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Volume 63 - Issue 2 - June 2020

Book Reviews (Online)

AFRICA – GENERAL

Tejumola Olaniyan. State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. vii + 323 pp. Photographs. Bibliographical References. Notes. Index. $40.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780253029980.

EAST AFRICA

Sarah Hillewaert. Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 302 pp. Appendix: Note on Language. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-0823286508.

Paul Ocobock. An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. xi + 356 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2264-9.

Devaka Premawardhana. Faith in Flux. Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 232 pp. Notes. Works cited. Index. Acknowledgments. $49.95. Paper. ISBN 9780812249989.

CENTRAL AFRICA

Suad M. E. Musa. Hawks & Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict: Al-Hakkamat Baggara Women of Darfur. Rochester: James Currey Eastern Africa Series, 2018. 237 pages. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847011756.

Susan Thomson. Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. xv + 321 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Index. $30.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-300-19739-6.

WEST AFRICA

Massa Makan Diabaté. The Lieutenant of Kouta. Translated from French by Shane Auerbach and David Yost. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. xi + 113 pp. Introduction. $20.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1611862270.

Rosalind Fredericks. Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018. xi + 200 pp. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478001416.

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xix + 278 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. £24.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1108471244.

Kate Skinner. The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics, and Nationalism, 1914-2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xv + 258 pp. List of Maps. List of Figures. Note on Orthography. Bibliography. Index. $108.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781107074637.

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Peter Cole. Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. xiii + 286 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN 978-0-252-08376-1.

Stephen R. Davis. The ANC’s War against Apartheid: Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Liberation of South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. xliv + 268 pp. Photographs. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-03229-4.

Christine Hentschel. Security in the Bubble: Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. ix + 166 pp. Introduction. Notes. Index. $25.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-9432-7.

Film Review (Online)

DOCUMENTARY

Catherine Meyburgh and Richard Pakleppa, directors. Dying for Gold. 2018. 99 minutes. English, isiXhosa, and Sesotho with English subtitles. South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Breathe Films. No Price Reported.

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Volume 63 - Issue 2 - June 2020

Book Reviews (Online)

AFRICA – GENERAL

EAST AFRICA

CENTRAL AFRICA

WEST AFRICA

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Film Review (Online)

DOCUMENTARY

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