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Volume 22, Issue 1

ISSN 2152-2448

Articles

Africa’s Railway Renaissance: Continental Aspirations vs. National Realities
Mandira Bagwandeen | AbstractFull Text: PDF (1-21)


Scenarios for Diversification of EU Natural Gas Supplies from Algeria
Oksana Voytyuk | AbstractFull Text: PDF (22-40)


African Vernacular-rooted Imagery in Yemi Ikisakin’s Stone Sculptures
Sule Ameh James |Abstract| Full Text PDF (41-57)


Book Reviews

Seifudein Adem. 2021. Postcolonial Constructivism: Mazrui’s Theory of Intercultural Relations. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 337 pp.
Review by Edgar Githua (58-59)


Jeffrey S. Ahlman. 2021. Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation. Athens: Ohio University Press. 218 pp.
Review by Catherine Waithera Mwangi (59-60)


Bola Akanji and Funmi Soetan (eds.). 2022. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice: Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries. New York: Lexington Books. 384 pp.
Review by Emmanuel Botlhale (60-61)


Antonio Allegretti. 2022. Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing, and Farming at the Local Global Interface.Cambridgeshire: The White Horse Press. 208 pp.
Review by Maxmillian Julius Chuhila (61-63)


Lennart Bolliger. 2021. Apartheid’s Black Soldiers: Un-National Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 269 pp.
Review by C. Adyanga Onek (63-65)


Carol Boyce-Davies and N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba (eds.). 2022. Pan-African Connections: Personal, Intellectual, Social. Trenton: Africa World Press. 210 pp.
Review by Rose Poku (65-66)


Katrin Bromber. 2022. Sports and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia. Rochester:  James Currey. 213 pp.
Review by Ebrahim Damtew Alyou (66-67)


Julian Brown. 2022. Marikana: A People’s History. Woodbridge: James Currey. 268 pp.
Review by Tony Voss (68-69)


Ian Campbell. 2021. Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy’s Crusade against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. London: Hurst Publishers. 449 pp.
Review by Zerihun Berhane Weldegebriel (69-70)


Nathan P. Devir. 2022. First Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa: Between Law and Grace in Gabon and Madagascar. Boston: Brill. 246 pp.
Review by J. Gregory Crofford (70-71)


Jeroen Dewulf. 2022. Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press. 321 pp.
Review by Heather Jordan (72-73)


Paddy Docherty. 2021. Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin. London:  Hurst & Co. Publishers. 258 pp.
Review by Rasheed Alao Hassan (73-74)


Jean-Baptiste Eczet. (trans. by Andrea Davoust and Wendy Ribeyrol). 2021. Cattle Poetics: How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia. New York: Berghahn. 270 pp.
Review by Andrew Kettler (74-76)


Natasha Erlank. 2022. Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 272 pp.
Review by Ropafadzo Hove (76-77)


Grant Farred (ed.). 2022. Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 180 pp.
Review by Felix Kumah-Abiwu (77-79)


Sarah Hanisch. 2022. Searching for Sweetness: Women’s Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 163 pp.
Review by Moliehi Motseki-Mokhothu (79-80)


M. Kabir Hassan et al. (eds.). 2022. Islamic Finance in Africa: Prospects for Sustainable Development. Northampton: Edward Elgar. 328 pp.
Review by Justus Biryomumeisho (80-82)


Elisabeth Hsu. 2022. Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers. New York: Berghahn. 429 pp.
Review by Ernest Nii Laryea Amartey (82-83)


Joseph Kasule. 2022. Islam in Uganda: The Muslim Minority, Nationalism, and Political Power. Rochester: James Currey. 242 pp.
Review by Joseph Ofori Acheampong (83-85)


Premesh Lalu. 2023. Undoing Apartheid. Cambridge: Polity Press. 225 pp.
Review by Sinan Baran (85-86)


Ian Martin. 2022. All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya. London: Hurst Publishers. 224 pp.
Review by Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh (86-87)


Pedro Monaville. 2022. Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo. Durham: Duke University Press. 341 pp.
Review by Madden J. Gilhooly (87-89)


David B. Moore. 2022. Mugabe’s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe. London: Hurst Publishers. 295 pp.
Review by Neil B. Maheve (89-90)


Rose Sackeyfio (ed.). 2021. African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham: Lexington Books. 138 pp.
Review by Lawrencia Baaba Okai (90-92)


David L. Schoenbrun. 2021. The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 339 pp.
Review by Phillip A. Cantrell, II (92-93)


Shobana Shankar. 2021. An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 285 pp.
Review by Deepika Dahiya (93-95)


Alfred Tembo. 2021. War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939-1953. Athens: Ohio University Press. 247 pp.
Review by Cobbener W.J Sungani (95-96)


Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina (ed.). 2022. Who Owns Africa? Neocolonialism, Investment, and the New Scramble. Leuven: Leuven University Press. 288 pp.
Review by Collins Nkapnwo Formella (96-98)


Jason Warner, Ryan O’Farrell, Héni Nsaibia, and Ryan Cummings. 2022. The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront. London: Hurst Publishers. 456 pp.
Review by Christopher R. Cook (98-99)


Bonnie S. Wasserman. 2022. Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel: Blackness, Religion, Immigration. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 170 pp.
Review by Amy Mjema Omolo (99-101)