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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Welcome, Ali, Please go Home”: Muhammad Ali as Diplomat and African Debates on the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott8
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. I8
The Africa-Diaspora Orbit: Anani Dzidzienyo’s Contributions to African/Black Studies and Black Liberation7
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò. Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. London: C. Hurst & Company, 2022. 368 pp. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781787386921.7
Dare Olaitan, director. Knockout Blessing. 2018. 102 minutes. English and Yoruba (with English subtitles). Nigeria. Genesis Distribution. No Price Reported.6
David Mwambari. Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 336 pp. $83. Hardback. ISBN: 9780190942304.6
David Mwambari. Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 336 pp. $83. Hardback. ISBN: 9780190942304.5
David Mwambari. Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 336 pp. $83. Hardback. ISBN: 9780190942304.4
Alden Young. Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (African Studies, Series Number 140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; x + 194 pp. Bibliog4
Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918.4
Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918.4
Faraday Okoro, director. Nigerian Prince. 2018. 104 minutes. English and Igbo. Nigeria and United States. Vertical Entertainment. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.4
A Past That Doesn’t Rest: Domination, Violence, and the “Question of Nationalities” in Ethiopia4
Erin Accampo Hern. Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2023. 189 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $26.50. Paper. ISBN: 94
Daniel L. Douek. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa. London: Hurst, 2020. xvii + 509 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781849048804.4
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 363 pp. List of Maps. List of Figures. List of Tables. Gloss4
Stephan F. Miescher. A dam for Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. 598 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059956.4
Pathways to Peace – ERRATUM3
Rehad Desai and Mark J. Kaplan, dirs. How to Steal a Country. 2019. 1 hour 33 minutes. English. South Africa. Uhuru Productions. Price not available.3
Ryan Shaffer, ed. African Intelligence Services: Early Postcolonial and Contemporary Challenges: Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2023. vii + 224 pp. Bibliography. Maps. Index. $42.99. Paper. ISBN3
African Studies, Forging Common Grounds: Languages, Scripts and Translation3
Stephan F. Miescher. A dam for Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. 598 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059956.3
2020 ASR Distinguished Lecture: African Voices Matter: Reflections on Fifty Years of Historical Research in Southern Africa3
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:3
Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918.3
Connor Ryan. Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 269 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-472-3
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: 9780299345709.3
Todd Cleveland. Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. xviii + 196 pp. Maps. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Inde3
David Everatt ed. Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019. ix + 327pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 9781776143443.2
Francis Musoni. Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. xvii + 201 pp. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cl2
Mamadou Dia, dir. Nafi’s Father. 2019. Original title: Baamum Naafi. 107 minutes. Fula (with English subtitles). Senegal. Joyedidi. No price reported.2
Sheree René Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight, eds. Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction. New York: Tordotcom Publishing, 2022. 528 pp. $22.98. Cloth. ISBN: 978-12508330062
Reassessing Africa’s New Post-Coup Landscape2
Ernst Wolff. Mongameli Mabona: His Life and Work. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press; also open access. 202 pp. References. $25.00. Paper. 2
John M. Janzen. Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. xviii + 262 pp. $21.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0299325046.2
Ericka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de Luna, editors. Tracing Language Movement in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 426 pp. List of Contributors. Index. $99.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978019065752
Gerhard Seibert and Paulo F. Visentini, editors. Brazil-Africa Relations: Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Engagements, From the 1960s to the Present. New York: James Currey, 2019. xx + 279 pp. 2
Sam Soko, dir. Toni Kamau, producer. Softie. 2020. 96 mins. English/Swahili/Gikuyu. Kenya. Distributed by Icarus Films for purchase on DVD for $29.98, to rent on Vimeo for $3.99.2
Anthony Butler. Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power, Third Edition. Woodbridge (UK): Jacana Press, 2019. xvi + 496 pp. Photographs. Endnotes. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847012296.2
