ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: Islamic Fundamentalism; Postcolonial Africa; Liberian Politics; Uganda Universities; South Africa Multiculturalism.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Africa’s Timbuktu’s Manuscripts – A Reminder about its Indispensable Depositories
Written by: Muhammed Haron (Editor-in-Chief), University of Botswana.
LITERATURE REVIEWS
Postcolonial Education and Language in Africa
Written by: H. Ekkehard Wolff, Chair Emeritus, African linguistics, Leipzig University.
Arabic Manuscript: The Hidden Treasure of Ilorin – Nigeria
Written by: Moshood Mahmood Jimba, Kwara State University, Ilorin, Nigeria.
BOOK REVIEWS
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Toyin Falola (Eds). 2017. The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development
Reviewed by: Driss Bouyahya, Meknes Moulay Ismail University, Meknès, Morocco.
Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere (Eds). 2017. Africa at the Crossroads: Theorising Fundamentalism in the 21st Century
Reviewed by: Hassan Ndzovu, Moi University, Kenya.
Pim Higginson. 2017. Scoring Race: Jazz, Fiction and Francophone Africa
Reviewed by: Sarah Sharp, PhD, Independent Scholar.
Danny Hoffman. 2017. Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia
Reviewed by: Karl E. Johnson, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
A.B.K. Kasozi. 2016. The National Council for Higher Education and the Growth of the University Sub-sector in Uganda, 2002 to 2012
Reviewed by: Joseph Kasule, MISR, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Zora Neale Hurston. 2018. Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Reviewed by: Wendy Wilson-Fall, Africana Studies Program, Lafayette College.
Russell H. Kaschula, Pamela Maseko, H. Ekkehard Wolff (Eds). 2017. Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication: A South African Perspective
Reviewed by: Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University, NC.
Harmony O’Rourke. 2017. Hadija’s Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields
Reviewed by: Fulera Issaka-Toure, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
ARABIC BOOK REVIEWS
كتاب إرواء النديم .2018. المؤلف: أحمد بمب. سنة النشر
Reviewed by: Bamba Drame, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniya Institute, Rabat Morocco.
FILMS
Gregor, Lutz, director and writer. Mali Blues. Mali and Germany, 2016.
Reviewed by: Madina Thiam, University of California, Los Angeles.
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, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies & International Comparative Studies, Duke University (mbayelo@duke.edu).
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