Volume 57 - December 2014
HEALTH AND DISEASE
BOOK REVIEWS
Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb. Religion and AIDs in Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 296pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Cloth.
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HISTORY
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Toby Green, ed. Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Precolonial Western Africa. New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2012. xv + 415 pp. Map. Figures. Tables. Index. $125.00. Cloth.
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- 02 December 2014, pp. 217-218
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FEATURE FILMS - Andrew Dosunmu, dir. Mother of George. 2013. Nigeria/U.S. English and Yoruba, with English subtitles. 106 minutes. New York. Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratory. Price not reported.
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- 09 April 2014, pp. 227-229
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Lahra Smith. Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia.Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press. 2013. xxi + 252 pp. Maps and Tables. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Glossary. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $29.99. Paper.
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS
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Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi. African Language-Literatures: New Perspectives on IsiZulu Fiction and Popular Black Television Series. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012. 230pp. Bibliography. Index. R270.00. $34.95. Paper.
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, dir. Grigris. 2013. 103 minutes. French and Chadian Arabic. Chad. Pili Films. €20.00.
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- 09 April 2014, pp. 229-231
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS
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Aissatou G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale, eds. Women’s Voices from West Africa: An Anthology of Songs from the Sahel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xv + 144 pp. Maps. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.
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- 18 August 2014, pp. 220-222
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David Gritonga, dir. Nairobi Half Life. 2012. 96 minutes. Kikuyu, Swahili, and English. Kenya. One Fine Day Films. No price reported.
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- 09 April 2014, pp. 231-233
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Jean Kachiga. China in Africa: Articulating China’s Africa Policy. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2013. xxiv + 316 pp. List of Tables and Figures. Appendixes. Notes. References. Index. $34.95. Paper. - Ali A. Mazrui and Seifudein Adem. Afrasia: A Tale of Two Continents. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2013. xxix + 407 pp. Appendixes. $42.99. Paper.
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS
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Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster, eds. African Art and Agency in the Workshop. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. vi + 410 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs. Contributors. References. Notes. Tables. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $30.00. Paper. $25.99. EBook. - Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee, eds. African Art, Interviews, Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. vii + 194pp. Black-and-white photographs. Appendix of interlocutors. Contributors. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $28.00. Paper.
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- 18 August 2014, pp. 222-224
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GENDER
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Helen Nabasuta Mugambi and Tuzyline Jita Allan, eds. Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner for Ayeba Clarke Publishing, 2010. 352 pp. $27.50. Paper.
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- 02 December 2014, pp. 223-225
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Zézé Gamboa, dir. The Hero. Original title: O Herói. 2004. 97 minutes. Portuguese (with English subtitles). Angola/Portugal/France. David & Golias. $24.95.
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- 09 April 2014, pp. 233-234
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MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY
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Terence Ranger. Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957–67. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2013. xii + 206pp. Photos. List of Abbreviations. Preface. Appendix of names. Select References. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.
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GENDER
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Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez et al., eds. African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. 360 pp. Acknowledgments. Foreword. Contributors. $26.95. Paper.
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- 02 December 2014, pp. 225-226
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DOCUMENTARIES - Ilja Kok and Willem Timmers, dirs. Framing the Other. 2011. 25 minutes. English and Mursi with English and French subtitles. Netherlands and Ethiopia. I Camera You/ Ethiopian Film Initiative co-production. €275.00.
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- 09 April 2014, pp. 235-236
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DOCUMENTARIES
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Jamika Ajalon, director. L’Esprit Prêt-à-Partager. 2009. Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Germany/Senegal. French, German, Wolof with English subtitles. 28 minutes. Third World Newsreel (TWN). $225.00.
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- 18 August 2014, pp. 227-228
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Dagmar Schultz, dir. Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992. 2012. English and German. 79 minutes. New York. Third World Newsreel. $225.00.
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- 09 April 2014, pp. 237-238
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HEALTH AND DISEASE
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Claire Decoteau. Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: The Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvii + 324 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. $32.50. Paper.
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- 02 December 2014, pp. 226-228
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DOCUMENTARIES
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Manthia Diawara, director. Maison Tropicale. 2008. Republic of Congo/France. French, Portuguese, Wolof with English subtitles. 58 minutes. Third World Newsreel. No price reported.
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- 18 August 2014, pp. 228-230
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Osvalde Lewat, dir. Black Business. 2008. Original title: Une affaire de nègres. 88 minutes. French. Cameroon/France. AMIP, Waza Images, and Les Films du Paradoxe. €19.90. Available for free viewing with English subtitles athttp://www.cultureunplugged.com.
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- 09 April 2014, pp. 238-240
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