African Studies Review

Papers
(The median citation count of African Studies Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction – CORRIGENDUM12
Gino Vlavonou. Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 243 pp. Bibliography, Index. $89.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780299345709.11
Sharlene Swartz, Tarryn De Kock, and Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, eds. Transformative Leadership in African Contexts: Strategies for Social Change. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2024. 462 pp. In10
Andrew Heffernan. The Global Politics of Local Conservation: Climate Change and Resource Governance in Namibia. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. xix + 250 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Appendix9
Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter, and Melanie Samson, eds. Ethnographies of Power: Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022. xi + 247 pp. 3 illustrations. Index. 8
The 32nd New York African Film Festival, New York City, 1–31 May 20257
Aditi Malik. Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xxvi + 285 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $34.99. Paper. I7
Hassan Ould Moctar. After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 232 pp. Figures, Tables. References. Index. $80.50 Hardcover. ISBN: 97816
Martha Wilfahrt. Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300 pp. Maps. Illustrations6
Elizabeth A. Foster. African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2019. 369 pp. Photos. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49.00. Cloth. IS6
Faraday Okoro, director. Nigerian Prince. 2018. 104 minutes. English and Igbo. Nigeria and United States. Vertical Entertainment. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.5
Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku. United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 416 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN5
Unthinking Thinking and Rethinking African Future(s) - Michael Neocosmos. Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward A Theory of Emancipatory Politics. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016. xxvi + 550 pp5
1970s Drought, State Crisis, and Opportunities for Transnational River Development in the Senegal Basin5
Jörn Ahrens and Ernst Halbmayer, eds. Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa: Social and Cultural Dimensions. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. 224 pp. $180.00 Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-032-01852-2.4
Susanna L. Sacks. Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. 215 pp. Notes. Index. $99.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781625347688.4
Miranda Melcher. Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 258 pp. $35.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781350407961.4
Yahya Sseremba. America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda. New York: Routledge, 2023. 216 pp. $136.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032412085.4
The Collapse of the Gold Standard in Africa: Money and Colonialism in the Interwar Period4
Antoinette Handley. Business and Social Crisis in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 219 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Bibliogra4
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
Ines Johnson-Spain, director. Becoming Black. 2019. 91 minutes. German and French, with English Subtitles. Juno Films. $149 w/o or $349 w/ Public Performance Rights.4
Boukary Sawagodo. Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. xiv + 203 pp. Images. Preface. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. $27.99. Clot3
(Don’t) Visit Rwanda: Rwanda’s Sportswashing and Its Western Facilitators3
(Re)negotiating State Authority: How Hinterland Protests against Global Capital Impact the Mediating Role of Traditional Rulers in Postcolonial Sierra Leone3
Africa and the Possibility of Philosophy: Paulin Hountondji’s Intellectual Legacy3
Michael Wahman. Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198872825.3
Olufemi Vaughan. Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. xvii + 256 pp. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Index. $22.95. Paper. ISBN: 780299344504.3
Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney. Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2023. 242 pp. Photos. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $36.95. Pa3
Andrew Eugene Barnes and Toyin Falola, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. xx + 699 pp. Notes. Biblio3
Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam, dir. Mambar Pierrette. 2023. 93 minutes. French with English subtitles. Vimeo. No price reported.3
Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating “Customary” Ownership of Natural Resources3
Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo3
David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien, and Lucien van der Walt, eds. Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919–1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union. Cape Town, South Afric3
Daniel Plaatjies, ed. Making Institutions Work in South Africa. Cape Town: Best Red, 2021. viii + 240 pp. Foreword. List of Tables and Figures. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-928246-36-7.3
Sarah Quesada. The Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature by Sarah Quesada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 302 pp. $99.99. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1316514351.3
