Volume 63 - December 2020
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CENTRAL AFRICA
Susan Thomson. Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. xv + 321 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Index. $30.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-300-19739-6.
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- 11 March 2020, pp. E25-E27
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FEATURE
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Rungano Nyoni (writer/director). I Am Not A Witch. 2018. 98 min. English, Cewa, Bemba, and Tonga, with English subtitles. France, Germany, United Kingdom and Zambia. Curzon Artificial Eye. $16.95.
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- 29 October 2019, pp. E38-E39
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Julia Pauli. The Decline of Marriage in Namibia: Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2019. 296 pp. List of Tables. List of Figures. Index. $55.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-3837643039.
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- 26 October 2020, pp. E57-E59
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WEST AFRICA
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Marcus Filippello. The Nature of the Path: Reading a West African Road. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. ix + 217 pp. Contents. Notes on Orthography, Diacritics, and Language. Photos. Maps. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0283-4.
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- 13 July 2020, pp. E35-E37
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WEST AFRICA
Massa Makan Diabaté. The Lieutenant of Kouta. Translated from French by Shane Auerbach and David Yost. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. xi + 113 pp. Introduction. $20.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1611862270.
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- 10 March 2020, pp. E28-E29
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WEST AFRICA
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Laura S. Grillo. An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 284 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478001553.
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- 06 May 2020, pp. E38-E40
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Herman Wasserman. Media, Geopolitics and Power: A View from the Global South. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 218 pp. Introduction. Notes. Index. $28.00. Paper. ISBN: 9-781775-822264.
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- 14 July 2020, pp. E60-E62
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DOCUMENTARY
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Rosine Mbakam, director. The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman. 2016. 76 min. French and Bamiléké, with English subtitles. Cameroon and France. Icarus Films. $348.
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- 20 September 2019, pp. E40-E42
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WEST AFRICA
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Kathleen Keller. Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. xi + 264 pp. List of Abbreviations. Note on Translations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0803296916.
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- 08 June 2020, pp. E41-E43
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WEST AFRICA
Rosalind Fredericks. Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018. xi + 200 pp. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478001416.
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- 11 March 2020, pp. E30-E31
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John Campbell and Matthew T. Page. Nigeria. What Everyone Needs to Know . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 218 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $16.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0190657987.
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- 13 November 2020, pp. E63-E64
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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
ASR volume 63 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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- 12 March 2020, pp. f1-f8
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Timothy R. Landry. Vodún: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 197 pp. Note on Orthography and Style. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $49.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0812250749.
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- 14 July 2020, pp. E65-E67
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WEST AFRICA
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xix + 278 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. £24.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1108471244.
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- 10 March 2020, pp. E32-E34
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Back Cover (OBC, IBC) and matter
ASR volume 63 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
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- 12 March 2020, pp. b1-b2
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WEST AFRICA
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Adam Mayer. Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria. London: Pluto Press, 2016. xii + 244 pp. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-7453-3657-2.
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- 14 July 2020, pp. E44-E46
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WEST AFRICA
Kate Skinner. The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics, and Nationalism, 1914-2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xv + 258 pp. List of Maps. List of Figures. Note on Orthography. Bibliography. Index. $108.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781107074637.
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- 10 March 2020, pp. E35-E37
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Terri Ochiagha. A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. 146 pp. List of Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $15.95. Paper. ISBN: 139780821423486.
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- 24 July 2020, pp. E47-E49
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Charles Piot with Kodjo Nicolas Batema. The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2019. 212 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1478003045.
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- 04 September 2020, pp. E68-E70
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Alexander Thurston. Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. viii + 333 pp. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780691197081.
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- 08 October 2020, pp. E71-E73
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