Volume 63 - December 2020
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AFRICA - GENERAL
Book Reviews (Online)
Robert Launay, editor. Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 323 pp. Contributors. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780253023025.
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- 04 June 2020, pp. E10-E12
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Philip Roessler. Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa. The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 389 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $110.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107176072.
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- 06 February 2020, pp. E11-E12
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Highlife Music, Hiplife, and Leisure in Ghana - Nate Plageman. Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xvi + 318 pp. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-00729-2. - Halifu Osumare. The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xii + 219 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $33.64. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-349-43767-2. - Jesse Weaver Shipley. Living the Highlife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. xiii + 329 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5366-9.
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- 10 March 2020, pp. 436-440
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Joël Glasman. Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020. xiii + 260 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Boxes. List of Abbreviations. Index. $47.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0367464165.
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- 11 November 2020, pp. E28-E30
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CENTRAL AFRICA
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Erica Van der Sijpt. Wasted Wombs: Navigating Reproductive Interruptions in Cameroon. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. 280 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN 9780826521705.
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- 30 January 2020, pp. E13-E15
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Addendum
Hustling the mtaa way: the Brain Work of the Garbage Business in Nairobi’s Slums – ADDENDUM
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- 15 January 2020, p. 441
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Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs and Jesper Bjarnesen, eds. Violence in African Elections: Between Democracy and Big Man Politics. Africa Now Series. London: Zed Books, 2018. 320 pp. Index. $95.00 Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-78699-229-1.
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- 14 July 2020, pp. E13-E15
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Henning Melber. Dag Hammarskjöld, The United Nations and the Decolonisation of Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii + 180 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780190087562.
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- 13 July 2020, pp. E31-E33
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Yonatan L. Morse. How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxi + 336 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-108-47476-4.
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- 07 September 2020, pp. E34-E36
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AFRICA – GENERAL
Jaimie Bleck and Nicholas Van de Walle. Electoral Politics in Africa Since 1990: Continuity and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi + 331 pp. List of Tables. List of Figures. References. Index. $29.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781316612477.
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- 23 March 2020, pp. E1-E3
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CENTRAL AFRICA
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Jesse Zink. Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan: Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018. xxv + 259 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9781481308229.
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- 20 December 2019, pp. E16-E18
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EAST AFRICA
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Ned Bertz. Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Urban Space in Tanzania. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. x + 275 pp. Bibliography. Index. $59.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8248-5155-2.
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- 04 June 2020, pp. E16-E17
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Laura Fair. Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Tanzania. New African Histories. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. xiv + 452 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821422861.
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- 14 July 2020, pp. E18-E20
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WEST AFRICA
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Abena Ampofoa Asare. Truth without Reconciliation. A Human Rights History of Ghana. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. xi + 244 pp. 1 illustration. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780812250398.
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- 30 January 2020, pp. E19-E20
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AFRICA – GENERAL
Ignatius Chukwumah, ed. Joke-Performance in Africa: Media, Mode and Meaning. London: Routledge Contemporary Africa, 2018. xi + 290 pp. Illustrations. £120.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-138-06064-7.
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- 14 May 2020, pp. E4-E6
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Landry Signé. African Development, African Transformation: How Institutions Shape Development Strategy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxvii + 190 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Abbreviations. Index. $89.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1108470575.
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- 26 October 2020, pp. E37-E39
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NORTH AFRICA
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Anna Maria Di Tolla and Ersilia Francesca, editors. Emerging Actors in Post-Revolutionary North Africa: Gender Mobility and Social Activism. Studi Magrebini. Napoli: Il Torcoliere, 2017. 489 pp. Open Access. ISBN: 9788867191550.
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- 08 June 2020, pp. E40-E42
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AFRICA – GENERAL
Raoul J. Granqvist, Photography and American Coloniality: Eliot Elisofon in Africa, 1942–1972. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. xxi + 236 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9781611862362.
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- 11 March 2020, pp. E7-E9
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CENTRAL AFRICA
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Susanne Jaspars. Food Aid in Sudan: a history of power, politics and profit. London: Zed Books, 2018. xiv + 249 pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. Index. $84.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-I-78699-209-3.
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- 06 May 2020, pp. E21-E22
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WEST AFRICA
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Gaëlle Beaujean. L’art de la cour d’Abomey: Le sens des objets. Paris: Presses du réel, 2019. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. € 18.00. Paper. ISBN: 9782840663782.
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- 20 December 2019, pp. E21-E22
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