{"title":"Leigh A. Gardner. Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980 (Cambridge Studies in Economic History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xxii + 340 pp. Figures. Maps. Tables. Appendices. Notes. Index. $99.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-009-18110-5.","authors":"Sarah Pollnow","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.57","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":"43820709","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":"Peter J. Hoesing. Kusamira Music in Uganda: Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. xviii + 201 pp. List of Illustrations. Notes on Languages and Orthography. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0252085819.","authors":"David Pier","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.58","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":"47762040","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":"Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia. New York: The New Press, 2021. xii + 312 pp. Notes. Index. $18.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1620977965.","authors":"Henryatta L. Ballah","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42681296","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":"Caroline Davis. African Literature and the CIA: Networks of Authorship and Publishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 110 pages. Bibliography. $17.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-1108725545.","authors":"Denis Waswa","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.54","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46665364","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":"Money <i>for</i> Africa and Money <i>in</i> Africa: Colonial Currencies and the Making of Economies and States, 1860s–1960s","authors":"Gerold Krozewski, Tinashe Nyamunda","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.26","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":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994857","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":"Knowledge Creation for Africa’s Development Contexts","authors":"Roseline Wanjiru, Cajetan Iheka","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.60","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":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994856","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":"Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino, dir. Makongo. 2020. 72 min. Aka, Sango, French, with English Subtitles. Central African Republic, Italy, and Argentina. Makongo Films. No Price Reported.","authors":"Claire Fouchereaux","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.56","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"864 - 865"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42330322","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":"Leonardo R. Arriola, Martha C. Johnson, and Melanie L. Phillips, eds. Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning and Governing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 277 pp. $85.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-19-289807-4.","authors":"A. Gouws","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.41","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"823 - 825"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44378372","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}
Throughout Ghana’s political history, soldiers have inspired socio-political change. Based on fieldwork with the Ghanaian military, this article contributes to literature on militaries and civil-military relations in Africa. Agyekum analyzes how the politicization of the military impacts dynamics within the barracks, while highlighting how the country’s political class endeavors to diminish the armed forces’ societal and political influence as a way to gain control over the institution through patronage exchanges. Since the early 2000s, the elite’s strategy entices individual soldiers as well as the whole institution through the politicization of promotions and appointments, recruitment, better service conditions, and infrastructural projects in the barracks.
{"title":"“We Are not into Politics, but Politics Is into Us”: The Politicization of the Ghana Armed Forces Through Patronage Exchanges between Political Elites and Military Leaders","authors":"H. Agyekum","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.28","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Throughout Ghana’s political history, soldiers have inspired socio-political change. Based on fieldwork with the Ghanaian military, this article contributes to literature on militaries and civil-military relations in Africa. Agyekum analyzes how the politicization of the military impacts dynamics within the barracks, while highlighting how the country’s political class endeavors to diminish the armed forces’ societal and political influence as a way to gain control over the institution through patronage exchanges. Since the early 2000s, the elite’s strategy entices individual soldiers as well as the whole institution through the politicization of promotions and appointments, recruitment, better service conditions, and infrastructural projects in the barracks.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42736240","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}