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{"title":"Aicha Macky, dir. Zinder. 2021. 82 et 52 min. Haoussa. France, Allemagne et Mali. Andanafilms. $7.00.","authors":"Aissata Sidikou","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.70","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136114997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
So far, the twenty-first century has been a boom time for studies of health, illness, healing, and care work in Africa, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only increased attention to these issues. Yet again, current events remind us that history, politics, social relationships, and public health are inextricably linked. These five books encompass a range of approaches to the questions and sources that animate these studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, public health, gender studies, medicine, political science, and history. Each of these authors and editors is explicit about their commitment to reaching an interdisciplinary audience and, for most of them, interdisciplinary work is core to their professional identities. Paul Farmer, Luke Messac, and Simukai Chigudu all earned medical degrees as well as doctoral degrees in medical anthropology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and international development respectively; Nolwazi Mkhwanazi and Lenore Manderson describe themselves as working “at the intersections of medical anthropology, public health and gender studies” (vii). These five books reflect the wide range of authors and audiences engaging in questions about what constitutes health, how it is achieved or undermined, and how the past has contributed to present conditions on the continent.
{"title":"Recent Approaches to the Study of Health, Healing, Illness, and Care in Africa","authors":"Julia Ross Cummiskey","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.52","url":null,"abstract":"So far, the twenty-first century has been a boom time for studies of health, illness, healing, and care work in Africa, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only increased attention to these issues. Yet again, current events remind us that history, politics, social relationships, and public health are inextricably linked. These five books encompass a range of approaches to the questions and sources that animate these studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, public health, gender studies, medicine, political science, and history. Each of these authors and editors is explicit about their commitment to reaching an interdisciplinary audience and, for most of them, interdisciplinary work is core to their professional identities. Paul Farmer, Luke Messac, and Simukai Chigudu all earned medical degrees as well as doctoral degrees in medical anthropology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and international development respectively; Nolwazi Mkhwanazi and Lenore Manderson describe themselves as working “at the intersections of medical anthropology, public health and gender studies” (vii). These five books reflect the wide range of authors and audiences engaging in questions about what constitutes health, how it is achieved or undermined, and how the past has contributed to present conditions on the continent.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135480708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué. Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 346 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780472054138.
{"title":"Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué. Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 346 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780472054138.","authors":"Mutiat Titilope Oladejo","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.61","url":null,"abstract":"Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué. Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 346 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780472054138.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135344134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moses E. Ochonu. Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and the Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 250 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-253-011602.
{"title":"Moses E. Ochonu. Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and the Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 250 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-253-011602.","authors":"Kefas Lamak","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.66","url":null,"abstract":"Moses E. Ochonu. Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and the Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 250 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-253-011602.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135344903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Okechukwu Nwafor. Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 252 pp. 42 Color photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780472054800.
{"title":"Okechukwu Nwafor. Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 252 pp. 42 Color photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780472054800.","authors":"Christopher Richards","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.64","url":null,"abstract":"Okechukwu Nwafor. Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 252 pp. 42 Color photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780472054800.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135817431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luise White. Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. xiii + 279 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478011729.
{"title":"Luise White. Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. xiii + 279 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478011729.","authors":"Trishula Patel","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.65","url":null,"abstract":"Luise White. Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. xiii + 279 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478011729.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135817661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Gregory Smith. Where Credit is Due: How Africa’s Debt can be a Benefit, not a Burden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Xii + 268 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. £25.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780197619971.","authors":"Jonas Le Thierry d Ennequin","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.62","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136263058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Kunle Afolayan, dir. Citation. Nigeria, 2020. Produced by Golden Effects. Netflix. 151 minutes. English, French, Wolof, Yoruba. No price reported.","authors":"Vinzenz Hediger","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.42","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135203024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract When COVID-19 reached Sierra Leone, the government responded by implementing strict containment measures. While the effectiveness of such actions has been debated, the socioeconomic and political implications were undeniable. This qualitative study reveals that people suffered tremendously from economic insecurity, strains on social relationships, and civil rights violations, prompting many to perceive the COVID-19 pandemic as worse than the 2014–15 Ebola epidemic. These hardships have driven distrust of the government, which threatens continuing mitigation efforts. Using a feminist global health security frame, which recenters the protection of vulnerable individuals in relation to the state, we call for more contextually-relevant, civil society-informed pandemic responses.
{"title":"“More than Disease”: Uncovering the Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Kristen E. McLean, Liza J. Malcolm","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.48","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract When COVID-19 reached Sierra Leone, the government responded by implementing strict containment measures. While the effectiveness of such actions has been debated, the socioeconomic and political implications were undeniable. This qualitative study reveals that people suffered tremendously from economic insecurity, strains on social relationships, and civil rights violations, prompting many to perceive the COVID-19 pandemic as worse than the 2014–15 Ebola epidemic. These hardships have driven distrust of the government, which threatens continuing mitigation efforts. Using a feminist global health security frame, which recenters the protection of vulnerable individuals in relation to the state, we call for more contextually-relevant, civil society-informed pandemic responses.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adriaan Van Klinken and Ezra Chitando. Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0197619995.","authors":"Lydia Boyd","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.53","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47149004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}