Volume 2, Issue 2– August, 2018
Volume 2 (2018), Issue 2 # 1-12
These reviews may be found on the Research Africa Reviews website
RA Reviews’ Editorial Voice: Africa’s Timbuktu’s Manuscripts – A Reminder about its Indispensable Depositories
Muhammed Haron (Editor-in-Chief), University of Botswana.
#1 Review: Postcolonial Education and Language in Africa
A Literature Review by: H. Ekkehard Wolff, Chair Emeritus, African linguistics, Leipzig University
#2 Review: Arabic Manuscript: The Hidden Treasure of Ilorin – Nigeria
A Literature Review by: Moshood Mahmood Jimba, Kwara State University, Ilorin, Nigeria.
#3 Book: The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development.
Author: Oloruntoba, Samuel Ojo, Falola, Toyin (Eds), 2017
Reviewed by: Driss Bouyahya, Meknes Moulay Ismail University
Meknès, Morocco.
#4 Book: Africa at the Crossroads: Theorising Fundamentalism in the 21st Century
Author: Artwell Nhemachena and Munyaradzi Mawere (editors). Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Hassan Ndzovu, Moi University, Kenya.
#5 Book: Scoring Race: Jazz, Fiction and Francophone Africa
Author: Higginson, Pim. Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Sarah Sharp, PhD, Independent Scholar
#6 Book: Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia
Author: Danny Hoffman. Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Karl E. Johnson, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
#7 Book: The National Council for Higher Education and the Growth of the University Sub-sector in Uganda, 2002 to 2012.
Author: Kasozi, A.B.K. Year: 2016.
Reviewed by: Joseph Kasule, MISR, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
#8 Book: BARRACOON: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Author: Zora Neal Hurston. Year: 2018.
Reviewed by: Wendy Wilson-Fall, Africana Studies Program, Lafayette College.
#9 Book: Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication: A South African Perspective.
Author: Russell H. Kaschula, Pamela Maseko and H. Ekkehard Wolff (eds). Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University, NC.
#10 Book: Hadija’s Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields
Author: Harmony O’Rourke. Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Fulera Issaka-Toure, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Arabic Books
#11 Book: كتاب إرواء النديم
المؤلف: أحمد بمب. سنة النشر: ٢٠١٨
Reviewed by: Bamba Drame, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniya Institute, Rabat Morocco.
#12 Film: Mali Blues.
Lutz Gregor (Dir/ Writer), Mali and Germany. Languages: French & English Subtitles. Year: 2016. 90 minutes.
Reviewed by: Madina Thiam, University of California, Los Angeles.
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 & International Comparative Studies, Duke
University; (mbayelo@duke.edu).
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