ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: West African Historiography, Turkish Geopolitics in Africa, Islamic Change in Africa, HIV/AIDS Treatment in Africa.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Reviewing Works, Moving Ahead
Written by: Muhammed Haron (Editor-in-Chief).
BOOK REVIEWS
Achille Mbembe. 2017. Critique of Black Reason
Reviewed by: Wendy Wilson-Fall, Associate professor, Lafayette College.
Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2016. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
Reviewed by: Rüdiger Seesemann, Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Kalus Fiedler. 2016. Fake Healing Claims for HIV and AIDS in Malawi
Reviewed by: Charles Muiruri, PhD, Program Director, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University.
Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah (Editor). 2016. Obama-Mentum: An Anthology of Transformational Poetry
Reviewed by: Youssef Carter J, Visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill / Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley.
Hamdi Abdurrahman Hassan. 2015. Transformations of The Islamic Discourse in Africa: from Sufi Reform to Boko Haram (Arabic Text)
Reviewed by: Randa Mousa, an Egyptian public intellectual; translated with commentary by Badr Abdelfattah Badr, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
REVIEW ESSAYS
Viera Pawlikova-Vilhanova. 2013. The Production of History and Culture in Africa Revisited: Problems, Methods, Sources
Reviewed by: Muhammed Haron, Professor, University of Botswana & University of Pretoria.
John A. Bartlett, MD, Professor of Medicine, Duke University & Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Charles Muiruri, PhD, Duke Global Health Institute & Habib Omari, MD/PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine. 2016. The Current State of HIV Treatment and Research in Africa
REPORT REVIEWS
Erkan Toguslu. 2017. The Turbulence between AKP and Hizmet: the African Case
Reviewed by: O. Sener, Visiting Research Fellow/ Open University, London.
ARABIC BOOK REVIEWS
Hilmi Sharawi. 2015. الثقافة والمثقفون فى أفريقيا
Reviewed by: Mohamed Hagag, Institute of African Studies and Research, Cairo University.
النفحات الـمِسكية في السيرة البكية .2017. محمد بن عبيد الرحمن العلوي
Reviewed by: Bamba Drame, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniya Institute, Rabat Morocco.
JOURNAL REVIEWS
Studies Center at Khaled Al-Hassan Foundation, Rabat. 2016-17. مجلة البحثية تنهي عام ها الثالث”رحلة نحو تجديد المدركات الجماعية العربية”
Reviewed by: Said Al-Hassan, Professor, Mohammed V University, Rabat.
REPONSE TO PREVIOUS REVIEWS
El-Bosaty, Walaa Sabir. "Response to a Previous Review of أفارقة و عرب في ثورة زنجبار."
Written by: Mbaye Lo, Volume 1:1. Institute of African Studies and Research, Cairo University.
FILMS
Joshua, Daryne, director. Noem My Skollie. Written by John W. Fredericks, 2016.
Reviewed by: Armien Cassiem, Independent Cape Town Researcher.
REVIEW TEAM
Editor-In-Chief
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)
Associate Editors
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, Duke University; (mbayelo@duke.edu).
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