ISSN 2152-2448
Articles
Going Viral? The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sino-African Relations
Pádraig Carmody | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (1-23)
Decolonizing Queer Sexualities: a Critical Reading of the Ogbanje Concept in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018)
Tina Magaqa and Rodwell Makombe | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (24-39)
Access to Urban Land and the Claim to the City in Africa: Constructing Urban Citizenship in Lusaka’s Unplanned Settlements
Horman Chitonge | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (40-59)
On the Waters: Economic and Political Drivers of Maritime Conflicts between Uganda and its Neighbors
Robert Ojambo | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (60-72)
At-Issue
Chained Communities: A Critique of South Africa’s Approach to Land Restitution
Anthony C. Diala and Sonya R. Cotton | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (73-86)
An Epidemic of Kidnapping: Interpreting School Abductions and Insecurity in Nigeria
Aly Verjee and Chris M. A. Kwaja | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (87-105)
Book Reviews
Richard Anderson and Henry B. Lovejoy (eds.). 2020. Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 465 pp.
Review by Elena Barattini (106-107)
Nathan Andrews. 2019. Gold Mining and the Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 227 pp.
Review by Priya Dahiya (107-109)
Michael Bollig. 2020. Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 404 pp.
Review by Cathy Skidmore-Hess (109-110)
Nicola Brandt. 2020. Landscapes between Then and Now: Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Performance and Video Art. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 288 pp.
Review by Michelle Fikrig (110-112)
Anthony Butler. 2019. Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power. Suffolk, UK: James Currey Publishers. 496 pp.
Review by Cyril-Mary Pius Olatunji, O.F.Oluwasegunota Bolarinwa, and Shade Ade-Johnson (112-113)
Stephen Chan and Julia Gallagher. 2017. Why Mugabe Won: The 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe and Their Aftermath. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 193 pp.
Review by Ramphal Sillah (113-114)
Simidele Dosekun. 2020. Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 194 pp.
Review by Mesfin Dessiye Abegaz (115-116)
Enrique Ubieta Gómez. 2016 (English translation, 2019). Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa. Pathfinder Press. 249 pp.
Review by Heather Jordan (116-117)
Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman. 2020. Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short. Athens: Ohio University Press. 257 pp.
Review by Vinicius Rosalvo de Oliveira (117-119)
John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller, and John C. Yoder (eds.). 2021. Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies. London: Routledge. 298 pp.
Review by Adam Mohr (119-121)
Alexander Johnston. 2020. In the Shadow of Mandela: Political Leadership in South Africa. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. 369 pp.
Review by Constance Pruitt (121-122)
Rebecca Jones. 2019. At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English. Suffolk, UK: James Currey. 298 pp.
Review by Oluwole Coker (122-123)
Yusuf M. Juwayeyi. 2020. Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. 242 pp.
Review by Gift Wasambo Kayira (123-125)
André Mbata Mangu (ed). 2020. Regional Integration in Africa: What Role for South Africa? Leiden: Brill. 193 pp.
Review by Aly Verjee (125-126)
Massocki Ma Massocki. 2020. The Pride of an African Migrant. Yaoundé: Pierced Rock Press. 178 pp.
Review by Felipe Antonio Honorato (126-127)
Achille Mbembe. 2019. Necropolitics. Durham: Duke University Press. 213 pp.
Review by Zerihun Berhane Weldegebriel (127-128)
Besi Brillian Muhonja. 2020. Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai. Athens: Ohio University Press. 170 pp.
Review by Robert M. Press (129-130)
Dawn Nagar. 2020. Politics and Pan- Africanism: Diplomacy, Regional Economies and Peace-Building in Contemporary Africa. London and New York: I. B Tauris Publishers. 290 pp.
Review by Collins Nkapnwo Formella (130-131)
Kemi Okgunyemi (ed.). 2020. African Virtue Ethics Traditions for Business and Management. Northhampton: Edward Elgar. 172 pp.
Review by Amy Crofford (131-133)
Tony Perman. 2020. Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 269 pp.
Review by Emeka Aniago (133-134)
Peter H. Reid. 2020. Every Hill a Burial Place: The Peace Corps Murder Trial in East Africa. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. 308 pp.
Review by Tony Waters (134-136)
Pamela Reynolds. 2019. The Uncaring, Intricate World: A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985. Durham: Duke University Press. 190 pp.
Review by David W. Restrick (136-137)
Richard Shain. 2018. Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. 216 pp.
Review by James J. Fisher (137-139)
Noah Tamarkin. 2020. Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press. 248 pp.
Review by Kimberley Burns (139-140)
Melissa Thackway and Jean-Marie Teno. 2020. Reel Resistance: The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno. Rochester: James Currey. 256 pp.
Review by Babatunde Onikoyi (140-141)
Brian Willan. 2018. Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 770 pp.
Review by Vineeth Mathoor (141-143)