Volume 58 - April 2015
Contents
HISTORY
BOOK REVIEWS
Myles Osborne. Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiii + 276 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107061040.
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FILM REVIEW ESSAY
THE “OSUOFIA” CONNECTION: NOTES ON A NOLLYWOOD FILM CYCLE - Reginald Ebere and Abel “Success” Ebere, directors. Osuofia in Brazil. 2013. 211 minutes. English, Igbo, Yorùbá, and Pidgin. Nigeria. O-Gabby Innovations Ltd. No price reported. - Kensteve Anuka, director. Osuofia the Village Teacher.2014. 105 minutes. English, Igbo, and Pidgin. Nigeria. Global Update Movies. No price reported. - Emeka Nwosu, director. Osuofia and the Widow.2014. 140 minutes. English, Igbo, and Pidgin. Nigeria. O. Godwin Innovations Ltd. No price reported. - Michael Jaja, director. Osuofia the Boxer.2014. 247 minutes. English, Igbo, and Pidgin. Nigeria. Magic Movies Ltd. No price reported.
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ASR FORUM ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN AFRICA: PART 1
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Mary Njeri Kinyanjui. Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa.London: Zed Books, 2014. vii + 141 pp. Acknowledgments. Map. References. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN 978-1780326306.
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FEATURE FILMS
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Kunle Afolayan, director. The Figurine: Araromire. 2009. English and Yoruba. 120 minutes. No price reported.
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Michelle R. Moyd. Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. xxii + 328 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2089-8.
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ASR FORUM ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN AFRICA: PART 1
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Victoria L. Rovine. African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. viii + 315 pp. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. $40.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0253014092.
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Jan Bender Shetler, ed. Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. ix + 348 pp. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0299303945.
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Meredith Terretta. Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. xiv + 367 pp. Maps. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821420690.
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FEATURE FILMS
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Norman Maake, director. Homecoming. 2005. 90 minutes. English. South Africa. ArtMattan Productions. $295.00.
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Theodore Anyanji, director. Ada Mbano in London. 2014. 119 minutes. English, Igbo, and Pidgin. Nigeria. Divine Touch Productions. No price reported.
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
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Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane, eds. The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxiv + 1052 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Index. $195.00. Cloth. ISBN 978-0-19-956988-5.
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HEALTH AND DISEASE
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Adia Benton. HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xii + 176 pp. Figures. Notes. References. Index. $79.00. Cloth. $22.50. Paper.
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DOCUMENTARIES
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Deborah A. Thomas and John L. JacksonJr., directors. Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens. 2011. 63 minutes. English and Jamaican patois (with English subtitles). Jamaica. Third World Newsreel. $225.00
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Derek R. Peterson. Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935–1972. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xix + 344 pp. List of Figures. Archives. Abbreviations. Preface and Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. £60.00. Cloth. £22.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1107636965.
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RELIGION
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Joel Cabrita. Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii + 400 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. $79.00. Also E-book. ISBN: 978-1107054431.
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Rehad Desai, director. Miners Shot Down. 2014. English, Xhosa, Zulu, and Fanakalo, with English subtitles. 86 minutes. South Africa. Icarus Films. $398.00.
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS
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Stephanie Newell. The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. x + 255 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821420324.
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Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, and Martin A. Klein, eds. The Bitter Legacy: African Slavery Past and Present. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2013. vi + 221.pp. Tables. Illustrations. Introduction. Glossary. About the Contributors. $88.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1558765504.
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Roy T. Anderson, director. Akwantu: The Journey. 2012. 87 minutes. English with English subtitles. United States. Art 4 Reel Filmworks, LLC. $23.99.
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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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