Volume 58 - April 2015
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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.
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- 23 November 2015, pp. 257-259
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Jean-Marie Teno, director. Leaf in the Wind. Original title: Une feuille dans le vent. 2013. 55 minutes. In English and French (with subtitles in French, English, Spanish and German). Cameroon/France. Raphia Films. €25.00.
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- 16 March 2015, pp. 285-287
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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.
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- 23 November 2015, pp. 259-260
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ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO’S TIMBUKTU AND ITS CONTROVERSIAL RECEPTION - Abderrahmane Sissako, director. Timbuktu. Original title: Timbuktu, le chagrin des oiseaux.2014. 97 minutes. In French, Tamashek, Bambara, Songhay, and Arabic (with subtitles in English and French). France/Mauritania. Worso Films.
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- 01 September 2015, pp. 270-278
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Biyi Bandele, director. Half of a Yellow Sun. 2013. 111minutes. English, with French, Igbo, and Hausa. Nigeria/U.K. Monterey Media. $26.99.
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- 01 September 2015, pp. 279-281
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Clemente Bicocchi, director. Black Africa, White Marbles. 2011. 77 minutes. U.S./Republic of Congo/Italy. Icarus Film. $398.00.
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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.
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- 23 November 2015, pp. 260-264
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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.
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- 23 November 2015, pp. 264-266
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Dyana Gaye, director. Under the Starry Sky. 2013. 87minutes. Original title: Des étoiles. 88 minutes. French, Wolof, English, and Italian. France/Sénégal. Haut et Court. No price reported.
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- 01 September 2015, pp. 281-283
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Jean-Pierre Bekolo, director. Mudimbe’s Things and Words. Original title: Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe. 2013. In French (with English subtitles). U.S/France/Cameroon. Jean-Pierre Bekolo Sarl. €19.99.
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- 16 March 2015, pp. 289-290
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- 16 March 2015, pp. 291-292
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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.
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- 23 November 2015, pp. 266-268
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Yoruba Richen, director. Promised Land. 2010. 57minutes. English. South Africa/United States. Third World Newsreel. $59.95 for elementary/secondary schools and public libraries; $225.00 for colleges and universities.
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- 01 September 2015, pp. 283-285
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John Akomfrah, director. The Stuart Hall Project. 2013. 103minutes. English. U.K. Smoking Dogs Films. $350.00/£19.99.
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- 01 September 2015, pp. 285-288
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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
ASR volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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- 16 March 2015, pp. f1-f8
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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.
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- 23 November 2015, pp. 268-270
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POETRY AND FISH ON THE EAST AFRICAN COASTLINE - Jeroen van Velzen, director. Wavumba: Those Who Smell of Fish. 2012. 80 minutes. Kiswahili, English. Kenya, Holland. No price reported. Available atwww.bigstar.tv/movie/wavumba-2012 or www.digitaliafilmlibrary.com/vilm/177/wavumba. - Ron Mulvihill, director. Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar’s Nadi Ikhwan Safaa. 2012. 70 minutes. Kiswahili. Tanzania, U.S. Buda Musique. No price reported.
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Jordi Esteva, director. Return to the Land of Souls. 2010. 68minutes. French with English subtitles. Ivory Coast. Documentary Educational Resources. $245.00 (institutions); $29.95 (private purchases).
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ASR volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
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Sara Blecher, director. Ayanda. 2015. 109minutes. Sesotho, Zulu, and English, with English subtitles. South Africa. Restless Distribution. No price reported.
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- 23 November 2015, pp. 279-281
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