African Studies Review is looking for interested members of the scholarly community to review books for forthcoming issues of the journal. Please review the list below and fill out the form to express your interest. The editors will get back to you in the order your form was received.Please note : A submission of your interest does not guarantee your selection.
Available Titles for Review
A Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Africa A Prodigy’s Calling: The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master African Artists Under Mission Patronage: Focus on Tanzania African Cinema and Urbanism African Women’s Histories in European Narratives: The Afropolitan Krio Fernandino Diaspora (1850-1996) Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film Architectures of Slavery: Ruins and Reconstructions Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana Canada, Apartheid, and the Defence of the Liberal Order Conflicts of Colonialism: The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye Conversational Bridges in African Feminisms: Weaving Knowledge Together Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius Dancing Opacity: Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal Eritrea’s Gold Rush: Western Mining Companies, Regional Wars, and Human Rights Abuses in Africa Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa Frontiers of National and International Development: Rethinking Governance and Growth in the Global South Governance, Grievance, and Violent Extremism in West Africa: From the Caliphates to Great Power Competition Great Sogolon’s House: Mande Epic from the Condé Bards of Fadama (Guinea) Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness Interpretation for Liberation: African Philosophical Hermeneutics Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918) Knowing Ethnicity: The Politics of Classification and Pluralism in Kenya Magdalena Coline: A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe Morafe: Person, Family, and Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland, 1880s–1950s New African Thinkers: Considering Peace and Development in Africa Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya Orchards of Privilege: Water, Oranges, and Race in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, 1700–2023 Parliament in Ethiopia: Participation, Representation and Resistance Political Identity and African Foreign Policies Presidential Power: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa Privileged Minorities: A History of Wealth Concentration in South Africa Regulating for Rivalry in Africa: The Development of Competition Regimes Senghor: Writings on Politics Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War Society of the Righteous: Ibadhi Muslim Identity and Transnationalism in Tanzania South Sudan’s Azande during colonialism, war, and displacement: An ethnography of rupture and rejuvenation Systemic Racism in South Africa: Humanity Lost Textures of Power: Central Africa in the Long Twentieth Century The Age of Change: How Urban Youth Are Transforming African Politics The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide between Congo and Rwanda The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tārīkh Ibn Al-Mukhtār of the Songhay Empire and the Tārīkh Al-Fattāsh of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi The Deys and Beys of Tunis, 1666–1922: From Military Power to the Monarchy The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare The Horn Engaging the Gulf: Economic Diplomacy and Statecraft in Regional Relations The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal: Intermarriage, Qur’anic Education, and Jihad The Mediterranean Connection Criminal Networks and Illicit Economies in North Africa The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990 The Political Economy of Mobile Telephony in Africa: MTN, Vodacom and the State The Political Logic of Cultural Revival: Ethnic Visibility, Linked Fate, and Electoral Politics in Africa The Strategy to End the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: Understanding the War in Kigali Theorizing Fallism: Rhodes Must Fall and the Global Movement to Decolonize the University Ties That Bound: Slavery and Power in Africa Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique Transnational African Identities in Contemporary Urban Fiction: Community, Hospitality and Friendship Urban Saniscapes: Slums, Housing and Everyday Sanitation in Accra and Nairobi, 1908–1963 White Gold and Thirsty Communities: The Cold War, Apartheid, and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Yoruba Metaphysics: Spirituality and Supernaturality
