Malyn Newitt. A Short History of Mozambique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 224 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-084742-5.
Reviewed by Eric Allina (University of Ottawa) Published on H-Luso-Africa (August, 2018) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))
Jon Schubert. Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. xvii + 247 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-1370-5; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-1369-9.
Reviewed by Vasco Martins (Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), University of Coimbra) Published on H-Luso-Africa (July, 2018) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))
Cécile Fromont. The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Illustrations. 328 pp. $47.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1871-5; $19.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4696-1872-2.
Reviewed by Carlos Almeida (Centro de História/Universidade de Lisboa) Published on H-Luso-Africa (October, 2017) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Chris Alden, Sérgio Chichava, eds. China and Mozambique: From Comrades to Capitalists. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2014. 256 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-920196-94-3.
Reviewed by Joseph Hanlon (The Open University (UK); London School of Economics (UK)) Published on H-Luso-Africa (August, 2017) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Thiago Henrique Motta. Portugueses e Muçulmanos na Senegâmbia: História e Representações do Islã na África (c. 1570-1625). Curitiba: Editora Prismas, 2016. 339 pp. BRL 58.00, ISBN 978-85-550-7266-6.
Reviewed by Toby O. Green (Department of History/Kings College London) Published on H-Luso-Africa (July, 2017) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Representations of Islam in West Africa
Joanna Davidson. Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa. Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 264 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-935868-7.
Reviewed by Marina Temudo (University of Lisbon) Published on H-Luso-Africa (May, 2017) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Mangrove Societies and Rice Production in West Africa
César Braga-Pinto, Mendonça, Fátima. João Albasini e as luzes de Nwandzengele: Jornalismo e política em Moçambique, 1908-1922. Maputo: Alcance Editores, 2014. Illustrations. 414 pp. $34.00 (paper).
Reviewed by Drew Thompson (Bard College) Published on H-Luso-Africa (March, 2017) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Social Commentary, Political Activism, and the Origins of the Press in Mozambique
Justin Pearce. Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola, 1975-2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 204 pp. $103.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-07964-9.
Reviewed by Nuno Vidal (Centro de Estudos Internacionais - ISCTE-IUL) Published on H-Luso-Africa (February, 2017) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War. London: Hurst Publishers, 2015. 320 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-025139-0.
Reviewed by Didier Péclard (Global Studies Institute, Université de Genève) Published on H-Luso-Africa (December, 2016) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Mustafah Dhada. The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015. 256 pp. $116.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4725-1198-0.
Reviewed by Jason Sumich (GIGA Institute of African Affairs) Published on H-Luso-Africa (November, 2016) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
The Wiriyamu Massacre
Nuno Domingos. Futebol e Colonialism: Corpo e Cultura Popular em Moçambique. Lisbon: Imprensa Ciências Sociais/ICS, 2012. 326 pp. EUR 22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-972-671-292-3.
Reviewed by Todd Cleveland (Augustana College) Published on H-Luso-Africa (June, 2016) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Football and Colonialism
Francisco Henriques da Silva, Mário Beja Santos. Da Guiné Portuguesa à Guiné-Bissau: Um roteiro. Lisbon: Fronteiras do Caos Editores, 2014. 532 pp. $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-989-8647-18-4.
Reviewed by Julião Soares Sousa (CEIS20, Universidade de Coimbra) Published on H-Luso-Africa (March, 2016) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
From Portuguese Guinea to Guinea Bissau
Filipa Lowndes Vicente, ed. O Império da Visão: Fotografia no Contexto Colonial Português (1860-1990). Lisbon: Edições 70, 2014. Illustrations. 504 pp. EUR 35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-972-44-1811-7.
Reviewed by Emília Tavares (Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado) Published on H-Luso-Africa (February, 2016) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Photography in the Portuguese Empire
Ondjaki. Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret. Translated by Stephen Henighan. Biblioasis International Translation Series. Windsor: Biblioasis, 2014. 192 pp. $15.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-927428-65-8.
Reviewed by David Brookshaw (Bristol University) Published on H-Luso-Africa (September, 2015) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Paul Jenkins. Urbanization, Urbanism and Urbanity in an African City: Home Spaces and House Cultures. Africa Connects Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 296 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-38016-6.
Reviewed by Cristina Delgado Henriques (Faculdade de Arquitectura) Published on H-Luso-Africa (July, 2015) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Maputo's Peri-Urban Area
