Reviews

Author:

Matthias Krings

Reviewer:

Benjamin Lawrance

Lawrance on Krings, 'African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media'

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

Author:

Ato Quayson

Reviewer:

Caleb Owen

Owen on Quayson, 'Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism'

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

Author:

Lorelle D. Semley

Reviewer:

Judith A. Byfield

Byfield on Semley, 'Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town'

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

Author:

Rebecca Shumway

Reviewer:

Philip Misevich

Misevich on Shumway, 'The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade'

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

Author:

Gérard Prunier

Reviewer:

Helen Hintjens

Hintjens on Prunier, 'Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe'

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

Author:

Dorothy Louise Hodgson

Reviewer:

Elliot Fratkin

Fratkin on Hodgson, 'Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World'

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

Author:

Rachel Rebekah Chapman

Reviewer:

Claire Wendland

Wendland on Chapman, 'Family Secrets: Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique'

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

Author:

Jonathon Glassman

Reviewer:

Mohammed Bakari

Bakari on Glassman, 'War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar'

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

Author:

Paul Williams

Reviewer:

Richard Reid

Reid on Reno, 'Warfare in Independent Africa' and Williams, 'War and Conflict in Africa'

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.

Author:

Zachariah Cherian Mampilly

Reviewer:

Filip Reyntjens

Reyntjens on Mampilly, 'Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War'

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

Author:

Richard J. Reid

Reviewer:

Matteo Salvadore

Salvadore on Reid, 'Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa: Genealogies of Conflict since c.1800'

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

Author:

Mohammad R. Salama

Reviewer:

Trevor R. Getz

Getz on Salama, 'Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun'

Mohammad R. Salama. Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun. London: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2011. 304 pp. $96.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84885-005-7.

Reviewed by Trevor R. Getz (San Francisco State University) Published on H-Africa (November, 2011) Commissioned by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

Getz on Salama

Author:

Toyin Falola, Saheed Aderinto

Reviewer:

Lynn Schler

Schler on Falola and Aderinto, 'Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History'

Toyin Falola, Saheed Aderinto. Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2010. xvi + 333 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-358-4.

Reviewed by Lynn Schler (Ben Gurion University) Published on H-Africa (October, 2011) Commissioned by Brett L. Shadle

Schler on "Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History"

Author:

Nancy L. Clark, William H. Worger

Reviewer:

Kenneth E. Wilburn

Wilburn on Clark and Worger, 'South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid'

Nancy L. Clark, William H. Worger. South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid. Second edition. New York: Longman, 2011. 187 pp. $27.33 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4082-4564-4.

Reviewed by Kenneth E. Wilburn (East Carolina University) Published on H-Africa (October, 2011) Commissioned by Brett L. Shadle

Wilburn on Clark and Worger, South Africa

Author:

Scott Straus, Lars Waldorf, eds.

Reviewer:

Peter Uvin

Uvin on Straus and Waldorf, 'Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence'

Scott Straus, Lars Waldorf, eds. Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. xxxix + 382 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-299-28264-6.

Reviewed by Peter Uvin (Tufts University) Published on H-Africa (September, 2011) Commissioned by Brett L. Shadle

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Lawrance on Krings, 'African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media'

Owen on Quayson, 'Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism'

Byfield on Semley, 'Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town'

Misevich on Shumway, 'The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade'

Hintjens on Prunier, 'Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe'

Fratkin on Hodgson, 'Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World'

Wendland on Chapman, 'Family Secrets: Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique'

Bakari on Glassman, 'War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar'

Reid on Reno, 'Warfare in Independent Africa' and Williams, 'War and Conflict in Africa'

Reyntjens on Mampilly, 'Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War'

Salvadore on Reid, 'Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa: Genealogies of Conflict since c.1800'

Getz on Salama, 'Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun'

Schler on Falola and Aderinto, 'Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History'

Wilburn on Clark and Worger, 'South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid'

Uvin on Straus and Waldorf, 'Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence'

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