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Volume 63 - Issue 3 - September 2020

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

WEST AFRICA

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Marcus Filippello. The Nature of the Path: Reading a West African Road. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. ix + 217 pp. Contents. Notes on Orthography, Diacritics, and Language. Photos. Maps. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0283-4.

Laura S. Grillo. An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 284 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478001553.

Kathleen Keller. Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. xi + 264 pp. List of Abbreviations. Note on Translations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0803296916.

Adam Mayer. Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria. London: Pluto Press, 2016. xii + 244 pp. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-7453-3657-2.

Terri Ochiagha. A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. 146 pp. List of Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $15.95. Paper. ISBN: 139780821423486.

Steven Pierce. Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2016. vii + 275 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6091-9.

David A. Schwartz, Julienne Ngoundoung Anoko, and Sharon Abramowitz, eds. Pregnant in the Time of Ebola: Women and Their Children in the 2013–2015 West African Epidemic. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019. 494 pp. Photographs. Bibliographies. Index. €135.19. Cloth. ISBN: 9783319976365.

FEATURE FILMS

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Mati Diop, director. A Thousand Suns. Original title: Mille Soleils. 45 minutes. French and Wolof, with English subtitles. Criterion Channel. 2013. No price reported.

Mati Diop, director. Mati Diop and Olivier Demangel, writers. Atlantique. 2019. 104 mins. French, Wolof, Senegal, France, Belgium. Ad Vitam and Netflix. No price reported.

John Trengove, dir. The Wound. Original title: Inxeba. 98 min. IsiXhosa, with English subtitles. South Africa. Indigenous Film Distribution and Kino Lorber, $29.95.

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Volume 63 - Issue 3 - September 2020

CENTRAL AFRICA

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SOUTHERN AFRICA

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WEST AFRICA

Book Reviews (Online)

FEATURE FILMS

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