Volume 5, Issue 1– April, 2021
Volume 5 (2021), Issue 1 # 1-5
These reviews may be found on the RA Reviews website at:
RA Reviews’ Editorial Voice:
The Opportunity Cost of Black Activism
By Mbaye Lo, Associate Professor of the Practice, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies & International Comparative Studies, Duke University.
#1 A Tribute to Professor Niane: “In Memory of Djibril Tamsir Niane: A Visionary for This World—and Worlds Yet to Come.”
Reviewed by: Joseph Hellweg, Past President, Mande Studies Association &
Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology, Florida State University.
#2 Literature Review: Slavery, Theology, and Anti-Blackness in the Arab World.
Reviewed by: Moses E. Ochonu, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in History, Professor of African History, Vanderbilt University.
#3 Book: The Murder of Ahmed Timol: My Search for the Truth.
Author: Imitiaz A. Cajee. Year: 2020.
Reviewed by: Tiro Sebina, Department of English, University of Botswana.
#4 Book: In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Senegal.
Author: Catherine Appert. Year: 2019.
Reviewed by: Bamba Ndiaye, University of Louisville
#5 Book: The Individual in African History: The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies.
Author: Klaas van Walraven (editor). Year: 2020.
Reviewed by: Driss Bouyahya, Associate Professor Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco.
Review Team
Editor-In-Chief & Associate Editors:
• Muhammed Haron, Associate Researcher, University of Stellenbosch (haronm@ub.ac.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 Hassaniyya 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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