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Volume 94 - May 2024

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Erik Bähre, Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa. London: Zed Books (pb £22.99 – 978 1 78699 858 3), 2020, 216 pp.
Saana Hansen
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27 May 2024, pp. 218-220
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Maher Hamoud, The Political Economy of Egyptian Media: Business and Military Elite Power and Communication after 2011. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £85 – 978 0 7556 4307 3; pb £28.99 – 978 0 7556 4311 0). 2023, 220 pp.
Hossam el-Hamalawy
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28 February 2025, pp. 740-741
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Tanja Kleibl, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique: Governance, Politics and Spiritual Systems. London: Zed Books (hb £95 – 978 1 7869 9934 4; pb £28.99 – 978 1 7869 9935 1). 2021/2023, 193 pp.
Marlino Eugénio Mubai
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18 December 2024, pp. 626-627
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Haiting Yuan, The Lucky Man Bar. Lusaka: University of Zambia Press (hb US$9.99 – 978 0 9820 3129 5). 2022, 324 pp.
Ignatius Chukwumah
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29 May 2024, pp. 333-334
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Robyn d’Avignon, A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 1583 3; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 1847 6). 2022, xvi + 304 pp.
Iva Peša
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04 December 2024, pp. 485-487
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Rania M. Mahmoud, Female Voices and Egyptian Independence: Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £85 – 978 0 7556 5104 7). 2024, 192 pp.
Saki Yabuuchi
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28 February 2025, pp. 741-743
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Robyn d’Avignon
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04 December 2024, pp. 487-488
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Jimi Solanke: popular music and Yoruba folk traditions
Pelumi Folajimi
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29 May 2024, pp. 335-337
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Joshua Grace, African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$119.95 – 978 1 4780 1059 3; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 4780 1171 2). 2021, xiii + 416 pp.
Adewumi Damilola Adebayo
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27 May 2024, pp. 220-222
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Nic Leonhardt and Christopher B. Balme (eds), Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, Networks, Experts. London: UCL Press (hb £55 – 978 1 80008 576 3; pb £30 – 978 1 80008 575 6). 2024, xiii + 262 pp.
Samuel Ravengai
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18 December 2024, pp. 628-630
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AFR volume 94 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
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Annalena Kolloch, Faire la magistrature au Bénin: Careers, Self-Images and Independence of the Beninese Judiciary (1894–2016). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (pb €59.80 – 978 3 89645 847 6). 2022, 248 pp.
Peter Brett
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28 February 2025, pp. 743-745
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Sara Salem, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £83.99 – 978 1 108 49151 8; pb £25.99 – 978 1 108 79838 9). 2020, 294 pp.
Hossam el-Hamalawy
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27 May 2024, pp. 222-224
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Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe, Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 2530 6021 1; pb US$40 – 978 0 2530 6020 4). 2022, xvi + 296 pp.
Insa Nolte
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18 December 2024, pp. 630-632
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Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 269 pp.
Melusi Nkomo
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04 December 2024, pp. 489-490
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Maria Abranches, Food Connections: Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 80073 372 5). 2022, 192 pp.
Chiara Scheven
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28 February 2025, pp. 745-747
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Ifi Amadiume, African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice. London: Zed Books (hb £20 – 978 1 3503 3380 2). 2024, 248 pp.
Melaine Ferdinand-King
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18 December 2024, pp. 632-634
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Uroš Kovač, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 927 3). 2022, 220 pp.
Peter Lockwood
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27 May 2024, pp. 224-225
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Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 269 pp.
Lorenzo D’Angelo
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04 December 2024, pp. 491-493
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Erik Bähre, Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa. London: Zed Books (pb £22.99 – 978 1 78699 858 3), 2020, 216 pp.

Maher Hamoud, The Political Economy of Egyptian Media: Business and Military Elite Power and Communication after 2011. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £85 – 978 0 7556 4307 3; pb £28.99 – 978 0 7556 4311 0). 2023, 220 pp.

Tanja Kleibl, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique: Governance, Politics and Spiritual Systems. London: Zed Books (hb £95 – 978 1 7869 9934 4; pb £28.99 – 978 1 7869 9935 1). 2021/2023, 193 pp.

Haiting Yuan, The Lucky Man Bar. Lusaka: University of Zambia Press (hb US$9.99 – 978 0 9820 3129 5). 2022, 324 pp.

Robyn d’Avignon, A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 1583 3; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 1847 6). 2022, xvi + 304 pp.

Rania M. Mahmoud, Female Voices and Egyptian Independence: Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £85 – 978 0 7556 5104 7). 2024, 192 pp.

Response by the author - Robyn d’Avignon, A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 1583 3; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 1847 6). 2022, xvi + 304 pp.

Obituary

Jimi Solanke: popular music and Yoruba folk traditions

Reviews

Joshua Grace, African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$119.95 – 978 1 4780 1059 3; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 4780 1171 2). 2021, xiii + 416 pp.

Nic Leonhardt and Christopher B. Balme (eds), Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, Networks, Experts. London: UCL Press (hb £55 – 978 1 80008 576 3; pb £30 – 978 1 80008 575 6). 2024, xiii + 262 pp.

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AFR volume 94 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Reviews

Annalena Kolloch, Faire la magistrature au Bénin: Careers, Self-Images and Independence of the Beninese Judiciary (1894–2016). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (pb €59.80 – 978 3 89645 847 6). 2022, 248 pp.

Sara Salem, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £83.99 – 978 1 108 49151 8; pb £25.99 – 978 1 108 79838 9). 2020, 294 pp.

Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe, Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 2530 6021 1; pb US$40 – 978 0 2530 6020 4). 2022, xvi + 296 pp.

Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 269 pp.

Maria Abranches, Food Connections: Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 80073 372 5). 2022, 192 pp.

Ifi Amadiume, African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice. London: Zed Books (hb £20 – 978 1 3503 3380 2). 2024, 248 pp.

Uroš Kovač, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 927 3). 2022, 220 pp.

Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 269 pp.

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