ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: Abolition; Islamic Manuscripts in Africa; Pan-African Music; African and American Cultural Exchange; Nigerian Universities; Community-Oriented Health.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Africa’s Academic Publishing Industry – Quo Vadis?
Written by: Muhammed Haron (Editor-in-Chief).
REVIEW ESSAYS
From Policy to Practice: University Accreditation and National Development in Nigeria.
Written by: Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi, Missouri State University.
BOOK REVIEWS
Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Ed.). 2018. Africanization and Americanization Anthology: Africa Vs North America: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates
Reviewed by: Harriet Lewis, University of Phoenix & Principal Consultant, Konesens Development.
Nic Cheeseman (Ed.). 2018. Institutions and Democracy in Africa: How the Rules of the Game Shape Political Developments
Reviewed by: Addis Gedefaw Birhanu, Emlyon Business School, France.
Tsitsi Ella Jaji. 2014. Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Reviewed by: Korka Sall, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Francis Sarr. 2018. Community-Oriented Education for Health Professionals: A Cultural Analysis Approach to Curriculum Planning
Reviewed by: Badr Abdelfattah Abdelkafy Badr, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
Christopher D. Gore. 2017. Electricity in Africa: The Politics of Transformation in Uganda
Reviewed by: Joseph Kasule, MISR, Makerere University, Kampala.
Kim Yi Dionne. 2017. Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa
Reviewed by: Bourouayah Mohamed, Former vice-rector of Emir Abdelkader University, Algeria.
Racquel J. Gates. 2018. Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture
Reviewed by: Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University, North Carolina.
Sandra E. Greene (Ed.). 2017. Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition
Reviewed by: Karl E. Johnson, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Helmi Sharawy. 2016. Al-Thaqāfah wa-l-Muthaqqafūn fī Afrīqiyah (Culture and the Cultured People in Africa)
Reviewed by: Amidu Sanni, Vice-Rector, Fountain University, Osogbo, Nigeria.
Andrea Brigaglia, Mauro Nobili (Eds.). 2017. The Arts and the Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Reviewed by: Paul E. Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair, York University.
ARABIC BOOK REVIEWS
السلوك التصويتي للدول الأفريقية في الأمم المتحدة .تجاه المسألة العراقية
المؤلف: محمد فاضل نعمة. سنة ومكان النشر: القاهرة، ٢٠١٨
Reviewed by: Farida Bendary, The Iraqi-African Center for Strategic Studies & Cairo University.
احْتِجَاجَاتٌ مُؤَسْلَمَةٌ: السِّنِغ َالُ بَيْنَ دِبْلُومَاسِيَّةِ النُّفُوذِ وَالْإِسْلَام السِّيَاسِــيِّ
المؤلف: بَكَرِي سامبْ. مَنْشُورَاتُ أَفْرِيَكَانَا، ﭬُـودْرُوسْ-دُورِيُونْ (كَنَدَا)، 2018م، 238 ص. تعريب: عثمان جاو
Reviewed by: Khadim Ndiaye/ translated by Ousmane Daiw, Senegal & Al-Azhar University, Cairo.
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, Duke University; (mbayelo@duke.edu).
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