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Fascinating TV Interview with Dr. Adams Bodomo on Africans in China + Talks at Shanghai Normal University and Tsinghua University

Cambria Press is very proud to note that Dr. Adams Bodomo–as the author of Africans in China, the first book to study this growing phenomenon (as opposed to what is usually covered: Chinese in Africa)–is now the expert to consult on this fascinating topic. His expertise comes not only from his extensive study but also his own experience from living there for...

Outstanding Cambria Press Book Review! The China Quarterly hails Africans in China as “essential reading for scholars”!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Adams Bodomo on the outstanding book review of Africans in China by The China Quarterly. The review states that: “Scholars from a variety of countries and disciplines have produced recent essays on the African presence in China … They have adopted a more nuanced approach than the media and none more so than Adams Bodomo in this pioneering, full-length...

Outstanding Cambria Press Book Review! Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade highly praised by the Journal of Latin American Studies!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on the laudatory review of Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images by the Journal of Latin American Studies. The review states that: “The scholarly quality of the dozen essays included here is uniformly high … The quality and variety of the contributions make this book a desirable purchase for research libraries,...

New Book Launched at the 2012 African Studies Association Annual Meeting!

Cambria Press author Professor Amadou Fofana’s book, The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Politics, and Culture, was published JUST IN TIME for the  2012  African Studies Association annual meeting!  ASA attendees kept asking for the book and were pleased to be able to browse it. Nobody, of course, was more pleased than Professor Fofana himself who saw his book for...

2012 African Studies Association Annual Meeting – Great Conference for Cambria Press!

Cambria Press enjoyed a great conference at the 2012  African Studies Association annual meeting in Philadelphia! In addition to the Cambria Press booth being right by the entrance, the outside back cover of the ASA program featured the Cambria Press ad and many visitors to the booth stopped by to learn more about Cambria Press books in African Studies as well as the...

African Studies Association Booth #308 and Outside Back Cover of the 2012 Program

See you at the 2012 African Studies Association annual meeting in Philadelphia! Don’t forget to see the Cambria Press ad on the outside back cover of the ASA program–there are many excellent new books featured and two new series announcements, plus there is also a 30% discount code on it! STAY POSTED! Follow Cambria Press on Twitter, like Cambria Press on...

The Memory of Slavery and Human Trafficking Today – Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present (General Editor: Ana Lucia Araujo)

This new series by Cambria Press will feature high-quality, innovative, and peer-reviewed monographs and edited books that examine the history of slavery and how its memories and legacies remain alive in various regions of the globe. With this aim, the series will include studies on contemporary slavery and human trafficking as well. The geographical scope of the series is broad. It...

Cambria Press Book Review: Public Memory of Slavery by Afro-Asia – See this book at the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia!

Public Memory of Slavery:  Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic by Ana Lucia Araujo has earned yet another rave review! Afro-Asia commends the book for having “the virtue of pioneer works” and states that “one of the most important contributions of the text is the constant confrontation between the knowledge consolidated by the historiography and the processes of memory disputes”. Be...

The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Culture, and Politics by Amadou Fofana – Discussion Questions

The following are discussion questions that the author, Professor Amadou Fofana, helpfully compiled for those who would like to use his book,  The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Politics, and Culture, for course adoption. (There are no discussion questions for chapter 1, which is an introductory chapter.) Chapter 2: Contextualizing Ousmane Sembène 1) How did the specific time period of Sembène’s...

World-renowned historian Professor Robert Maxon’s book published in time for 2011 ASA annual meeting

Cambria Press is proud to announce the publication of Britain and Kenya’s Constitutions, 1950–1960 by renowned historian, Robert Maxon. Professor Maxon’s valuable contributions to the field of African history are widely known and lauded. In fact, his accomplishments have led to the establishment of a prestigious African history scholarship in his name by West Virginia University– the Robert M. Maxon...

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