New Books in African Studies
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Anne Heffernan, "Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Poli...
Heffernan offers a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present...
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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Jatin Dua, "Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protect...
Dua describes a tale that is not often told: how piracy works in the everyday lives of those involved in its grip...
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
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Nicholas R. Jones, "Staging Habla de Negros: Ra...
Jones problematizes long-held beliefs among literary critics and linguists that habla de negros as represented in dominant Spanish literature was exclusively racist stereotypes...
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Christopher J. Lee, "Unreasonable Histories: Na...
Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia...
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How the Yoruba Live: Islamic Teachings Shape an...
An interview with Adeyemi Balogun
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David Morton, "Age of Concrete: Housing and the...
Who built Africa’s cities?
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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Peter Cole, "Dockworker Power: Race and Activis...
Dockworker Power is a refreshing mixture of two methodological approaches that situates the study of black internationalism among workers...
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Eddie Michel, "The White House and White Africa...
Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...
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Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indie...
Lewis documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)...
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Julie MacArthur, "Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colon...
In 2015, University of Toronto professor Julie MacArthur decided to follow a couple more leads in the search for the long-missing, feared-lost transcript of the trial of legendary Mau Mau leader Dedan KImathi...
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Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Rel...
Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...
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Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Afri...
Jacobs makes a potent argument about the role of the media, in its many new and old forms, as an arbiter of belonging and citizenship in our information-saturated age...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Catherine Besteman, "Making Refuge: Somali Bant...
Besteman writes about her ethnographic encounter in the 1980s with Somalis from the village of Banta who she then re-encounters in 2006 in the town of Lewiston,..
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Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics o...
Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...
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Judi Rever, "In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of ...
Rever and her sources tell a story far different from the one most people who are familiar with the Rwandan Genocide would recognize...
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Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Hi...
Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions...
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Gillian Glaes, "African Political Activism in P...
Glaes examines the experiences and agency of African immigrants in France from 1960 through the 1970s.,,
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Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and t...
"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...
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Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origi...
Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...
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Great Books: Manthia Diawara on Achebe's "Thing...
Chinua Achebe's 1958 Things Fall Apart transformed the world by vividly imagining the story of an African community in English...
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K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in ...
What is the “medieval”? How can we understand historical movements across the Sahara? How does religion –specifically, Islam– play a role in this project?
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