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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction – CORRIGENDUM12
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. 8
Faraday Okoro, director. Nigerian Prince. 2018. 104 minutes. English and Igbo. Nigeria and United States. Vertical Entertainment. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.8
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 pp8
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. ISBN7
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 $3.99.6
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. Cl6
Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter, and Melanie Samson, eds. Ethnographies of Power: Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022. xi + 247 pp. 3 illustrations. Index. 5
The Collapse of the Gold Standard in Africa: Money and Colonialism in the Interwar Period4
Martha Wilfahrt. Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300 pp. Maps. Illustrations4
Susanna L. Sacks. Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. 215 pp. Notes. Index. $99.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781625347688.4
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: 978-0-194
Yahya Sseremba. America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda. New York: Routledge, 2023. 216 pp. $136.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032412085.4
Jörn Ahrens and Ernst Halbmayer, eds. Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa: Social and Cultural Dimensions. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. 224 pp. $180.00 Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-032-01852-2.4
Gino Vlavonou. Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 243 pp. Bibliography, Index. $89.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780299345709.4
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. Bibliogra4
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. IS4
1970s Drought, State Crisis, and Opportunities for Transnational River Development in the Senegal Basin4
Andrew Heffernan. The Global Politics of Local Conservation: Climate Change and Resource Governance in Namibia. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. xix + 250 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Appendix4
Corporate Repertoires of Control and Performances of Power in a Contested Land Deal in Senegal4
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
Michael W. Thomas. Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 261 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $103.50. Hardback. ISBN: 9781350227408.3
Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo3
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. Clot3
Daniel Plaatjies, ed. Making Institutions Work in South Africa. Cape Town: Best Red, 2021. viii + 240 pp. Foreword. List of Tables and Figures. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-928246-36-7.3
The Curious Case of Three Male Elders: Land Grabbing, Lawfare, and Intersectional Politics of Exclusion in Tanzania3
“A Reason Not to Belong”: Political Decentralization, Intercommunal Relations, and Changing Identities in Northeastern Uganda3
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. Pap3
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: 780299344504.3
(Re)negotiating State Authority: How Hinterland Protests against Global Capital Impact the Mediating Role of Traditional Rulers in Postcolonial Sierra Leone3
Africa and the Possibility of Philosophy: Paulin Hountondji’s Intellectual Legacy3
Yusufu Turaki. Tainted Legacy: Islam, Colonialism and Slavery in Northern Nigeria. McLean, Virginia: Isaac Publishing, 2010. 210 pp. $111.98. Paper. ISBN: 978-0982521830.3
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: 9781912385003.3
Aicha Macky, dir. Zinder. 2021. 82 et 52 min. Haoussa. France, Allemagne et Mali. Andanafilms. $7.00.3
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.3
Sarah Quesada. The Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature by Sarah Quesada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 302 pp. $99.99. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1316514351.2
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, writer/director. This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. 2019. 120 minutes. Sotho. Lesotho. Urucu Media. No price reported.2
Tope Oshin, director. Up North. 2018. 99 min. English/Hausa/Pidgin. Nigeria. Anakle Films, Inkblot Productions, and Netflix. No price reported.2
Ibrahim Bangura, ed. Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa. New York: Routledge, 2023. 302 pp. Bibliography. Index. $31.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781032487793.2
Kathleen Klaus. Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xv + 357 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $120.00. Cloth. ISBN2
Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating “Customary” Ownership of Natural Resources2
Farmer-Pastoralist Interactions and Resource-Based Conflicts in Africa: Drivers, Actors, and Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding2
Aribidesi Usman and Toyin Falola. The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 496 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $39.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-107-683942
Sara Nacer, dir. La Rockeuse du désert (The Desert Rocker). 2022. 75 minutes. Arabic and French, with English subtitles. Canada. L’Equipage. No Price Reported. Available to stream on Eventive.2
Peter Wafula Wekesa. History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border. London: Lexington Books, 2023. xxi + 213 pp. Index. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Appendices. $100.2
Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi and Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi. Modern Nigeria: Understanding Modern Nations. New York: Bloomsbury, 2024. xix + 380 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 2
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: 978019008902
Michael Wahman. Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198872825.2
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: 978-0-226-65575-82
Saidat Ilo. Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. Between 2001–2011. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-62
Isaac Vincent Joslin. Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. v + 340 pp. Notes. References. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780892
Lost in Translation: Pro-Poor Development in The Green Revolution for Africa1
Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse, eds. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid 19: Transformative Resistance and Social Production. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2023. 262 pp. Index. $30.001
Tasha Rijke-Epstein. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2023. 376 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.91
Richard Reid. Shallow Graves. A Memoir of the Ethiopian-Eritrean War. London: Hurst, 2020. xxxi + 226 pp. Map. Notes. £25. Paper. ISBN: 9781787383289.1
Kenneth Gyang, director. Òlòtūré. 2020. 106 minutes. English/Pidgin/Bini. Nigeria. EbonyLife Films. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.1
Gregory Smith. Where Credit is Due: How Africa’s Debt can be a Benefit, not a Burden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Xii + 268 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. £25.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780197619971.1
Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918.1
Ndubueze L. Mbah. Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. 309 pp. List of Illustrations. Appendix: Lineage Charts. Gl1
Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks, eds. Readings in Sexualities from Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 363 pp. Notes. Index. $ 50.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-04761-8.1
Robtel Neajai Pailey. Development, (Dual)Citizenship and its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 276 pp. Illustrations. L1
African Studies Keyword:Okà1
Writing in Englishes: Taking Control of the Technology of Power through Literary Aesthetics: A Keynote Speech to the African Studies Association Conference, 20211
Maia Lekow and Christopher King, directors. The Letter. 2019. 81 min. English and Swahili, with English subtitles. Filmed and produced in Kenya. BFI Player. No Price Reported.1
The Many Faces of Pan-Africanism - Hakim Adi. Pan-Africanism: A History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xiv + 298 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1474254274.1
Reencuentros with Paulin Hountondji1
Olakunle George. African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 211 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780253025807.1
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Tshepo Moloi, and Alda Romão Saúte Saíde, eds. Guerilla Radios in Southern Africa. Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle. Lanham, MD: Rowman &am1
“More than Disease”: Uncovering the Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Pandemic1
Bernard Forjwuor. Critique of Political Decolonization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 304 pp. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198871842.1
Literary Analysis of a Memory Book by a Schoolteacher with HIV in Rural Uganda: Writing about Living with and Dying of HIV1
Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy1
Moustapha Alassane, a Retrospective of an Adventurer1
Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino, dir. Le Fardeau. 2023. 80 minutes. Central African Republic, Congo Kinshasa, France. Makongo Films. Available to stream on myCANAL.1
Thomas Hendriks. Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp. Note on Photography. Notes. References. Index. $104.95. Har1
Hélène Dumas. Sans ciel ni terre: Paroles orphelines du génocide des Tutsis (1994–2006). Paris: Editions la Découverte, 2020. 200 pp. Glossary. Bibliography. Notes. Photos. $30.65. Paper. ISBN: 978-231
Mutale Mulenga Kaunda. Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women’s Agency and Indigenous Cultural Systems. London: Lexington Books, 2024. 165 pp. $45. Paper. ISBN: 9781666926248.1
Camille Lefebvre. Des pays au crépuscule : Le moment de l’occupation coloniale (Sahara-Sahel). Paris: Fayard, 2021. 341 pp. Index. 24 €. Paper. ISBN: 978-2-213-71810-1.1
ASR volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
J. Lorand Matory. The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2018. 392 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN:1
Henry B. Lovejoy. Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xv + 219 pp. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1469645384.1
Matthias de Groof, ed. Lumumba in the Arts. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. 400 pp. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. $79.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9462701748.1
Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins. A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. 304 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Biblio1
