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RETHINKING KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN AFRICA
Wale Adebanwi
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Jean and John Comaroff enthusiastically claim that Africa constitutes a rich site ‘of new knowledges and ways of knowing-and-being … that have the capacity to inform and transform theory in the north, to subvert its universalisms in order to rewrite them in a different, less provincial register’ (Comaroff and Comaroff 2011). What role, then, can the African university – which, as described by Jeremiah Arowosegbe, is in a lamentable state – play in creating and generalizing these ‘new knowledges’?

ELIZABETH COOPER and DAVID PRATTEN , editors, Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £58 – 978 1 137 35082 4). 2015, 216 pp.
JAN VAN DEN BROECK
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15 January 2016, pp. 176-178
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NIC CHEESEMAN, Democracy in Africa: successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform. New York NY: Cambridge University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 521 19112 8; pb US$28.99 – 978 0 521 13842 0). 2015, 247 pp.
SCOTT STRAUS
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07 July 2016, pp. 597-599
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NICO CLOETE , PETER MAASSEN and TRACY BAILEY , editors, Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education. Cape Town: African Minds (pb £29.95 – 978 1 920677 85 5; free e-version available at <http://chet.org.za/books/knowledge-production-and-contradictory-functions-african-higher-education>). 2015, 312 pp.
JONATHAN HARLE
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06 April 2016, pp. 354-355
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EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG , ROBERT BATES , NATHAN NUNN and JAMES ROBINSON , editors, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective. New York NY: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 10704 115 8; pb £30 – 978 1 10769 120 9). 2014, 526 pp.
EWOUT FRANKEMA
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15 January 2016, pp. 178-179
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MAMADOU DIOUF and ROSALIND FREDERICKS, editors, The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: infrastructures and spaces of belonging. New York NY: Palgrave Macmillan (hb US$90 – 978 1 137 48187 0). 2014, xii + 310 pp.
EBENEZER OBADARE
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07 July 2016, pp. 599-600
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MAIA GREEN , The Development State: aid, culture and civil society in Tanzania. Woodbridge: James Currey (pb £19.99 – 978 1 84701 108 4). 2014, 229 pp.
PRIYA LAL
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15 January 2016, pp. 180-181
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ALLEN F. ISAACMAN and BARBARA S. ISAACMAN , Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007. Athens OH: University of Ohio Press (pb $32.95 – 978 0 82142 0 331). 2013, xvi + 291pp.
JEANNE MARIE PENVENNE
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06 April 2016, pp. 355-357
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KEITH BRECKENRIDGE, Biometric State: the global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £69.99 – 978 1 107 07784 3). 2014, xi + 252 pp.
JEREMY SEEKINGS
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07 July 2016, pp. 600-602
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TERRI OCHIAGHA , Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: the making of a literary elite. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 109 1). 2015, xiv + 202 pp.
NATHAN SUHR-SYTSMA
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06 April 2016, pp. 357-359
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SILKE STRICKRODT , Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: the Western Slave Coast c.1550 – c.1885. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 847011 10 7). 2015, vii + 266 pp.
SANDRA E. GREENE
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15 January 2016, pp. 181-182
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JEMIMA PIERRE, The Predicament of Blackness: postcolonial Ghana and the politics of race. Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (hb US$97 – 978 0 226 92302 4; pb US$32 – 978 0 226 92303 1). 2012, 263 pp.
NICKY FALKOF
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07 July 2016, pp. 602-604
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PAUL GIFFORD, Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa. London: C. Hurst & Company (pb £18.99 – 978 1 84904 477 6). 2015, 187 pp.
KAREN LAUTERBACH
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07 July 2016, pp. 604-605
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TSITSI ELLA JAJI , Africa in Stereo: modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity. New York NY: Oxford University Press (hb $105 – 978 0 19 993637 3; pb $31.95 – 978 0 19 993639 7). 2014, xi + 272 pp.
MARK LOMANNO
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15 January 2016, pp. 182-184
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LAURA LEE P. HUTTENBACH , The Boy is Gone: conversations with a Mau Mau general. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb $75 – 978 0 89680 290 2; pb $28.95 – 978 0 89680 291 9). 2015, 252 pp.
KATHERINE BRUCE-LOCKHART
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06 April 2016, pp. 359-360
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KATRINA DALY THOMPSON , Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: language, power, identity. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb $27 – 978 0 25300 651 6). 2013, 256 pp.
LIZELLE BISSCHOFF
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15 January 2016, pp. 184-185
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ODILE GOERG, Fantômas sous les tropiques: aller au cinéma en Afrique coloniale. Paris: Vendémiaire (pb €22 – 978 2 36358 1 709). 2015, 285 pp.
DAVID MURPHY
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07 July 2016, pp. 605-607
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BARBARA MEIER and ARNE S. STEINFORTH , editors, Spirits in Politics: uncertainties of power and healing in African societies. Frankfurt and New York NY: Campus Verlag (pb $49 – 978 3 59339 915 7). 2013, 265 pp.
DAVID M. GORDON
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06 April 2016, pp. 360-362
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KATHRYN OLSEN, Music and Social Change in South Africa: maskanda past and present. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press (hb US$64.50 – 978 1 43991 136 5). 2014, 223 pp.
DAVID B. COPLAN
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07 July 2016, pp. 607-608
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Debate: Knowledge Production in Africa

