Mukoma Wa Ngugi. The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. 240 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-472-05368-1.
Reviewed by Nganga Muchiri (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Published on H-Africa (March, 2019) Commissioned by Dawne Y. Curry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Hakim Adi. Pan-Africanism: A History. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 1 online resource. ISBN 978-1-4742-5427-4.
Reviewed by Charles Holm (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Africa (January, 2019) Commissioned by Dawne Y. Curry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53369
Anthony Celso, Robert Nalbandov, eds. The Crisis of the African State: Globalization, Tribalism, and Jihadism in the Twenty-first Century. Quantico: Marine Corps University Press, 2016. Illustrations, maps. 250 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5425-5109-0.
Reviewed by Paul Ludi (Miami University of Ohio) Published on H-Africa (January, 2019) Commissioned by Dawne Y. Curry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. xvi + 305 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-2293-9.
Reviewed by Eric M. Washington (calvin college) Published on H-Africa (November, 2018) Commissioned by Dawne Y. Curry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Matthias Krings. African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media. African Expressive Cultures Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. Illustrations. 328 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01625-6; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-01629-4.
Reviewed by Benjamin Lawrance (Rochester Institute of Technology) Published on H-Africa (July, 2017) Commissioned by Dawne Y. Curry
Ato Quayson. Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. 312 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5747-6; $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5733-9.
Reviewed by Caleb Owen (Truman State University) Published on H-Africa (October, 2016) Commissioned by Faeeza Ballim
The Variegations of Globalization in the African City: Urbanism and Accra's Oxford Street
Lorelle D. Semley. Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xvi + 235 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35545-4; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-22253-4.
Reviewed by Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University) Published on H-Africa (December, 2012) Commissioned by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Rebecca Shumway. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2011. 246 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-391-1.
Reviewed by Philip Misevich (St. John's University) Published on H-Africa (August, 2012) Commissioned by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Gérard Prunier. Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxxviii + 529 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-537420-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-975420-5.
Reviewed by Helen Hintjens (International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)) Published on H-Africa (July, 2012) Commissioned by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Dorothy Louise Hodgson. Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xix + 265 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35620-8; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-22305-0.
Reviewed by Elliot Fratkin (Smith College) Published on H-Africa (May, 2012) Commissioned by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Rachel Rebekah Chapman. Family Secrets: Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010. 280 pp. $79.95 (library), ISBN 978-0-8265-1717-3; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8265-1718-0; ISBN 978-0-8265-1719-7.
Reviewed by Claire Wendland (University of Wisconsin) Published on H-Africa (April, 2012) Commissioned by Brett L. Shadle
Jonathon Glassman. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. Illustrations. xii + 398 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35585-0; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-22280-0.
Reviewed by Mohammed Bakari (University of Dar es Salaam) Published on H-Africa (February, 2012) Commissioned by Brett L. Shadle
William Reno. Warfare in Independent Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxii + 271 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-85045-2; $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-61552-5.Paul Williams. War and Conflict in Africa. Cambridge: Polity, 2011. xii + 306 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7456-4544-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7456-4545-2.
Zachariah Cherian Mampilly. Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. 320 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4913-0.
Reviewed by Filip Reyntjens (University of Antwerp) Published on H-Africa (January, 2012) Commissioned by Brett L. Shadle
Richard J. Reid. Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa: Genealogies of Conflict since c.1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 296 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-921188-3.
Reviewed by Matteo Salvadore (Gulf University for Science and Technology) Published on H-Africa (November, 2011) Commissioned by Brett L. Shadle
