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
Afropessimism and Afropolitanism Revisited
Written by: Wendy Wilson-Fall, RAR Associate Editor, Associate Professor and Chair, Africana Studies Program Oeschle Center for International Education Lafayette College.
LITERATURE REVIEWS
COVID-19 and Africa
Written by: Carl Mhina, MPH/ MD, Duke University Department of Population Health Sciences and John Bartlett, MD, Duke Medicine and Global Health Institute & Co-Director, The Center for AIDS Research.
BOOK REVIEWS
Deborah Posel, Ilana Van Wyk (Eds.). 2019. Conspicuous Consumption in Africa
Reviewed by: Alinah K. Segobye, Dean of Faculty of Human Sciences, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia.
Motsamai Molefe. 2020. African Personhood and Applied Ethics
Reviewed by: Joseph Balatedi Radinkudikae Gaie, Associate Professor, University of Botswana, Botswana.
M’hamed Oualdi. 2020. A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa
Reviewed by: Martin A. Klein, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada.
Agnes Ofosu Vandyck, Molly Nyagura, Rosemary Brooks (Eds.). 2019. African Visionaries
Reviewed by: Yunus Dumbe, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
Paul Mugerwa. 2020. The Integrated East African Financial System: Is it Feasible? The Policy Version
Reviewed by: Bourouayah Mohamed, Former Vice-Rector of Emir Abdelkader University, Constantine, Algeria.
M. Jalāl Hāshim. 2019.To Be or Not to Be – Sudan at Crossroads: A Pan-African Perspective
Reviewed by: Mahmoud Abdelrahaman Elsheikh, Professor of Modern African History, International University of Africa, Khartoum, Sudan.
FILMS
Mora-Kpai, Idrissou, director. America Street. USA, 2019, 74 min, English.
The Syncopation of Idrissou Mora-Kpaia’s America Street
Reviewed by: R.A. Judy, Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
ARABIC BOOK REVIEWS
Amani El Taweel (Editor) .2020. عرض كتاب :مصر وإفريقيا: قضايا وتفاعلات
Reviewed by: Basma Sa’d, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Egypt.
FRENCH RESEARCH REPORTS
Atlas et archives de la vallée du Fleuve Sénégal (Sénégal/ Mauritanie)
Written by: Jean Schmitz et Cédric Jourde, Institut des mondes africains – IMAF | EHESS, France.
REVIEW TEAM
Editor-In-Chief
Muhammed Haron, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Botswana/University of Stellenbosch (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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