ISSN 2575-6990
Highlights: Keywords: Sudanese Civil War; South African Universities; Gold in West Africa; The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali; The CIA in Africa; Post-Apartheid South Africa; Tourism in Ethiopia; NGOs in Malawi.
EDITORIAL VOICE
Opinions on Sudan
Sudan’s Unending Predicament: Background to the Outbreak of a New War
Written by: Bakheit Mohammed Nur, PhD, Research Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Why Sudan’s Fourth Democratic Transition Is Doomed to Failure?
Written by: Gamal Gasim, Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle East Studies, Grand Valley State University.
We, the Intellectuals, and another war in Sudan
Written by: Angela Kahil, Professor of History and International Relations USEK, Lebanon and INALCO, Paris.
OBITUARIES
The Legacy of Helmi Sharawy: African Intellectual and Freedom Fighter
Written by: Hamdy A. Hassan, professor, Zayed and Cairo Universities.
Helmi Sharawy (1935-2023)
Written by: Reem Abou-El-Fadl, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East, SOAS University of London.
BOOK REVIEWS
Jonathan D. Jansen. 2023. Corrupted: A study of chronic Ddysfunction in South African Universities
Reviewed by: Alinah K. Segobye, Gaborone, Botswana.
Jonathan D. Jansen. 2023. Corrupted: A study of chronic dysfunction in South African Universities
Reviewed by: Addamms Mututa, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Robyn d’Avignon. 2022. A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savannah West Africa
Reviewed by: Ralph A. Austen, University of Chicago.
Robyn d’Avignon. 2022. A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savannah West Africa
Reviewed by: Bruce Whitehouse, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lehigh University.
Alessandro Iandolo. 2022. Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
Reviewed by: Donald Peter Chimanikire, Senior Lecturer, Department of Governance and Public Management, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.
Susan Williams. 2021. White Malice: the CIA and the Neo-Colonisation of Africa
Reviewed by: Judy Seidman, a cultural worker, visual artist, and independent scholar.
Iain Walker, Marie-Aude Fouere (Eds.). 2022. Across the Waves: Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies
Reviewed by: Nathaniel Mathews, Department of Africana Studies, SUNY-Binghamton.
Rafael Verbuyst. 2022. Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Reviewed by: Connie Rapoo, University of Botswana.
Rhiannon Stephens. 2022. Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History
Reviewed by: Avenel Rolfsen, Indiana University-Bloomington.
Gregory Houston, Modimowabarwa Kanyane, Yul Derek Davids (Eds.). 2022. Paradise Lost: Race and Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Reviewed by: Kathryn Mathers, Duke University.
Mohammed Jemal Ahmed, Atilla Akbaba. 2023. Potentials, Challenges and Prospects of halal Tourism Development in Ethiopia
Reviewed by: Abdifatah Shafat, Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia.
Thomas McNamara. 2022. A Village and Its NGOs: Co-constructing NGO Presence in Rural Malawi
Reviewed by: Jamaine Abidogun, Missouri State University, USA.
REVIEW TEAM
Editor-In-Chief
Muhammed Haron, Former Professor of Religious Studies: University of Botswana & Associate Researcher: Stellenbosch University, South Africa. (haronm@mopipi.ub.bw) & (haronm@hotmail.com).
Associate Editors
Wendy Wilson-Fall, Professor and Chair, Africana Studies Program Oeschle Center for International Education, Lafayette College (wilsonfw@lafayette.edu) & (haronm@hotmail.com).
Hassan Juma Ndzovu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Moi University, Kenya (hassan.ndzovu@gmail.com).
Bamba Drame, PhD, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniya Institute, Rabat Morocco, (ndrame.online@gmail.com).
Alinah Segobye, Professor, Northwest University, South Africa & Botswana, (alinah.segobye@gmail.com).
Ifeyinwa Okolo, Associate Professor, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria, (sweeteve222@gmail.com).
Hamdy Hassan, Professor , Cairo University, Egypt & Zayd University, UAE (hamdy.hassan@zu.ac.ae).
Mbaye Lo, Associate Professor of the Practice, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies & International Comparative Studies, Duke University (mbayelo@duke.edu).
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