{"id":1666,"date":"2011-12-27T00:44:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T00:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2012-01-15T00:05:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T00:05:38","slug":"an-announcement-of-the-canadian-journal-of-african-studies-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"An Announcement of the Canadian Journal of African Studies: Book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The following books are available for review.\u00a0 If you have not reviewed for the Canadian Journal of African Studies before please write to Chris You\u00e9\u00a0 – cyoue@mun.ca<\/a> \u2013 stating your qualifications in four or five sentences.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Voici une liste de livres disponibles pour \u00eatre recens\u00e9s. Si vous n\u2019avez jamais \u00e9crit de recension de livre pour la Revue canadienne des \u00e9tudes africaines et le souhaiteriez, veuillez en informer le Professeur C\u00e9dric Jourde, en vous assurant de bien pr\u00e9ciser vos qualifications en quatre \u00e0 cinq phrases, \u00e0 l\u2019adresse suivante\u00a0: cjourde@uottawa.ca<\/a><\/em><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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General<\/strong><\/p>\n

C. Armstrong, J. De Beer et al., eds. Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Rise of Copyright<\/em>. Cape Town: UCT Press, 2010 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul S. Landau, ed. The Power of Doubt: Essays in Honor of David Henige<\/em>. Madison: Parallel Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Cultural Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/em> (the Netherlands), 19-21 August, 2008<\/em>. Haarlem: Shikanda, 2010.<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre Chr\u00e9tien and Richard Ban\u00e9gas, eds. The Recurring Great Lakes Crisis: Identity, Violence and Power<\/em>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Donald L. Donham. Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994<\/em>. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Ginsburg. At Home With Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg<\/em>. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011<\/p>\n

Joseph Hellweg. Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011<\/p>\n

Charles Piot. Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War.<\/em> Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010<\/p>\n

Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu. The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000<\/em>. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011..<\/p>\n

Health & Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

P. Wenzel Geissler and Catherine Molyneux, eds. Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa<\/em>. New York, Berghahn Books, 2011.<\/p>\n

Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla and Joelle Palmieri. Confronting Female Genital Mutilation: The Role of Youth and ICTs in Changing Africa.<\/em> Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Okore A. Okorafor. Primary Healthcare Spending: Striving for Equity Under Fiscal Federalism<\/em>. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu. The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000<\/em>. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011..<\/p>\n

Daniel Branch. Kenya<\/em>: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes, et al., eds. Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies<\/em>. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Andrew Burton and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Charton-Bigot, eds. Generations Past: Youth in East African History<\/em>.\u00a0 Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2010<\/p>\n

Bruce S. Hall. A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

P.M. Holt and M.W. Daly. A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day.<\/em> Sixth Edition. Harlow: Pearson, 2011.<\/p>\n

Douglas H. Johnson. The Root Causes of Sudan\u2019s Civil Wars: Peace or Truce<\/em>. Kampala: James Currey, 2011.<\/p>\n

Raymond Jonas. The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire<\/em>. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges. Defeat is the Only Bad News: Rwanda Under Musinga, 1986-1931<\/em>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Thomas Patrick Melady and Margaret Badum Melady. Ten African Heroes: The Sweep of Independence in Black Africa<\/em>. Maryknoll: Oribs Books, 2011.<\/p>\n

John Markakis. Ethiopia<\/em>: The Last Two Frontiers<\/em>. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2011.<\/p>\n

David Newbury. The Land Beyond the Mists: essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda<\/em>. Ohio UP, Athens 2009.<\/p>\n

G. Ugo Nwokeji. The Slave trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra. An African Society in the Atlantic World<\/em> Cambridge, Cambridge UP 2010<\/p>\n

Timothy Stapleton. African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe 1923-80<\/em>. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Human Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Walter C. Soderlund, et al. The Responsibility to Protect in Darfur: The Role of Mass Media.<\/em> Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010<\/p>\n

