African Studies Review

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Aicha Macky, dir. Zinder. 2021. 82 et 52 min. Haoussa. France, Allemagne et Niger. Andanafilms. $7.00 – CORRIGENDUM2024/04/02English
John Kinahan. Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert. Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. xxvi + 546 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $135. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1847012883.2023/12/14English
Contested Truths Over COVID-19 in East Africa: Examining Opposition to Public Health Measures in Tanzania and Uganda2023/11/22English
Itamar Dubinsky. Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. iii + 177 pp. Works Cited. Photographs. Index. $79.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-299-33560-1.2023/12/13English
Crime and Policing in Africa: Tactical Politics, Authoritarianism, and the Rule of Law2023/12/15English
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: 978-0-8214-2398-12023/12/12English
Money for Africa and Money in Africa: Colonial Currencies and the Making of Economies and States, 1860s–1960s2023/09/01English
Vasco Martins. Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola. London: Routledge, 2021. 196 pp. Chronology. Index. Hardcover. $136. ISBN: 9780367860868.2023/10/23English
Khalid Shamis, dir. The Colonel’s Stray Dogs. 2021. 73 minutes. English. South Africa. Journeyman Pictures. $7.50. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecolonelsstraydogs22023/11/20English
Matthias de Groof, ed. Lumumba in the Arts. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. 400 pp. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. $79.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9462701748.2023/11/20English
Noah Tamarkin. Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 260 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $26.68. Paper. ISBN: 9781478009689.2023/11/20English
Franklin Obeng-Odoom. Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii + 364. Figures. Tables. Index. $32.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781108709996.2023/11/06English
Chinweizu , The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and the African Elite. New York: Random House, 1975. 540 pp. $65.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780394715223.2023/10/26English
#BringBackOurGirls: Transnational Activism and the Remediation of the 2014 Chibok Girls’ Kidnapping in Nigeria2024/03/26English
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: 978-1108726863.2024/03/18English
Sheila Khan, Nazir Ahmed Can, and Helena Machado, eds. Racism and Racial Surveillance: Modernity Matters. New York: Routledge, 2022. xiii + 222 pp. Index. $42.36. Paper. ISBN: 9781032109022.2024/03/13English
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. Paperback. ISBN: 9781032138428.2024/03/13English
Janet I. Lewis. How Insurgency Begins: Evidence from Uganda and Beyond. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 272 pp. 18 black and white illustrations. 3 maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781108790475.2024/03/13English
Veronica Fynn Bruey (Ed.). Patriarchy and Gender in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 248 pp. $111.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-7936-3856-4.2024/03/13English
Muuse Yuusuf. The Genesis of the Civil War in Somalia: The Impact of Foreign Military Intervention on the Conflict. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. ix + 255 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $52.65. Paper. ISBN: 9780755642410.2024/03/14English
Michael Wahman. Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198872825.2024/03/13English
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.2024/03/27English
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: 978-3030821272.2023/03/30English
Emily McGiffin. Of Land, Bones, and Money: Toward a South African Ecopoetics. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 266 pp. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.50. Paper. ISBN: 978-0813942766.2023/03/20English
Going Back to the Roots: Indigenous Language, Media Performance, and Change in Kenya2023/03/06English
Yusufu Turaki. Tainted Legacy: Islam, Colonialism and Slavery in Northern Nigeria. McLean, Virginia: Isaac Publishing, 2010. 210 pp. $111.98. Paper. ISBN: 978-0982521830.2023/03/31English
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. $30.63. Paper. ISBN: 978-0226519661.2023/02/28English
Matthew Graham. Contemporary Africa. London: Red Globe Press, 2019. 291 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1137500335.2024/01/23English
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. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-7969-2605-0.2024/01/19English
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: 978-1316512876.2024/01/23English