Aicha Macky, dir. Zinder. 2021. 82 et 52 min. Haoussa. France, Allemagne et Niger. Andanafilms. $7.00.‡3
“A Reason Not to Belong”: Political Decentralization, Intercommunal Relations, and Changing Identities in Northeastern Uganda2
Saidat Ilo. Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. Between 2001–2011. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-62
Yusufu Turaki. Tainted Legacy: Islam, Colonialism and Slavery in Northern Nigeria. McLean, Virginia: Isaac Publishing, 2010. 210 pp. $111.98. Paper. ISBN: 978-0982521830.2
Kathleen Klaus. Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xv + 357 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $120.00. Cloth. ISBN2
Isaac Vincent Joslin. Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. v + 340 pp. Notes. References. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780892
Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse, eds. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid 19: Transformative Resistance and Social Production. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2023. 262 pp. Index. $30.002
Aribidesi Usman and Toyin Falola. The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 496 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $39.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-107-683942
Tope Oshin, director. Up North. 2018. 99 min. English/Hausa/Pidgin. Nigeria. Anakle Films, Inkblot Productions, and Netflix. No price reported.2
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. $100.2
Meredith McKittrick. Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 328 pp. $32.50. Paper. ISBN: 9780226834696.2
Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks, eds. Readings in Sexualities from Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 363 pp. Notes. Index. $ 50.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-04761-8.2
Ibrahim Bangura, ed. Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa. New York: Routledge, 2023. 302 pp. Bibliography. Index. $31.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781032487793.2
Michael W. Thomas. Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 261 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $103.50. Hardback. ISBN: 9781350227408.2
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, writer/director. This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. 2019. 120 minutes. Sotho. Lesotho. Urucu Media. No price reported.2
Sara Nacer, dir. La Rockeuse du désert (The Desert Rocker). 2022. 75 minutes. Arabic and French, with English subtitles. Canada. L’Equipage. No Price Reported. Available to stream on Eventive.2
Robert W. Blunt. For Money and Elders: Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 239 pp. Bibliography. Index. $27.50. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-65575-82
Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy2
Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918.2
Irene Maffi. Abortion in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Politics, Medicine and Morality. New-York: Berghahn Books, 2020. 204 pp. $135.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-78920-690-6.1
Antonio Allegretti, Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local-Global Interface. Winwick, Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2022. 208pp. Bibliography. Index. $821
Christopher J. Lee, ed. Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966–1985. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2024. Distributed by Blue Weaver and Lynne Rienner Publishers. xiii + 529 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index.1
Khalid Zairi, dir. Mora est là: Une obligation de mémoire (Mora Is Here: An Obligation to Remember). 2023. 87 minutes. Arabic, Tamazight, French, with English subtitles. ZK Productions. No price repor1
Christina Seyfried. African Bargaining Power with China: Foreign Investment and Rising Influence. New York: Routledge, 2023. xi + 233 pp. $144. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032312491.1
Kally Forrest. Lydia: Anthem to the Unity of Women. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana, 2024. vii + 230 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ZAR 300. Paper. ISBN: 9781431434800.1
2023 ASR Distinguished Lecture: Decoloniality and Its Fissures. Whose Decolonial Turn?1
Ama Ata Aidoo: A Fond Remembrance and Farewell1
Alice Diop, dir. Saint Omer. 2022. 123 minutes. French, with English subtitles. France. Srab Films (Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral), Arte France Cinéma, Pictanovo Hauts-de-France. $4.28. Avail1
Tasha Rijke-Epstein. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2023. 376 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.91
An African Anthropocene1
Matthias de Groof, ed. Lumumba in the Arts. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. 400 pp. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. $79.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9462701748.1
J. Lorand Matory. The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2018. 392 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN:1
Mutale Mulenga Kaunda. Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women’s Agency and Indigenous Cultural Systems. London: Lexington Books, 2024. 165 pp. $45. Paper. ISBN: 9781666926248.1
Tom Gardner. The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2024. xi + 368 pp. Photographs. Notes. $37.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1911723103.1
