African Studies: Books
Finding Books in the Mary Idema Pew Library
Books covering African history can be found on the second floor of the Mary I. Pew Library in the section with the call number DT.
For interdisciplinary books on Africa (ex. African economies, South Africa and AIDs) run a keyword search in the catalog.
New Books @ GVSU
- Africa Is Not a Country byISBN: 9780393881530Publication Date: 2022A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022. An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers. So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories.
- Covid Stories from East Africa and Beyond: Lived Experiences and Forward-Looking Reflections byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9789956551903Publication Date: 2020
- The Challenge of African Potentials: Conviviality, Informality and FuturityCall Number: eBookISBN: 9789956551750Publication Date: 2020This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana.
- Roaming Africa: Migration, Resilience and Social Protection byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9789956551736Publication Date: 2019What happens when digital innovation meets migration? Roaming Africa considers how we understand modern-day mobility in Africa, where age-old routes strengthen the resilience of people roaming the continent for livelihoods and security, assisted by mobile communication.
- Holding the World Together byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780299321130Publication Date: 2019Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present.
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