Volume 59 - December 2016
Contents
GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY
BOOK REVIEWS
Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, and Dzodzi Tsikata, eds. Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2015. xx + 204 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. Paper. $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-84701-130-5.
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Casper Andersen. British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914. London: Routledge, 2011. Notes. Works Cited. Indexes. xxvii + 229 pp. $150.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1848931183.
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HISTORY
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Ronald Aminzade. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Tanzania. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xx + 424 pp. Acknowledgments. Map of Tanzania. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107044388.
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RELIGION
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Robert M. Baum. West Africa’s Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. x + 301 pp. Photographs and Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-01767-3.
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Clive Gabay. Exploring an African Civil Society: Development and Democracy in Malawi, 1994–2014. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. vii + 123 pp. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-7391-8434-9.
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, CINEMA, AND ARTS
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Jade L. Miller. Nollywood Central. London: British Film Institute, 2016. vii + 175 pp. Figures and Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-84457-691-3.
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Cedric de Coning, Linnéa Gelot, and Jonh Karlsrud, eds. The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram. London: Zed Books, 2016. xiv + 154 pp. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. $39.95 Paper. ISBN 978-1-7860-708-2.
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Elizabeth Holzer. The Concerned Women of Buduburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2015. viii + 200 pp. Bibliography. Index. Paper. $21.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5690-9.
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, CINEMA, AND ARTS
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Kofi Agawu. The African Imagination in Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 372 pp. Photographs. Discography. Videography. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-19-026321-8.
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LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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Mensah Adinkrah. Witchcraft, Witches and Violence in Ghana. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. xii + 325 pp. Maps. Photographs and Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-78238-560-8.
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MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHY
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Galawdewos. The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman. Translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. v + 500 pp. Maps. Photographs. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-691-16421-2.
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Herman J. Cohen. The Mind of the African Strongman: Conversations with Dictators, Statesmen, and Father Figures. Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing, 2015. xiii + 205 pp. Index. $24.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780986435300.
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GENDER
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Aili Mari Tripp. Women and Power in Postconflict Africa. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxvi + 292 pp. Maps. Charts. Acronyms. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Paper. $29.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-107-11557-6.
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FILM REVIEW ESSAYS
TIMBUKTU—THE CONTROVERSY - Abderrahmane Sissako, director. Timbuktu. Original title: Timbuktu, le chagrin des oiseaux. 2014. 97 minutes. In French, Bambara, Songhay, Tamashek, Arabic, and English. France/Mauritania. Worso Films.
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GENDER
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Ousseina D. Alidou. Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation and Social Change. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. xviii + 225 pp. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Glossary. Notes. References. Index. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0299294649. - Alice J. Kang. Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xvi + 241 pp. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0816692187.
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FILM REVIEW ESSAYS
BEYOND VIOLENCE IN ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO’S TIMBUKTU - Abderrahmane Sissako, director. Timbuktu. Original title: Timbuktu, le chagrin des oiseaux. 2014. 97 minutes. In French, Bambara, Songhay, Tamashek, Arabic, and English. France/Mauritania. Worso Films.
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GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY
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Benjamin Gardner. Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. xxxii +210 pp. Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8203-4508-6.
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FILM REVIEW ESSAYS
WHITEWASHED AFRICAN FILM SETS: TAYLOR SWIFT’S WILDEST DREAMS AND KING SOLOMON’S MINES - Joseph Kahn, director. Taylor Swift: Wildest Dreams. 2015. 4 minutes. English. World-Wide Release: Big Machine Records. - Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton, directors. King Solomon’s Mines. 1950. 103 minutes. English. U.S., U.K., Belgium, France, West Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, Argentina: MGM.
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GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY
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John Beardsley, ed. Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture 37. Distributed by Harvard University Press. 486 pp. 141 color illustrations, 27 halftones, 6 line illustrations, 6 tables. Bibliography. List of contributors. Index. $60.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0884024101.
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FILM REVIEW ESSAYS
BLURRING BOUNDARIES: NOTES ON ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE HOLY HUSTLERS OF BOTSWANA - Richard Werbner, director. Holy Hustlers. 2009. 53 minutes. English subtitles. United Kingdom. International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. No price reported. - Richard Werbner, director. Counterpoint One. 2011. 37 minutes. United Kingdom. Royal Anthropological Institute. No price reported. - Richard Werbner, director. Counterpoint Botswana. 2011. 45 minutes. United Kingdom. International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. No price reported.
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- 19 December 2016, pp. 311-315
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