Gregory Smith. Where Credit is Due: How Africa’s Debt can be a Benefit, not a Burden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Xii + 268 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. £25.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780197619971.1
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Catherine Boone. Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 326 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Index. Bibliography. $39.99. Paper. ISBN:1
Triangular System in Chinese Studies of African Literature1
Hélène Dumas. Sans ciel ni terre: Paroles orphelines du génocide des Tutsis (1994–2006). Paris: Editions la Découverte, 2020. 200 pp. Glossary. Bibliography. Notes. Photos. $30.65. Paper. ISBN: 978-231
Jane Bryce. Zamani: A Haunted Memoir of Tanzania. Birmingham: Cinnamon Press, 2023. 226 pp. Map. Photographs. Bibliography. $15.86. Paper. ISBN: 9781788649865.1
Robtel Neajai Pailey. Development, (Dual)Citizenship and its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 276 pp. Illustrations. L1
Moustapha Alassane, a Retrospective of an Adventurer1
Literary Analysis of a Memory Book by a Schoolteacher with HIV in Rural Uganda: Writing about Living with and Dying of HIV1
Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi and Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi. Modern Nigeria: Understanding Modern Nations. New York: Bloomsbury, 2024. xix + 380 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 1
Farmer-Pastoralist Interactions and Resource-Based Conflicts in Africa: Drivers, Actors, and Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding1
Daniel Tödt. The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo. Translated by Alex Skinner. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. Africa in Global History series1
Thomas Hendriks. Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp. Note on Photography. Notes. References. Index. $104.95. Har1
Lost in Translation: Pro-Poor Development in The Green Revolution for Africa1
The Mediation of Autocratic Regimes: How Local Officials Shaped Authoritarian Systems in Rwanda and Sudan1
Reencuentros with Paulin Hountondji1
Political Institutions and Perceived Political Representation Before, During, and After Identity-based Conflict: Comparing Views from Rwandan and Burundian Citizens1
Kenneth Gyang, director. Òlòtūré. 2020. 106 minutes. English/Pidgin/Bini. Nigeria. EbonyLife Films. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.1
Henry B. Lovejoy. Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xv + 219 pp. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1469645384.1
Marloes Janson, Kai Kresse, Benedikt Pontzen, and Hassan Mwakimako, eds. Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict. New York: James Currey, 2024. xxii + 288 pp. Notes. Figures1
Joseph Abiodun Balogun. Reimagining Nigeria’s Educational System: Improving Academic Performance Through High Stakes Standardized Testing. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. 328 pp. Illustrations. $43.99. Pap1
African Studies Keyword:Okà1
John Spall. Manhood, Morality and the Transformation of Angolan Society: MPLA Veterans and Post-war Dynamics. Rochester: James Currey, 2020. xiii + 224 pp. List of Illustrations. List of Abbreviations1
Ndubueze L. Mbah. Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. 309 pp. List of Illustrations. Appendix: Lineage Charts. Gl1
Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino, dir. Le Fardeau. 2023. 80 minutes. Central African Republic, Congo Kinshasa, France. Makongo Films. Available to stream on myCANAL.1
Olakunle George. African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 211 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780253025807.1
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Tshepo Moloi, and Alda Romão Saúte Saíde, eds. Guerilla Radios in Southern Africa. Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle. Lanham, MD: Rowman &am1
Bureaucrats at Work: African Bureaucracies and Bureaucrats from the Sociological, Historical, and Political Perspectives - Mai Hassan. Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Emb1
Bernard Forjwuor. Critique of Political Decolonization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 304 pp. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198871842.1
“Mbas Mi”: Fighting COVID-19 Through Music in Senegal1
“More than Disease”: Uncovering the Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Pandemic1
From German East African Rupees to British East African Shillings in Tanganyika: The King and the Kaiser Side by Side0
Staying with the Culture Struggle: The African Union and Eliminating Violence Against Women0
Babayo Sule. Political Party Financing and Electoral Politics in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), 2023. ix + 279 pp. $78.46. Hardcover. ISBN: 978166690
Underground Revolutionaries: The PAIGC, Leninism, and the Decolonization of Cabo Verde0
Liisa Laakso and Siphamandla Zondi, eds. Political Science in Africa: Freedom, Relevance, Impact. London: Bloomsbury Publishing and Nordic Africa Institute, 2024. xiv + 272 pp. Figures. Tables. Biblio0
Ernest Harsch. Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 2024. 380 pp. 5.50 × 8.50 in. 2 black and white illustrations. 2 Figures. 1 Table. Bibliographical Re0
Climate Change and Conflict in the Western Sahel0
Alice Elliot. The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. 204 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25. Paper. ISBN: 978-0253054746.0
Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. 330 pp. $27.00. Paper. ISBN0
African Studies Keywords: Queer0
China Scherz, George Mpanga, and Sarah Namirembe. Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. 156 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978052039670
Berihun Adugna Gebeye. A Theory of African Constitutionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. ix + 243 pp. Table of cases. Table of legislation. Index. $99.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780192893925.0
J. Siguru Wahutu. In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 230 pp. $30.98. Hardback. ISBN: 9781009431965.0
Anne Reijniers, Nizar Saleh, Paul Shemisi, and Rob Jacobs. Faire-part. 2018. 58 minutes, French and Lingala. Belgium, Cordon Coffee X De Imagerie, Kinshasa, DR Congo. Kimpavita films.0
Pathways to Peace0
Making Demands on Government: Theorizing Determinants of Backyard Residents’ Collective Action in Cape Town, South Africa0
Paul M. LoveJr. The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiv + 236 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-0
Linda Melvern. A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide, Revised and Expanded Edition. London: Zed Books, Bloomsbury, 2024. 424 pp. Maps. $15.29. Notes. 331–382 pp. Paper. I0
François Ngoa Kodena. Afrosofian Knowledge and Cheikh Anta Diop: Geo-ethical and Political Implications. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 220 pp. $90. Hardback. ISBN: 9781666909135.0
Remembering Paulin Hountondji: The Zairian Interlude0
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. I0
Abderrahmane Sissako, dir. Black Tea. 2024. 110 minutes. Mandarin Chinese and French, with French subtitles. France, Mauritania, Luxembourg, Taiwan, and Ivory Coast. Gaumont. €19.99.0
Garçons Manqués and Femmes Fortes: Two Ambivalent Figures of Butch Lesbianism in Women’s Football in Cameroon – CORRIGENDUM0
Climate Change Adaptation in The Gambia: The Role of Kanyeleng Communication and Performance0
Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty. Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 223 pp. List of Abbreviations. Appendices. References. Index. $82.000
Sylvia Neame. Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa: I Look Back 30 Years. Cape Town: Best Red, Human Sciences Research Council, 2021. ix + 518 pp. Notes. Source Material. Index. $32.00. Paper. I0
Garçons ManquésandFemmes Fortes: Two Ambivalent Figures of Butch Lesbianism in Women’s Football in Cameroon0
Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré. Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 452 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $150
Alexander Thurston. Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 360 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $30.39. Paperback. ISBN: 90
Minabere Ibelema. Cultural Chauvinism: Intercultural Communication and the Politics of Superiority. New York: Routledge, 2021. xiv + 140 pp. Notes. References. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780367710030
Olaf Zenker, Cherryl Walker, and Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel, eds. Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,0
Caroline Melly. Bottleneck: Moving, Building, & Belonging in an African City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. References. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-48890-5.0
John Mwangi Githigaro. Countering Violent Extremism in Kenya: Community, State and Security Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. vii + 131 pp. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780
Amanda Lock Swarr. Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 248 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.950
Anita Plummer. Kenya’s Engagement with China: Discourse, Power, Agency. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023. xxxv + 244 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-60
Jonathan Silver. The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. ix + 305. $50.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780262546874.0
Martin Welz. Africa since Decolonization: The History and Politics of a Diverse Continent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ix + 375 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $25.99. Paper. ISBN: 97811084650
Contemporary Narratives on Yoruba History, Modern Society in Nigeria, and the Meaning of Decolonized Humanity in the African Context0
Rural Radicalisms and the Politics of Order: Authority, Precarity, and Globality in Africa0
Sarah Jilani. Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781399507288.0
In and Out in Senegal: Unearthing Queer Roots in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes0
S.N. Nyeck. African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ix + 132 pp. Bibliography. Index. $69.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-3-319-61224-9.0
Jide Tom Akinleminu, director. When a Farm Goes Aflame. 2021. 112 minutes. Danish, English, Yoruba, with English subtitles. Germany. Film Five GmbH. No price reported.0
Bolanle Austen-Peters, director. The Bling Lagosians. 2019. 98 minutes. English, Yoruba, Igbo, and Pidgin. Nigeria. BAP Productions. No price reported. Streaming on 9jaRocks.com.0
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Patrick Nwosu, and Hassan M. Yosimbom, editors. Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs. Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: L0
