Time and title deeds in post-reform agrarian Kenya

2024-5-1

Areej ElSayary and Abdulrasheed Olowoselu (eds), Overcoming Challenges in Online Learning: Perspectives from Asia and Africa. London: Routledge (hb £100 – 978 1 032 37867 1). 2023, 196 pp.

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AFR volume 94 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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AFR volume 94 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Angela Lewis, Chinese Television and Soft Power in Africa. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £135 – 978 1 0323 2883 6). 2024, 142 pp.

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Crystal Biruk, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Durham NC: Duke University Press (pb US$27.95 – 978 0 8223 7089 5). 2018, 277 pp.

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Haiting Yuan, The Lucky Man Bar. Lusaka: University of Zambia Press (hb US$9.99 – 978 0 9820 3129 5). 2022, 324 pp.

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Sticking around or fading away: water patronage and value in Chad

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Ike Okonta, The Failure of Leadership in Africa’s Development. Lanham MD and London: Lexington Books (hb US$105/£81 – 978 1 7936 1235 7). 2020, 202 pp.

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From Iya Ijebu’s shop to Igbo market: ethnicity and the transformation of Mushin leather market in Lagos, Nigeria

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William H. Schneider (ed.), The Histories of HIVs: The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses that Caused the AIDS Epidemics. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$85 – 978 0 8214 2458 2; pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2492 6). 2021, xiii + 263 pp.

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Jimi Solanke: popular music and Yoruba folk traditions

2024-5-1

Unintended consequences, conflict and resilience in a small-scale irrigation development, Marakwet, Kenya

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Ramon Sarró, Inventing an African Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £85 – 978 1 009 19949 0). 2023, xvi + 199 pp.

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Erin Pettigrew, Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £90 – 978 1 009 22461 1). 2023, ccclxviii + 368 pp.

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Nomi Dave, The Revolution’s Echoes, Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$89 – 978 0 226 65446 1; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 65463 8). 2019, 195 pp. - Adrienne J. Cohen, Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$105 – 978 0 226 76284 5; pb US$35 – 978 0 226 78102 0). 2021, 190 pp.

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Discrimination and social identity: interrogating the impact of local lingua francas on inclusion politics in public institutions in Nigeria

2024-2-1

Intimacy, labour and sexual violence: Nama and Baster women in Namaqualand’s copper mining district, <i>c</i>.1879–1900

2024-2-1

Clive Gabay, Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £63 – 978 1 108 47360 6). 2018, xi + 270 pp.

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Intimacy in a violent context: photographs from Mbouda (Cameroon) in a time of troubles

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Erik Bähre, Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa. London: Zed Books (pb £22.99 – 978 1 78699 858 3), 2020, 216 pp.

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Sara Salem, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £83.99 – 978 1 108 49151 8; pb £25.99 – 978 1 108 79838 9). 2020, 294 pp.

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Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910

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AFR volume 94 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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Violence, intimacy and veins of madness in a fraught border city

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Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa

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Rhiannon Stephens, Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 1619 9; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 1882 7). 2022, ix + 312 pp.

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Imperial debris, intimate partnerships and family law reform in Cameroon

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Performative agency and transition in Àlàbí Ògúndépò’s ìjálá and Yẹmí Ẹlẹ́buìbọn’s Ifá chants

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Debating the Bascom controversy: revisiting the expropriation and repatriation of the Ifẹ̀ bronzes

2024-2-1

Rosalind Fredericks, Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 1 4780 0099 0; pb US$25.95 – 978 1 4780 0141 6). 2018, 216 pp.

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Joshua Grace, African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$119.95 – 978 1 4780 1059 3; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 4780 1171 2). 2021, xiii + 416 pp.

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AFR volume 94 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Murder in a quarry: violent encounters and distant intimacy on a Cape convict station

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Uroš Kovač, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 927 3). 2022, 220 pp.

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Reginald Elias Kirey, Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (hb €89.95 – 978 3 11099 629 6). 2023, 247 pp. Also available Open Access.

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African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development

2023-12-1

Judith A. Byfield, The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2398 1). 2021, v + 320 pp.

2023-12-1

<i>Waka waka</i> politician: what are the drivers of party switching in Nigeria?

2023-12-1

AFR volume 93 issue 5 Cover and Back matter

2023-12-1

Harri Englund, Visions for Racial Equality: David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 316 51400 9). 2022, xvi + 317 pp.

2023-12-1

Mapping hidden journeys of Gambian migration and return

2023-12-1

Archie Mafeje, The Theory and Ethnography of African Social Formations: The Case of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms. London: CODESRIA (pb US$13 – 978 1 8707 8408 5). 1991, v + 149 pp. - Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. London: Hurst (pb £14.99 – 978 1 7873 8692 1). 2022, v + 222 pp.

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Lesley Nicole Braun, Congo’s Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 299 34030 8). 2023, 201 pp.

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Ohiniko M. Toffa, Christliche Moral und koloniale Herrschaft in Togo: Die Missionskonzeption Franz Michael Zahns (1862–1900). Bielefeld: transcript (pb €50 – 978 3 8376 6537 6). 2023, 346 pp.

2023-12-1

Digital learning in techno-utopia? Do-it-yourself education in Kibera, Nairobi

2023-12-1

AFR volume 93 issue 5 Cover and Front matter

2023-12-1

Tangled crises in Turkana: investigating the spread of <i>Prosopis</i> in Kenya’s northern drylands

2023-12-1

Chris Brown, David Moore and Blair Rutherford (eds), New Leaders, New Dawns? South Africa and Zimbabwe under Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (hb CA$140 – 978 0 22801 060 9; pb CA$44.95 – 978 0 22801 061 6). 2022, 392 pp.

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Bronwen Manby, Citizenship in Africa: The Law of Belonging. Oxford: Hart Publishing (hb £110 – 978 1 509 92077 8; pb £44.99 – 978 1 509 94400 2). 2018/2021, v + 399 pp.

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