African Studies Quarterly

US-Africa Relations: A Case Study of US-Kenyan Economic Diplomacy
Vahid Nick Pay and Ronny Gitonga-Mutethia | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (1-19)

Neighborhood Vulnerability to Security Threats in Benin City: The Role of Informal Housing and the Built Environment
Justin Eduviere Agheyisi and Iro Aghedo | Abstract |  Full Text: PDF (20-40)

Nigeria’s Image Problem and Image-Polishing: Foreign Policy Responses since 1999
Ibukun David| Abstract |  Full Text: PDF (41-55)

At-Issue

Reality and Representation of Eastern Africa’s Past: Archaeology and History Redress the ‘Coast-Inland Dichotomy’
Jonathan Walz and Philip Gooding  | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (56-85)

Book Reviews

An Ansoms, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, and Susan Thomson (eds.). 2021. Field Research in Africa:The Ethics of Researcher Vulnerabilities. Rochester: James Currey. 175 pp.
Review by Ellen A. Ahlness (86-87)

Cynthia J. Becker. 2020. Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 275 pp.
Review by Mohamed Chamekh (87-89)

Ahmed Aboul Gheit. 2020. Egypt’s Foreign Policy in Time of Crisis: My Testimony. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 473 pp.
Review by Ebrahim Damtew Alyou (89-90)

Mai Hassan. 2020. Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 284 pp.
Review by Jeremy Rich (90-91)

John Hatchard. 2020. Combating Money Laundering in Africa: Dealing with the Problem of PEPs. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 301 pp.
Review by Benson Ohihon Igboin (91-93)

S.A Marks. 2020. Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 504 pp.
Review by Neil B. Maheve (93-94)

Robtel Pailey. 2021. Development, Dual Citizenship, and its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 235 pp.
Review by Hyeladzirra Banu (95-96)

Brian J. Peterson 2021. Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 333 pp.
Review by Yusuf Oluwaseun Sholeye (96-97)

Jurgen Schraten. 2020. Credit and Debit in an Unequal Society: Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa. New York: Berghahn Books. 199 pp.
Review by Priya Dahiya (97-99)

Max Siollun. 2021. What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule. London: Hurst and Company. 390 pp.
Review by Adedamola Adetiba (99-100)

Robert Springborg. 2020. Political Economies of the Middle East & North Africa. Cambridge: Polity Press. 267 pp.
Review by Kenneth Meyer (100-102)

Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendricks (eds.). 2020. Readings in Sexualities from Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 357 pp.
Review by Charles Kipng’eno Rono (102-103)