ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: South African Law; COVID-19 in Africa; Ilorin Emirate; Malcolm X and Sudan.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Africa and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Beyond Imposing Lockdowns and Unsettling Communities
Written by: Muhammed Haron (Editor-in-Chief), University of Botswana.
BOOK REVIEWS
Moshood Mahmood Jimba (Ed.). 2019. Arabic Manuscripts in the Ilorin Emirate
Reviewed by: Amidu Sanni, Vice-Chancellor/President, Fountain University, Osogbo, Nigeria.
Dalia Ziada. 2019. The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf: Egypt’s Military, Islamism, and Liberal Democracy
Reviewed by: Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University, NC, USA.
Nahida Esmail. 2019. Karafu: A Freed Slave
Reviewed by: Joseph B.R. Gaie, University of Botswana.
Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri, Ngonidzashe Marongwe, Munyaradzi Mawere (Eds.). 2019. Mugabeism After Mugabe? Rethinking Legacies and the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe’s ‘Second Republic’
Reviewed by: Hamdy A. Hassan, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Innocent Butare. 2019. Une jeune femme sur un bateau ivre: Agathe Uwilingiyimana du Rwanda
Reviewed by: Lisa Damon, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda.
Kamari Maxine Clarke. 2019. Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback
Reviewed by: Elham Kazemi, University of California, Irvine, USA.
Najma Moosa, Suleman Dangor (Eds.). 2019. Muslim Personal Law in South Africa: Evolution and Future Status
Reviewed by: Muhammed Haron, University of Botswana and University of Stellenbosch.
Dale Peterson. 2018. The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
Reviewed by: Saibu Mutaru, formerly a Lisa Maskell Fellow at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Gwyneth H. McClendon, Rachel Beatty Riedl. 2019. From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa
Reviewed by: Serah Shani, Assistant Professor, Westmont College.
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Aidi, Hisham, director. Malcolm X and the Sudanese. 2020.
Reviewed by: Youssef J. Carter, Harvard University.
FRENCH REVIEW REPORTS
Cheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah. 2019. Fondements de la pensée extrémiste
Reviewed by: Alioune Bah, Rattaché au Centre de Recherche en Philosophie Allemande et Contemporaine, Université de Strasbourg.
ARABIC BOOK REVIEWS
الحراك الثوري العربي: معطيات التغيير وملامح التمايز
د. أماني الطويل
Reviewed by: Amani El Taweel, Associate Director, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 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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