Nwando Achebe. Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2020. 224 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $16.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2407-0.2
From German East African Rupees to British East African Shillings in Tanganyika: The King and the Kaiser Side by Side2
Mobilizing Home: Diasporic Agitations and the Global Remakings of Postwar Southeastern Nigeria – ADDENDUM2
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.2
Peter Kallaway. The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science, and Development. London: Routledge, 2020. xx + 262 pages. List of Tables. Appendices. Abbreviations. References. 2
Mcebisi Ndletyana. Anatomy of the ANC in Power: Insights from Port Elizabeth, 1990–2019. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2020. xiv + 338 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.2
ASR volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
Adel Abdel Ghafar. The European Union and North Africa: Prospects and Challenges. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2019. ix + 201 pp. Index. $49.99. Paper. ISBN: 9780815736950.2
John Lwanda. Making Music in Malawi. Lilongwe: Logos Open Culture, 2021. viii+451pp. Notes. Index. £25/MWK 20,000. Paper. ISBN 978-99960-979-2-8.2
Corporate Repertoires of Control and Performances of Power in a Contested Land Deal in Senegal2
Jessica Steinberg. Mines, Communities, and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi + 282 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Inde2
Alice Elliot. The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. 204 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25. Paper. ISBN: 978-0253054746.2
Carole Ammann. Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics. New York: Routledge, 2020. xiv +220 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $52.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781032238081.2
Yahya Sseremba. America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda. New York: Routledge, 2023. 216 pp. $136.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032412085.1
1970s Drought, State Crisis, and Opportunities for Transnational River Development in the Senegal Basin1
Stephen L. Bishop. Scripting Shame in African Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. viii + 280 pages. Bibliography. Index. $130.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1800348431.1
So Long and Farewell: An Editor’s Final Introduction1
ASR volume 65 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Edkins Teboho, director. Days of Cannibalism: Of Pioneers, Cows and Capital. 2020. 78 minutes. Sesotho, Fujianese, Mandarin, English, with English and French subtitles. China and Lesotho. Produced by 1
Cullen Goldblatt. Beyond Collective Memory: Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives. New York: Routledge, 2021. vii + 226 pp. Bibliography. Index. $128.00.1
Contested Truths Over COVID-19 in East Africa: Examining Opposition to Public Health Measures in Tanzania and Uganda1
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.1
Katy Léna Ndiaye. Money, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc / L’argent, la liberté, une histoire du Franc CFA. 2022. 104 minutes. French and Wolof, with English subtitles. Senegal/France/Belgium/German1
Winnifred Bedigen. Indigenous Peace Building in South Sudan: Delivering Sustainable Peace through Traditional Institutions, Customs and Practices. London: Routledge, 2023. vii + 243 pp. Figures. Intro1
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
Martha Wilfahrt. Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300 pp. Maps. Illustrations1
Li Xinfeng, ed., Shelly Bryant, trans. Zheng He’s Voyages to Africa in the 15th Century: The Maritime Silk and Porcelain Road. Pretoria, South Africa: African Institute of South Africa, 2023. 362 pp. 1
A Tale of Two Divestments: South Africa, Sudan, and Howard University1
Jacob Dlamini. Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa. Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2024. $22.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-5095-6108-7.1
Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh” – ERRATUM1
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. ISBN1
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 pp1
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.1
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction – CORRIGENDUM1
The Empowering Bequest of AAA – 1940–20231
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. 1
Noah Tamarkin. Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 260 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $26.68. Paper. ISBN: 9781478009689.1
Global Forces, Rural Radicalism, and the Dual Transformation of Urban and Rural Protest in Africa1
José da Silva Horta, Carlos Almeida and Peter Mark, eds. African Ivories in the Atlantic World, 1400–1900/Marfins Africanos no Mundo Atlântico, 1400–1900. Lisbon: Centro de História da Universidade de1
Sakiru Adebayo, Continuous Past: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 196 pp. $34.95. Paperback. ISBN: 9780472056231.1
Roots of Resilience: Unraveling Yacouba Sawadogo’s Afrocentric Ecological Wisdom through Qualitative Inquiry1
Harry N. K. Odamtten. Edward W. Blyden’s Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 201
