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Volume 58 - Issue 3 - December 2015

ASR FORUM ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN AFRICA: PART 1

BOOK REVIEWS

Mary Njeri Kinyanjui. Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa.London: Zed Books, 2014. vii + 141 pp. Acknowledgments. Map. References. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN 978-1780326306.

Victoria L. Rovine. African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. viii + 315 pp. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. $40.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0253014092.

Jan Bender Shetler, ed. Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. ix + 348 pp. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0299303945.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

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Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane, eds. The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxiv + 1052 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Index. $195.00. Cloth. ISBN 978-0-19-956988-5.

HISTORY

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Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, and Martin A. Klein, eds. The Bitter Legacy: African Slavery Past and Present. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2013. vi + 221.pp. Tables. Illustrations. Introduction. Glossary. About the Contributors. $88.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1558765504.

Pernille Ipsen. Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. xviii + 269 pp. Maps. Notes. Notes on Sources. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0812246735.

Judith Byfield, Carolyn Brown, Timothy Parsons, and Ahmad Alawad Sikainga, eds. Africa and World War II.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxiii + 540 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Paper. ISBN: 978-1107630222.

David Eltis and David Richardson. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010; 2015. xxvi + 336 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0300212549.

S. H. Fazan. Colonial Kenya Observed: British Rule, Mau Mau and the Wind of Change. Edited with a foreword by John Lonsdale. London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. xliii + 358 pp. Map. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £35.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1780768656.

Clive Glaser. The ANC Youth League. Ohio Short Histories of Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. 168 pp. Photographs. Notes. Index. $14.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821420447.

Elisabeth McMahon. Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxvi + 265 pp. Figures. Preface. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107025820.

FILM REVIEW ESSAY

FEATURE FILMS

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Sara Blecher, director. Ayanda. 2015. 109minutes. Sesotho, Zulu, and English, with English subtitles. South Africa. Restless Distribution. No price reported.

David Constantin, director. Lonbraz Kann (Sugarcane Shadows). 2014. 88minutes. Mauritian Creole with English subtitles. Mauritius. Caméléon Production. No price reported.

Miguel Llansó, director. Crumbs. 2015. 68minutes. Amharic with English subtitles. Spain, Ethiopia. Lanzadera Films, Indiepix. No price reported.

Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, directors. Samba. 2014. 119minutes. French, with English subtitles. France. Quad & Ten Films and Gaumont. No price reported.

Judy Kibinge, director. Something Necessary. 2013. 85minutes. Swahili and English, with English subtitles. Kenya and Germany. One Fine Day Films. Available by subscription at Buni.tv.

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Nicola Brandt, director. Indifference.2014. 14minutes. Herero and German. Namibia. No price reported.

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Volume 58 - Issue 3 - December 2015

ASR FORUM ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN AFRICA: PART 1

BOOK REVIEWS

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

BOOK REVIEWS

HISTORY

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FILM REVIEW ESSAY

FEATURE FILMS

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