2023 ASR Distinguished Lecture: Decoloniality and Its Fissures. Whose Decolonial Turn?1
An African Anthropocene1
Khalid Zairi, dir. Mora est là: Une obligation de mémoire (Mora Is Here: An Obligation to Remember). 2023. 87 minutes. Arabic, Tamazight, French, with English subtitles. ZK Productions. No price repor1
Daniel Tödt. The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo. Translated by Alex Skinner. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. Africa in Global History series1
Ama Ata Aidoo: A Fond Remembrance and Farewell1
John Spall. Manhood, Morality and the Transformation of Angolan Society: MPLA Veterans and Post-war Dynamics. Rochester: James Currey, 2020. xiii + 224 pp. List of Illustrations. List of Abbreviations1
Alice Diop, dir. Saint Omer. 2022. 123 minutes. French, with English subtitles. France. Srab Films (Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral), Arte France Cinéma, Pictanovo Hauts-de-France. $4.28. Avail1
Louise Meintjes. Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2017. 352 pp. 142 Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781
Catherine Boone. Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 326 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Index. Bibliography. $39.99. Paper. ISBN:1
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
Bureaucrats at Work: African Bureaucracies and Bureaucrats from the Sociological, Historical, and Political Perspectives - Mai Hassan. Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Emb1
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Antonio Allegretti, Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local-Global Interface. Winwick, Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2022. 208pp. Bibliography. Index. $821
“Faith it, till you make it”: Prosperity Gospel and Spiritual Hustling among Young Pentecostal Christians in Harare0
Adriaan Van Klinken and Ezra Chitando. Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-01970
Jacob Kurtzer. Out of Sight: Northeast Nigeria’s Humanitarian Crisis. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Humanitarian Agenda; Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 20
Kemi Adetiba, dir. King of Boys. 2018. 169 min. English, Yoruba, Pidgin, and Hausa, with English subtitles. Nigeria. Kemi Adetiba Visuals. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.0
Verena Krebs. Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 308 pp. $109.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3030649333.0
Ryan Shaffer, ed. African Intelligence Services: Early Postcolonial and Contemporary Challenges. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 294 pp. $121.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1538150825.0
Decentering the Dollar in Africa-China Trade: How Nigerian Entrepreneurs Navigate Currency Swaps and Digital Currencies in an Era of USD Hegemony and RMB Internationalization0
Simon Gikandi and R.N. Sandberg, eds. Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora. London: Methuen Drama, 2024. 413 pp. $42.25. Paper. ISBN: 9781350360
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
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
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué. Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliogra0
Popular Poesis: Language and the Pleasures of Everyday Creation0
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
ASR volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Duncan Money and Danelle van Zly-Hermann, eds. Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa 1930s–1990s. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa. New York: Routledge, 2020. v + 242 pp. Bibl0
Staying with the Culture Struggle: The African Union and Eliminating Violence Against Women0
Nationhood in South Sudan Cinema: The Iconicity of Motherhood in Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home (2023)0
George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi A. Kalu, eds. Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. xii + 242 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $100. Hardba0
Garçons ManquésandFemmes Fortes: Two Ambivalent Figures of Butch Lesbianism in Women’s Football in Cameroon0
Olivier van Beemen. Heineken in Africa. A Multinational Unleashed. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2019. xvi + 307 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9781849049023.0
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
Carl LeVan. Contemporary Nigerian Politics: Competition in a Time of Transition and Terror. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. vi + 238 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. Bibliography. Inde0
Michael Amoah. The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa. London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2019. List of Maps. List of Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. $100.00. Cloth. ISBN: 970
Alden Young. Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (African Studies, Series Number 140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; x + 194 pp. Bibliog0
Land and Living on Little in Kenya0
Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture for Africa’s Agricultural Transformation0
Daniel Akech Thiong. The Politics of Fear in South Sudan: Generating Chaos, Creating Conflict. London: Zed Books, 2021. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 217 pp. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1786996794.0
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
Mukoma Wa Ngugi. The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. 228 pp. Notes. Works cited. Index. $70.00. Cloth. ISBN: 970