Peter J. Hoesing. Kusamira Music in Uganda: Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. xviii + 201 pp. List of Illustrations. Notes on Languages and Orthography.1
Philip Gooding. On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c. 1830–1890 (Cambridge Oceanic Histories). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv + 252 pp. Glossar1
Leonardo R. Arriola, Martha C. Johnson, and Melanie L. Phillips, eds. Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning and Governing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 277 pp. $85.00. Cloth. ISBN1
“Awa ndi macheza aamai (This is women’s play)”: Examining Pleasure in Urban Malawian Women’s Social Spaces1
Transnational Strategies of Legitimation in the 1990s: The Togolese Regime and its Exiled Opposition in Ghana1
Andre Odendaal, Krish Reddy, and Christopher Merrett. Divided Country. The History of South African Cricket Retold: Volume 2, 1914–1950s. Cape Town: BestRed (an imprint of HSRC Press), 2018. xiv + 4421
Of Bonds and Commitment: In Memoriam Ama Ata Aidoo1
Revisiting “Miss Aidoo’s” No Sweetness Here1
Michaël Andrianaly, dir. Nofinofy (Dream). 2019. 73 minutes. Malagasy, with French subtitles. Madagascar and France, Les Films de la Pluie and Imasoa Films. 15€.1
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. I1
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 Enterta1
Veronica Fynn Bruey (Ed.). Patriarchy and Gender in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 248 pp. $111.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-7936-3856-4.1
Moses Matanda. Eagles in the Hut. 2022. 57 minutes. English. Honde Valley TV, in conjunction with Nhaka TV Production. No price reported.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
Bernard Forjwuor. Critique of Political Decolonization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 304 pp. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198871842.0
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu, eds. Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. ix + 330 pp. 0
Mohamed Kamara. Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature: The School and the Invention of the Bourgeoisie. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. x + 247 pp. Bibliography. Index. $105.0
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
Fake News in the Sahel: “Afrancaux News,” French Counterterrorism, and the Logics of User-Generated Media0
Noret Joël, ed. Social Im/Mobilities in Africa: Ethnographic Approaches. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 236 pp. Illustrations. $135.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1789204858.0
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
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
Medina Gounass: Constructing Extra-National Space in a West African Borderland0
Franklin Obeng-Odoom. Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii + 364. Figures. Tables. Index. $32.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781108709996.0
Knowledge Creation for Africa’s Development Contexts0
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
2023 ASR Distinguished Lecture: Decoloniality and Its Fissures. Whose Decolonial Turn?0
Kenneth W. Harrow: A Legacy in African Studies0
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: 978-1469645384.0
Africa in World History0
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan, dirs. Made in Ethiopia. 2024. 91 minutes. Amharic, Afan Oromo, Mandarin, and English with English subtitles. Dogwoof, Hard Truth Films, and Gobez Media.0
Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves and Aminah N. Fernandes Pilgrim, eds. Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. 261 pp. Notes. Bib0
Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana0
Fradique , dir. Ar Condicionado. 2020. 72 minutes. Portuguese, with Portuguese, English or French Subtitles. Luanda, Angola. Geração 80. No price reported.0
“More than Disease”: Uncovering the Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Pandemic0
Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi, Noel Solani, André Odendaal, and Khwezi ka Mpumlwana, eds. Robben Island Rainbow Dreams: The Making of Democratic South Africa’s First National Heritage Institution. Cape To0
Motsamai Molefe. African Personhood and Applied Ethics. Makhanda: NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2020. African Books Collective. x + 138 pp. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 987-1920033699.0
Land and Living on Little in Kenya0
Hyden Munene. Copper King in Central Africa: Corporate Organization, Labor Relations, and Profitability of Zambia’s Rokhana Corporation. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. xiii + 277 pp. Maps. 0
The Value of Extending Our Scholarly Geographic Scope0
Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana’s Literary Icon0
Awino Okech. Widow Inheritance and Contested Citizenship in Kenya. New York: Routledge, 2021. 78 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $23.19. Paper. ISBN: 9780367788049.0
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
Rose A. Sackeyfio. African Women Narrating Identity: Local and Global Journeys of the Self. New York: Routledge, 2024. 200 pp. $41.24. Paper. ISBN: 9781032395401.0
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
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. $820
