Curiosity and Quest for Knowledge: The Story of Keto Mshigeni
“The book is a memoir of Keto Elitabu Mshigeni, a retired academic who rose from a humble rural village to global recognition in academia. His Story is marked by a deep curiosity and dedication to understanding and conserving the world’s biological resources…..The memoir is inspirational for students, educators, professionals, entrepreneurs, and government leaders, offering a wealth of knowledge and cultural insights. Written in an engaging style, it also highlights Mshigeni’s friendships and the traditions, values, and proverbs of his Vaasu (Pare) people. His journey is especially remarkable given his challenging rural beginnings.” – Book Reviewer
Courting Courage: A story of resilience and unwavering determination in the pursuit of justice
“This is an incredible story of a life predicated on unending hope for a better tomorrow, resilience and courage that will resonate with the reader. Married early to her lifetime partner, Koome Kiragu, and navigating the pitfalls of motherhood and wifely duties with the delicate balance of studying law, which involved reading notes in matatus and writing term papers with one hand while breastfeeding with the other. She proclaims how she never needed to attend any class on feminism. “I lived it all.” - Publisher
Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
“Slow Poison is Mamdani’s firsthand report on the tragic unravelling of his country’s struggle for decolonialization. A witness to East Africa’s endlessly intricate power plays, and one of the most insightful political philosophers of his generation, Mamdani casts a learned and wary eye on Amin, internationally depicted as a buffoon; the radical scholar Museveni; and the global heavyweights that exploited and manipulated Uganda before and after its independence” - Publisher
Extra/ordinary Johannesburg: Centrality, periphery, and the spaces between
“Johannesburg, South Africa, is often associated with inequality and referred to as the quintessential ‘apartheid city’. Yet this book argues that Johannesburg, part of the highly urbanized Gauteng City-Region, is actually an ‘ordinary’ space where spatial changes both marginalize and create opportunities for people going about their live....Through deep insight into the practices and experiences of everyday life, Lindsay Blair Howe shows how cities and regions like greater Johannesburg are more than just a sum of their parts.” - Publisher
Youth Transition from School to Work in Tanzania: A Case Study of the Vocational Education and Training in Tanzania (VETA)
“Recent estimates suggest that at least 2 out of 5 youth are in a state of long-term joblessness or unemployment for a period of one year or more. In light of these observations and Tanzania’s attempts to transform its economy through among others labour market and training reforms, this book revisits the debate on youth (un)employment and skills in Tanzania. This is done by examining the institutional capacity of TVET organizations, and the desire of employers to engage TVET graduates” – Book Summary
African Perspectives on Trump 2.0: United States Foreign Policy and the New World (Re)Order (Volume I)
“African Perspectives on Trump 2.0: United States Foreign Policy and the New World (Re)Order is a timely and incisive intervention in debates about America’s changing role in the world. By foregrounding African scholars’ analyses of Trump 2.0’s foreign policy—from trade and critical minerals to immigration, aid, security, and geopolitics—this volume powerfully recentres a continent that is too often treated as peripheral to great-power politics” – Book Endorser
Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean
"This is a brilliant book. It sensitively tells the stories of seafarers on dhows traversing the Indian Ocean. We hear about their struggles with caste and class prejudice, racism and Islamophobia. The seafarers aboard dhows who navigate multiple sovereignties at sea and complex border regimes on land are rendered lovingly here, in three dimensions and with all the requisite appreciation of complexity and respect for their trajectories" - Book Reviewer
I Have a Home, There Is a We: Voice of a Stranger in a Strange Land
“I Have a Home, There Is a We, whose original Swahili edition was in 2015 the first book of poetry to win the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature.....The book explores the poet’s life as a migrant in Germany: linguistic and cultural alienation, nostalgia, and longing for his homeland on the island of Pemba. These poems form a catalog of sorrow and love addressed to the family he left behind, to the children whose roots “he tore forcefully from the ground” in hopes of offering them a better life, and above all to the country he calls home, using the deeply resonant Swahili term “kwetu”—our place—named over and over again as Zanzibar” - Publisher
Artificial Intelligence and Education in the Global South
“This open access book examines the dynamic intersection of artificial intelligence and education in the Global South, where resource constraints and demographic trends create unique challenges and opportunities. Adopting a systems perspective, it explores how AI can transform teaching, curriculum, assessment, teacher professional development, school leadership and system governance while addressing AI literacy, improving the effectiveness of education and developing transferable skills” - Publisher








