ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: Local Linguistics; West African Car Culture; South African Spaza Sector; East African Counterterrorism; China in Africa; Algerian Islamists; Sudanese Popular Movement.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Research Africa Reviews: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Written by: Muḥammed Haron and Mbaye Lo.
LITERATURE REVIEWS
HIV Treatment and Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Progress Report
Written by:
John A. Bartlett, MD, Professor of Medicine, Global Health and Nursing
Duke University Medical Center; Professor of Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Tanzania.
Charles Muiruri, PhD, Medical Instructor; Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine; Visiting Lecturer; Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College.
Habib Omari, MD, PhD, Research Associate; University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Towards Africa’s Renaissance: Elevating the Status of Local Languages as Part of the Liberation Praxis Process in the Global Space
Written by: Ahmadou Siendou Konaté, Felix Houphouet-Boigny University Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
The Imam (is): A Danger to the (Apartheid) State: A Review Essay
Written by: Muhammed Haron, University of Botswana/University of Stellenbosch.
BOOK REVIEWS
Wazi Apoh. 2019. Revelations of Domination and Silence: Unearthing the Buried Past of the Akpini, Akan, Germans, and British at Kpando, Ghana
Reviewed by: Saibu Mutaru, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Christopher E. Bailey. 2019. Counterterrorism Law and Practice in East Africa
Reviewed by: Hassan Ndzovu, Moi University, Kenya.
Lindsey B. Green-Simms. 2017. Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa
Reviewed by: Devin Bryson, Illinois College, U.S.A.
Vanya Gastrow. 2018. Problematizing the Foreign Shop: Justifications for Restricting the Migrant Spaza Sector in South Africa
Reviewed by: Addamms Songe Mututa, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Mariama Awumbila, Delali Badasu, Joseph Teye (Eds.). 2018. Migration in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana
Reviewed by: Nada Mustafa Ali, University of Massachusetts Boston.
Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol. 2018. African Countries and the Global Scramble for China
Reviewed by: Bourouayah Mohamed, Former Vice-Rector of Emir Abdelkader University, Constantine, Algeria.
ARABIC BOOK REVIEWS
كتاب: الإسلاميون والسلطة في الجزائر: مس ارات العلاقة مع بوتفليقة. المؤلف: أبو الفضل
كامل محمود محمد، عدد الصفحات: 228، دار النشر: المركز العراقي- الأفريقي
للدراسات الاستراتيجية – بغداد-2019.
[Islamists and Political Power in Algeria]
Reviewed by: Farida Bendary, Scientific Society for African Affairs, Cairo/ Cairo University.
:كتاب: دراسة توثيقية عن الحراك الشعبي في السودان. المؤلف: خليل منون، دار النشر
2019 - 368:مركز البحوث العربية والإفريقية, القاهرة, عدد الصفحات
[Archiving the Sudanese Protest]
Reviewed by: Khalid Makkawi, Arab and African Research Center, 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 & International Comparative Studies, Duke University (mbayelo@duke.edu).
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