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ASR Book Reviews

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.

ASR Book Reviewer Interest Form

Please use this form to express your interest in writing a book review for African Studies Review based on the available book list below. Each title is linked to the publication details for your convenience. If a book is not listed that you are interested in reviewing, please reach out to ASR’s managing editor at managingeditor@africanstudiesreview.org. Please note: A submission of your interest does not guarantee your selection.

  • If there is more than one book on the list you’re interested in reviewing please let us know. If your first choice is no longer available, we’d love to consider you for another review.

Available Titles for Review

A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism
Africa and the Olympics: Winning Away from the Podium
African Constructions of China: Insights from Ghana and Kenya
Afrosofian Knowledge and Cheikh Anta Diop: Geo-ethical and Political Implications
Blackness at the Intersection
Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity
Cairo Securitized: Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience
Comrade and Commander: The Life and Times of Joe Modise
Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana
Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for RadicalTransformation
Disarming Apartheid
Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools
Doing Business in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges
Forest Politics in Kenya’s Tugen Hills
France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation
Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics
Haile Salassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast
National Security Surveillance in Southern Africa: An Anti-Capitalist Perspective
Party Politics and Populism in Zambia
Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord, 1991-1994
Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road
Primitive Normativity Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya
Projections of Dakar (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal Through Cinema
Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century
Religion and Politics in a Mediatized Society: Critical Analyses and Spheres of Interinfluence in Nigeria and Beyond
Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions
Riotous Deathscapes
Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties
Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes
Stories of Change: Religious Leaders and LGBTIQ Inclusion in East Africa
THE AESTHETICS OF BELONGING: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements 
The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures 
The Mediterranean Connection Criminal Networks and Illicit Economies in North Africa
The Poisoned Chalice of Democracy: Studies from the Horn of Africa
The Political Economy of Mobile Telephony in Africa: MTN, Vodacom and the State
The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young
Thresholds: A ‘Complete’ Table of the Borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence, and Why They Matter
Transactional Culture in Colonial Dakar, 1902-44
Transforming Vòdún: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin’s Jazz and Brass Band Music
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures
Waterhouses: Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos
We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone
Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War: De-gendering the History of Anticolonial Struggle
Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa