Volume 2 (2018), Issue 1 # 1-8
These reviews may be found on the Research Africa Reviews website
RA Reviews’ Editorial Voice: RA Reviews’ Editorial Voice: The Book: Our Intellectual Companion
Muhammed Haron (Editor-in-Chief).
#1 Book: Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique
Author: Ramah McKay. Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: John Mwangi Githigaro, St. Paul’s University, Kenya.
#2 Book: The January Children.
Author: Safia Elhillo. Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Afis Ayinde Oladosu, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
#3 Book: African Muckraking: 75 Years of Investigative Journalism from Africa
Editor: Anya Schiffrin et al. Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Ibrahim N. Abusharif, Northwestern University in Qatar.
#4 Book: Muslims beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of ʿAjamī and the Murīdiyya
Author: Fallou Ngom: Year: 2016.
Reviewed by: Ariela Marcus-Sells, Elon University, NC, USA.
#5 Book: Defying Dictatorship: Essays on Gambian Politics, 2012 – 2017
Author: Baba Galleli Jallow. Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Wahab O. Egbewole, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
Arabic Books
#6 Book: الخطاب السياسي عند شباب الربيع العربي دراسة انثروبولوجية ميدانية لشباب مصر وتونس
المؤلفة: رشا سعيد صبحي أبوشقره. سنة النشر: 2018
Reviewed by: Khalil Mannon, Arab and African Research Center, Cairo, Egypt.
Films
#7 Film: Children of the Mountain.
Priscilla Anany (Dir/ Writer), Ghana. Language: Twi. Year: 2016. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Reviewed by: Samba Camara, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
#8 Film: Black Panther.
Ryan Coogler (Dir./Writer), Kevin Feige (Producer) and John Robert Cole (Writer). Language: English. Year: 2018. 134 mn.
Reviewed by: Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University, NC, USA.
Review Team
Editor-In-Chief & Associate Editors
• Muhammed Haron, Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Botswana, Executive Member, Centre for Contemporary Islam, University of Cape Town, & Associate Research in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria (haronm@mopipi.ub.bw). (Editor-In-Chief);
• Wendy Wilson-Fall, Associate Professor and Chair, Africana Studies Program Oeschle Center for International Education, Lafayette College (wilsonfw@lafayette.edu);
• Hassan Juma Ndzovu, PhD. Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Moi University, Kenya (hassan.ndzovu@gmail.com);
• Yunus Dumbe, PhD. Religious Studies Department, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana, (ydumbe@gmail.com);
• Badr Abdelfattah Badr, PhD. Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (badr_elkafy@edu.asu.edu.eg);
• Bamba Drame, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniya Institute, Rabat Morocco, (ndrame.online@gmail.com);
• Mbaye Lo, Associate Professor of the Practice, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke
University; (mbayelo@duke.edu).
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