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 Prodigy’s Calling: The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master A Social History from Below: Life Stories from Wentworth, South Africa Africa’s Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage African Literature and Intellectual Histories: Reflecting on Ntongela Masilela’s Work An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean Arming Black Consciousness: The Azanian Black Nationalist Tradition and South Africa’s Armed Struggle Blogging and Gender Activism in Nigeria: Analysing Cultural, Economic and Political Dimensions of Inequality Britain and the Responsibility to Protect: Legacies from Sierra Leone Cannibalism Myths, Empire, and Identity in Colonial Sierra Leone Christians in the City of Nairobi: An African City and the Future of World Christianity Colonial Algeria and the Politics of Citizenship Conflict at the Edge of the African State: The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland Conflicts of Colonialism: The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye Cooking Culture: Women’s Culinary Agency and Everyday Creativity in Rural Mali COVID-19 and African Borders in Transition Decolonizing African Politics: Bridging the Contours of Debate Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania Enslaved Africans and Their Descendants in Africa: Life Histories Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress Fashioning Inland Communities: Trade and Popular Culture in Central East Africa Federalism and Decentralization in Africa: Globalization and Fragmentation in Territorial Arrangements Gathering Electronic Waste in Tanzania: Labour, Value, and Toxicity Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902: A View from the Stock Exchange How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria Imperial Investments: Legacies of Displacement in British Child Migration to Southern Rhodesia Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism in Africa International Human Rights in Post-Colonial Africa: Universality in Perspective Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian MAHOMMAH GARDO BAQUAQUA: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic Masquerades in African Society: Gender, Power and Identity Matatu Work: Gender, Labor, and Mobility in Nairobi Migration and Return in Modern African Literature: Black Bodies in White Spaces Military Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023 Money, Value, and the State Navigating Local Transitional Justice: Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone New Sudans: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s – 1960s Peace Not War: Traditions of Restorative Justice in Imperial Ethiopia, 1769 – 1960 Philosophy, Language, and Literature in an African Context Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Political Humour and Zimbabwean Identity on Social Media Platforms Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya’s Port City Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization,1960–1984 Reconciliation Operationalized in Mozambique: Charting Inclusion, Truth, and Justice, 1992–2022 Regulating for Rivalry in Africa: The Development of Competition Regimes Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism Smugglers, Speculators, and the City in the Ethiopia-Somalia Borderlands Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Modern Sub-Saharan Africa The Age of Sex: Custom, Law, and Ritual in Twentieth-Century East Africa The Algorithmic Age of Personality: African Literature and Cancel Culture The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940 The Early Writings of Alex La Guma : Reflections on Cultcha, Identity and Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s The Literature of Contemporary Sierra Leone: Trauma, Resilience, and Creativity The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana’s Drum Wars The Peacekeeping Failure in South Sudan: The UN, Bias and the Peacekeeper’s Mind The Police, the State and the Congo Cop The UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA): Peacekeeping Caught in the Geopolitical Crossfire The Verbal Art of Mobility in West Africa The Western Sahara Deadlock: Understanding Algeria’s Role and the Path to Resolution Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide Transformative Constitutionalism and Kenya: Law-making, Political Process, and the State (2010 – 2025) Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–1979 Understanding and Transforming Intra-Ethnic Conflicts: The Case Study of the Offa-Erinle, Kwara State, Nigeria Understanding the Horizontal and Vertical Nature of Africa Migration in Contemporary Times We, the Decolonized Yoruba Pentecostalism and Child Witchcraft Accusations Zambia’s Youths and the 2021 General Election: Rescuing Democracy through Activism and Social Media
