ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: African Renaissance; Boko Haram; South African Cultural Exchange; Women in Ugandan Universities.
EDITORIAL VOICE
LITERATURE REVIEWS
Dr. Hoosain M. Kotwal’s ‘a Legacy not to be forgotten.’
Written by: Professor Muhammed Haron, University of Botswana/ University of Stellenbosch.
Writing and Righting the African Renaissance.
Written by: Mbaye Lo, Duke University.
BOOK REVIEWS
Abdulbasit Kassim, Michael Nwankpa (Eds.). 2018. The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State
Reviewed by: Amidu Sanni, Fountain University, Osogbo, Nigeria.
Muhammed Haron. 2018. Connecting South-South Communities: The Narrative of South African-Malaysian Relations
Reviewed by: Driss Bouyahya, Meknes Moulay Ismail University, Meknès, Morocco.
Charles Piot, Kodjo Nicolas Batema. 2018. The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles
Reviewed by: Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University.
Carli Coetzee. 2019. Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
Reviewed by: Sheldon G. Weeks, Professor Emeritus, University of Botswana.
Tabitha Mulyampiti, Roberts Muriisa, Catherine Kanabahita. 2018. It is a Long Way to the Top: Increasing Women’s Leadership in Ugandan Public Universities
Reviewed by: Danson Sylvester Kahyana, Makerere University.
Jesse A. Zink. 2018. Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan: Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism
Reviewed by: John Mwangi Githigaro, St. Paul’s University, Kenya.
ARABIC BOOK REVIEWS
كتاب: رحلتي إلى الشيخ أحمد بمب طول الله عمره. المؤلف: مامور امباكي حمدي، مطبعة
المعارف الجديدة / الرباط – 2019.
Reviewed by: Bamba Drame, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniyya Institute, Rabat Morocco.
FILMS
Diop, Mati, director. Atlantique. 2019.
Reviewed by: Bouna Semou Ndiaye, Independent Producer & Host of Bonjour Africa on WNCU 90.7FM, and WRTU, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Salama, Amr, director. Sheikh Jackson. 2016.
Reviewed by: Korka Sall, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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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