Volume 64 - December 2021
NORTH AFRICA
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Frederic Wehrey and Anouar Boukhars. Salafism in the Maghreb: Politics, Piety, and Militancy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 240 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-19-094241-0.
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- 27 August 2021, pp. E37-E39
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Boukary Sawadogo. African Film Studies: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2018. 142 pp. List of figures. Bibliography and Filmography. Index. $42.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1138579385.
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- 15 February 2021, pp. E49-E51
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Anthony Butler. Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power, Third Edition. Woodbridge (UK): Jacana Press, 2019. xvi + 496 pp. Photographs. Endnotes. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847012296.
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- 12 April 2021, pp. E42-E44
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Zachary Valentine Wright. Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 326 pp. Map. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6082-0.
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- 04 June 2021, pp. E32-E36
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Richard Reid. Shallow Graves. A Memoir of the Ethiopian-Eritrean War. London: Hurst, 2020. xxxi + 226 pp. Map. Notes. £25. Paper. ISBN: 9781787383289.
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- 04 June 2021, pp. E37-E39
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Melissa Thackway and Jean-Marie Teno. Reel Resistance: The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno. Suffolk: James Currey, 2020. 253 pp. Photographs and Film Stills. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. $68.98. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1847012425.
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- 18 January 2021, pp. E52-E53
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Tyler Fleming. Opposing Apartheid on Stage: King Kong the Musical. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020. Bibliography. $125.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-58046-985-2
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- 09 March 2021, pp. E45-E47
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Daniel Mains. Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. xi + 215 pp. Notes. References. Index. $25.95. Paper. ISBN: 97814780-06411.
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- 10 November 2021, pp. E40-E42
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EAST AFRICA
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Kristin D. Phillips. An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. 207 pp. Bibliography. Index. $28.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-03840-1.
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- 14 January 2021, pp. E54-E56
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Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 363 pp. List of Maps. List of Figures. List of Tables. Glossary. References. Index. $120.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-108-83968-6.
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- 25 August 2021, pp. E43-E45
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Erin Accampo Hern. Developing States, Shaping Citizenship: Service Delivery and Political Participation in Zambia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. xi + 238 pp. List of Tables. List of Figures. Appendix. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0472054145.
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- 23 April 2021, pp. E48-E50
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Iain Edwards and Marc Epprecht. Working Class Homosexuality in South African History: Voices from the Archives. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2020. 257 pp. Index. Bibliography. Archival photographs, maps, and diagrams. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0796925831.
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- 24 May 2021, pp. E40-E42
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Emily Brownell. Gone to Ground: A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. xi+266 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780822946113.
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- 11 November 2021, pp. E46-E48
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Mcebisi Ndletyana. Anatomy of the ANC in Power: Insights from Port Elizabeth, 1990–2019. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2020. xiv + 338 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-7969-2587-9.
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- 28 May 2021, pp. E51-E53
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Issa G. Shivji, Saida Yahya-Othman, and Ng’wanza Kamata. Development as Rebellion: Julius Nyerere—A Biography. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2020. Distributed by African Books Collective. 3 volumes. xxii + 1,054 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9789987084111.
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- 05 January 2021, pp. E57-E60
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Angela Impey. Song Walking: Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. ix + 284 pp. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.50. Paper. ISBN: 978-0226538013.
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- 26 July 2021, pp. E43-E45
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Douglas J. Falen. African Science: Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. 240 pp. 16 black and white images. $79.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780299318901.
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- 23 April 2021, pp. E54-E56
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Kim Shelley Berman. Finding Voice: A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press New Public Scholarship Series, 2017. 225 pp. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. References. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780472053667.
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- 16 March 2021, pp. E61-E63
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Kathleen Klaus. Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xv + 357 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $120.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1108488501.
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- 22 November 2021, pp. E49-E50
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Louise Meintjes. Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2017. 352 pp. 142 Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6265-4.
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- 25 June 2021, pp. E46-E48
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