The latest books and periodicals on books highlighting social justice issues in the African World available in the Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library.

New Books:

India in Africa Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms, by John C. Hawley (2008, Indiana University Press). Publisher's description: India in Africa, Africa in India traces the longstanding interaction between these two regions, showing that the Indian Ocean world provides many examples of cultural flows that belie our understanding of globalization as a recent phenomenon. This region has had, and continues to have, an internal integrity that touches the lives of its citizens in their commerce, their cultural exchanges, and their concepts of each other and of themselves in the world. More...

The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away, by Abdi Roble and Douglas Rutledge (2008, University of Minnesota Press). Publisher's description: The heartbreaking and hopeful story of Somali immigrants in America. Since 2003, photographer Abdi Roble and writer Doug Rutledge have been documenting the lives of Somali immigrants in the United States and of the people forced into the vast refugee camps that were set up in Kenya in the wake of the 1991 civil war in Somalia. In The Somali Diaspora, Roble, who immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 1989, and Rutledge trace the journey of a family from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, home to more than 150,000 Somalis, to new lives in the United States. More...

Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence, by Leigh A. Payne (2008, Duke University Press). Publisher's description: An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian military officer draws on his own experiences to write a novel describing the military’s involvement in a massacre during the 1970s. The head of a police death squad refuses to become the scapegoat for apartheid-era violence in South Africa; he begins to name names and provide details of past atrocities to the Truth Commission. More...

New Periodicals:

Africa Renewal (formerly Africa Recovery), October 2008, Vol. 22, No. 3 (United Nations, New York). Cover Stories--"Farm Subsidies Harvest Hope"; "Closing Ghana's Poverty Gap"; and "Africa's Partners Urged to 'Walk the Talk'". More

African Business, November 2008, No. 347 (IC Publications Ltd., London). Cover--"The Global Crunch: Is Africa Safe" featuring "Can Africa Survive?"; "From Hobgoblin to Fairy Godmother"; "Turmoil to Hit Energy Build?"; "High-Tec Rescues Gem Cutters"; and "Anatomy of the Global Crisis". More...

New African, November 2008, No. 478 (IC Publications Ltd., London). Cover--"Zuma: Domino or Dynamo?" featuring "South Africa"; "Jacob Zuma: Domino or Dynamo?"; and "The fall of Thabo Mbeki". More...

NACLA Report on the Americas, November/December 2008, Volume 41, Issue 6 (North American Congress on Latin America, NACLA, New York). Cover--"Terror Incognita: Immigrants and the Homeland Security State". More...