African Studies Review

Papers
(The TQCC of African Studies Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
African Responses to COVID-19: The Reckoning of Agency?14
African Studies Keywords: An Introduction11
Knowledge and Power: Perspectives on the Production and Decolonization of African/ist Knowledges9
Decolonizing the Virtual: Future Knowledges and the Extrahuman in Africa8
African Studies Keyword: Democracy8
African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography7
Understanding Land Deals in Limbo in Africa: A Focus on Actors, Processes, and Relationships7
When Agronomy Flirts with Markets, Gender, and Nutrition: A Political Ecology of the New Green Revolution for Africa and Women’s Food Security in Burkina Faso5
Digitality and Decolonization: A Response to Achille Mbembe5
Human-Lion Conflict and the Reproduction of White Supremacy in Northwest Namibia4
From Google Doodles to Facebook: Nostalgia and Visual Reconstructions of the Past in Nigeria4
Corporate Repertoires of Control and Performances of Power in a Contested Land Deal in Senegal4
African Studies Keyword: Malaria4
African Studies Keyword: Body4
When Land Becomes a Burden: An Analysis of an Underperforming Zambian Land Deal4
“Mbas Mi”: Fighting COVID-19 Through Music in Senegal4
Mobilizing Home: Diasporic Agitations and the Global Remakings of Postwar Southeastern Nigeria4
Reassessing Africa’s New Post-Coup Landscape4
The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda: Understanding Violence in the Rwenzori Region3
The Myth of Oxford and Black Counter-Narratives3
Religious Dynamics and Conflicts in Contemporary Ethiopia: Expansion, Protection, and Reclaiming Space3
Cattle Rustling and Competing Land Claims: Understanding Struggles Over Land in Bunambutye, Eastern Uganda3
Economic Change and Occultic Sika Bone: Market Women’s Responses to Increased Financialization in Ghana3
Laughing through the Virus the Zimbabwean Way: WhatsApp Humor and the Twenty-one-day COVID-19 Lockdown3
Power and Responsibility: Royalty and the Performing Arts in Asante-Ghana3
(Mis)Understanding Urban Africa: Toward A Research Agenda on the Political Impact of Urbanization3
On Visuals and Selling the Promise of Sexual Plaisir and Pleasure in Abidjan3
Garçons ManquésandFemmes Fortes: Two Ambivalent Figures of Butch Lesbianism in Women’s Football in Cameroon3
Lost in Translation: Pro-Poor Development in The Green Revolution for Africa3
Africa/Pleasure: An Agenda for Future Work3
Vaccine Nationalism and the Future of Research in Africa3
Music as Socially Reproductive Labor: Murid Creative Practice in Dakar’s Médina3
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction2
Pastoralists and Violent Conflict along the Oromia–Somali Border in Eastern Ethiopia: Institutional Options toward Peacebuilding2
Affective Capital: Lagos and Nigerian Music Videos2
African Studies Keyword: Oil2
Serving “the Uses of Life”: Gender, History, and Food Security in a Cassava Value Chain Scheme2
Evolving An African Postcolonial Condition: Cultural Property Restitution, Cinematic Independence, Globalized NGO Compassion, and Grappling with an Elite Corruption Complex2
In and Out in Senegal: Unearthing Queer Roots in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes2
Green Eagle Nation: The Politicization of Sports Journalism in the Post-Independence Nigerian Press – CORRIGENDUM2
2020 ASR Distinguished Lecture: African Voices Matter: Reflections on Fifty Years of Historical Research in Southern Africa2
The Dilemma of Diasporic Africans: Adger Emerson Player and Anti-Americanism in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana2
Harnessing the Social Energies of Youths in Farming and Pastoral Communities in Managing Conflicts in Nigeria2
African Studies Keywords: Queer2
Zulu Poems of (and for) Nature: Bhekinkosi Ntuli’s Environmental Imagination inImvunge Yemvelo(1972)2
Fake News in the Sahel: “Afrancaux News,” French Counterterrorism, and the Logics of User-Generated Media2
“Bananas are for Women, Coffee is for Men”: Gendered Narratives of Agricultural Histories on Mount Meru, Tanzania2
Bringing to Scale: The Scaling-Up Concept in African Agricultural Value Chains2
Women’s Empowerment in Africa: Critical Reflections on the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI)2
Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture for Africa’s Agricultural Transformation2
The Paradox of Planning: Agriculture, Schooling, and the Unresolvable Uncertainty of Ideal Family Size in Rural Sierra Leone2
Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh”2
Promoting Peace and Managing Farmer-Herder Conflict: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Agogo, Ghana2
Land Reform for a Landless Chief in South Africa: History and Land Restitution in KwaZulu-Natal2
Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy2
The Curious Case of Three Male Elders: Land Grabbing, Lawfare, and Intersectional Politics of Exclusion in Tanzania2
Restitution vs. Retention: Reassessing Discourses on the African Cultural Heritage2
Dazzled by New Media: Mbembe, Tonda, and the Mystic Virtual2
“More than Disease”: Uncovering the Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Pandemic1
Chuko Esiri and Arie Esiri, directors. Eyimofe (This Is My Desire). 2020. 114 minutes. Nigeria. English, Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba. GDN Studios, Kimiera, Ominira Studios. No price reported.1
Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv + 360 pp. Maps. List of Abbreviations. Bibliography. Ind1
Shortcut English: Pidgin Language, Racialization, and Symbolic Economies at a Chinese-Operated Mine in Zambia1
Noret Joël, ed. Social Im/Mobilities in Africa: Ethnographic Approaches. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 236 pp. Illustrations. $135.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1789204858.1
COVID-19 and the Ugandan Presidential Election: Contesting Lockdown Authority in Popular Songs1
Romain Tiquet. Travail forcé et mobilisation de la main-d’œuvre au Sénégal: Années 1920–1960. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019. 288 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Sources. Bibliography1
Interview with Tunde Kelani1
Benjamin Talton. In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 212 pp. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978081221
A Mosaic of Yorùbá Ontology and Materiality of Pleasure Since AD 10001
Blessing-Miles Tendi. The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Contents. Index. Illustrations. Index. 339 pp. $130.1
Ama Ata Aidoo Challenged the Constructed Absence of African Women’s Leadership1
Global Forces, Rural Radicalism, and the Dual Transformation of Urban and Rural Protest in Africa1
The Collapse of the Gold Standard in Africa: Money and Colonialism in the Interwar Period1
1970s Drought, State Crisis, and Opportunities for Transnational River Development in the Senegal Basin1
Beads, Pixels, andNkisi: Contemporary Kinois Art and Reconfigurations of the Virtual1
Radio in Africa1
Decolonizing Science, Digitizing the Occult: Theory from the Virtual South1
Kenneth Gyang, director. Òlòtūré. 2020. 106 minutes. English/Pidgin/Bini. Nigeria. EbonyLife Films. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.1
La Maison des esclaves de Goree : à l’intersection entre histoire, mémoires et émotions1
Botswana’s 2019 General Elections: A Referendum on General Ian Khama1
Pleasures of the Nollywood Familiar and Everyday Life1
Corporate Repertoires of Control and Performances of Power in a Contested Land Deal in Senegal – ERRATUM1
Africa and the Diversity Turn1
The Potentials and Pitfalls of the “Virtual Turn”1
Staying with the Culture Struggle: The African Union and Eliminating Violence Against Women1
Making Demands on Government: Theorizing Determinants of Backyard Residents’ Collective Action in Cape Town, South Africa1
“This Mine is for the Entire Casamance Coastline”: The Politics of Scale and the Future of the Extractive Frontier in Casamance, Senegal1
Cullen Goldblatt. Beyond Collective Memory: Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives. New York: Routledge, 2021. vii + 226 pp. Bibliography. Index. $128.00.1
Odile Goerg. Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. v + 201 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $60.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978019008907-8.1
Gendering Counter-Terrorism: Kunya and the Silencing of Male Victims of CRSV in Northeastern Nigeria1
Theorizing the African Postcolony: Epistemology, Power, and Identity - Eric Lindland. Crossroads of Culture: Christianity, Ancestral Spiritualism, and the Search of Wellness in Northern Malawi. Luwin1
Communication politique et symbolique vestimentaire au Cameroun : cas de l’élection présidentielle de 20181
Decolonizing Diplomacy: Senghor, Kennedy, and the Practice of Ideological Resistance1
More Than an Intermediary: James Bannerman and Colonial Space-Making on the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast1
Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating “Customary” Ownership of Natural Resources1
Robert W. Blunt. For Money and Elders: Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 239 pp. Bibliography. Index. $27.50. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-65575-81
The Biopolitics of Media Currency: Transforming the Ghana Film Unit into TV31
Nicoué Lodjou Gayibor (ed.). Les Ewe (Togo, Ghana, Bénin), Histoire et Civilisation. Volumes 1 and 2. Lomé: Presses de l’Université de Lomé, 2021. 691 pp. Chronology. Glossary. Illustrations. Maps. Ta1