Music as Socially Reproductive Labor: Murid Creative Practice in Dakar’s Médina0
Khalid Shamis, dir. The Colonel’s Stray Dogs. 2021. 73 minutes. English. South Africa. Journeyman Pictures. $7.50. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecolonelsstraydogs20
Emily Brownell. Gone to Ground: A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. xi+266 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index0
Vasu Reddy, Narnia Bohler-Muller, Zitha Mokomane, and Crain Soudien, eds. 2024. State of the Nation: Quality of Life and Wellbeing in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 347 pp. Index. $59.97. Paper.0
Kenneth W. Harrow: A Legacy in African Studies0
Sharad Chari. Apartheid Remains. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. xxxv + 460 pp. Maps. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478030416.0
Kirk Helliker, Sandra Bhatasara, and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, editors. Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe. London: Routledge, 2021. xii + 195 pp. Index. $160. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-036786310
Gardner Thompson. A Critical History of Southern Rhodesia. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2024. vii + 245 pp. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781685859886.0
Morad Mostafa, dir. I Promise You Paradise. 2023. 25 mins. Arabic with French and English subtitles. Egypt and Qatar. No price reported.0
George Roberts. Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 352 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $28.0
Mario Schmidt. Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2024. 184 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $0
Anthony Egeru, Megan Lindow, and Kay Muir Leresche, eds. University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa: Community Action Research Platforms. New York: Routledge, 2023. 329 pp. Illustrations0
Daniel L. Douek. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa. London: Hurst, 2020. xvii + 509 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781849048804.0
“Welcome, Ali, Please go Home”: Muhammad Ali as Diplomat and African Debates on the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott0
Concretizing the Right to Water: Engaging Infrastructurally Powerful Actors in Nairobi0
Going Back to the Roots: Indigenous Language, Media Performance, and Change in Kenya0
Jacob Kurtzer. Out of Sight: Northeast Nigeria’s Humanitarian Crisis. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Humanitarian Agenda; Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 20
Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility and the War on Terror. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. xxiv + 462 pp. Photographs. Maps. Glossary0
Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana0
George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi A. Kalu, eds. Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. xii + 242 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $100. Hardba0
A Mosaic of Yorùbá Ontology and Materiality of Pleasure Since AD 10000
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction0
“We Are Not Gays”: Regime Preservation and the Politicization of Identity in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe0
COVID-19 and the Ugandan Presidential Election: Contesting Lockdown Authority in Popular Songs0
John Kinahan. Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert. Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. xxvi + 546 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $135. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1847012883.0
Vasco Martins. Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola. London: Routledge, 2021. 196 pp. Chronology. Index. Hardcover. $136. ISBN: 9780367860868.0
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Manuel Castells and Bernard Lategan. eds. National Identity and State Formation in Africa. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. v + 217 pp. Notes. References. Index. $ 25.09. Paper. ISBN: 9781509545612.0
Simon Gikandi and R.N. Sandberg, eds. Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora. London: Methuen Drama, 2024. 413 pp. $42.25. Paper. ISBN: 9781350360
Apartheid South Africa: The Narratives of Three Different Nationalistic Survivors0
Louisa Lombard. Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 272 pp. List of figures. List of maps. List of acronyms and abbreviations. 0
Stephan F. Miescher. A dam for Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. 598 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059956.0
Paul Nugent. Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xx + 353 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index.0
Sarah Maldoror, director. Sambizanga. 1972/ Restored 2022. 98 minutes. Portuguese, Lingala and Kimbundu with English subtitles. Republic of the Congo. Criterion Collection. No price reported.0
Nicole Eggers. Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. New African Histories series. 291 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821426081.0
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Alden Young. Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (African Studies, Series Number 140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; x + 194 pp. Bibliog0
Verena Krebs. Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 308 pp. $109.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3030649333.0
