Volume 68 - Issue 1 - March 2025
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NORTH AFRICA
Book Review
Paul Amar, ed. Cairo Securitized: Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience. Cairo: University of America in Cairo Press, 2024. xxxvii + 474 pp. Figures. Tables. Index. $45,00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781649031716.
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- 04 November 2024, pp. 181-182
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WEST AFRICA
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Abimbola Adelakun. Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics and Pentecostalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 268 pp. $98.41. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-108-83107-9.
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- 02 October 2024, pp. 183-185
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Hadiza Moussa. Yearning and Refusal: An Ethnography of Female Fertility Management in Niamey, Niger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 238 pp. Index. $32.99. Paper. ISBN: 9780197662113.
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- 02 October 2024, pp. 186-187
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AFRICA GENERAL
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David Tonghou Ngong. Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023. x + 166 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-4813-1779-5.
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- 02 October 2024, pp. 188-190
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WEST AFRICA
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Bernard Moitt. Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. vii + 223 pp. $110. Hardback. ISBN: 9781009296472.
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- 13 November 2024, pp. 191-192
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Laura Ann Twagira. Embodied Engineering: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth Century Mali. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. 328 pp. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780821424681.
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- 04 November 2024, pp. 193-194
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CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Mara J. Goldman. Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2020. xxi +272 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00 Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8165-4696-1.
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- 02 October 2024, pp. 195-197
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NORTH EAST AFRICA
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Winnifred Bedigen. Indigenous Peace Building in South Sudan: Delivering Sustainable Peace through Traditional Institutions, Customs and Practices. London: Routledge, 2023. vii + 243 pp. Figures. Introduction. Bibliography. Index. $128.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9780367561642.
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- 16 October 2024, pp. 198-200
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EAST AFRICA
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Peter Wafula Wekesa. History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border. London: Lexington Books, 2023. xxi + 213 pp. Index. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Appendices. $100. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-66691-924-0.
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- 02 October 2024, pp. 201-202
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Jennie E. Burnet. To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. xxix + 277 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781501767111.
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- 16 October 2024, pp. 203-204
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SOUTH AFRICA
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Susanna Sacks. Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. 248 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781625347671.
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- 02 October 2024, pp. 205-206
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Premesh Lalu. Undoing Apartheid. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023. 202 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-509-55283-2.
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- 02 October 2024, pp. 207-208
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Gabrielle Hecht. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp. 87 illustrations (incl. 85 in color). Abbreviations. Note on Usage. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-4780-2494-1.
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- 30 October 2024, pp. 209-211
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Film Review
Moses Matanda. Eagles in the Hut. 2022. 57 minutes. English. Honde Valley TV, in conjunction with Nhaka TV Production. No price reported.
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- 30 October 2024, pp. 212-213
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Editi Effiong, dir. The Black Book. 2023. 2 hours 4 minutes. English/Pidgin. Lagos Kaduna Nigeria Anakle Films. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.
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- 07 January 2025, pp. 214-215
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Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, dirs. Neptune Frost. 2021. 105 minutes. Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, English. Rwanda, USA. No price reported. Swan Films, Sopherim, Knitting Factory Entertainment, SPKN/WRD, JMK Films, Quiet.
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- 10 December 2024, pp. 216-217
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Pascale Appora-Gnekindy and Ningyi Sun, dirs. Eat Bitter. 2023. 96 minutes. Sango, Mandarin and French, with English subtitles. USA, Central African Republic and China. Key-Kwis Productions, OAZ Entertainment, Perpetuo Films and MJagger. No Price Reported. Available on Vimeo.
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- 19 December 2024, pp. 218-219
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Michael William Thomas dir. Cine-Addis. 2023. 39 minutes, Amharic with English Subtitle, Ethiopia. No price reported. The Screen Worlds Collective, available on Vimeo.
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- 08 January 2025, pp. 220-221
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