Climate Change and Conflict in the Western Sahel1
Medina Gounass: Constructing Extra-National Space in a West African Borderland1
Coloniality of Waithood: Africa’s Wait for COVID-19 Vaccines amid COVAX and TRIPS1
Aicha Macky, dir. Zinder. 2021. 82 et 52 min. Haoussa. France, Allemagne et Mali. Andanafilms. $7.00.1
Contested Truths Over COVID-19 in East Africa: Examining Opposition to Public Health Measures in Tanzania and Uganda1
Harry N. K. Odamtten. Edward W. Blyden’s Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 201
Ryan Shaffer, ed. African Intelligence Services: Early Postcolonial and Contemporary Challenges: Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2023. vii + 224 pp. Bibliography. Maps. Index. $42.99. Paper. ISBN0
Bolanle Austen-Peters, director. The Bling Lagosians. 2019. 98 minutes. English, Yoruba, Igbo, and Pidgin. Nigeria. BAP Productions. No price reported. Streaming on 9jaRocks.com.0
Daniel L. Douek. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa. London: Hurst, 2020. xvii + 509 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781849048804.0
Boukary Sawagodo. Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. xiv + 203 pp. Images. Preface. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. $27.99. Clot0
Pierre-Philippe Fraiture. Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization 1945–1960. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. viii + 320 pp. Bibliography. Index. £95.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781800340
Ericka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de Luna, editors. Tracing Language Movement in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 426 pp. List of Contributors. Index. $99.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978019065750
Alain Kassanda, director. Coconut Head Generation. 2022. 87 minutes. English. Nigeria. Ajimati Films. No price reported.0
From Pioneer Historiography to Patriotic History: Constructing Usable Pasts in Zimbabwe (1890–2018)0
Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, eds. Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 20
Phil Clark. Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiii + 392 pages. Abbreviations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. 0
Rural Radicalism and the Tactic of Third-Party Leverage: How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into Their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State0
Peter J. Hoesing. Kusamira Music in Uganda: Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. xviii + 201 pp. List of Illustrations. Notes on Languages and Orthography.0
Chief or Big-Man Politics in Post-War Sierra Leone?0
Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman, eds. Finding Dr. Livingstone: A History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2020. xvi + 542 pp. Photo0
Aicha Macky, dir. Zinder. 2021. 82 et 52 min. Haoussa. France, Allemagne et Niger. Andanafilms. $7.00 – CORRIGENDUM0
Veronica Fynn Bruey (Ed.). Patriarchy and Gender in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 248 pp. $111.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-7936-3856-4.0
Of Bonds and Commitment: In Memoriam Ama Ata Aidoo0
Recent Approaches to the Study of Health, Healing, Illness, and Care in Africa0
Victoria Ellen Smith, editor. Voices of Ghana. Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955-57, Second Edition. Suffolk: James Currey, 2018. xx + 276 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. In0
David L. Schoenbrun. The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 339 pp. 4 maps.16 illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. 0
José da Silva Horta, Carlos Almeida and Peter Mark, eds. African Ivories in the Atlantic World, 1400–1900/Marfins Africanos no Mundo Atlântico, 1400–1900. Lisbon: Centro de História da Universidade de0
Francis Musoni. Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. xvii + 201 pp. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cl0
Olufemi Vaughan. Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. xvii + 256 pp. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Index. $22.95. Paper. ISBN: 780299344504.0
Ines Johnson-Spain, director. Becoming Black. 2019. 91 minutes. German and French, with English Subtitles. Juno Films. $149 w/o or $349 w/ Public Performance Rights.0
“Welcome, Ali, Please go Home”: Muhammad Ali as Diplomat and African Debates on the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott0
Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. ix + 305 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper.0
Yusuf M. Juwayeyi. Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa. Suffolk: James Currey, 2020. vii + 242 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. $37.95 Paper.0