Economic Change and Occultic Sika Bone: Market Women’s Responses to Increased Financialization in Ghana0
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
Reuben A. Loffman. Church, State and Colonialism in Southeastern Congo, 1890–1962. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland for Palgrave Macmillan Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Se0
Susanne Verheul. Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Vii + 265pp. Photographs and diagrams. Notes. Bibliography. Index.0
Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere. Normativity in African Regional Relations. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.188 pp. $111.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-78661-589-3.0
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
Early Ethiopian Cinema, 1964–19940
Tendai Chari and Ufuoma Akpojivi, eds. Communication Rights in Africa: Emerging Discourses and Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2023. 282 pp. $152.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781032482835.0
Literary Analysis of a Memory Book by a Schoolteacher with HIV in Rural Uganda: Writing about Living with and Dying of HIV0
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.0
Shortcut English: Pidgin Language, Racialization, and Symbolic Economies at a Chinese-Operated Mine in Zambia0
Monique A. Bedasse. Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiii + 254 pp. Photographs. Notes. 0
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: 978-1-4813-1770
Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane, eds. Pursuing Justice in Africa. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2018. 342 pp. Contents. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-08214423356.0
Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy, Jeff Grischow, and Festus Moasun. Experiencing Disability Stigma in Ghana: Impact on Individuals and Caregivers. Lanham, MD. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. xii + 153 pp. $95.00
Rui Santos Verde. Angola at the Crossroads: Between Kleptocracy and Development. London: I.B. Tauris, 2021. 201 pages. List of Figures. List of Acronyms. Bibliography. Index. $51.38. Paper. ISBN: 97800
Staying with the Culture Struggle: The African Union and Eliminating Violence Against Women0
Africa and the Diversity Turn0
Paul S. Landau. Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. 412 pp. Maps. Notes. Sources. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780821424797.0
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: 978-1474254274.0
Lesley Nicole Braun. Congo’s Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. xiii + 201 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. US $79.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780290
Nicoué Lodjou Gayibor (ed.). Les Ewe (Togo, Ghana, Bénin), Histoire et Civilisation. Volumes 1 and 2. Lomé: Presses de l’Université de Lomé, 2021. 691 pp. Chronology. Glossary. Illustrations. Maps. Ta0
More Than an Intermediary: James Bannerman and Colonial Space-Making on the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast – ERRATUM0
Vasco Martins. Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola. London: Routledge, 2021. 196 pp. Chronology. Index. Hardcover. $136. ISBN: 9780367860868.0
Benjamin Talton. In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 212 pp. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978081220
Matthias de Groof, ed. Lumumba in the Arts. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. 400 pp. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. $79.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9462701748.0
Jeffrey W. Paller. Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. vii + 313 pp. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $100. Cloth. ISBN: 0
Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918.0
Building the City from Below: Toward a Citizen-Centered City-Making0
Judith A. Byfield. The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2021. 320 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2398-0
Olumuyiwa Babatunde Amao. The Foreign Policy and Intervention Behavior of Africa’s Middle Powers: An Analytic Eclecticism Approach. London: Lexington Books, 2023. 270 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $0
Isabel Hofmeyr. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. xii + 121 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $22.95 Paper. ISBN: 978-1478017745.0
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. $29.90
Khalid Shamis, dir. The Colonel’s Stray Dogs. 2021. 73 minutes. English. South Africa. Journeyman Pictures. $7.50. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecolonelsstraydogs20
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
Bureaucrats at Work: African Bureaucracies and Bureaucrats from the Sociological, Historical, and Political Perspectives - Mai Hassan. Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Emb0
Wildlife Management in South Sudan, 1901–2021: Conservation amidst Conflict0
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:0
Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum. From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen: How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 252 pp. List of Figure0
“These Somalis are not Somalis:” Cup of Art Italian Coffeehouse, Authentic Identities, and Belonging in Hargeisa, Somaliland0
