Volume 66 - December 2023
Contents
EAST AFRICA
Book Review
Tekletsadik Belachew. Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima’s Cinema. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 2022. 384 pp. Recommendations. Appendices. Bibliographies. Index. $48.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9956-552-75-7.
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- 10 August 2023, pp. 833-835
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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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CENTRAL AFRICA
Book Review
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué. Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 346 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780472054138.
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- 28 September 2023, pp. 1066-1068
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
Book Review
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. ISBN 978-1-928246-42-8.
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- 08 March 2023, pp. 564-565
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AFRICA - GENERAL
Book Review
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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WEST AFRICA
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Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, and Susan Kingsley Kent. The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 239 pp. List of Illustrations. Chronology of Major Events. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $150.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1843760115.
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- 14 April 2023, pp. 566-568
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EAST AFRICA
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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. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0252085819.
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- 05 September 2023, pp. 1069-1071
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Verena Krebs. Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 308 pp. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3-030-64933-3.
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- 10 August 2023, pp. 836-838
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Michelle Liebst. Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864–1926. Suffolk: James Currey, 2021. xiv + 224 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1847012753.
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- 17 October 2023, pp. 1072-1074
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WEST AFRICA
Book Review
Yusufu Turaki. Tainted Legacy: Islam, Colonialism and Slavery in Northern Nigeria. McLean, Virginia: Isaac Publishing, 2010. 210 pp. $111.98. Paper. ISBN: 978-0982521830.
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- 31 March 2023, pp. 569-571
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CENTRAL AFRICA
Book Review
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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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. ISBN: 978-1847013507.
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- 16 June 2023, pp. 839-841
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CENTRAL AFRICA
Book Review
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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FEATURE FILM
Film Review
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, writer/director. This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. 2019. 120 minutes. Sotho. Lesotho. Urucu Media. No price reported.
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- 22 March 2023, pp. 572-574
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NORTH AFRICA
Book Review
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.
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- 31 October 2023, pp. 1075-1077
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
Book Review
Pamela Reynolds. The Uncaring, Intricate World: A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley 1984–1985. Edited by Todd Meyers. Duke University Press, 2019. xiii +193 pp. Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction. Afterword. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $25.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-478-004677.
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- 17 July 2023, pp. 842-844
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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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DOCUMENTARY
Film Review
Akuol de Mabior, director. No Simple Way Home. 2022. 85 minutes. English. South Sudan. LBx Africa, streaming on Vimeo. No price reported.
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- 04 April 2023, pp. 575-577
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Susanne Verheul. Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Vii + 265pp. Photographs and diagrams. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1316515860.
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- 12 July 2023, pp. 845-846
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AFRICA - GENERAL
Book Review
Isabel Hofmeyr. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. xii + 121 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $22.95 Paper. ISBN: 978-1478017745.
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- 27 October 2023, pp. 1078-1080
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