Liisa Laakso and Siphamandla Zondi, eds. Political Science in Africa: Freedom, Relevance, Impact. London: Bloomsbury Publishing and Nordic Africa Institute, 2024. xiv + 272 pp. Figures. Tables. Biblio0
Tanja Bosch and Tony Roberts, eds. Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression. London: Zed Books, 2023. 227 pp. Illustrations. Index. $43.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-350-32445-9.0
Morad Mostafa, dir. I Promise You Paradise. 2023. 25 mins. Arabic with French and English subtitles. Egypt and Qatar. No price reported.0
Alex La Guma. Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966–1985, edited by Christopher J. Lee. London: Seagull Books, 2022. 581 pp. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 978-0857427892.0
Philipp Schultz. Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Northern Uganda. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. xi +195 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index.0
Kirk Helliker, Sandra Bhatasara, and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, editors. Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe. London: Routledge, 2021. xii + 195 pp. Index. $160. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-036786310
Of Bonds and Commitment: In Memoriam Ama Ata Aidoo0
Going Back to the Roots: Indigenous Language, Media Performance, and Change in Kenya0
Nicole Eggers. Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. New African Histories series. 291 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821426081.0
Dynamics of Land Governance, Extractivism, Urban Tech and Waste Infrastructures, and the Everyday State in Contemporary Africa0
African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography0
Reconciling South Africa0
Khalid Shamis, dir. The Colonel’s Stray Dogs. 2021. 73 minutes. English. South Africa. Journeyman Pictures. $7.50. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecolonelsstraydogs20
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
Zulu Poems of (and for) Nature: Bhekinkosi Ntuli’s Environmental Imagination inImvunge Yemvelo(1972)0
Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty. Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 223 pp. List of Abbreviations. Appendices. References. Index. $82.000
Mobilizing Home: Diasporic Agitations and the Global Remakings of Postwar Southeastern Nigeria0
Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, eds. Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. 0
Martin Welz. Africa since Decolonization: The History and Politics of a Diverse Continent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ix + 375 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $25.99. Paper. ISBN: 97811084650
Kwabena Gyansah, dir. Azali. 2018. 90 minutes. Dagbaani and Twi (with English subtitles). Ghana. Ananse Entertainment. No price reported.0
Anthony Egeru, Megan Lindow, and Kay Muir Leresche, eds. University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa: Community Action Research Platforms. New York: Routledge, 2023. 329 pp. Illustrations0
John Kinahan. Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert. Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. xxvi + 546 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $135. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1847012883.0
Recent Approaches to the Study of Health, Healing, Illness, and Care in Africa0
African Studies Keywords: Queer0
Natalia Telepneva. Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 302 pp. Maps. Photog0
Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré. Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 452 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $150
In and Out in Senegal: Unearthing Queer Roots in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes0
Ama Ata Aidoo Challenged the Constructed Absence of African Women’s Leadership0
Holly Elisabeth Hanson. To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. xiv + 253 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.90
Rebecca Tapscott. Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $100. Cloth. ISBN: 9780198856474.0
COVID-19 and the Ugandan Presidential Election: Contesting Lockdown Authority in Popular Songs0
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
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
Apartheid South Africa: The Narratives of Three Different Nationalistic Survivors0
Marcia C. Schenck. Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series). Cham, S0
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
Sarah Jilani. Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781399507288.0
Gabrielle Hecht. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp. 87 illustrations (incl. 85 in color). Abbreviations. Note on Usage.0
Kerry Ryan Chance. Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. vi + 184 pp. Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30
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
Money for Africa and Money in Africa: Colonial Currencies and the Making of Economies and States, 1860s–1960s0
“We Are Not Gays”: Regime Preservation and the Politicization of Identity in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe0
S.N. Nyeck. African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ix + 132 pp. Bibliography. Index. $69.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-3-319-61224-9.0
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
Botswana’s 2019 General Elections: A Referendum on General Ian Khama0
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