Volume 60 - Issue 2 - September 2017
Contents
HISTORY
BOOK REVIEWS
Kathryn M. de Luna. Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xvii + 332 pp. Maps. Table. Photographs. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0300218534.
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- 13 July 2017, pp. 244-245
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Grace Davie. Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855–2005. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. x + 334 pp. List of Figures. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. No price reported. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-19875-2 (cloth). ISBN: 978-1-107-55173-2 (African edition paperback).
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- 05 June 2017, pp. 246-248
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Ruth Ginio. The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. xxviii + 250 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. ISBN: 978-0-832-5339-1.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 248-249
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Priya Lal. African Socialism in Tanzania: Between the Village and the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 281 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Cloth. $34.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781107104525.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 250-251
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Emma Hunter. Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 259 pp. Acknowledgments. Map of Tanzania. List of abbreviations. References. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781107088177.
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- 07 June 2017, pp. 251-253
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Emma Hunter. Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. vi + 306 pp. Acknowledgments. Postscript. Index. Paper. No price reported. ISBN: 978-0821422571.
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- 13 July 2017, pp. 253-255
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Martin Plaut. Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s Most Repressive State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. x + 253 pp. Map. Photographs. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $21.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0190669591.
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- 13 July 2017, pp. 255-257
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ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
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Joseph M. Hodge, Gerald Hödl, and Martina Kopf, eds. Developing Africa: Concepts and Practices In Twentieth-Century Colonialism. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2014. xviii + 414 pp. Bibliography. Index. $30.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781526106766.
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- 24 July 2017, pp. 257-259
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HEALTH AND DISEASE
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Melissa Graboyes. The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. xxviii + 307 pp. Contents. Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. Hardcover. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2173-4.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 259-261
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Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton, and Noemi Tousignant. Traces of the Future: An Archeology of Medical Science in Twenty-First Century Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Contents. Bibliographies. Credits. 255 pp. $28.50. Cloth. ISBN: 9781783207251.
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- 12 July 2017, pp. 261-262
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LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ARTS
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Z. S. Strother. Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. xv + 344 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-02267-7.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 263-264
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Chika Okeke-Agulu. Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. xix + 357 pp. Illustrations/Paintings. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.46. Paper. ISBN: 978-0822357469.
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- 13 July 2017, pp. 264-266
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Clémentine Deliss, Yvette Mutumba, and The Weltkulturen Museum, eds. El Hadj Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 407 pp. Photographs. Foreword. Contributors. Image Index. Biographic Chronology. Contributors’ Biographies. Selected Reading. English/German Text. $50.00. Paper. ISBN: 9783037348413.
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- 12 July 2017, pp. 266-268
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Robert Lang. The New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Film and Culture Series. xxii + 380 pp. Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgments. Notes. Filmography. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Paper. $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-16506-8.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 268-270
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EDUCATION
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Daniel Magaziner. The Art of Life in South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. xxvii + 376 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2252-6.
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- 24 July 2017, pp. 270-272
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MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHY
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Pat Caplan. Mikidadi: Individual Biography and National History in Tanzania. Canon Pyon, U.K.: Sean Kingston Publishing. vi + 191. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Pictures. Cloth. No price reported. ISBN 978-1-907774-48-5.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 272-273
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FILM REVIEW ESSAY
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO AND THE DOCUMENTARIAN’S GAZE - Michael Ramsdell, director. When Elephants Fight. 2015. 80 minutes. English, French, Kiswahili, Lingala with English subtitles. U.S. Janson Media. No price reported. Available on Amazon video and Netflix. - Kristof Bilsen, director. Elephant’s Dream. 2014. 77 minutes. French, Lingala with English subtitles. Belgium. Associate Directors. €12.00. DVD. Also available on Netflix. - Kiripi Katembo Siku, Dieudo Hamadi, Divita Wa Lusala, directors. Congo in Four Acts. 2010. 72 minutes. English, French, Kiswahili with English subtitles. The Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa. Suka! Productions. No price reported.
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- 24 July 2017, pp. 275-281
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FEATURE FILM
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Merzak Allouache, director. Investigating Paradise. 2016. 135 minutes. Arabic and French, with English subtitles. France/Algeria. Les Asphofilms. No price reported.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 283-284
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DOCUMENTARIES
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Hubert Sauper, director. We Come as Friends. 2014. 110 minutes. English, Arab, Chinese and others, with English subtitles. Austria-France-Sudan. Adelante Films/KGP. No price reported.
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- 20 July 2017, pp. 284-285
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Laurent Bocahut and Philip Brooks, directors. Woubi chéri. 1998. 62 minutes. French. Côte d’Ivoire. California Newsreel. $24.95.
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- 18 July 2017, pp. 286-287
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