Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch. The Benin Plaques: A 16th Century Imperial Monument. Abingdon: Routledge Research in Art History Series. Routledge, 2017. Illustrations. xxx + 245 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4724-5155-2.
Reviewed by Joseph Nevadomsky (California State University - Fullerton) Published on H-AfrArts (August, 2018) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti (Clark Univeristy)
Leora Maltz-Leca. William Kentridge: Process as Metaphor and Other Doubtful Enterprises. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xi + 400 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-29055-6.
Reviewed by Pamela Allara (Emerita, Brandeis University) Published on H-AfrArts (June, 2018) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti (Clark Univeristy)
Laurent Dubois. The Banjo: America's African Instrument. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. 384 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04784-6.
Reviewed by Veronique Helenon (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Published on H-AfrArts (May, 2018) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti (Clark Univeristy)
Jacob K. Olupona, Rowland O. Abiodun, eds. Ifa Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance. African Expressive Cultures Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 390 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-01890-8; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01882-3.
Reviewed by Francine Kola-Bankole (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Published on H-AfrArts (September, 2017) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
Philip Misevich, Kristin Mann, eds. The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2016. 408 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-560-1.
Reviewed by Karen Ferreira-Meyers (University of Swaziland) Published on H-AfrArts (May, 2017) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
Ana Lucia Araujo, ed. African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World. Amherst: Cambria Press, 2015. 422 pp. $124.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60497-892-6.
Reviewed by Lori West (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Published on H-AfrArts (May, 2017) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
Historic Memory and Slavery in Brazil
Toyin Falola. The Humanities in Africa: Knowledge Production, Universities, and the Transformation of Society. Austin: Pan-African University Press, 2016. 443 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-943533-02-2.
Reviewed by Dele Layiwola (Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan) Published on H-AfrArts (May, 2017) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
Robert S. DuPlessis. The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 367 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-10591-1.
Reviewed by Justin Izzo (Brown University) Published on H-AfrArts (January, 2017) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
Staffan Lundén. Displaying Loot: The Benin Objects and the British Museum. Göteborg: Göteborgs Universitet, Department of Historical Studies, 2016. Illustrations. 589 pp. Doctoral Thesis. ISBN 978-91-85245-67-4.
Reviewed by Joseph Nevadomsky (California State University, Fullerton ) Published on H-AfrArts (December, 2016) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
Loot!
Delinda Collier. Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 240 pp. $87.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-9444-0; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-9448-8.
Reviewed by Drew Thompson (Bard College) Published on H-AfrArts (October, 2016) Commissioned by Olubukola A. Gbadegesin
Chika Okeke-Agulu. Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 376 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5732-2; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5746-9.
Reviewed by Fred Smith (Kent State University) Published on H-AfrArts (October, 2016) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi. Senufo Unbound. Cleveland: 5 Continents Editions, 2015. 272 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-88-7439-666-5.
Reviewed by Fred Smith (Kent State University) Published on H-AfrArts (August, 2016) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
Senufo: Not One "Tribe," Not One Style
Mahir Şaul, Ralph A. Austen. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. vii + 248 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-1930-4; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-1931-1; ISBN 978-0-8214-4350-7.
Carrol Clarkson. Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. xiii + 204 pp. $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-5416-3.
Reviewed by Diana Wylie (Boston University) Published on H-AfrArts (August, 2016) Commissioned by Olubukola A. Gbadegesin
Forging a New "We" in South Africa
Tom A. Miachi. The Incarnate Being Phenomenon in African Culture: Anthropological Perspectives on the Igala of North-Central Nigeria. Ibadan, Nigeria: Kraft Books Limited, 2012. Illustrations. 388 pp. n.p. (cloth), ISBN 978-978-918-068-4.
Reviewed by Sidney Kasfir (Art History - Emory University) Published on H-AfrArts (August, 2015) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
When Is a Masquerade Something Else?