Gino Canella and Brian Valente-Quinn, directors. Bamba, The Taste of Knowledge. 2018. 21.55 minutes. Wolof and French (with English subtitles). Senegal. Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities/U0
Ernst Wolff. Mongameli Mabona: His Life and Work. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press; also open access. 202 pp. References. $25.00. Paper. 0
Sanya Osha. Dani Nabudere’s Afrikology: A Quest for African Holism. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2018. vii + 148 pp. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-2-86978-753-7.0
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Moritz A. Mihatsch, and Michelle M. Sikes, eds. The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. 230 pp. $21.99. Paper. ISBN:0
ASR volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Bright Spots in African Studies0
Anais Angelo. Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ix + 306 pp. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-108-49404-5.0
Katy Léna Ndiaye. Money, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc / L’argent, la liberté, une histoire du Franc CFA. 2022. 104 minutes. French and Wolof, with English subtitles. Senegal/France/Belgium/German0
Stephen L. Bishop. Scripting Shame in African Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. viii + 280 pages. Bibliography. Index. $130.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1800348431.0
Frederic Wehrey and Anouar Boukhars. Salafism in the Maghreb: Politics, Piety, and Militancy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 240 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-190
Joël Noret, ed. Social Im/Mobilities in Africa: Ethnographic Approaches. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 236 pp. Illustrations. $135.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1789204858. – CORRIGENDUM0
Todd Cleveland. Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. xviii + 196 pp. Maps. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Inde0
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction – CORRIGENDUM0
Dmitri M. Bondarenko. African Americans and American Africans: Migration, History, and Identities. Canon Pyon, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2019. 184 pp. $75.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781912385003.0
Samuel Bazawule, director. The Burial of Kojo. 2018. 80 minutes. Twi and English. Ghana. ARRAY Releasing and Netflix. No price reported.0
Elizabeth A. Foster. African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2019. 369 pp. Photos. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49.00. Cloth. IS0
Gerhard Seibert and Paulo F. Visentini, editors. Brazil-Africa Relations: Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Engagements, From the 1960s to the Present. New York: James Currey, 2019. xx + 279 pp. 0
Unthinking Thinking and Rethinking African Future(s) - Michael Neocosmos. Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward A Theory of Emancipatory Politics. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016. xxvi + 550 pp0
Reorganizing the Escudo Zone: Portuguese Monetary Policy and Empire-Union in Africa in the 1960s0
Debora Pellow. A New African Elite: Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. xi + 259 pp. Photographs, Glossary, References, Index. $135. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-80073-370
Winnifred Bedigen. Indigenous Peace Building in South Sudan: Delivering Sustainable Peace through Traditional Institutions, Customs and Practices. London: Routledge, 2023. vii + 243 pp. Figures. Intro0
Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku. United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 416 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN0
The Africa-Diaspora Orbit: Anani Dzidzienyo’s Contributions to African/Black Studies and Black Liberation0
Janet Hodgson. Black Womanism in South Africa: Princess Emma Sandile. Cape Town: BestRed (an imprint of HSRC Press), 2021. 193 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $18. Paper. ISBN: 978-1928246398.0
A Tale of Two Divestments: South Africa, Sudan, and Howard University0
Andre Odendaal, Krish Reddy, and Christopher Merrett. Divided Country. The History of South African Cricket Retold: Volume 2, 1914–1950s. Cape Town: BestRed (an imprint of HSRC Press), 2018. xiv + 4420
Ryan Thomas Skinner. Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. vii + 308 pp. $28.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-5179-1231-4.0
Faraday Okoro, director. Nigerian Prince. 2018. 104 minutes. English and Igbo. Nigeria and United States. Vertical Entertainment. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.0
Antoinette Handley. Business and Social Crisis in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 219 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Bibliogra0
