African Studies Review

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Ousseina D. Alidou. Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation and Social Change. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. xviii + 225 pp. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Glossary. Notes. References. Index. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0299294649. - Alice J. Kang. Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xvi + 241 pp. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0816692187.2016/08/30English
Marc Sommers. The Outcast Majority: War, Development, and Youth in Africa. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. xviii + 259 pp. Map. Figures. Tables. Photographs. Index. $74.95. Cloth. ISBN 978-0-8203-4884-1. $26.95. Paper. ISBN 978-08203-4884-8.2016/08/30English
J. J. Carney. Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xv + 343 pp. Timeline. Glossary. Index. $78.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0199982271.2016/08/30English
Yebio Woldemariam. Ethiopia, An Ancient Land: Agriculture, History, and Politics. Trenton, N.J.: The Red Sea Press, 2016. xviii + 301 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-56902-426-3.2016/08/30English
ASR volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2016/08/30English
Todd Cleveland. Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. xvi + 289. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2134-5.2016/08/30English
Benjamin Gardner. Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. xxxii +210 pp. Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8203-4508-6.2016/08/30English
James C. McCann. The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. xiv + 196 pp. List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. Afterword. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780821421475.2016/08/30English
Aili Mari Tripp. Women and Power in Postconflict Africa. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxvi + 292 pp. Maps. Charts. Acronyms. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Paper. $29.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-107-11557-6.2016/08/30English
Chris Vaughan. Darfur: Colonial Violence, Sultanic Legacies & Local Politics, 1916–1956. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2015. xiv + 231 pp. Map. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-84701-111-4.2016/08/30English
Kathleen R. Smythe. Africa’s Past, Our Future. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xvii + 227 pp. Suggestions for further readings. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $30.00. Paper. $29.99. E-Book. ISBN: 978-0253016553.2016/08/30English
ASR volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2016/08/30English
Avie Luthra, director. Lucky. 2011. 100 minutes. Zulu, English, and Hindi, with English subtitles. South Africa. Film Movement. No price reported.2016/08/30English
Joseph Gaï Ramaka, director. Plan Jaxaay! 2007. 25 minutes. Wolof with English and French subtitles. Senegal. Observatoire Audiovisuel sur les Libertés. Available on Vimeo.com. No price reported.2016/08/30English
Clive Gabay. Exploring an African Civil Society: Development and Democracy in Malawi, 1994–2014. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. vii + 123 pp. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-7391-8434-9.2016/08/30English
Elizabeth Holzer. The Concerned Women of Buduburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2015. viii + 200 pp. Bibliography. Index. Paper. $21.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5690-9.2016/08/30English
Wale Adebanwi, ed. The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins, James Currey and Boydell & Brewer Inc., 2017. xv + 364 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-84701-165-7; No price reported. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-84701-166-4.2018/02/01English
The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources2018/02/20English
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: Langaaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2021. xx + 490 pp. $55.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9956-551-47-7.2023/04/12English
Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, and Susan Kingsley Kent. The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 239 pp. List of Illustrations. Chronology of Major Events. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $150.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1843760115.2023/04/14English
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò. Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. London: C. Hurst & Company, 2022. 368 pp. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781787386921.2023/04/27English
Knut Christian Myhre. Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro. Oxford: Berghahn, 2023. xvii + 319 pp. Map. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. £27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-80073-947-5.2024/02/21English
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. ISBN: 9780674987661.2024/02/29English
Jacob Zenn. Unmasking Boko Haram: Exploring Global Jihad in Nigeria. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2020. 415 pp. Bibliography. Glossary. $105. Ebook. ISBN: 9781626378933.2024/03/08English
Michael Wahman. Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272pp. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198872825.2024/03/01English
Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. 240 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $ 16.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780821424520.2024/03/01English
David L. Schoenbrun. The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 339 pp. 4 maps.16 illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780299332501.2024/03/01English
Martha Wilfahrt. Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.43. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1316518151.2024/04/11English
Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian Diaspora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 432 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780226810027.2024/04/01English
Oumar Ba. States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 204 pp. Bibliography. Index. $28.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1108738835.2024/04/01English