ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: Arab-Islamic Slavery; Anti-Blackness in the Arab-Muslim World; George Floyd; Black Lives Matter; Senegalese Education; Human Trafficking; Ghanaian Boxing.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Debating Anti-Blackness in the Arab-Muslim World: The Case of Arab-Islamic Slavery
Written by: Hassan J. Ndzovu, Research Africa Reviews Associate Editor, Moi University, Kenya.
LITERATURE REVIEWS
Arab-Islamic slavery’: a problematic term for a complex reality
Written by: Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton University.
50 Years of Research on Islam and West African History
Written by: David Robinson, Michigan State University.
George Floyd Postmortem Protest as a Popular Attack against a Metanarrative of “Dominating”
Written by: Samba Camara, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Black Lives Matter Then and Now
Written by: Joseph E. Holloway, CEO of New World African Press / Independent Scholar on West Africa.
The Place and Role of Local Communities and Traditional Values in Formal Education in Senegal
Written by: Maguette Diame, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
BOOK REVIEWS
Michael A. Gomez. 2018. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
Reviewed by: Susana Molins Lliteras, Historical Studies Department / Tombouctou Manuscripts Project, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Mirjam Van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Mia Stokmans, Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher (Eds.). 2019. Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide
Reviewed by: Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Richard Anderson, Henry Lovejoy (Eds.). 2020. Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807 – 1896
Reviewed by: Assan Sarr, Ohio University.
De-Valera NYM Botchway. 2019. Boxing is no Cakewalk!: Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing
Reviewed by: Karl E. Johnson, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Mohamed Bakari. 2019. The Sage of Moroni: The Intellectual Biography of Sayyid Omar Abdallah, a forgotten Muslim Public Intellectual
Reviewed by: Hassan Juma Ndzovu, Moi University, Kenya.
Okaka Opio Dokotum. 2020. Hollywood and Africa. Recycling the “Dark Continent” Myth, 1908-2020
Reviewed by: Felix Mutunga Ndaka, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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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