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Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah studied law at the Universities of Zimbabwe, Craz in Austria and Cambridge. Her short fiction is featured in two anthologies, Laughing Now and Women Writing Zimbabwe, both published in 2008 by Weaver Press, Zimbabwe. In 2007, she came second in a SADC-wide short story contest judged by J.M. Coetzee. She lives in Geneva, Switzerland with her son Kush, where she works as a lawyer for the ACWL, an organisation that advises developing counties on international trade law. Her debut novel An Elegy for Easterly will be published by Faber and Faber in April 2009.

Visit Petina's blog here: http://petinagappah.blogspot.com/

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Faber and Faber (United States) and Faber Ltd. (United Kingdom) have acquired the world English-language rights to two books by Zimbabwean writer and lawyer, Petina Gappah. The two books - a collection of short stories and a novel - are set in a contemporary Zimbabwe. The collection of short stories, An Elegy of Elderly is going to be published first. It will be released in April 2009, in the United Kingdom, and in June of the same year, in the United States. The novel, The Book of Memory, is scheduled to appear in 2010. Her short fiction is featured in two anthologies, Laughing Now and Women Writing Zimbabwe, both published in 2008 by Weaver Press, Zimbabwe.

Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University in the United States. He is also the Director of Columbia's Institute of African Studies. He is the current President of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal.
Mamdani's reputation as an expert in African history, politics and international relations has made him an important voice in contemporary debates about Africa.

His book Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism won the 1998 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association of the USA.
In 2001, he was one of nine scholars to present at the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium.

Books authored by Mahmood Mamdani

Conferences speciales de la 10e Assemblee generale du CODESRIA, Kampala, 2002

Samir Amin, Mahmood Mamdani

ISBN 9782869781481 | 64 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback

General Assembly Distinguished Lectures. Kampala, 2002

Samir Amin, Mahmood Mamdani

ISBN 9782869781498 | 56 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback

Scholars in the Marketplace

The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005

Mahmood Mamdani

ISBN 9782869782013 | 316 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2007 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback

Understanding the Crisis in Kivu

Report of the CODESRIA Mission to the Democratic Republic

Mahmood Mamdani

ISBN 9782869781030 | 52 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2001 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback

Books edited by Mahmood Mamdani

Academic Freedom in Africa

Edited by Mahmood Mamdani

ISBN 9782869780309 | 388 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 1993 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback

African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy

Edited by Mahmood Mamdani, Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba

ISBN 9782869780521 | 636 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 1995 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Hardback

Uganda Studies in Labour

Edited by Mahmood Mamdani

ISBN 9782869780590 | 372 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 1996 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback

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