African Studies Review

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction – CORRIGENDUM12
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. 12
Yahya Sseremba. America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda. New York: Routledge, 2023. 216 pp. $136.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032412085.10
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: 978-1-032-01852-2.8
Corporate Repertoires of Control and Performances of Power in a Contested Land Deal in Senegal8
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. Appendix7
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: 9780299345709.6
1970s Drought, State Crisis, and Opportunities for Transnational River Development in the Senegal Basin6
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
The Collapse of the Gold Standard in Africa: Money and Colonialism in the Interwar Period5
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
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. Clot4
Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo4
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. Biblio4
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. In4
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: 780299344504.4
The Curious Case of Three Male Elders: Land Grabbing, Lawfare, and Intersectional Politics of Exclusion in Tanzania4
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
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
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
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
(Don’t) Visit Rwanda: Rwanda’s Sportswashing and Its Western Facilitators3
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.3
Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating “Customary” Ownership of Natural Resources3
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, writer/director. This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. 2019. 120 minutes. Sotho. Lesotho. Urucu Media. No price reported.3
(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
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
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
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: 978-1-63
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: 978-1-107-683943
Aicha Macky, dir. Zinder. 2021. 82 et 52 min. Haoussa. France, Allemagne et Niger. Andanafilms. $7.00.‡3
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
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: 978-0-226-65575-83
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
Yusufu Turaki. Tainted Legacy: Islam, Colonialism and Slavery in Northern Nigeria. McLean, Virginia: Isaac Publishing, 2010. 210 pp. $111.98. Paper. ISBN: 978-0982521830.3
Tope Oshin, director. Up North. 2018. 99 min. English/Hausa/Pidgin. Nigeria. Anakle Films, Inkblot Productions, and Netflix. No price reported.3
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
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
Ama Ata Aidoo: A Fond Remembrance and Farewell2
Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino, dir. Le Fardeau. 2023. 80 minutes. Central African Republic, Congo Kinshasa, France. Makongo Films. Available to stream on myCANAL.2
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
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
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
Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918.2
Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy2
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. Avail2
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
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
“A Reason Not to Belong”: Political Decentralization, Intercommunal Relations, and Changing Identities in Northeastern Uganda2
Farmer-Pastoralist Interactions and Resource-Based Conflicts in Africa: Drivers, Actors, and Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding2
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: 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
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
Mutale Mulenga Kaunda. Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women’s Agency and Indigenous Cultural Systems. London: Lexington Books, 2024. 165 pp. $45. Paper. ISBN: 9781666926248.1
Lost in Translation: Pro-Poor Development in The Green Revolution for Africa1
Reencuentros with Paulin Hountondji1
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
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
Noret Joël, ed. Social Im/Mobilities in Africa: Ethnographic Approaches. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 236 pp. Illustrations. $135.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1789204858.1
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
Maia Lekow and Christopher King, directors. The Letter. 2019. 81 min. English and Swahili, with English subtitles. Filmed and produced in Kenya. BFI Player. No Price Reported.1
Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri. Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 226 pp. $29.25. Paper. ISBN: 9780472051
Natasha Erlank. Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa. New African Histories Series. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. 288 pp. $31
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Jane Bryce. Zamani: A Haunted Memoir of Tanzania. Birmingham: Cinnamon Press, 2023. 226 pp. Map. Photographs. Bibliography. $15.86. Paper. ISBN: 9781788649865.1
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
Bernard Forjwuor. Critique of Political Decolonization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 304 pp. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198871842.1
An African Anthropocene1
Moustapha Alassane, a Retrospective of an Adventurer1
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
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
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
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
DrSaheed Aderinto. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. 340 pp. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography.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
The Many Faces of Pan-Africanism - Hakim Adi. Pan-Africanism: A History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xiv + 298 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1474254274.1
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
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
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik. Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. xvi + 251 pp. Notes. Bibl1
African Studies Keyword:Okà1
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
Political Institutions and Perceived Political Representation Before, During, and After Identity-based Conflict: Comparing Views from Rwandan and Burundian Citizens1
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
ASR volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
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
