POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Sara Rich Dorman. Understanding Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. viii + 348 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-19-063488-9.
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Nic Cheeseman. Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xx + 247 pp. List of Tables. List of Acronyms. Index. $28.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-13842-0.
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Alex de Waal. The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power. Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2015. xii + 267 pp. Figures and Maps. Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780745695587.
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Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid. Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011–12. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii + 269 pp. Maps. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper. $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-19049938-9.
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Tom Young, ed. Readings in the International Relations of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xiv + 370 pp. Maps. Index. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-01888-5.
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GENDER
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Iris Berger. Women in Twentieth-Century Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xi + 233 pp. Maps. Photographs. References and Further Readings. $29.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-74121-7.
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ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
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Charles Piot, ed. Doing Development in West Africa: A Reader by and for Undergraduates. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. x + 222 pp. Photographs. Index. $23.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-780822361923.
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GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY
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Joost Fontein. Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2015. xxiv + 341 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. No Price Reported. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-84701-112-1.
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RELIGION
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Ousmane Oumar Kane. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. ix + 282 pp. Note on Transliteration. Notes. Glossary. Acknowledgments. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-674-05082-2. - Lamin Sanneh. Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition of West African Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Timeline. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii + 358 pp. $34.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-19-935161-9.
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Lamin Sanneh. Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition of West African Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Timeline. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii + 358 pp. $34.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-19-935161-9.
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LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, CINEMA AND ARTS
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Suzanne Preston Blier. Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxiv + 574 pp. List of illustrations. Preface. Glossary. Interviews and Correspondence. Notes. $115.00. Cloth. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 9781107021662.
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FEATURE FILMS
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Studio Malembe Maa. L’Animation Indépendante Africaine: Volume 2. 2016. 87 minutes. French, with English and Dutch subtitles. France. Les Films du Paradoxe. €19.00.
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Arzouma Kompaore, director. Hawa. 2015. 30 minutes. French and English (with English subtitles). United States. Vimeo. $5.00.
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- 13 March 2017, pp. 239-241
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Hicham Ayouch, director. Fevers. 2013. Original title: Fièvres. 90 minutes. French. Morocco/France. La Vingt-Cinquième Heure. Price not reported.
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- 13 March 2017, pp. 241-243
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Kristof Bilsen, director. Elephant’s Dream. 2014. 71 minutes. Lingala, French (with English, French, or Dutch subtitles). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dalton Distribution. €15.00.
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DOCUMENTARIES
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Annalet Steenkamp, director. I, Afrikaner. 2013. 93 minutes. Afrikaans with English subtitles. South Africa. Go Trolley Films. $9.99.
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Tunde Kelani, director. Pyrolysis or Paralysis. 2015. 3 minutes. English. Nigeria. Mainframe Film/Television Productions. No price reported.
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Rama Thiaw, director. The Revolution Won’t Be Televised. 2015. 110 minutes. Wolof and French (with English subtitles). Senegal. Boul Falle Images. €250.00.
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Carl Gierstorfer, director. We Want You to Live: Liberia’s Fight Against Ebola. Released in the United States as In Ebola’s Wake. 2015. 53 minutes. English. Germany. DocDays Productions. No price reported.
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, director. Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love. 2008. Arabic, English, French, and Wolof with English subtitles. 102 minutes, plus six special features. United States. Groovy Griot Film, in association with 57th & Irving Productions. $12.99.
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