African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) Conference 2021

We are excited to have a virtual presence at the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) Conference 7th to 11th June, 2021. Please stop by our virtual booth and explore our VAD offerings, below.

To celebrate VAD, we are offering a 35% discount on all African Studies titles until June 30th, 2021: Use discount code VAD2021 on print and eBooks ordered through our website.

Although we cannot meet you in person this year, if you are interested in learning more about Berghahn's publishing program or have a project to discuss please contact our editors Marion Berghahn and Tony Mason to arrange for a virtual meeting.

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Featured titles

Cattle Poetics

How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

On the Edges of Whiteness

Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War

Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

We Come as Members of the Superior Race

Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Commerce as Politics

The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence

South Africa's Dreams

Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia

Religion and Pride

Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion

The Herero Genocide

War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum

Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution

NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa

Transdisciplinary Perspectives

German Rule, African Subjects

State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia

After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Afropolitan Horizons

Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

New Paperbacks

Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana

Who Knows Tomorrow?

Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan

When They Came for Me

The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner

Violent Becomings

State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique

The State and the Social

State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies

On the Path to Genocide

Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined

The Nature of German Imperialism

Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa

The Myth of Self-Reliance

Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp

Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011)

Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities

Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project

Life as a Hunt

Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape

Imperial Projections

Screening the German Colonies

Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

The Forest People without a Forest

Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon

Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity

The Decolonial Mandela

Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life

Dance Circles

Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal

Crude Domination

An Anthropology of Oil

Children of the Camp

The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

Bush Bound

Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa

Breaking Rocks

Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa

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