ISSN 2152-2448
Highlights: Hunting in Botswana; Angola’s Independence Struggle; Master-Servant Relations in South Africa, Ghana and Political Vigilantism; Kampala Street Vending; Guns in Ethiopia; Autocratization
Articles
Identity, Guns, and Nineteenth-Century Globalization: An Examination of Botswana
Cathy Skidmore Hess | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (1-18)
Master Servant Relationships in the Eastern Cape: the 1820 Settlement
Amina Marzouk Chouchene | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (19-35)
Signal Cascades in Angola’s Independence Struggle, 1955-1975
Candace Sobers | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (36-61)
Political Vigilantism in Ghana’s Democratic Consolidation: Critical Mass, Political Behavior, and Actor Choices
Eric Elikem Ashiabi | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (62-80)
Street Vending in Kampala: From Corruption to Crisis
Pius Gumisiriza | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (81-100)
At-Issue
Farmers Buying Guns: The Impact of Uncertainty and Insecurity in Rural Ethiopia
Logan Cochrane and Sebsib Hadis | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (101-113)
A Third Wave? Creeping Autocracy in Africa
Uchenna C. Obiagu| Abstract | Full Text: PDF (114-124)
Book Reviews
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe. 2020. Laying the Past to Rest: The EPRDF and the Challenges of Ethiopian State-Building. London: Hurst Publishers. 355 pp.citas Becker. 2019.
Review by: Michael Holmes (125-126)
Florence Bernault. 2019. Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon. Durham: Duke University Press. 344 pp.
Review by: Wen Zhou (126-128)
Suzanne Preston Blier. 2019. Picasso’s Demoiselles. The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece. Durham: Duke University Press. 432 pp.
Review by: Maite Méndez Baiges (128-129)
Neil Carrier and Tabea Scharrer. 2019. Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa. New York: Berghahn Books. 251 pp.
Review by: Nasra Smith (129-131)
Msia Kibona Clark. 2018. Hip-Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers. Athens: Ohio University Press. 266 pp.
Review by: James J. Fisher (131-132)
Carien du Plessis and Martin Plaut. 2019. Understanding South Africa. London: Hurst & Company. 316 pp.
Review by: Steven Gish (132-134)
Toyin Falola. 2019. In Praise of Greatness: The Poetics of African Adulation. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. 1035 pp.
Review by: Folasade Hunsu (134-135)
Steven D. Gish. 2018. Amy Biehl’s Last Home: A Bright Life, a Tragic Death, and a Journey of Reconciliation in South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 392 pp.
Review by: Nancy Snow (135-137)
Ros Gray. 2020. Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution: Anti-Colonialism, Independence, and Internationalism in Filmmaking, 1968-1991. Suffolk: James Currey. 292 pp.
Review by: Paul Chiudza Banda (137-138)
Erica Heinsen-Roach. 2019. Consuls and Captives: Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 243 pp.
Review by: Adel Manai (138-140)
Farooq Kperogi. 2020. Nigeria’s Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy and Participation. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 299 pp.
Review by: Victor Jatula (140-141)
Haim Malka (ed). 2020. Faith in the Balance: Regulating Religious Affairs in Africa. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 155 pp.
Review by: Brad Crofford (141-143)
Emily McGiffin. 2019. Of Land, Bones, and Money: Toward a South African Ecopoeics. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 249 pp.
Review by: Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers (143-144)
Abdul Raufu Mustapha and Kate Meagher (eds.). 2020. Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria. Suffolk: James Currey Publishers. 336 pp.
Review by: Jacob Zenn (144-147)
Bruce Mutsvairo and Cleophas Muneri. 2019. Journalism, Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 151 pp.
Review by: Hangwei Li (147-149)
James Ogude (ed.). 2019. Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 236 pp.
Review by: Benson Ohihon Igboin (149-151)
Ike Okonta. 2020. The Failure of Leadership in Africa’s Development. Lanham: Lexington Books. 219 pp.
Review by: Abou-Bakar Mamah (151-152)
Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowsi (eds). 2019. Regimes of Responsibility in Africa. Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts. Durham: Duke University Press. 344 pp.
Review by: Alaba Rotimi Oti (152-154)
Maya Shatzmiller. 2019. From Berber State to Moroccan Empire: The Glory of Fez Under the Marinids. Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers. 222 pp.
Review by: Kenneth Meyer (154-155)
Alexie Tcheuyap and Hervé A. Tchumkam. 2019. Avoir peur: insécurité et roman en Afrique francophone. Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval. 306 pp.
Review by: Alioune Sow (155-157)
Hedley Twidle. 2019. Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-Fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa. Suffolk: James Currey. 250 pp.
Review by: Deepika Dehiya (157-159)
Aribidesi Usman and Toyin Falola. 2019. The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 496 pp.
Review by: Adeniyi S. Basiru (159-160)
Olivier Van Beemen. 2019. Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed. London: Hurst & Co. 256 pp.
Review by: Frederick W Tillman II (160-162)
Leonardo A. Villalón and Rahmane Idrissa (eds.). 2020. Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Review by: Eloïse Bertrand (162-163)
Brian J. Yates. 2020. The Other Abyssinians: The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1913. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 236 pp.
Review by: Ebrahim Damtew Alyou (163-164)