“The face of African politics has changed significantly since the mid-1990s as more women have entered politics in both democracies and autocracies. At the same time, in authoritarian countries this has created a conundrum: these successes in attaining leadership roles for women potentially end up strengthening the very regime that violates human and women’s rights… Drawing on cross-national research in Africa and over 188 in-depth interviews in Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Mauritania, Morocco, and in two democracies, Namibia and Botswana, the book explains how and why authoritarian countries promote women as leaders in Africa” – Book Abstract

“Karim Hirji’s Artificial Intelligence, Society and Religion: Crossroads of Algorithm, Neoliberalism and Faith is a path-breaking, inspiring and challenging book on AI that will help strengthen the social movements of resistance throughout the world. It delegitimizes the ideological obfuscations of imperialism—from the crimes of Eugenics to the fantasy of a happy AI future. It takes us on a fascinating and challenging journey, warns us of the grave dangers posed by corporate AI, and prepares us for the next stage of the lifetime battle for anti-imperialist and socialist humanity” – Book Reviewer

“Challenging the conventional view of development as a linear process between developer and developee, this book reveals development as a layered and dynamic process shaped by intersecting visions and competing desires for spatio-temporal transformation. The book uses the Kiswahili concept kujiendeleza [to make oneself go] to capture the awkward, unequal, and creative connections between NGOs and the Muslim and Christian religious leaders they work with for the implementation of their plans…. Providing an innovative and nuanced theorization of development, religion, and health, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, and of faith- based development"-Author

"Alikamilisha kufanya masahihisho ya kitabu...katika hali ya maumivu makali sana Jijini London wakati akipata matibabu katika Hospitali ya St. Thomas na mauti yalipomkuta, alikuwa amemaliza. Kilichomsukuma Mwalimu kudhamiria kutafsiri kitabu hiki ilikuwa nia aliyokuwa nayo kuwa kitabu hiki kiwe kimechapishwa kabla ya uchaguzi wa mwaka 2005, ambao alihisi ungekuwa na utitiri wa wagombea....na kuwa kungetokea misukosuko mingi nchini. Alitamani sana kuuandaa umma wa Tanzania kuchagua kiongozi bora siyo bora kiongozi" - Dibaji

"In this book I am interested in how collective memory associated with the violence of the Zanzibar Revolution, and the complex political assemblages—in particular, how national identities came to be shaped by social processes and structures —that endured in its aftermath have paved the way for novel expressions of Ibadhi identity in the postcolonial and postrevolution period" - Author

“In this book, I describe the innovative practices of discards workers in Dar es Salaam, not as a normative story that focuses on depicting them as perpetrators or victims of pollution…The stories presented here aim to bring forward [their] practices and the agency … as important actors against the backdrop of those normatively celebrated in late capitalism, which are driven by liberal logics of individualism and material accumulation”- Author

“First banned, Euphrase Kezilahabi’s wonderful novel Rosa Mistika is now required reading...." Teresa Svoboda, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize; “A tremendously important novel" (Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature); “This cutting-edge translation of a book that has continuously stirred the Swahili literary scene gives us access to a world and contradictions that are rarely available in the West, at a time when we question what is translated, how, and why” (Ida Hadjivayanis, SOAS)