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Volume 22, Issue 2

ISSN 2152-2448

Articles

White Liberalism and Black Consciousness in Rosie Motene’s Reclaiming the Soil (2018)
Rodwell Makombe | AbstractFull Text: PDF (1-16)


From the Cradle to the Grave: A Feminist Stylistic Reading of Select Poems from Juka Jabang’s The Phoenix
Abdou Bassin Boye and Shafaq Fayyaz | AbstractFull Text: PDF (17-33)


Technology Transfer from China to Kenya for Transport Infrastructure: The Case of International Trunk Roads

Lemmy Nyongesa Mulaku, Kizito Sabala, and Paul Kamau |Abstract| Full Text PDF (34-51)


Special Feature

In His Own Words: Reflections on a Scholarly Career with Rene Lemarchand
Ashley E. Leinweber| Abstract| Full Text (52-65)


Book Reviews

Saheed Aderinto. 2022. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria. Athens: Ohio University Press. 322 pp.
Review by Chantal Noa Forbes (66-67)


Paul Darby, James Esson, and Christian Ungruhe. 2022. African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, and Trajectories. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 268 pp.
Review by Atticus Williams (67-69)


Sara de Simone. 2022. State-building South Sudan: International Intervention and the Formation of a Fragmented State. Leiden: Brill. 217 pp.
Review by Remi Chukwudi Okeke (69-70)


Itamar Dubinsky. 2022. Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 177 pp.
Reviews by John Konuk Blasing (70-72)


Christopher Ehret. 2023. Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 210 pp.

Review by Suleiman Yakubu (72-73)


Ernest N. Emenyonu (ed.). 2022. African Literature Comes of Age: African Literature Today. Suffolk: James Currey. 225 pp.
Review by Theresah Patrine Ennin (73-74)


Joost Fontein. 2022. The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe, 2000-2020: Bones, Rumours & Spirits. Suffolk: James Currey. 349 pp.
Review by Brian Maregedze (74-76)


Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat (eds.). 2023. Trade Makes States: Governing the Greater Somali Economy. New York: Oxford University Press. 274 pp.
Review by Aleksi Ylönen (76-77)


Kwasi Konadu. 2022. Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graca, Monica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire. London: Hurst & Company. 176 pp.
Review by Kenneth Meyer (77-78)


Simon Ottenberg. 2022. Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing. 145 pp.
Review by David Dmitri Hurlbut (79-80)


Erin Pettigrew. 2023. Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 344 pp.
Review by U. Chinedu Amaefula (80-81)


Jill Rosenthal. 2023. From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid Along the Tanzanian Border. Durham: Duke University Press. 336 pp.
Review by Jeremy Rich (81-83)


Riina Turtio. 2023. State-Building and National Militaries in Post-Colonial West Africa: Decolonizing the Means of Coercion, 1958-1974. Suffolk: James Currey, 360 pp.
Review by Adeniyi S. Basiru (83-84)