Ohio University Press & Swallow Press

01/24/2025

We're bursting with new releases to share!

Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City
By Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi

"Imagine Lagos is one of those books that appears once in a long while that seems to answer many interconnected questions that have bugged the field of African urban studies all in one fell swoop. The maps generated by some of the state-of-the art digital tools now available not only wonderfully support the research questions asked but also provide a real window into how to imagine, nay see, nineteenth-century Lagos. There is no doubt that book is going to be field-changing."—Ato Quayson

Learn more at https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821424896/imagine-lagos/

01/23/2025

NEW RELEASE!
Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960,
By Admire Mseba

Mseba details a long and neglected history of struggles over land and power and their entanglement with colonial policies in Zimbabwe. He centers land in precolonial political relations and recasts questions of land to incorporate both the inequities rooted in older forms of social difference, including kinship and gender, and those caused by the interventions of the colonial state.

Learn more at https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425893/society-power-and-land-in-northeastern-zimbabwe-ca-15601960/

01/21/2025

RECENT RELEASE!
Projections of Dakar: (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema
By Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz

This comprehensive overview of contemporary Senegalese documentary film culture features interviews with contemporary Senegalese filmmakers living and working in Dakar and analyses of the interconnections between cinema, social issues, and urban life in Senegal.

Learn more at https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780896803497/projections-of-dakar/

01/21/2025

In African Publishing, ‘There Is a Renaissance Going On’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/books/african-publishing.html?smid=bs-share
Indeed! Check out our Modern African Writing series for more great African lit: https://www.ohioswallow.com/series/modern-african-writing/?supapress_order=publishdate-desc

A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region.

01/17/2025

Hot off the press! Here's an advance look at Sense and Uncertainty, which explores the possibility and conditions of rational, practical agency in a world full of irrationality, violence, and oppression. A timely philosophical resource in the face of contemporary uncertainties.
Learn more at https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425770/sense-and-uncertainty/

01/14/2025

Spanning over 1400 miles, Ohio's Buckeye Trail may soon become a National Scenic Trail. Learn more about the effort at https://www.wosu.org/2025-01-14/what-would-a-national-designation-mean-for-the-buckeye-trail. If you're curious about hiking the trail, check out our guide book, Follow the Blue Blazes 👉 https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821421215/follow-the-blue-blazes/

Many changes have taken place in the decade since Follow the Blue Blazes was first published, changes in the trails themselves and in the way we hike them. T...

12/20/2024

Happy holidays from all of us at Ohio University Press!

Jeff Kallet Sandra Dixon Sally Welch Laura M André Beth Schmidt Pratt Tyler Balli Ricky Huard

12/17/2024

Kudos to Paul Lovejoy, recipient of a Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association! Among Lovejoy's many books is Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, which we published in 2016. Check it out 👉 https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821422410/

12/17/2024

Sale ends Friday! Get 40% off African studies books + free US shipping when you use code ASA24 at 👉https://bit.ly/oupafricanstudies

12/12/2024

It’s beginning to look a lot like ASA! African studies people, if you’re in Chicago please stop by our exhibitor booth and say hi! 40% off all books! Use promo code ASA24 at ohioswallow.com.

12/10/2024

Our annual AFRICAN STUDIES SALE is on! Get 40% OFF and FREE US SHIPPING with promo code ASA24 at ohioswallow.com. Offer valid through December 20, 2024.

If you're in Chicago, we'll be in exhibit booth 305!

African Studies Association

12/06/2024

Hot off the press: see how all four Brontë writers engaged with fairy tales in our new book! Today only, get 40% off + free US shipping with promo code SNOW. Link in bio!

12/04/2024

Act now—our holiday sale ends Friday! Get 40% off sitewide with promo code SNOW. Plus, free shipping on orders $50 and up. Shop https://ohioswallow.com ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

10/30/2024

New OPEN ACCESS title! The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014, by Melissa Graboyes, is now available for free download at the OHIO Open Library: https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/26/
Alden Library

10/28/2024

Calling all poets! Only two months left to submit your manuscripts for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize—deadline is December 31. Winner receives $1000 and book publication. Visit ohioswallow.com/poetry-prize for details on how to submit. Best of luck!

10/25/2024

This piece is a great introduction to Belinda Mulrooney: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/enterprising-woman-belinda-mulrooney-built-booming-empire-klondike-gold-rush-180985221/
To learn more, please check out our bio STAKING HER CLAIM: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur. Save 20% w/ promo code WEB at https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780804010221/

With flinty perseverance and a golden touch, Belinda Mulrooney earned an unlikely fortune in the frozen north and reshaped the Canadian frontier

10/23/2024

Did you know that Ohio has about 17,000 cemeteries? Examples from all 88 Ohio counties appear in This Place of Silence, a new photography book featuring gorgeous images by Ian Adams and Randall Lee Schieber, with illuminating text by Robin L. Smith. Thanks to Laura Maylene Walter of the Ohio Center for the Book for this engaging interview: https://ohiocenterforthebook.org/podcast/among-the-graves-in-ohios-cemeteries/
Save 20% with promo code WEB at https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780804012522/