ASR volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Premesh Lalu. Undoing Apartheid. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023. 202 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-509-55283-2.0
Bolanle Austen-Peters, director. Collision Course. 2021. 72 minutes. Nigeria. English, Yoruba and Igbo. Bolanle Austen-Peters Production. No price reported. Available on Netflix.0
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: 978-0-226-65575-80
Gillian Glaes. African Political Activism in Postcolonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare. London: Routledge, 2019. xxiv + 235 pp. List of Figures. List of Abbreviations. Selected biblio0
Michael Wahman. Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198872825.0
“Watch Your Tone!”: Music and Meaning in Bobi Wine’s “Tugambire ku Jennifer” and the Kampala Street Vendors0
“We need to open our doors and windows and breathe the fresh air of the ocean”: Hountondji on Suffocation and the Need to Liberate the Philosophical Mind0
Michelle Liebst. Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864–1926. Suffolk: James Currey, 2021. xiv + 224 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Clot0
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
Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, director. Sew the Winter to My Skin. 2018. 132 minutes. Afrikaans, Xhosa, and English, with no subtitles. Somerset East and Cookhouse, South Africa. Die Gesellschaft DGS, Yellowbon0
Alpha Oumar Konaré. Histoire des partis politiques au Mali: Du pluralisme politique au parti unique, 1946–1968. Bamako: Cauris Livre, 2016. 607 pp. €57. Paper. ISBN: 978-9995260309.0
The Dynamics of Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Plateau State, Nigeria, and Central Darfur State, Sudan0
Nagalaxmi M. Raman and Neha Sinha, eds. Synergising India-Africa Relations: Contemporary Realities and Emerging Prospects. New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2024. 276 pp. ₹995.00 ($11.97). Cloth. ISBN: 978-80
Paulin Hountondji0
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
Writing in Englishes: Taking Control of the Technology of Power through Literary Aesthetics: A Keynote Speech to the African Studies Association Conference, 20210
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, ed. Football, Gambling, and Everyday Life in Zimbabwe. New York: Routledge, 2024. 150 pp. $153.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032578866.0
More Than an Intermediary: James Bannerman and Colonial Space-Making on the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast0
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: 9780197619971.0
Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman. Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2020. 258 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $17.95. Paper. ISBN: 978080
The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda: Understanding Violence in the Rwenzori Region0
Fidel Abowei. Nigeria’s Soft Power in Anglophone West Africa: Insights from Ghana and Liberia. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. xiii + 223 pp. $180.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032500362.0
Christoph N. Vogel. Conflict Minerals Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviorism in Eastern Congo. London: C. Hurst & Co, 2022. 224 pp. List of Figures and Tables. Bibliography. Index. $22.78. Paper. I0
Reencuentros with Paulin Hountondji0
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
Abimbola Adelakun. Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics and Pentecostalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 268 pp. $98.41. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-108-83107-9.0
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
Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu, and Purity Wakabari Kiura, eds. China and East Africa: Ancient Ties, Contemporary Flows. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 277 pp. $117.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-40
Philippe Lacôte, director. Night of the Kings. 2020. Original title: La nuit des rois. 93 minutes. French, Dioula, Nouchi (with English subtitles). Ivory Coast/France/Canada/Senegal. Banshee Fi0
Morad Mostafa, dir. I Promise You Paradise. 2023. 25 mins. Arabic with French and English subtitles. Egypt and Qatar. No price reported.0
Archie L. Dick. Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. viii + 93 pages. Appendix. References. Map. Basic South Africa Historical Timeline. $12.99. Pap0
Laughing through the Virus the Zimbabwean Way: WhatsApp Humor and the Twenty-one-day COVID-19 Lockdown0
Cajetan Iheka. Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. iii + 166 pp. Notes. Works Cited. Index0
Botswana’s 2019 General Elections: A Referendum on General Ian Khama0
Jahmil X. T. Qubeka, dir. Knuckle City. 2019. Xhosa and English with English Subtitles. 120 minutes. South Africa. Yellowbone Entertainment. Available on Amazon Prime and Hulu.0
Marie Muschalek. Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 255 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. C0
Okechukwu Nwafor. Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 252 pp. 42 Color photographs. Notes. Bibliography. In0
