ISSN 2152-2448
Highlights: Cameroonian Women in the Informal Petrol Trade; Cotton Production in Senegal; Christianity, Citizenship, and Political Engagement in Ghana; Independence Struggle; Contemporary Writing in Nigeria, Diplomacy and Dialogue in Cameroon.
Articles
Cameroonian Women in the Informal Petrol Trade: The Case of Bamenda City Council Area, 1980-2017
Reymond Njingti Budi | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (1-12)
A Collective Struggle: Cotton Production by and for a Fulbe Sufi Brotherhood in Postcolonial Southeastern Senegal
Sarah Hardin | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (13-36)
Christianity, Citizenship, and Political Engagement among Ghanaian Youth
Tracy Kuperus and Richard Asante | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (37-61)
Canons and Margins: Contemporary Nigerian Writing, Father-Surveillance Criticism and Kindred Economies of Othering
Yomi Olusegun-Joseph | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (62-79)
At-Issue
Engaging Both Sides: Dual Track Diplomacy and Dialogue in Cameroon
Nguh Nwei Asanga Fon and Emmanuel Achiri | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (80-94)
Book Reviews
Emeka C Anaedozie. 2019. Nuwaubian Pan Africanism: Back to our Root. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 144 pp.
Review by: Cristovão Nwachukwu (95- 96)
R.A. Joseph Ayee. 2019. Politics, Governance, and Development in Ghana. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 339 pp.
Review by: Felix Kumah-Abiwu (96- 99)
Serawit Bekele Debele. 2019. Locating Politics in Ethiopia’s Irreecha Ritual. Leiden: Brill. 209 pp.
Review by: Jonathan R. Beloff (99- 100)
Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez (eds.). 2019. African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 442 pp.
Review by: Jonathan R. Walz (100- 101)
Melissa Hackman. 2018. Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press. 195 pp.
Review by: Clifford Terhide Gbasha (101- 103)
Rahmane Idrissa. 2020. Historical Dictionary of Niger. 5th Edition. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 585 pp.
Review by: Hassoum Ceesay (103- 104)
John M. Janzen. 2019. Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Sprit in the Lower Congo. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 288 pp.
Review by: Amina Marzouk Chouchene (104- 106)
John Laband. 2020. The Land Wars: The Dispossession of the Khoisan and the AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony. Cape Town: Penguin Random House. 492 pp.
Review by: Tony Voss (106- 107)
Peter Martell. 2019. First Raise a Flag: How Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 320 pp.
Review by: Cliff (Ubba) Kodero (107- 109)
Mildred P. Mortimer. 2018. Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 284 pp.
Review by: Adfer Rashid Shah (109- 110)
Iva Peša. 2019. Roads through Mwinilunga: A History of Social Change in Northwest Zambia. Leiden: Brill. 429 pp.
Review by: Anna Wolkenhauer (110- 112)
Ramzi Rouighi. 2019. Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 270 pp.
Review by: Evan C. Rothera (112- 113)
Max Siollun. 2019. Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years. London: Hurst. 325 pp.
Review by: William A. Taylor (113- 114)
Victoria Ellen Smith (ed). 2018. Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955-57. 2nd edition. Suffolk: James Currey. 276 pp.
Review by: Olajide Damilare Daniel (115- 116)
Lynn Thomas. 2019. Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners. Durham: Duke University Press. 352 pp.
Review by: Jennifer dos Reis dos Santos (116- 117)
Leena Vastapuu (illustrated by Emmi Nieminen). 2018. Liberia’s Women Veterans: War, Roles and Reintegration. UK: Zed Books. 214 pp.
Review by: Evelyn Onwaniban (117- 118)
Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G. A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel (eds.). 2019. Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 309 pp.
Review by: Charen Glasgow (118-120)