Volume 66 - December 2023
Contents
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Book Review
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. $130.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781108472890.
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- 17 October 2023, pp. 1081-1083
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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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WEST AFRICA
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Dorothea E. Schulz. Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali. Suffolk: James Currey, 2021. 236 pp. List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. Glossary. Bibliography. $105.00. Cloth format. ISBN: 978-1-84701-268-5.
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- 10 July 2023, pp. 847-849
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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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Niels Kastfelt. Religion and Politics in Nigeria: A Study in Middle Belt Christianity. London: British Academic Press, 1994. xii + 204 pp. $59.50. Cloth. ISBN: 1850437882.
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- 16 June 2023, pp. 850-852
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SOUTH AFRICA
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Luise White. Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. xiii + 279 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478011729.
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- 25 September 2023, pp. 1084-1085
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WEST AFRICA
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Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves and Aminah N. Fernandes Pilgrim, eds. Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. 261 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.00 Paper. ISBN: 9781793634917.
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- 18 July 2023, pp. 853-855
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Vasco Martins. Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola. London: Routledge, 2021. 196 pp. Chronology. Index. Hardcover. $136. ISBN: 9780367860868.
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- 23 October 2023, pp. 1086-1088
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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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FEATURE FILMS
Film Review
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.
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- 10 July 2023, pp. 856-857
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AFRICA - GENERAL
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Anne-Maria Makhulu. Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. xxiii + 256 pp. Illustrations. Index. $26.95 Paper. 978-0-8223-5966-1.
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- 31 October 2023, pp. 1089-1091
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WEST AFRICA
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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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Tope Oshin, director. Up North. 2018. 99 min. English/Hausa/Pidgin. Nigeria. Anakle Films, Inkblot Productions, and Netflix. No price reported.
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- 28 July 2023, pp. 858-860
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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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Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia. New York: The New Press, 2021. xii + 312 pp. Notes. Index. $18.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1620977965.
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- 04 September 2023, pp. 1092-1094
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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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DOCUMENTARIES
Film Review
Jide Tom Akinleminu, director. When a Farm Goes Aflame. 2021. 112 minutes. Danish, English, Yoruba, with English subtitles. Germany. Film Five GmbH. No price reported.
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- 10 July 2023, pp. 861-863
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Leigh A. Gardner. Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980 (Cambridge Studies in Economic History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xxii + 340 pp. Figures. Maps. Tables. Appendices. Notes. Index. $99.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-009-18110-5.
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- 05 September 2023, pp. 1095-1097
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Paul Naylor. From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2021. vi + 199 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $115. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847012708.
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- 29 August 2023, pp. 1098-1099
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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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