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Volume 65 - Issue 2 - June 2022

AFRICA - GENERAL

Book Reviews (Online)

Jérôme Souty. Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Du Regard Détaché à la Connaissance Initiatique. Paris: Hémisphères, 2020. 418 pages. Photographs. $67.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-2377010639.

Cajetan Iheka. Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. iii + 166 pp. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $32.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1316648643.

WEST AFRICA

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Aribidesi Usman and Toyin Falola. The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 496 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $39.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-107-68394-5

Nomi Dave. Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics and Pleasure in Guinea. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 208 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $ 27.50. Paper. ISBN : 978-0226654638.

Brian Valente-Quinn, Senegalese Stagecraft. Decolonizing Theatre-Making in Francophone Africa. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2021. 201 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0810143654.

John K. Thornton. A History of West Central Africa to 1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. (New Approaches to African History series.) xx + 365 pp. Index. $21.19. Paper. ISBN: 9781107565937.

Nicoué Lodjou Gayibor (ed.). Les Ewe (Togo, Ghana, Bénin), Histoire et Civilisation. Volumes 1 and 2. Lomé: Presses de l’Université de Lomé, 2021. 691 pp. Chronology. Glossary. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Index. Contributors. Bibliography. No Price Reported. Paper. ISBN: 2-91 6789-37-5.

CENTRAL AFRICA

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Daniel Tödt. The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo. Translated by Alex Skinner. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. Africa in Global History series. 428 pp. $80.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-3110708691.

EASTERN AFRICA

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Alden Young. Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (African Studies, Series Number 140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; x + 194 pp. Bibliography. Index. $103.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1107172494.

SOUTHERN AFRICA

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Julie Livingston. Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2019. 176 pp. Photographs. Notes. Index. $23.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1478006398.

Daniel L. Douek. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa. London: Hurst, 2020. xvii + 509 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781849048804.

Tony Perman. Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 269 pp. Maps. Photographs. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.86. Paper. ISBN 978-0-252-08517-8.

DOCUMENTARIES

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Joël Akafou, director. Traverser. 2020. 77 minutes. French. VraiVrai Films. No Price Reported.

Ines Johnson-Spain, director. Becoming Black. 2019. 91 minutes. German and French, with English Subtitles. Juno Films. $149 w/o or $349 w/ Public Performance Rights.

FEATURE FILMS

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Faraday Okoro, director. Nigerian Prince. 2018. 104 minutes. English and Igbo. Nigeria and United States. Vertical Entertainment. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.

Oluseyi Asurf, director. Hakkunde. 2017. 92 minutes. English, Hausa, Yoruba. Nigeria. Genesis Deluxe Cinema. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.

Philippe Lacôte, director. Night of the Kings. 2020. Original title: La nuit des rois. 93 minutes. French, Dioula, Nouchi (with English subtitles). Ivory Coast/France/Canada/Senegal. Banshee Films. Price not reported.

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Volume 65 - Issue 2 - June 2022

AFRICA - GENERAL

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WEST AFRICA

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CENTRAL AFRICA

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EASTERN AFRICA

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SOUTHERN AFRICA

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DOCUMENTARIES

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FEATURE FILMS

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