This book examines textual representations of Africa in the Bengali nationalist and diasporic thought from 1928 to 1973.

Drawing together insights from some of the world's leading scholars of African politics, this book provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the perfect introduction to the challenges faced by African states on an increasingly turbulent world stage.

Drawing together insights from some of the world's leading scholars of African politics, this book provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the perfect introduction to the challenges faced by African states on an increasingly turbulent world stage.

Provides an approach to the study of performing arts in Africa. This text reveals the position of the arts and culture in post-independent countries as well as changes in influences and audiences. It also shows African theatre to be about aesthetics and rituals, the sociological and the political.

This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies.

Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers, AfroSurrealism argues that we have entered a new and exciting era of the black novel, one that is more invested than ever before in the cross-sections of science, technology, history, folklore, and myth.

In "after modernism" the meanings of "after" include periodisation, homage and critique. This book attends to neglected genealogies and intertexts-"high" and "low"-yet offering unacknowledged ontological, epistemological, conceptual and figurative resources.