Volume 66 - Issue 1 - March 2023
Contents
AFRICA - GENERAL
Book Review
Anne Meng. Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xix + 256 pp. List of Abbreviations. List of Tables. List of Figures. References. Index. $39.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1108792479.
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- 10 January 2023, pp. 243-244
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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. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6585-6.
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- 19 January 2023, pp. 245-246
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CENTRAL AFRICA
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Reuben A. Loffman. Church, State and Colonialism in Southeastern Congo, 1890–1962. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland for Palgrave Macmillan Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, 2019. xxiii + 281 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $109.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3-030-17379-1.
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- 08 November 2022, pp. 247-249
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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. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1478015239.
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- 10 January 2023, pp. 250-252
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EASTERN AFRICA
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Bacha Kebede Debela, Geert Bouckaert, Meheret Ayenew Warota, and Dereje Terefe Gemechu. Public Administration in Ethiopia: Case Studies and Lessons for Sustainable Development. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021. 680 pg. References (by chapter). $59.00. Paper. ISBN: 78-9462702561.
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- 21 December 2022, pp. 253-254
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Paul S. Landau. Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. 412 pp. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780821424704.
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- 23 December 2022, pp. 255-256
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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 + 442 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-928246-16-16-9.
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- 05 September 2022, pp. 257-259
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WEST AFRICA
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Judith Byfield. The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (New African Histories series), 2022. xiii + 334 pp. List of illustrations. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $36.64. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821423981.
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- 11 October 2022, pp. 260-262
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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. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821423899.
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- 19 January 2023, pp. 263-265
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Leonardo A. Villalón and Rahmane Idrissa, eds. Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel. New York: Lexington Books, 2020. 230 pp. Index. $105.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1498569996.
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- 03 January 2023, pp. 266-268
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Paul Nugent. Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xx + 616 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $41.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781107622500.
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- 21 December 2022, pp. 269-270
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Timothy Stapleton. West African Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army, 1860 – 1960. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2022. x + 390 pp. Bibliography. Index. $125. Hardcover. ISBN-13:978-1-64825-025-5.
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- 12 December 2022, pp. 271-273
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Ferdinand de Jong. Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal. The International African Library. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 292 pp. List of Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-316-51453-5.
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- 22 December 2022, pp. 274-275
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FEATURE FILMS
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Sarah Maldoror, director. Sambizanga. 1972/ Restored 2022. 98 minutes. Portuguese, Lingala and Kimbundu with English subtitles. Republic of the Congo. Criterion Collection. No price reported.
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- 27 December 2022, pp. 276-278
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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.
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- 23 September 2022, pp. 279-281
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Mmabatho Montsho, director. The Groom’s Price. 2017. 25 minutes. English/Zulu. South Africa. The National Film & Video Foundation. No price reported.
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- 15 August 2022, pp. 282-284
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Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, director. Sew the Winter to My Skin. 2018. 132 minutes. Afrikaans, Xhosa, and English, with no subtitles. Somerset East and Cookhouse, South Africa. Die Gesellschaft DGS, Yellowbone Entertainment. Price depends on subscription service. Available on Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Showmax streaming services.
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- 21 December 2022, pp. 285-287
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DOCUMENTARIES
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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 KinoElektron, Day Zero Films, Kepler Film.
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- 05 September 2022, pp. 288-290
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Munyeza Eddy, director. Uncertain Future/Lendemains incertains. 2018. 71 min. French, with English subtitles. VraiVrai Films, Traces du Sud, Néon Rouge Production, Grands Lacs TV Films & TVR in coproduction with RTBF Unité documentaire. $4.95.
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- 19 September 2022, pp. 291-292
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Marie Clémence Andriamonta-Paes, director. Fahavalo: Madagascar 1947. 2018. 90 minutes. Malagasy and French, with subtitles in seven languages. Madagascar. Laterit Productions. $3.99 on Vimeo.
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- 22 December 2022, pp. 293-295
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