ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights:Desmond Tutu; Sports in Africa; Black Mothers; Turkey & Egypt in the Cold War; Chad and America Cultural Exchange; Northern Nigeria Talisman.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Calling Back the Past, Casting Sights on the Future
Written by: The Editorial Team.
OBITUARIES
Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu’s Black Prophetic Fire for Justice
Written by: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021): Prophetic Witness for Social Justice
Written by: A. Rashied Omar, the University of Notre Dame.
OBITUARY REVIEWS
Reviewing Tutu: A Man of the Cloth, A Man of Integrity
Reviewed by: Muhammed Haron, Associate Researcher at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
BOOK REVIEWS
Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, Gerard Akindes (Eds.). 2020. Sports in Africa, Past and Present
Reviewed by: Mark W. Deets, Department of History, The American University in Cairo.
Jennifer C. Nash. 2021. Birthing Black Mothers
Reviewed by: Oyinade Adekunle, McMaster University.
Reem El-Fadl. 2018. Foreign Policy as Nation Making: Turkey & Egypt in the Cold War
Reviewed by: Driss Bouyahya, Associate Professor, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco.
Nelkem Jeannette Londadjim. 2020. Chadian Sister Engages Kansas City Youth about Peace and Justice
Reviewed by: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine.
Aaron G. Jake. 2020. Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
Reviewed by: Addis Gedefaw Birhanu, Emlyon Business School, France.
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Brigaglia, Andrea, curator. Talismanic writing practices from Northern Nigeria. Naples (Italy). University of Naples, Naples, Italy, 7 May - 21 July 2021.
Reviewed by: Barbara Fiore, Lecturer of Anthropology, University of Naples, Italy.
REVIEW TEAM
Editor-In-Chief
Muhammed Haron, Associate Researcher, University of Stellenbosch (haronm@hotmail.com).
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, Associate professor, 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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