"This book examines the different types and models of contract farming in the global South. It reflects on the suitability of such private marketing arrangements for various crops, markets and farmers, on the basis of an analysis of the hegemonic relations between firms and farmers, better returns on crops and the extent of contract farming prevalent." - Editor

"The African bush around Kongwa might have inspired the old Africa hands’ acronym, ‘MMBA – miles and miles of bloody Africa’. There were small patches of grassland, called mbugas, where there had once been lake beds. But the rest was a uniform low scrub of densely packed thorn bushes with the occasional giant baobab rising like an island..." - Reviewer

“A wide-ranging, exciting tour through the grounded and conceptual alternatives to colonial, top-down, authoritarian conservation that has dominated for far too long. The essays in this volume show not only what is possible for human-wildlife co-existence, but what is indeed already being demonstrated.” - Book Review

"Ultimately, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is an essential read for anyone following the movement for Black Lives. The text chronicles a portion of history we rarely ever see, while also bringing together data and deep primary source research in a way that lucidly explains the origins of the current moment." - Book Review

"Based on long-term fieldwork engagements and an extensive literature review, the study sets out to trace the trajectory of the movement in its various cultural, social and political details from its early emergence as a genuine localized popular movement ..." - Author

"The Politics of Poverty successfully provides a detailed historical account of a relatively understudied region - Southeast Tanzania - and at the same time a balanced reflection on development relevant to broader histories of colonial and post-colonial Africa …" - Reviewer

"...In a provocative, scholarly analysis Stefan Ouma draws upon his extensive research across five continents to explain and critique the 'financialization' of rural space. It is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of food and farming” - Reviewer

"In The City Electric Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state. Moving from the politics of generation contracts down to the street-level experience of blackouts and disconnection patrols, he reveals the logics of infrastructural modification and their effects on everyday life" - Publisher

".... this book raises vital social and cultural concerns relevant to individuals, families, communities and nations: the meaning of life, personhood and death; moral regimes of gender and sexuality; the complexity of kinship and familial relations; and the intersectionality of gender, class and race" - Editor