Dieudo Hamadi, director. Downstream to Kinshasa. 2020. 88 minutes. Lingala/Swahili with French/English subtitles, Democratic Republic of Congo. Distributor: Andana Films. No price reported.0
Alice Elliot. The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. 204 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25. Paper. ISBN: 978-0253054746.0
Michael Wahman. Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272pp. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198872825.0
Omar Shahabudin McDoom. The Path to Genocide in Rwanda. Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvii + 384 pp. List of Figures. List 0
Melissa Thackway and Jean-Marie Teno. Reel Resistance: The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno. Suffolk: James Currey, 2020. 253 pp. Photographs and Film Stills. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. $68.98. Cloth. 0
John Lwanda. Making Music in Malawi. Lilongwe: Logos Open Culture, 2021. viii+451pp. Notes. Index. £25/MWK 20,000. Paper. ISBN 978-99960-979-2-8.0
The Empowering Bequest of AAA – 1940–20230
Chinweizu , The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and the African Elite. New York: Random House, 1975. 540 pp. $65.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780394715223.0
Konstanze N’Guessan. Histories of Independence in Côte d’Ivoire: An Ethnography of the Past. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xii + 277 pp. Acknowledgements. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-900422750
Oumar Ba. States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 204 pp. Bibliography. Index. $28.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1108738835.0
From German East African Rupees to British East African Shillings in Tanganyika: The King and the Kaiser Side by Side0
Dare Olaitan, director. Knockout Blessing. 2018. 102 minutes. English and Yoruba (with English subtitles). Nigeria. Genesis Distribution. No Price Reported.0
Jonathan Silver. The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. ix + 305. $50.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780262546874.0
ASR volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Jonas Bens. The Sentimental Court: The Affective Life of International Criminal Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 233 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Paper. ISBN: 9780
John M. Janzen. Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. xviii + 262 pp. $21.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0299325046.0
Sam Soko, dir. Toni Kamau, producer. Softie. 2020. 96 mins. English/Swahili/Gikuyu. Kenya. Distributed by Icarus Films for purchase on DVD for $29.98, to rent on Vimeo for $3.99.0
Alexander Thurston. Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 360 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $30.39. Paperback. ISBN: 90
Elara Bertho. Sorcières, tyrans, héros: Mémoires postcoloniales de résistants africains. Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2019. 520 pp. Bibliography. Index. €50.00. Paper. ISBN: 9782745350459.0
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò. Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. London: C. Hurst & Company, 2022. 368 pp. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781787386921.0
Paul Ugor, ed. Youth Popular Culture in Africa: Media, Music, and Politics. Rochester: University of Rochester Press., 2021. xi + 405 pp. $135.00. Cloth. ISBN 978-1-64825-024-8.0
Methane Extraction on Lake Kivu: Green Extractive Humanitarianism0
Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh” – ERRATUM0
David Everatt ed. Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019. ix + 327pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 9781776143443.0
Editors’ Introduction0
Erin Accampo Hern. Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2023. 189 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $26.50. Paper. ISBN: 90
Anthony Butler. Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power, Third Edition. Woodbridge (UK): Jacana Press, 2019. xvi + 496 pp. Photographs. Endnotes. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847012296.0
Akuol de Mabior, director. No Simple Way Home. 2022. 85 minutes. English. South Sudan. LBx Africa, streaming on Vimeo. No price reported.0
Toumani Sangaré and Oumar Diack, directors. Charli Beléteau, showrunner. Wara(television series). 2020. 8 episodes, 45 minutes each. French. Ashtarté & Compagnie, MJP Production, TV5 Produc0
Noah Tamarkin. Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 260 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $26.68. Paper. ISBN: 9781478009689.0
Future Knowledges : une afrotopie futuriste sans chercheurs africains?0
