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Volume 60; Issue 1

African Studies Review

Volume 60; Issue 1

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Ousmane Oumar Kane. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. ix + 282 pp. Note on Transliteration. Notes. Glossary. Acknowledgments. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-674-05082-2.Lamin Sanneh. Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition of West African Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Timeline. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii + 358 pp. $34.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-19-935161-9.

Diagne, Souleymane Bachir

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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The Minimalist State and Donor Landscapes: Livelihood Security in Mali during and after the 2012–2013 Coup and Rebellion

Moseley, William G.

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Christopher Ehret. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. 2nd edition. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. xvi + 488 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Suggested Further Reading. Index. Paper. $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-8139-2880-7.

Seligman, Andrea Felber

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African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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A Southern View on the Tuareg Rebellions in Mali

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African Studies Review

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2017

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2017

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Tunde Kelani, director. Pyrolysis or Paralysis. 2015. 3 minutes. English. Nigeria. Mainframe Film/Television Productions. No price reported.

Onikoyi, Babatunde

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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english, 2017

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Sexual Violence in the Eritrean National Service

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Alex de Waal. The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power. Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2015. xii + 267 pp. Figures and Maps. Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780745695587.

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Introduction: Hope, Despair, and the Future of Mali

Moseley, William G., Hoffman, Barbara G.

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Norms, Power, and the Socially Embedded Realities of Market Taxation in Northern Ghana

Prichard, Wilson, van den Boogaard, Vanessa

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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english, 2017

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The Roles of the Griot in the Future of Mali: A Twenty-First-Century Institutionalization of a Thirteenth-Century Traditional Institution

Hoffman, Barbara G.

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Political Participation and Mobilization after Mali’s 2012 Coup

Whitehouse, Bruce

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Kristof Bilsen, director. Elephant’s Dream. 2014. 71 minutes. Lingala, French (with English, French, or Dutch subtitles). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dalton Distribution. €15.00.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 89 KB

english, 2017

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Global Media and Local Verbal Art Representations of Northern Malian Tuareg

Rasmussen, Susan J.

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Muchongoyo and Mugabeism in Zimbabwe

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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english, 2017

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Hicham Ayouch, director. Fevers. 2013. Original title: Fièvres. 90 minutes. French. Morocco/France. La Vingt-Cinquième Heure. Price not reported.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 85 KB

english, 2017

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Baruch Hirson. Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto School Children’s Revolt That Shook Apartheid. Foreword by Shula Marks. London: Zed Books, 2016. 2nd revised edition. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Chronology of Events. Bibliography. Index. xv + 350 pp. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-78360-896-6.Julian Brown. The Road to Soweto Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976. Woodbridge, U.K.: James Currey, 2016. v + 204 pp. Acknowledgments. A Note on Language. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-847-01141-1.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 75 KB

english, 2017

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Sara Rich Dorman. Understanding Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. viii + 348 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-19-063488-9.

Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 84 KB

english, 2017

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Tom Young, ed. Readings in the International Relations of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xiv + 370 pp. Maps. Index. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-01888-5.

Shaw, Timothy M.

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African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 78 KB

english, 2017

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Charles Piot, ed. Doing Development in West Africa: A Reader by and for Undergraduates. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. x + 222 pp. Photographs. Index. $23.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-780822361923.

Little, Peter D.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

Language:

english

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PDF, 116 KB

english, 2017

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Joost Fontein. Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2015. xxiv + 341 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. No Price Reported. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-84701-112-1.

McKittrick, Meredith

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 80 KB

english, 2017

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Iris Berger. Women in Twentieth-Century Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xi + 233 pp. Maps. Photographs. References and Further Readings. $29.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-74121-7.

Byfield, Judith A.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

Fratkin, Elliot, Redding, Sean

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid. Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011–12. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii + 269 pp. Maps. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper. $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-19049938-9.

Ingiriis, Mohamed Haji

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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BOOKS RECEIVED

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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ASR volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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PDF, 3.22 MB

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ASR volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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African Studies Review

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2017

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english

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PDF, 1.66 MB

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Maxim Bolt. Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xx + 266 pp. Maps and Figures. Acknowledgments. List of Key Characters. References. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-107-11122-6.

Sinclair-Bright, Leila

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 269 KB

english, 2017

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Joanna Davidson. Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii + 249 pp. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0199358687.

Lundy, Brandon D.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 80 KB

english, 2017

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Geert Castryck, Silke Strickrodt, and Katja Werthmann, eds. Sources and Methods for African History and Culture: Essays in Honour of Adam Jones. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2016. 698 pp. Maps. Photographs. Figures. €64.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3-86583-926-8.

de Luna, Kathryn

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

Language:

english

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PDF, 107 KB

english, 2017

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Hannah Whittaker. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya. Leiden: Brill, 2015. ix + 178 pp. Acknowledgments. Maps. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Paper. ISBN 978-90-04-28267-4.

Waller, Richard

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

Language:

english

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PDF, 94 KB

english, 2017

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Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo. Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. xx + 244 pp. Maps. List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. Time Line. $22.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-89680-300-8.

Maxon, Robert M.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 71 KB

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Nic Cheeseman. Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xx + 247 pp. List of Tables. List of Acronyms. Index. $28.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-13842-0.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 86 KB

english, 2017

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Lamin Sanneh. Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition of West African Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Timeline. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii + 358 pp. $34.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-19-935161-9.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 100 KB

english, 2017

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Studio Malembe Maa. L’Animation Indépendante Africaine: Volume 2. 2016. 87 minutes. French, with English and Dutch subtitles. France. Les Films du Paradoxe. €19.00.

Chirol, Marie-Magdeleine

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 80 KB

english, 2017

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Arzouma Kompaore, director. Hawa. 2015. 30 minutes. French and English (with English subtitles). United States. Vimeo. $5.00.

Ondrus, Suzanne

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African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 68 KB

english, 2017

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Annalet Steenkamp, director. I, Afrikaner. 2013. 93 minutes. Afrikaans with English subtitles. South Africa. Go Trolley Films. $9.99.

Marco, Derilene

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 72 KB

english, 2017

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Rama Thiaw, director. The Revolution Won’t Be Televised. 2015. 110 minutes. Wolof and French (with English subtitles). Senegal. Boul Falle Images. €250.00.

Sendra, Estrella

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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english

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PDF, 92 KB

english, 2017

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Carl Gierstorfer, director. We Want You to Live: Liberia’s Fight Against Ebola. Released in the United States as In Ebola’s Wake. 2015. 53 minutes. English. Germany. DocDays Productions. No price reported.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

Language:

english

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PDF, 68 KB

english, 2017

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Julie MacArthur. Cartography and the Political Imagination. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. xiii + 340 pp. Acknowledgments. Maps and Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2210-6.

Waller, Richard

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2017

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PDF, 78 KB

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