Enrique Ubieta Gomez. Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle against Ebola in West Africa. New York: Pathfinder, 2019. Translated from Spanish by Catriona Goss. 250 pp. Maps. Photos. References. Index. $17.00.0
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
Cabral and Revolution in Portuguese-Speaking Africa0
Kunle Afolayan, dir. Citation. Nigeria, 2020. Produced by Golden Effects. Netflix. 151 minutes. English, French, Wolof, Yoruba. No price reported.0
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
Lauren Carruth. Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia’s Somali Region. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 240 pp. Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Note on Transliteration and So0
30 Years of the African Film Festival, Inc.0
Kwasi Konadu. Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire. London: Hurst, 2022. 176 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Index. $29.95. Paper0
ASR volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, African Refugees. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 634 pp. Index. Maps. $50.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-0253064417.0
Garçons ManquésandFemmes Fortes: Two Ambivalent Figures of Butch Lesbianism in Women’s Football in Cameroon0
Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino, dir. Makongo. 2020. 72 min. Aka, Sango, French, with English Subtitles. Central African Republic, Italy, and Argentina. Makongo Films. No Price Reported.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
Bernard Moitt. Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. vii + 223 pp. $110. Hardback. ISBN: 9781009296472.0
Ema Edosio, dir. Otiti. 2022. 120 minutes. Nigerian Pidgin, with English subtitles. Available on Amazon Prime. No Price Reported.0
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.0
The Scramble for the West? Debunking the Myths around Migration from Africa and the Global South0
Christiane Badgley, director. Guangzhou Dream Factory. 2017. 66 minutes. English, with English, French, and Mandarin Subtitles. Guangzhou, China. Raymar Educational Films. $250.00.0
Conditionality Breeds Contempt: Donor and Multilateral Myopia in Sudan0
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
Jacob Dlamini. The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020. 375 pp. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Inde0
Ferdinand de Jong. Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal. The International African Library. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 292 pp. List of Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index0
Lisa Feder. Jeliya at the Crossroads: Learning African Wisdom through an Embodied Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. vii + 264 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $110.44. Hardcover. I0
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
Human-Lion Conflict and the Reproduction of White Supremacy in Northwest Namibia0
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
Selina Linda Mudavanhu, Shepherd Mpofu, and Kezia Batisai, eds. Decolonising Media and Communication Studies Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: Routledge, 2023. 298 pp. Bibliography. Index. $1440
Camille Lefebvre. Des pays au crépuscule : Le moment de l’occupation coloniale (Sahara-Sahel). Paris: Fayard, 2021. 341 pp. Index. 24 €. Paper. ISBN: 978-2-213-71810-1.0
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
Jacinta Maweu and Admire Mare, eds. Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding In Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations. New York, Routledge. 2021. Illustrations. Index. 280 pp. $42.36. Paper. ISBN: 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
Michael Amoah. The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa. London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2019. List of Maps. List of Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. $100.00. Cloth. ISBN: 970
Carl LeVan. Contemporary Nigerian Politics: Competition in a Time of Transition and Terror. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. vi + 238 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. Bibliography. Inde0
Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa0
Ali Essafi, director. Beyond the Dying of the Light. 2020. 70 minutes. Moroccan Darija and French, with English Subtitles. Morocco. Cinemaat Prod. No price reported.0
Gendering Counter-Terrorism: Kunya and the Silencing of Male Victims of CRSV in Northeastern Nigeria0
African Studies Keyword: Malaria0
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
Michelle C. Johnson. Remaking Islam in African Portugal: Lisbon, Mecca, Bissau. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020. 212 pp. Note on Transcription. Bibliography. Index. $24.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-020
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 &am0
Cori Wielenga. African Feminisms and Women in the Context of Justice in Southern Africa. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. v + 117 pp. Index. $149.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-3030821272.0
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 repor0
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work0
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:0
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