African Studies Review

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating “Customary” Ownership of Natural Resources2024/01/26English
Rural Radicalism and the Tactic of Third-Party Leverage: How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into Their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State2024/01/22English
B Camminga and John Marnell, eds. Queer & Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum, & Diaspora. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 264 pp. Index. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780755638994.2024/01/25English
Matthew G. Stanard. The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock: Colonial Memories and Movements in Belgium. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019. 338 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $81.00. Paper. ISBN: 9789462701793.2024/01/25English
Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, and Helen Ludlow, eds. Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022. xvii + 341 pp. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 9781776147274.2024/01/19English
Anima Adjepong. Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 201pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £94. Cloth. ISBN: 9781469665184.2024/01/19English
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. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1316515860.2023/07/12English
Niels Kastfelt. Religion and Politics in Nigeria: A Study in Middle Belt Christianity. London: British Academic Press, 1994. xii + 204 pp. $59.50. Cloth. ISBN: 1850437882.2023/06/16English
Tope Oshin, director. Up North. 2018. 99 min. English/Hausa/Pidgin. Nigeria. Anakle Films, Inkblot Productions, and Netflix. No price reported.2023/07/28English
Africa in World History2023/06/27English
Yusuf M. Juwayeyi. Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa. Suffolk: James Currey, 2020. vii + 242 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. $37.95 Paper. ISBN: 978-1847013507.2023/06/16English
Literary Analysis of a Memory Book by a Schoolteacher with HIV in Rural Uganda: Writing about Living with and Dying of HIV2023/01/17English
Coloniality of Waithood: Africa’s Wait for COVID-19 Vaccines amid COVAX and TRIPS2023/01/19English
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. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6585-6.2023/01/19English
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. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821423899.2023/01/19English
Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa2023/01/19English
Land and Living on Little in Kenya2023/01/19English
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. Cloth. ISBN:9780823299126.2023/01/19English
Leonardo A. Villalón and Rahmane Idrissa, eds. Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel. New York: Lexington Books, 2020. 230 pp. Index. $105.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1498569996.2023/01/03English
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 de Lisboa, 2021. 705 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliographies. ISBN: 9789898068361.2024/04/15English
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: 978-1-80073-378-7.2024/04/15English
Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, African Refugees. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 634 pp. Index. Maps. $50.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-0253064417.2024/04/19English
Harlem, Addis, and Johannesburg: African Solidarity and African American Internationalism in Harlem from the 1960s to the 1990s2024/04/22English
Rebecca Tapscott. Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $100. Cloth. ISBN: 9780198856474.2024/04/22English
(Re)negotiating State Authority: How Hinterland Protests against Global Capital Impact the Mediating Role of Traditional Rulers in Postcolonial Sierra Leone2024/02/19English
Knowledge Creation for Africa’s Development Contexts2023/09/01English
Paul Naylor. From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2021. vi + 199 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $115. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847012708.2023/08/29English
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: 9781509545612.2023/08/09English
“We Are not into Politics, but Politics Is into Us”: The Politicization of the Ghana Armed Forces Through Patronage Exchanges between Political Elites and Military Leaders2023/08/11English
Verena Krebs. Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 308 pp. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3-030-64933-3.2023/08/10English