Volume 3, Issue 1– April, 2019
Volume 3 (2019), Issue 1 # 1-12
These reviews may be found on the Research Africa Reviews website
RA Reviews’ Editorial Voice: Africa Review: Thoughts about Intellectual Production
By Wendy Wilson-Fall, Chair, Africana Studies Program Oeschle Center for International Education, Lafayette College & RAR Associate Editor.
#1 Obituary: Rex Seán O’Fahey (1943-2019)
By Rüdiger Seesemann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
#2 Book: Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal.
Author: Rosalind Fredericks. Year: 2018.
Reviewed by: Addamms Songe Mututa, University of Tübingen, Germany and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
#3 Book: In Search of the Tuareg: the Veiled People of the Sahara.
Author: Gerbert van der Aa, 2018.
Reviewed by: Wendy Wilson-Fall, Lafayette College.
#4 Book: Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba: A Peacemaker for Our Time.
Author: Michelle R. Kimball. Year: 2018.
Reviewed by: Youssef J. Carter, Harvard University.
#5 Book: Dignity of Labour for African Leaders: The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and the Achimota School on the Gold Coast.
Author: Shoko Yamada. Year: 2018.
Reviewed by: Yunus Dumbe, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
#6 Book: Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards.
Author: Robert G Launay. Year: 2016.
Reviewed by: Muhammed Haron, University of Botswana.
#7 Book: War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Author: Marie, E. Berry. Year: 2018.
Reviewed by: Driss Bouyahya, Meknes Moulay Ismail University, Meknès, Morocco.
#8 Book: Genre et fondamentalismes/ Gender and Fundamentalisms.
Author: Fatou Sow (editor). Year: 2018.
Reviewed by: Annelien Bouland, Leiden University and Fulera Issaka-Toure, University of Bayreuth.
#9 Book: The Education of Children Entangled in Khat Trade in Ethiopia: The Case of Two Khat Market Centers.
Author: Negash, Girma. Year: 2017.
Reviewed by: Tilahun Sineshaw, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
French Books
#10 Book: Le Cheikh des deux rives : Actes du colloque international. Centenaire Cheikhna Saad Bouh.
Author: Ibrahima Thioub (editor), 2017.
Reviewed by: Bernard Salvaing, Université de Nantes, France.
Arabic Books
#11 Book:
الشيخ موسى كمر، الْفَصْلُ التَّاسِعُ مِنْ “أَكْثَرِ الرَّاغِبِينَ”: فِي مَحَبَّةِ رُؤَسَاءِ فَرَانْسَ لِـي، تحقيق: أحـمد الشكري وخديم امباكي، تقديم: أحـمد الشكري، معهد الدراسات الإفريقية، جامعة محمد
الخامس بالرباط، سلسلة نصوص ووثائق (13) ، 2016م، 66 ص.
Reviewed by: Ousmane S. Diaw, Independent Researcher, Senegal & Egypt.
#12 Book:
حلمي شعراوي: سيرة مصرية أفريقية. المؤلف: حلمي شعراوي، عدد الصفحات: 605، القاهرة: دار العين ٢٠١٩
Reviewed by: Amani El Taweel, Associate Director, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo.
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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