RETHINKING KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN AFRICA

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ELIZABETH COOPER and DAVID PRATTEN , editors, Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £58 – 978 1 137 35082 4). 2015, 216 pp.

NIC CHEESEMAN, Democracy in Africa: successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform. New York NY: Cambridge University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 521 19112 8; pb US$28.99 – 978 0 521 13842 0). 2015, 247 pp.

EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG , ROBERT BATES , NATHAN NUNN and JAMES ROBINSON , editors, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective. New York NY: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 10704 115 8; pb £30 – 978 1 10769 120 9). 2014, 526 pp.

MAMADOU DIOUF and ROSALIND FREDERICKS, editors, The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: infrastructures and spaces of belonging. New York NY: Palgrave Macmillan (hb US$90 – 978 1 137 48187 0). 2014, xii + 310 pp.

MAIA GREEN , The Development State: aid, culture and civil society in Tanzania. Woodbridge: James Currey (pb £19.99 – 978 1 84701 108 4). 2014, 229 pp.

ALLEN F. ISAACMAN and BARBARA S. ISAACMAN , Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007. Athens OH: University of Ohio Press (pb $32.95 – 978 0 82142 0 331). 2013, xvi + 291pp.

KEITH BRECKENRIDGE, Biometric State: the global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £69.99 – 978 1 107 07784 3). 2014, xi + 252 pp.

TERRI OCHIAGHA , Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: the making of a literary elite. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 109 1). 2015, xiv + 202 pp.

SILKE STRICKRODT , Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: the Western Slave Coast c.1550 – c.1885. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 847011 10 7). 2015, vii + 266 pp.

JEMIMA PIERRE, The Predicament of Blackness: postcolonial Ghana and the politics of race. Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (hb US$97 – 978 0 226 92302 4; pb US$32 – 978 0 226 92303 1). 2012, 263 pp.

PAUL GIFFORD, Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa. London: C. Hurst & Company (pb £18.99 – 978 1 84904 477 6). 2015, 187 pp.

TSITSI ELLA JAJI , Africa in Stereo: modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity. New York NY: Oxford University Press (hb $105 – 978 0 19 993637 3; pb $31.95 – 978 0 19 993639 7). 2014, xi + 272 pp.

LAURA LEE P. HUTTENBACH , The Boy is Gone: conversations with a Mau Mau general. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb $75 – 978 0 89680 290 2; pb $28.95 – 978 0 89680 291 9). 2015, 252 pp.

KATRINA DALY THOMPSON , Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: language, power, identity. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb $27 – 978 0 25300 651 6). 2013, 256 pp.

ODILE GOERG, Fantômas sous les tropiques: aller au cinéma en Afrique coloniale. Paris: Vendémiaire (pb €22 – 978 2 36358 1 709). 2015, 285 pp.

BARBARA MEIER and ARNE S. STEINFORTH , editors, Spirits in Politics: uncertainties of power and healing in African societies. Frankfurt and New York NY: Campus Verlag (pb $49 – 978 3 59339 915 7). 2013, 265 pp.

KATHRYN OLSEN, Music and Social Change in South Africa: maskanda past and present. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press (hb US$64.50 – 978 1 43991 136 5). 2014, 223 pp.

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