explosion of mobile internet access on the African continent, growing interest in African tech entrepreneurship, and the flowering of digital transnational ties. Ghana's Pan-African futurists advocate entrepreneurship and civil society activism as a means of "hacking" the kinds of socioeconomic development that have long been advocated by NGOs. Using participant observation and interviews with tech developers on the ground and media producers in the diaspora, including in virtual spaces and with communities online, Royston provides a nuanced portrait of tech users focused on "social good" emanating from the Global South, expanding the discourse for contemporary Pan-African politics.

Seefelder, Stefan, Postkolonialer Partner?: Die deutsch-togoischen Beziehungen 1960-1993. (Geschichte der Gegenwart 39) 384 S. 2025:9 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <749-1013>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5915-4 hard ¥10,395.- (税込) EUR 42.00

Die deutsch-togoischen Beziehungen nach 1960 werden erstmals eingehend untersucht. In den 1880er Jahren errichtete das wilhelminische Kaiserreich ein ≫deutsches Schutzgebiet Togo≪, das seinerzeit als ≫Musterkolonie≪ galt. Dieser Mythos wirkte auch lange nach dem Ende der deutschen Herrschaft 1914 bis in die 1980er Jahre fort. Welche Beziehungen die Bundesrepublik und Togo vor diesem Hintergrund nach 1945 aufbauten, war dennoch bislang kaum erforscht. Stefan Seefelder zeigt erstmals, wie Togo zum Experimentierfeld der Entwicklungshilfe und einer eigenstaendigen Aussenpolitik der Bundesrepublik im Globalen Sueden wurde. Anhand zahlreicher Akten aus deutschen, togoischen und ghanaischen Archiven bietet der Autor einen fundierten Einblick in den deutsch-togoischen Austausch von der Unabhaengigkeit 1960 bis zur Einstellung der diplomatischen Beziehungen 1993. Dabei werden sowohl die gemeinsamen politischen und wirtschaftlichen Interessen als auch die Herausforderungen und das Scheitern vieler Kooperationen deutlich. Fallstudien zur Entwicklungshilfe, zur Infrastruktur der Hauptstadt Lome und zur Rolle Togos im Ost-West-Konflikt vertiefen das Verstaendnis fuer die vielschichtigen Dynamiken dieser Beziehungen.

Shearer, Samuel Joseph, Kigali: A New City for the End of the World. (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century 20) 232 pp. 2025:10 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1014>
ISBN 978-0-520-42318-3 hard ¥20,064.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40997-2 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the government of Rwanda hired U.S. and Singaporean design firms to transform the image of Kigali from a wounded city into a competitive destination for foreign investment. The results were promotional images of a post-conflict tabula rasa waiting to be rebuilt by foreign investors as an urban solution to climate change. To make this marketing image real, much of the actual city would need to be destroyed, its residents converted into consumer markets for green housing and service delivery systems. Kigali is an ethnography of a city that is being destroyed so that it can be rebuilt for the end of the world. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork with Kigali residents as they navigate the catastrophes induced by sustainable urbanism, this book offers a searing critique of capitalist solutions to climate change and an account of the city's popular alternatives to sustainable urbanism.

Wolford, Wendy, The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique. (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics) 329 pp. 2025:11 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1016>
ISBN 978-0-520-41685-7 hard ¥20,064.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41686-4 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Despite never having delivered sustained economic or social benefits, plantations have been the privileged tool of extraction and development in Mozambique for more than one hundred years. Drawing on extensive archival and qualitative contemporary research, The Plantation Ideal explores ProSavana, the 2009 trilateral megaproject between Brazil, Japan, and Mozambique, which was intended to reorganize rural land and labor for the benefit of large-scale commodity production. Offering new insights into plantation economies, histories, and landscapes, Wendy Wolford tells the story of how the largely failed pursuit of a plantation ideal has shaped agricultural science, government rule, life on the land, and community development in Mozambique from the harshest years of Portuguese colonization to the present.

Baldwin, Kate, Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa. (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <749-107>
ISBN 978-1-009-39165-8 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-009-39162-7 paper ¥8,100.- (税込) GB￡ 28.00