ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: COVID-19 in Africa; Russia-Ukraine Conflict; Colonial Sudan; Timber in Congo; Propaganda in South Africa; Moroccan Theater.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Public Leadership and Civic Agency’s Role in Shaping Africa’s Response to Covid-19 And the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Written by: Mphutlane wa Bofelo, a South African poet, essayist, and political activist.
BOOK REVIEWS
Lesley Cowling, Carolyn Hamilton (Eds.). 2020. Babel Unbound: Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life
Reviewed by: Alinah K. Segobye, Extraordinary Professor, North-West University and Research Scholar at the African Futures Institute in South Africa.
Jori Lewis. 2022. Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Reviewed by: Wendy Wilson-Fall, Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, Lafayette College.
Patricia Teixeira Santos, Suresh Kumar. 2021. Faith, War, and Slavery: A History of the Colonial Conquest of Sudan (1881-1898)
Reviewed by: Aman Nadhiri, Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, Johnson C. Smith University.
John Marnell. 2021. Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration
Reviewed by: Ifeyinwa Okolo, Senior Lecturer, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria.
Martin Gershoff (Ed.). 2018. District Six: Memories, Thoughts, and Images
Reviewed by: Mogamat Kammie Kamedien, Independent Researcher & Member of the Western Cape Department of Heritage and Archives Committee.
Thomas Hendriks. 2022. Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession
Reviewed by: Bourouayah Mohamed, former Vice-Rector, Emir Abdelkader University, Algeria.
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Tshepo Moloi, Alda Romão Saúte Saíde (Eds.). 2020. Guerrilla in Southern Africa: Broadcasts, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle
Reviewed by: Donald Peter Chimanikire, a member of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe.
LITERATURE REVIEWS
Ndzovu, Hassan, and Adriaan van Klinken. SERENE (Sexuality and Religion Network in East Africa) Project Workshop, Egerton University, Kenya: 18 February 2022
Conversation at the launch of Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa.
Written by: Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando, Hurst & Co, 2021.
FRENCH BOOK REVIEWS
Bouchra Chakir. 2021. Le théâtre au Maroc: Des origines à nos jours
Reviewed by: Mouhamadou Bamba Drame, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniyya Institute, Rabat, Morocco.
ARABIC BOOK REVIEWS
صلاح هاشم. 2021. سلاطين الغلابة
Reviewed by: Abdessatar REJEB, Professor, Carthage University, Tunisia.
أ.د عبد الستار رجب-جامعة قرطاج، تونس
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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