Chandra Lekha Sriram and Suren Pillay.\u00a0 Peace versus Justice? The Dilemma of Transnational Justice in Africa<\/em>. James Currey and Kwa-Zulu Natal Press, 2010<\/p>\n

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Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gary Geddes. Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer\u2019s Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa<\/em>. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011.<\/p>\n

Gloria Nne Obyeoziri. Shaken<\/em> Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction<\/em>. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Edgard Sankara. Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles<\/em>. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ken Lupton. Pascoe, Prince of Gobir<\/em>. Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, 2010.<\/p>\n

Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne, eds. Surviving on the Move: Migration, Poverty and Development in Southern Africa<\/em>. Pretoria: Idasa Publishing, 2010.<\/p>\n

Deborah Potts. Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa<\/em>. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2010.<\/p>\n

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Politics<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Ivor Agyeman-Duah. Pilgrims of the Night: Development Challenges and Opportunities in Africa<\/em>. Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2010.<\/p>\n

Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu. The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000<\/em>. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011..<\/p>\n

Signe Arnfred. Sexuality and Gender politics in Mozambique<\/em>. Rethinking Gender in Africa<\/em>. The Nordic Africa Institute and James Currey, Woodbridge\/Uppsala, 2011<\/p>\n

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Stephen Chan. Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Marie-Soleil Frere. Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace. <\/em>London: Zed Books, 2011.<\/p>\n

Iyorwuese Hagher. Nigeria<\/em>: After the Nightmare<\/em>. Lanham: University Press of America, 2011.<\/p>\n

Lauren M. MacLean. Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity\u00a0 in Ghana and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

Zacharia Cherian Mamphilly. Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War<\/em>. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Hein Marais. South Africa<\/em> Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change<\/em>. London: Zed Books, 2011.<\/p>\n

Emma Mawdsley and Gerard McCann, eds. India<\/em> in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power<\/em>. Cape Town, Pambazuka Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

\u2018Funm i Olonisakin and Awino Okech, eds. Women and Security Governance in Africa<\/em>. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Theodore Trefon. Congo<\/em> Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure<\/em>. London: Zed Books, 2011<\/p>\n

Elke Zuern. The<\/em> Politics of Necessity. Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa<\/em>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heike Behrend. Resurrecting Cannibals: The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts, & the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda<\/em>. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2011 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Harri Englund, ed. Christianity and Public Culture in Africa<\/em>. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Agbonkhiameghe E. Orobator, ed. Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace: The Second African Synod<\/em>. Maryknoll: Obris Books, 2011<\/p>\n

Amy Stambach. Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa<\/em>. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

Francophone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Odile Cazenave and Patricia C\u00e9l\u00e9rier. Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Community<\/em>. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

Jo\u00ebl Noret and Pierre Petit, eds. Mort et dynamiques socials au Katanga<\/em>: R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo<\/em>. Paris: L\u2019Harmattan, 2011.<\/p>\n

John Conteh-Morgan and Ir\u00e8ne Assiba d\u2019Almeida, eds. The Original Explosion That Created Worlds: Essays on Werewere Liking\u2019s Art and Writing<\/em>. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. <\/strong><\/p>\n

L\u00e9on de Saint Moulin. Villes et organisation de l\u2019espace en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo<\/em>. Paris: L\u2019Harmattan, 2010.<\/p>\n

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DVDs (on Kenya)<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are Our Children. <\/em> Saving the children of Kenya, one dream at a time. Produced by Joanne Hershfield. Chapel Hill, NC. 2010\u00a0 (55 minutes)<\/p>\n

A Time There Was: Stories From the Last days of Kenya Colony. <\/em>National Film Board of Canada. Written and Directed by Donald McWilliams. Ottawa, Ontario 2009 (88 minutes).<\/p>\n

For details about the Canadian Association of African Studies<\/span>:\u00a0http:\/\/ocs.sfu.ca\/caas\/index.php\/caas\/conf2012<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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