Volume 63 - December 2020
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CENTRAL AFRICA
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Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Tūnisī. In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, vols. 1 and 2. Edited and translated by Humphrey Davies. New York: Library of Arabic Literature, New York University Press, 2018. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Index. $40.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1479876389.
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- 11 August 2020, pp. E23-E25
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NORTH AFRICA
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Rajeshwari S. Vallury. Metaphors of Invention and Dissension: Aesthetics and Politics in the Postcolonial Algerian Novel. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Bibliography. Index. $126.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781786603166.
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- 27 July 2020, pp. E43-E45
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AFRICA – GENERAL
Tejumola Olaniyan. State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. vii + 323 pp. Photographs. Bibliographical References. Notes. Index. $40.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780253029980.
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- 12 May 2020, pp. E10-E12
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WEST AFRICA
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Vicki L. Brennan. Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. xxi + 201 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-253-03207-2.
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- 22 October 2019, pp. E23-E25
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Christoph Kohl. A Creole Nation: National Integration in Guinea-Bissau. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. xi + 235 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $97.50. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-78533-424-5.
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- 20 December 2019, pp. E26-E28
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Zachary Kagan Guthrie. Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940–1965. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018. 225 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0813941547.
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- 08 May 2020, pp. E26-E27
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EAST AFRICA
Sarah Hillewaert. Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 302 pp. Appendix: Note on Language. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-0823286508.
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- 30 March 2020, pp. E13-E15
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HORN OF AFRICA
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Awet Tewelde Weldemichael. Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi + 238 pp. List of Figures. Bibliography. Index. $29.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1108739283.
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- 18 September 2020, pp. E46-E48
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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David Morton. Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2019. 336 pp. List of Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. Sources. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0821423677.
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- 08 May 2020, pp. E28-E29
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EAST AFRICA
Paul Ocobock. An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. xi + 356 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2264-9.
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- 15 April 2020, pp. E16-E18
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EAST AFRICA
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Derese G. Kassa. Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. 93 pp. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9-781498-570992.
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- 26 October 2020, pp. E49-E51
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Joel Cabrita. The People’s Zion: Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. 356 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780674737785.
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- 20 December 2019, pp. E29-E31
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Morgan Ndlovu. Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality. London: Pluto Press, 2019. Appendix: List of Cultural Villages in South Africa. References. Index. $65.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-7453-3859-0.
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- 11 May 2020, pp. E30-E31
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EAST AFRICA
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Constance Smith. Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging. Suffolk: James Currey, 2019. x + 210 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847012333.
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- 07 September 2020, pp. E52-E53
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EAST AFRICA
Devaka Premawardhana. Faith in Flux. Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 232 pp. Notes. Works cited. Index. Acknowledgments. $49.95. Paper. ISBN 9780812249989.
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- 11 March 2020, pp. E19-E21
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Ralph Callebert. On Durban’s Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017. xvi + 235 pp. Maps. £80.00/ $99.00 Cloth. ISBN: 9781580469074.
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- 14 January 2020, pp. E32-E34
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Jon Soske. Internal Frontiers: African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in Twentieth-Century South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. xviii + 342 pp. Note on language. Notes. Bibliography. Paper. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2284-7.
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- 18 November 2019, pp. E35-E37
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EAST AFRICA
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Heather D. Switzer. When the Light is Fire: Maasai Schoolgirls in Contemporary Kenya. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 168 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780252050770.
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- 04 September 2020, pp. E54-E56
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Elizabeth Thornberry. Colonizing Consent: Rape and Governance in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x + 360 pp. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $105.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1108472807.
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- 29 June 2020, pp. E32-E34
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CENTRAL AFRICA
Suad M. E. Musa. Hawks & Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict: Al-Hakkamat Baggara Women of Darfur. Rochester: James Currey Eastern Africa Series, 2018. 237 pages. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847011756.
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- 10 March 2020, pp. E22-E24
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