Kunle Afolayan, dir. Mokalik. 2019. 100 min. Yoruba. Nigeria. Golden Effects Pictures. No Price Reported.0
ASR volume 65 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
A Past That Doesn’t Rest: Domination, Violence, and the “Question of Nationalities” in Ethiopia0
“Awa ndi macheza aamai (This is women’s play)”: Examining Pleasure in Urban Malawian Women’s Social Spaces0
Zachary Valentine Wright. Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 326 pp. Map. Bi0
Neil Parsons. Black and White Bioscope: Making Movies in Africa 1899 to 1925.  Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2018. ix + 246 pp. Photographs. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1783209430
Nationhood in South Sudan Cinema: The Iconicity of Motherhood in Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home (2023)0
Kayode Kasum, dir. Oga Bolaji. 2018. 91 minutes. Yoruba, English, and Pidgin with English subtitles. Lagos. KayKas Studios/May Seven Pictures. No price reported.0
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 363 pp. List of Maps. List of Figures. List of Tables. Gloss0
Kenneth Gyang, director. Òlòtūré. 2020. 106 minutes. English/Pidgin/Bini. Nigeria. EbonyLife Films. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported. – CORRIGENDUM0
Jennie E. Burnet. To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. xxix + 277 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.95. Paper. I0
Edkins Teboho, director. Days of Cannibalism: Of Pioneers, Cows and Capital. 2020. 78 minutes. Sesotho, Fujianese, Mandarin, English, with English and French subtitles. China and Lesotho. Produced by 0
Alden Young. Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (African Studies, Series Number 140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; x + 194 pp. Bibliog0
Decolonizing Education: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges0
Michel Cahen. “Não somos bandidos”. A vida diária de uma guerrilha de direita: a Renamo na época do Acordo de Nkomati (1983–1985). Lisboa: ICS-Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2019. 398 pp. Documents. St0
Carole Ammann. Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics. New York: Routledge, 2020. xiv +220 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $52.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781032238081.0
Peter Kallaway. The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science, and Development. London: Routledge, 2020. xx + 262 pages. List of Tables. Appendices. Abbreviations. References. 0
Project Assemblages: Identity Realignment in China-Africa encounters in the Construction Industry in Congo-Brazzaville0
Martha Wilfahrt. Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300 pp. Maps. Illustrations0
Paul S. Landau. Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. 412 pp. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780821424704.0
Jadesola Osiberu, director. Isoken. 2017. 98 minutes. English, Bini, and Pidgin (with English subtitles). Nigeria. Tribe 85 Productions. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.0
Anne Reijniers, Nizar Saleh, Paul Shemisi, and Rob Jacobs. Faire-part. 2018. 58 minutes, French and Lingala. Belgium, Cordon Coffee X De Imagerie, Kinshasa, DR Congo. Kimpavita films.0
Michael Wahman. Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198872825.0
Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility and the War on Terror. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. xxiv + 462 pp. Photographs. Maps. Glossary0
Tharcisse Seminega. No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda. Davenport, Iowa: GM&A Publishing, 2019. xxiv + 294 pp. Photographs. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Pap0
Sakiru Adebayo, Continuous Past: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 196 pp. $34.95. Paperback. ISBN: 9780472056231.0
Revisiting “Miss Aidoo’s” No Sweetness Here0
Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo0
Clive Gabay. Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xi + 270 pp. List of figures. List of tables. References. Index. $105.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 90
Sheila Khan, Nazir Ahmed Can, and Helena Machado, eds. Racism and Racial Surveillance: Modernity Matters. New York: Routledge, 2022. xiii + 222 pp. Index. $42.36. Paper. ISBN: 9781032109022.0
Transnational Strategies of Legitimation in the 1990s: The Togolese Regime and its Exiled Opposition in Ghana0
Kim Shelley Berman. Finding Voice: A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press New Public Scholarship Series, 2017. 225 pp. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes0
Hamisha Daryani Ahuja, dir. Namaste Wahala, 2021. 72 minutes. Nigeria. English, Indian, Yoruba and Igbo. Netflix and Forever 7 Entertainment. Price not reported.0
