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Volume 63 - Issue 4 - December 2020

NORTH AFRICA

Book Reviews (Online)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SOUTHERN AFRICA

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Julia Pauli. The Decline of Marriage in Namibia: Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2019. 296 pp. List of Tables. List of Figures. Index. $55.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-3837643039.

Herman Wasserman. Media, Geopolitics and Power: A View from the Global South. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 218 pp. Introduction. Notes. Index. $28.00. Paper. ISBN: 9-781775-822264.

WEST AFRICA

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John Campbell and Matthew T. Page. Nigeria. What Everyone Needs to Know . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 218 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $16.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0190657987.

Timothy R. Landry. Vodún: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 197 pp. Note on Orthography and Style. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $49.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0812250749.

Charles Piot with Kodjo Nicolas Batema. The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2019. 212 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1478003045.

Alexander Thurston. Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. viii + 333 pp. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780691197081.

Klaas van Walraven. Le désir de calme: L’histoire du mouvement Sawaba au Niger. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017. 792 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $50.86. Paper. ISBN: 978-2753553958.

DOCUMENTARIES

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Rehad Desai, dir. Everything Must Fall: The High Cost of Free Education. 2018. 1hr 25 min. English. South Africa, Netherlands, Belgium. Uhuru Productions and Kittina media, Story House and ICONdocs. No price reported.

Julio Matos and Coraci Ruiz, directors. Letters to Angola. (Original title: Cartas para Angola.) 2012. 78 min. Portuguese with English subtitles. Angola, Brazil, and Portugal. Aggregator Media. No Price Reported.

Rosine Mbakam, dir. Chez Jolie Coiffure. 70 minutes. French with English subtitles. Belgium. Icarus Films. $390. 2018.

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Volume 63 - Issue 4 - December 2020

NORTH AFRICA

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HORN OF AFRICA

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EAST AFRICA

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SOUTHERN AFRICA

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WEST AFRICA

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DOCUMENTARIES

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