An Announcement of the Canadian Journal of African Studies: Book reviews
The following books are available for review. If you have not reviewed for the Canadian Journal of African Studies before please write to Chris Youé – cyoue@mun.ca – stating your qualifications in four or five sentences.
Voici une liste de livres disponibles pour être recensés. Si vous n’avez jamais écrit de recension de livre pour la Revue canadienne des études africaines et le souhaiteriez, veuillez en informer le Professeur Cédric Jourde, en vous assurant de bien préciser vos qualifications en quatre à cinq phrases, à l’adresse suivante : cjourde@uottawa.ca
General
C. Armstrong, J. De Beer et al., eds. Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Rise of Copyright. Cape Town: UCT Press, 2010
Paul S. Landau, ed. The Power of Doubt: Essays in Honor of David Henige. Madison: Parallel Press, 2011.
Cultural Studies
Wim M.J. van Binsbergen & Eric Venbrux, eds. New Perspectives on Myth: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Ravenstein (the Netherlands), 19-21 August, 2008. Haarlem: Shikanda, 2010.
Jean-Pierre Chrétien and Richard Banégas, eds. The Recurring Great Lakes Crisis: Identity, Violence and Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Donald L. Donham. Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Rebecca Ginsburg. At Home With Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011
Joseph Hellweg. Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Côte d’Ivoire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011
Charles Piot. Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010
Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu. The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011..
Health & Medicine
P. Wenzel Geissler and Catherine Molyneux, eds. Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. New York, Berghahn Books, 2011.
Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla and Joelle Palmieri. Confronting Female Genital Mutilation: The Role of Youth and ICTs in Changing Africa. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011.
Okore A. Okorafor. Primary Healthcare Spending: Striving for Equity Under Fiscal Federalism. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2010.
History
Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu. The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011..
Daniel Branch. Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes, et al., eds. Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.
Andrew Burton and Hélène Charton-Bigot, eds. Generations Past: Youth in East African History. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2010
Bruce S. Hall. A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
P.M. Holt and M.W. Daly. A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day. Sixth Edition. Harlow: Pearson, 2011.
Douglas H. Johnson. The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars: Peace or Truce. Kampala: James Currey, 2011.
Raymond Jonas. The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges. Defeat is the Only Bad News: Rwanda Under Musinga, 1986-1931. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.
Thomas Patrick Melady and Margaret Badum Melady. Ten African Heroes: The Sweep of Independence in Black Africa. Maryknoll: Oribs Books, 2011.
John Markakis. Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2011.
David Newbury. The Land Beyond the Mists: essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda. Ohio UP, Athens 2009.
G. Ugo Nwokeji. The Slave trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra. An African Society in the Atlantic World Cambridge, Cambridge UP 2010
Timothy Stapleton. African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe 1923-80. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2011.
Human Rights
Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Walter C. Soderlund, et al. The Responsibility to Protect in Darfur: The Role of Mass Media. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010
Chandra Lekha Sriram and Suren Pillay. Peace versus Justice? The Dilemma of Transnational Justice in Africa. James Currey and Kwa-Zulu Natal Press, 2010
Literature
Gary Geddes. Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011.
Gloria Nne Obyeoziri. Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Edgard Sankara. Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Novel
Ken Lupton. Pascoe, Prince of Gobir. Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, 2010.
Migration
Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne, eds. Surviving on the Move: Migration, Poverty and Development in Southern Africa. Pretoria: Idasa Publishing, 2010.
Deborah Potts. Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2010.
Politics:
Ivor Agyeman-Duah. Pilgrims of the Night: Development Challenges and Opportunities in Africa. Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2010.
Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu. The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011..
Signe Arnfred. Sexuality and Gender politics in Mozambique. Rethinking Gender in Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute and James Currey, Woodbridge/Uppsala, 2011
Stephen Chan. Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
Marie-Soleil Frere. Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace. London: Zed Books, 2011.
Iyorwuese Hagher. Nigeria: After the Nightmare. Lanham: University Press of America, 2011.
Lauren M. MacLean. Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Zacharia Cherian Mamphilly. Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
Hein Marais. South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change. London: Zed Books, 2011.
Emma Mawdsley and Gerard McCann, eds. India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power. Cape Town, Pambazuka Press, 2011.
‘Funm i Olonisakin and Awino Okech, eds. Women and Security Governance in Africa. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011.
Theodore Trefon. Congo Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure. London: Zed Books, 2011
Elke Zuern. The Politics of Necessity. Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.
Religion
Heike Behrend. Resurrecting Cannibals: The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts, & the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2011
Harri Englund, ed. Christianity and Public Culture in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.
Agbonkhiameghe E. Orobator, ed. Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace: The Second African Synod. Maryknoll: Obris Books, 2011
Amy Stambach. Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Francophone
Odile Cazenave and Patricia Célérier. Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Community. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Joël Noret and Pierre Petit, eds. Mort et dynamiques socials au Katanga: République démocratique du Congo. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011.
John Conteh-Morgan and Irène Assiba d’Almeida, eds. The Original Explosion That Created Worlds: Essays on Werewere Liking’s Art and Writing. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010.
Léon de Saint Moulin. Villes et organisation de l’espace en République démocratique du Congo. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010.
DVDs (on Kenya)
These are Our Children. Saving the children of Kenya, one dream at a time. Produced by Joanne Hershfield. Chapel Hill, NC. 2010 (55 minutes)
A Time There Was: Stories From the Last days of Kenya Colony. National Film Board of Canada. Written and Directed by Donald McWilliams. Ottawa, Ontario 2009 (88 minutes).
For details about the Canadian Association of African Studies: http://ocs.sfu.ca/caas/index.php/caas/conf2012
End-of-studies scholarship for African full-degree-students in Germany Bourses coparrainées UNESCO/Israël (MASHAV) 2012
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