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| | Encyclopedia of the Yoruba | | | Edited by Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi | | The Yoruba people today number more than 30 million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. Written by Yoruba experts on all continents, this encyclopedia provides comprehensive background to the global Yoruba and their distinctive and vibrant history and culture. | | |     | | | |
| | The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa | | Fighting Their Way Home | | Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer | | Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Kennes and Larmer show how the paths not taken at Africa's independence persist in contemporary political and military movements and bring new understandings to the challenges that personal and collective identities pose to the relationship between African nation-states and their citizens and subjects. | | | | | | | |
| | Spiders of the Market | | Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism | | David Afriyie Donkor | "A precise and inviting appeal to political economy, performance, and the enduring relevance of the cultural and archetypal trickster."—D. Soyini Madison, Northwestern University
The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana. | | | | | | | | |
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