ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery; Zimbabwean History; deracialization in South Africa; Postcolonialism in Africa; Gender and Sufism in Senegal.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Africa’s Afflictions: AU’s Initiatives and Responses
Written by: Muhammed Haron, Associate Researcher: University of Stellenbosch.
BOOK REVIEWS
Jeffrey Einboden. 2020. Jefferson’s Muslim Fugitives. The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President
Reviewed by: Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Vice-Chancellor/President, Fountain University, Nigeria.
Shadreck Chirikure. 2020. Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a ‘Confiscated’ Past
Reviewed by: Alinah K. Segobye, Extraordinary Professor, North West University, South Africa.
Ismail Vadi. 2021. Thambi Naidoo and Family: Struggle for a non-racial democracy in South Africa
Reviewed by: Goolam Vahed, Department of History, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Amy Niang. 2018. Postcolonial African State in Transition
Reviewed by: Alhagi Manta Drammeh, Associate Professor at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, Visiting Professor at the University of The Gambia, and Researcher at South Wales University, United Kingdom.
Cheikh Anta Babou. 2021. The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making
Reviewed by: Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University, North Carolina, USA.
Joseph Hill. 2018. Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal
Reviewed by: Samba Camara, PhD, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Higgins, Igshaan, curator. The Cape Muslim Heritage Art Exhibition. December 2020 - September 2021.
Reviewed by: Muhammed Haron, Associate Researcher, University of Stellenbosch.
REVIEW TEAM
Editor-In-Chief
Muhammed Haron, Associate Researcher, 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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