Volume 60 - December 2017
Contents
LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, CINEMA, AND ARTS
BOOK REVIEWS
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi. Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art/5 Continent Editions. 2015. 288 pp. Foreword by William S. Griswold. Preface by Constantine Petridis. Acknowledgments. Note to the Reader. Black-and-white and color illustrations. Afterword. Notes. References. Lenders to the Exhibition. Maps. $143.00. Cloth. $48.00. Paper. ISBN: 9788874396665.
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HISTORY
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Kathryn M. de Luna. Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xvii + 332 pp. Maps. Table. Photographs. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0300218534.
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- 13 July 2017, pp. 244-245
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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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- 13 March 2017, pp. 214-216
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Grace Davie. Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855–2005. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. x + 334 pp. List of Figures. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. No price reported. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-19875-2 (cloth). ISBN: 978-1-107-55173-2 (African edition paperback).
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- 05 June 2017, pp. 246-248
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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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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- 13 March 2017, pp. 216-218
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, CINEMA, AND ARTS
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Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortelot, eds. Visions from the Forest: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Minneapolis/Seattle: Minneapolis Institute of Arts/University of Washington Press, 2014. 239 pp. Black-and-white and color illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Map. Credits. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978–0989371810.
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Anjali Prabhu. Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora. Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. x + 262 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Notes. Filmography. References. Glossary. Index. Paper. $40.95. ISBN: 978-1-4051-9304-7.
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Ruth Ginio. The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. xxviii + 250 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. ISBN: 978-0-832-5339-1.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 248-249
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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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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FEATURE FILMS
FILM REVIEWS
Kemi Adetiba, director. The Wedding Party. 2016. 110 minutes. English, with Pidgin and Yoruba. Nigeria. The Elfike Film Collective. EbonyLife Films, FilmOne Distribution, and Inkblot Productions. On Netflix.
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Priya Lal. African Socialism in Tanzania: Between the Village and the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 281 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Cloth. $34.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781107104525.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 250-251
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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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Stephanie Linus, director. Dry. 2015. 1 hour, 42 minutes, 16 seconds. English and Hausa. Nigeria and United Kingdom. Next Page Productions. Subscription required on irokotv.com.
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- 17 October 2017, pp. 263-264
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Emma Hunter. Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 259 pp. Acknowledgments. Map of Tanzania. List of abbreviations. References. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781107088177.
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- 07 June 2017, pp. 251-253
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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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Emma Hunter. Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. vi + 306 pp. Acknowledgments. Postscript. Index. Paper. No price reported. ISBN: 978-0821422571.
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Leyla Bouzid, director. As I Open My Eyes/A peine j’ouvre les yeux. 2015. 102 minutes. Arabic and French. Tunisia/France/Belgium/United Arab Emirates. Blue Monday Productions. No price reported.
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- 17 October 2017, pp. 264-266
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DOCUMENTARIES
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Habib Ayeb, director. Couscous: Seeds of Dignity. 2017. 57 minutes. Arabic with English or French subtitles. Not currently in distribution. No price reported.
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- 17 October 2017, pp. 267-268
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Martin Plaut. Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s Most Repressive State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. x + 253 pp. Map. Photographs. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $21.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0190669591.
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- 13 July 2017, pp. 255-257
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