ASR volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Jessica Steinberg. Mines, Communities, and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi + 282 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Inde0
Nwando Achebe. Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2020. 224 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $16.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2407-0.0
Climate Change Adaptation in The Gambia: The Role of Kanyeleng Communication and Performance0
Nomi Dave. Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics and Pleasure in Guinea. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 208 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $ 27.50. Paper. ISBN : 978-0226654638.0
Mobilizing Home: Diasporic Agitations and the Global Remakings of Postwar Southeastern Nigeria – ADDENDUM0
Joseph Tonda (translated by Chris Turner). The Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon). Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2021. 456 pp. Cloth. $45. ISBN: 9780857426888.0
Leonardo R. Arriola, Martha C. Johnson, and Melanie L. Phillips, eds. Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning and Governing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 277 pp. $85.00. Cloth. ISBN0
Mamadou Dia, dir. Nafi’s Father. 2019. Original title: Baamum Naafi. 107 minutes. Fula (with English subtitles). Senegal. Joyedidi. No price reported.0
David Boucher and Ayesha Omar, editors. Decolonisation: Revolution & Evolution. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2023. viii + 272 pp. Acronyms. Contributors. Index. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 9781770
Maggie Dwyer. Soldiers in Revolt: Army Mutinies in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xii + 183 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $89.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0190876074.0
Michaël Andrianaly, dir. Nofinofy (Dream). 2019. 73 minutes. Malagasy, with French subtitles. Madagascar and France, Les Films de la Pluie and Imasoa Films. 15€.0
Adel Abdel Ghafar. The European Union and North Africa: Prospects and Challenges. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2019. ix + 201 pp. Index. $49.99. Paper. ISBN: 9780815736950.0
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Patrick Nwosu, and Hassan M. Yosimbom, editors. Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs. Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: L0
Reiland Rabaka, ed. Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism. London: Routledge, 2020. xix + 568 pg. Index. $269.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-367-03066-7.0
Sheree René Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight, eds. Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction. New York: Tordotcom Publishing, 2022. 528 pp. $22.98. Cloth. ISBN: 978-12508330060
So Long and Farewell: An Editor’s Final Introduction0
Ken Ochieng’ Opalo. Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xviii + 276 pp. Bibliography. Index. $31.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-110
Oluwatoyin Oduntan. Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria: Beyond the Colony. New York: Routledge, 2018. x + 191 pp. Abbreviations. Primary Sources. Bibliography. Index. $160.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781130
John Campbell and Matthew T. Page. Nigeria. What Everyone Needs to Know . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 218 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $16.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-00
ASR volume 65 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Arthur Asseraf. Electric News in Colonial Algeria. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 256 pp. 12 black and white images/maps. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780198844044.0
Caroline Williamson Sinalo. Rwanda After Genocide: Gender, Identity and Post-Traumatic Growth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. vii + 227 pp. Bibliography. Index. $105.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780
Connor Ryan. Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 269 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-472-0
Mcebisi Ndletyana. Anatomy of the ANC in Power: Insights from Port Elizabeth, 1990–2019. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2020. xiv + 338 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.0
Sylvia Neame. Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa: I Look Back 30 Years. Cape Town: Best Red, Human Sciences Research Council, 2021. ix + 518 pp. Notes. Source Material. Index. $32.00. Paper. I0
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
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