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
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
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
“More than Disease”: Uncovering the Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Pandemic1
Christina Seyfried. African Bargaining Power with China: Foreign Investment and Rising Influence. New York: Routledge, 2023. xi + 233 pp. $144. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032312491.1
2023 ASR Distinguished Lecture: Decoloniality and Its Fissures. Whose Decolonial Turn?1
Camille Lefebvre. Des pays au crépuscule : Le moment de l’occupation coloniale (Sahara-Sahel). Paris: Fayard, 2021. 341 pp. Index. 24 €. Paper. ISBN: 978-2-213-71810-1.1
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
Writing in Englishes: Taking Control of the Technology of Power through Literary Aesthetics: A Keynote Speech to the African Studies Association Conference, 20211
The Mediation of Autocratic Regimes: How Local Officials Shaped Authoritarian Systems in Rwanda and Sudan1
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
Sarah Quesada. The Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature by Sarah Quesada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 302 pp. $99.99. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1316514351.1
ASR volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
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
Kenneth Gyang, director. Òlòtūré. 2020. 106 minutes. English/Pidgin/Bini. Nigeria. EbonyLife Films. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.1
Literary Analysis of a Memory Book by a Schoolteacher with HIV in Rural Uganda: Writing about Living with and Dying of HIV1
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
Gaël Kamilindi and François-Xavier Destors, dirs. Didy. 2024. 1 hour 30 minutes. French. Switzerland. Adok films and CPB Films (Compagnie des Phares et Balises).0
African Studies Keywords: Queer0
The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda: Understanding Violence in the Rwenzori Region0
Rural Radicalisms and the Politics of Order: Authority, Precarity, and Globality in Africa0
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
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work0
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
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
Underground Revolutionaries: The PAIGC, Leninism, and the Decolonization of Cabo Verde0
Land and Living on Little in Kenya0
Christy K. Schuetze. Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 286 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliog0
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
Dynamics of Land Governance, Extractivism, Urban Tech and Waste Infrastructures, and the Everyday State in Contemporary Africa0
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
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
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
Music as Socially Reproductive Labor: Murid Creative Practice in Dakar’s Médina0
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
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
Mukoma Wa Ngugi. The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. 228 pp. Notes. Works cited. Index. $70.00. Cloth. ISBN: 970
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
Daniel L. Douek. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa. London: Hurst, 2020. xvii + 509 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781849048804.0
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
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
Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture for Africa’s Agricultural Transformation0
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
The Value of Extending Our Scholarly Geographic Scope0
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
Remembering Paulin Hountondji: The Zairian Interlude0
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
Kenneth W. Harrow: A Legacy in African Studies0
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
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction0
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
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
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
Apartheid South Africa: The Narratives of Three Different Nationalistic Survivors0
Sarah Jilani. Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781399507288.0
Marcia C. Schenck. Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series). Cham, S0
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
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
Nationhood in South Sudan Cinema: The Iconicity of Motherhood in Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home (2023)0
African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography0
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
Ama Ata Aidoo Challenged the Constructed Absence of African Women’s Leadership0
Of Bonds and Commitment: In Memoriam Ama Ata Aidoo0
Morad Mostafa, dir. I Promise You Paradise. 2023. 25 mins. Arabic with French and English subtitles. Egypt and Qatar. No price reported.0
Strategies of Subversion of the Kadehine in the Early Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960s–1970s)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
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
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
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
Climate Change Adaptation in The Gambia: The Role of Kanyeleng Communication and Performance0
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
Pleasures of the Nollywood Familiar and Everyday Life0
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
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
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
On Visuals and Selling the Promise of Sexual Plaisir and Pleasure in Abidjan0
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
Revisiting “Miss Aidoo’s” No Sweetness Here0
Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. 240 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $ 16.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780821424520.0
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
Paulin Hountondji: The Struggle for Meaning and the Struggle for Action0
Concretizing the Right to Water: Engaging Infrastructurally Powerful Actors in Nairobi0
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
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
Reinvigorating Europe-Africa Partnerships for Knowledge and Development0
Editi Effiong, dir. The Black Book. 2023. 2 hours 4 minutes. English/Pidgin. Lagos Kaduna Nigeria Anakle Films. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.0
Reconciling South Africa0
Pathways to Peace0
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
Decentering the Dollar in Africa-China Trade: How Nigerian Entrepreneurs Navigate Currency Swaps and Digital Currencies in an Era of USD Hegemony and RMB Internationalization0
