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Volume 65 - Issue 1 - March 2022

AFRICA - GENERAL

Book Reviews (Online)

Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility and the War on Terror. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. xxiv + 462 pp. Photographs. Maps. Glossary. Suggested Readings. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0896803213.

CENTRAL AFRICA

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Omar Shahabudin McDoom. The Path to Genocide in Rwanda. Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvii + 384 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Abbreviations. References. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1108491464.

Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman, eds. Finding Dr. Livingstone: A History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2020. xvi + 542 pp. Photographs. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0821423660.

EASTERN AFRICA

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Besi Brillian Muhonja. Radical Utu. Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2020. xiv + 153 pp. Preface. Acknowledgments. Appendixes. Notes. References. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0896803268.

Robert W. Blunt. For Money and Elders: Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 239 pp. Bibliography. Index. $27.50. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-65575-8.

Verena Krebs. Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 308 pp. $109.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3030649333.

Philipp Schultz. Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Northern Uganda. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. xi +195 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.50. Paper. ISBN: 9780520303744.

SOUTHERN AFRICA

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Ernst Wolff. Mongameli Mabona: His Life and Work. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press; also open access. 202 pp. References. $25.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9462702554.

WEST AFRICA

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Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv + 360 pp. Maps. List of Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1108488679.

Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum. From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen: How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 252 pp. List of Figures. List of Abbreviations. References. Index. $135.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1789202946.

Henry B. Lovejoy. Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xv + 219 pp. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1469645384.

Cullen Goldblatt. Beyond Collective Memory: Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives. New York: Routledge, 2021. vii + 226 pp. Bibliography. Index. $128.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0367443023.

Konstanze N’Guessan. Histories of Independence in Côte d’Ivoire: An Ethnography of the Past. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xii + 277 pp. Acknowledgements. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9004227583.

Victoria Ellen Smith, editor. Voices of Ghana. Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955-57, Second Edition. Suffolk: James Currey, 2018. xx + 276 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 1847011926, 978-1847011923.

Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge In Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xii+ 258 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. GBP£75. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1108491259.

FEATURE FILMS

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Genevieve Nnaji, director. Lionheart. 2018. 95 minutes. English and Igbo, with English subtitles. Enugu, Nigeria. The Entertainment Network. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.

Kemi Adetiba, dir. King of Boys. 2018. 169 min. English, Yoruba, Pidgin, and Hausa, with English subtitles. Nigeria. Kemi Adetiba Visuals. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.

DOCUMENTARY

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Maia Lekow and Christopher King, directors. The Letter. 2019. 81 min. English and Swahili, with English subtitles. Filmed and produced in Kenya. BFI Player. No Price Reported.

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Volume 65 - Issue 1 - March 2022

AFRICA - GENERAL

Book Reviews (Online)

CENTRAL AFRICA

Book Reviews (Online)

EASTERN AFRICA

Book Reviews (Online)

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Book Reviews (Online)

WEST AFRICA

Book Reviews (Online)

FEATURE FILMS

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DOCUMENTARY

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