John K. Thornton. A History of West Central Africa to 1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. (New Approaches to African History series.) xx + 365 pp. Index. $21.19. Paper. ISBN: 97811075650
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Alex La Guma. Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966–1985, edited by Christopher J. Lee. London: Seagull Books, 2022. 581 pp. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 978-0857427892.0
Olukayode A. Faleye, Inocent Moyo, and Richard Olaniyan, eds. Transborder Pastoral Nomadism and Human Security in Africa: Focus on West Africa. London: Routledge, 2023. 123 pp. Illustrations. $52.95. 0
William J. Spurlin. Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb (part of the Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture, and Politics 0
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.0
Rural Radicalism in the Capital City: The Impact of Histories of Inequitable Safety on Patterns of Violence0
Elara Bertho. Sorcières, tyrans, héros: Mémoires postcoloniales de résistants africains. Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2019. 520 pp. Bibliography. Index. €50.00. Paper. ISBN: 9782745350459.0
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Rose A. Sackeyfio, ed. African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century. London: Lexington Books, 2021. 146 pp. Index. $100.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781793642431.0
Nationhood in South Sudan Cinema: The Iconicity of Motherhood in Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home (2023)0
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Liz Carmichael. Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord, 1991–1994. Cape Town: James Currey, 2023. 492 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 978184701360
Natalia Telepneva. Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 302 pp. Maps. Photog0
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Holly Elisabeth Hanson. To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. xiv + 253 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.90
Mostra de Cinemas Africanos 2021: Focus on Algeria - Ousmane Samassekou. Le Dernier Refuge/The Last Shelter. 2021. 85 minutes. French, More, English and Bambara with English subtitles. Mali/France/So0
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Fake News in the Sahel: “Afrancaux News,” French Counterterrorism, and the Logics of User-Generated Media0
Lindiwe Dovey, Out of the Box: The Screen Worlds of Judy Kibinge. 2023. 81 minutes. English. Produced by Circle & Square Productions, Screen World Collective, Chouette Films.0
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Crain Souidien, Sharlene Swartz and Gregory Houston, eds. Society, Research and Power: A History of the Human Sciences Research Council from 1929 to 2019. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2021. 540 pp. $54.91. 0
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Jonas Bens. The Sentimental Court: The Affective Life of International Criminal Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 233 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Paper. ISBN: 9780
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Meredith McKittrick. Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 328 pp. $32.50. Paper. ISBN: 9780226834696.0
Wale Adebanwi, ed. Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. xxi + 426 pp. Figures. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780821424902.0
Debora Pellow. A New African Elite: Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. xi + 259 pp. Photographs, Glossary, References, Index. $135. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-80073-370
Kwabena Gyansah, dir. Azali. 2018. 90 minutes. Dagbaani and Twi (with English subtitles). Ghana. Ananse Entertainment. No price reported.0
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Moritz A. Mihatsch, and Michelle M. Sikes, eds. The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. 230 pp. $21.99. Paper. ISBN:0
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Kerry Ryan Chance. Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. vi + 184 pp. Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30
Joseph Tonda (translated by Chris Turner). The Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon). Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2021. 456 pp. Cloth. $45. ISBN: 9780857426888.0
Tanja Bosch and Tony Roberts, eds. Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression. London: Zed Books, 2023. 227 pp. Illustrations. Index. $43.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-350-32445-9.0
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Rebecca Tapscott. Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $100. Cloth. ISBN: 9780198856474.0
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Nomi Dave. Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics and Pleasure in Guinea. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 208 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $ 27.50. Paper. ISBN : 978-0226654638.0
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Rhiannon Stephens. Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 312 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-4780-0
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Paulin Hountondji: The Struggle for Meaning and the Struggle for Action0
Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa0
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