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
Daniel Akech Thiong. The Politics of Fear in South Sudan: Generating Chaos, Creating Conflict. London: Zed Books, 2021. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 217 pp. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1786996794.0
Fake News in the Sahel: “Afrancaux News,” French Counterterrorism, and the Logics of User-Generated Media0
Verena Krebs. Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 308 pp. $109.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3030649333.0
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
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
Vasco Martins. Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola. London: Routledge, 2021. 196 pp. Chronology. Index. Hardcover. $136. ISBN: 9780367860868.0
Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana0
In and Out in Senegal: Unearthing Queer Roots in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes0
José Miguel Ribeiro, dir. Nayola. 2022. 83 minutes. Portugal/Belgium/France/Netherlands. Praça Filmes/S.O.I.L./JPL Film/ Il Luster. No price reported.0
Conditionality Breeds Contempt: Donor and Multilateral Myopia in Sudan0
Kwabena Gyansah, dir. Azali. 2018. 90 minutes. Dagbaani and Twi (with English subtitles). Ghana. Ananse Entertainment. No price reported.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
From German East African Rupees to British East African Shillings in Tanganyika: The King and the Kaiser Side by Side0
Mariusz Lukasiewicz. Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902: A View from the Stock Exchange (part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies). Palgrave Macmilla0
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
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
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
“Faith it, till you make it”: Prosperity Gospel and Spiritual Hustling among Young Pentecostal Christians in Harare0
Garçons ManquésandFemmes Fortes: Two Ambivalent Figures of Butch Lesbianism in Women’s Football in Cameroon0
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
Global Forces, Rural Radicalism, and the Dual Transformation of Urban and Rural Protest in Africa0
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
A Mosaic of Yorùbá Ontology and Materiality of Pleasure Since AD 10000
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
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
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
Khalid Shamis, dir. The Colonel’s Stray Dogs. 2021. 73 minutes. English. South Africa. Journeyman Pictures. $7.50. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecolonelsstraydogs20
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
Alden Young. Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (African Studies, Series Number 140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; x + 194 pp. Bibliog0
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
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia. New York: The New Press, 2021. xii + 312 pp. Notes. Index. $18.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1620977965.0
Gardner Thompson. A Critical History of Southern Rhodesia. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2024. vii + 245 pp. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781685859886.0
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
Nandita Sharma. Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2020. 372 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN0
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
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 Enterta0
John James Quinn. Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa: The Resource Curse Undermined. London: Routledge, 2024. xiv + 186 pp. $200.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781138390331.0
Going Back to the Roots: Indigenous Language, Media Performance, and Change in Kenya0
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué. Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliogra0
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
Babacar M’Baye and Besi Brillian Muhonja, eds. Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies: Critical Perspectives and Methods. London: Lexington Books, 2019. 326 pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $10
Olivier van Beemen. Heineken in Africa. A Multinational Unleashed. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2019. xvi + 307 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9781849049023.0
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
Kemi Adetiba, dir. King of Boys. 2018. 169 min. English, Yoruba, Pidgin, and Hausa, with English subtitles. Nigeria. Kemi Adetiba Visuals. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.0
Rural Radicalism in the Capital City: The Impact of Histories of Inequitable Safety on Patterns of Violence0
Staying with the Culture Struggle: The African Union and Eliminating Violence Against Women0
The Underground Lives of Texts: Lamine Senghor’s La Violation d’un pays from Interwar France to Senegal’s Decolonization0
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
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
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
Wildlife Management in South Sudan, 1901–2021: Conservation amidst Conflict0
Decolonizing Education: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges0
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
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
Adriaan Van Klinken and Ezra Chitando. Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-01970
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
Ana Lucia Araujo. The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 224 pp. Maps. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $39.99. Ha0
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
Oettinger Johann Peter. A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger, edited and translated by Craig Koslofsky and Roberto Zaugg. Char0
COVID-19 and the Ugandan Presidential Election: Contesting Lockdown Authority in Popular Songs0
“We Are Not Gays”: Regime Preservation and the Politicization of Identity in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe0
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
“Welcome, Ali, Please go Home”: Muhammad Ali as Diplomat and African Debates on the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott0
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
Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, eds. Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. 0
Contemporary Narratives on Yoruba History, Modern Society in Nigeria, and the Meaning of Decolonized Humanity in the African Context0
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
Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa0
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
Recent Approaches to the Study of Health, Healing, Illness, and Care in Africa0
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