Launch of "Afrique(s)" collection

Éditions de la MSH is launching the new ‘Afrique(s)’ collection, which aims to promote and publicise the work of African researchers and specialists in African studies.

The collection will offer a wide range of scientific approaches to understanding the issues and prospects for this complex continent.

The works included in the collection range from monographs to more general essays, from collective works to critical accounts. The emphasis is on empirical studies based on original field surveys, while promoting dialogue between specialists in North, West, East, South, Central and Island Africa. It also envisages comparative extensions into other cultural areas, particularly on issues of migration and diasporas, thus opening up to the continent's links with other regions of the world. It is also re-issuing classics on Africa, put into perspective, some translated into French for the first time.

Corps rituels, la fabrique du religieux en pays mandingue of Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon

The best introduction to the history of Africa's rich urban past:

• A reference work translated into French for the first time.
• A general introduction to African urban history
• A continental approach punctuated by detailed studies of cities such as Lagos, Abidjan, Cairo and Durban.

La ville en Afrique, une histoire of Bill Freund (translation Clémence Perrin-McCraven)

An essential study for understanding contemporary religious developments:

• A book which, by putting into perspective the relationship between Islam and a-Islamic practices, helps us to understand certain aspects of the situation in Mali today.
• A beautiful book format with over 150 illustrations