{"title":"Yusuf M. Juwayeyi. Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa. Suffolk: James Currey, 2020. vii + 242 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. $37.95 Paper. ISBN: 978-1847013507.","authors":"P. Banda","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.30","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"839 - 841"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43643741","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":"Niels Kastfelt. Religion and Politics in Nigeria: A Study in Middle Belt Christianity. London: British Academic Press, 1994. xii + 204 pp. $59.50. Cloth. ISBN: 1850437882.","authors":"K. Lamak","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.32","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"850 - 852"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57018729","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":"Michael W. Thomas. Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 261 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $103.50. Hardback. ISBN: 9781350227408.","authors":"Samson Kaunga Ndanyi","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.25","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":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135983374","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}
In my March 2023 editorial (https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.14), I acknowledged some of the lingering problems in the field of African Studies, notably the challenges facing the study of Africa in the western hemisphere. Indeed, the mention of African Studies quickly recalls these challenges in many circles. But as gloomy as the discussions can be, amazing work is happening all around that indicates significant progress. Recognizing these developments does not imply perfection. The work of field recalibration remains incomplete, and the epistemological goal must always be to take Africans seriously as knowledge producers, as research subjects deserving ethical treatment, and as complex human beings inhabiting complex societies. Yet it is important to account for the bright spots, appreciating the progress being made in addition to the work that remains undone. In this editorial, my second as Editor-in-Chief of ASR, I highlight some of these bright spots. I will begin with the Lagos Studies Association (LSA), the brainchild of three Nigerian historians in the United States—Saheed Aderinto (Florida International University), Abosede George (Barnard College), and Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (University of California, Riverside)—which has witnessed tremendous growth since its first meeting in 2016. On the approach of its 2023 conference, the association reports that at least 700 scholars and practitioners from across the world (based in 163 international and 95 Nigerian institutions) will participate in the 130 panels of LSA 2023. The LSA offers a terrific model of undertaking African studies, harnessing intellectual energy from across the world without deprivileging Nigerian-based scholars, including several emerging scholars who have credited the association with aiding their professional development. A collaboration between the LSA’s leadership and the University of Lagos (which hosts the conference every June), the LSA conference attracts senior scholars and rising scholars in different fields, from across Europe, North America, Asia, and beyond; yet its leadership has prioritizedmaking space for younger scholars to present their
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Abstract While youths in Africa are often portrayed as peace spoilers, this view largely overlooks youths who have not (yet) turned to (post-) conflict violence. In order to deepen our understanding of the risks of conflict recurrence and the ways to prevent these risks from materializing, Kuppens and Langer argue that it is crucial to study the perspectives of non-violent youths in post-conflict countries. Through an essay-based study with secondary school pupils in post-conflict Côte d’Ivoire, they show that youths are concerned about issues of security, employment, and reconciliation, and yet, they look generally favorably upon the peace process and their role in it.
{"title":"“The Country Is on One Leg”: An Analysis of Secondary Educated Youths’ Perceptions of the Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities of the Peacebuilding Process in Côte d’Ivoire","authors":"L. Kuppens, A. Langer","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While youths in Africa are often portrayed as peace spoilers, this view largely overlooks youths who have not (yet) turned to (post-) conflict violence. In order to deepen our understanding of the risks of conflict recurrence and the ways to prevent these risks from materializing, Kuppens and Langer argue that it is crucial to study the perspectives of non-violent youths in post-conflict countries. Through an essay-based study with secondary school pupils in post-conflict Côte d’Ivoire, they show that youths are concerned about issues of security, employment, and reconciliation, and yet, they look generally favorably upon the peace process and their role in it.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"745 - 776"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41504981","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 In South-Central Africa, British mining companies shadowed colonial monetization in an assertive and coercive manner. In the emerging settler states, African money users were obliged to adjust to colonial money for the payment of tax and transactions. Yet they often found it difficult to obtain access to colonial currency. Company rule in the region was initially closely connected to the South African economy, but currencies separated as a result of South Africa’s economy building in the 1920s. Nyamunda and Mseba tell the story of the struggles of African money users in engaging with colonial currency.
{"title":"Money in South-Central Africa, 1890–1931: Africans, Imperial Sterling, and Colonial Economy-Building","authors":"Tinashe Nyamunda, Admire Mseba","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.16","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In South-Central Africa, British mining companies shadowed colonial monetization in an assertive and coercive manner. In the emerging settler states, African money users were obliged to adjust to colonial money for the payment of tax and transactions. Yet they often found it difficult to obtain access to colonial currency. Company rule in the region was initially closely connected to the South African economy, but currencies separated as a result of South Africa’s economy building in the 1920s. Nyamunda and Mseba tell the story of the struggles of African money users in engaging with colonial currency.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"618 - 636"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42432046","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}
How, in the absence of colonial subjugation, can a people still remain dependent and unfree? In seeking to answer this question—or similarly themed questions—scholars in Africa and beyond have developed a vast literature of counter-hegemonic discourse, demonstrating their belief that the coercive power of colonialism stretches far beyond its official end date in erstwhile colonies. But while the persistence of hegemonic structures is scarcely debatable in the post-colonial period, there remains the question of whether counter-hegemonic discourse—in and of itself— moves the erstwhile colonies toward actualization of their freedom in any meaningful way. For a significantmajority of scholars writing in and aboutAfrica today, the case for counter-hegemonic discourse is aptly expressed through the concept of decolonization, which literallymeans tonegate colonization. Its emergence as a trope of scholarly discourse in the post-independence era coincided with the popularity of “post” theories in the humanities—such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, or postdevelopmentalism—and draws implicitly on their influence. What this means for knowledge production in and about Africa is, however, a matter of ongoing dispute. One of the dissenting voices to this scholarly trend is the prominent philosopherOlúfe ̣ ́miTáíwò, whose bookAgainst Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously takes aim at contemporary African decolonization discourse for denigrating African agency. Táíwò is the author of How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (2010), Africa Must Be Modern (2011), and several other critical essays that challenge basic presuppositions of contemporary African scholarship. Táíwò maintains, consistent with his position in “Rethinking the Decolonization Trope in Philosophy,” that contemporary African decolonization discourse has lost its way. However, he further clarifies his position by introducing an important distinction between decolonization1 (as the struggle for national independence) and decolonization2 (as the contemporary
{"title":"Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò. Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. London: C. Hurst & Company, 2022. 368 pp. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781787386921.","authors":"A. Emmanuel","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.23","url":null,"abstract":"How, in the absence of colonial subjugation, can a people still remain dependent and unfree? In seeking to answer this question—or similarly themed questions—scholars in Africa and beyond have developed a vast literature of counter-hegemonic discourse, demonstrating their belief that the coercive power of colonialism stretches far beyond its official end date in erstwhile colonies. But while the persistence of hegemonic structures is scarcely debatable in the post-colonial period, there remains the question of whether counter-hegemonic discourse—in and of itself— moves the erstwhile colonies toward actualization of their freedom in any meaningful way. For a significantmajority of scholars writing in and aboutAfrica today, the case for counter-hegemonic discourse is aptly expressed through the concept of decolonization, which literallymeans tonegate colonization. Its emergence as a trope of scholarly discourse in the post-independence era coincided with the popularity of “post” theories in the humanities—such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, or postdevelopmentalism—and draws implicitly on their influence. What this means for knowledge production in and about Africa is, however, a matter of ongoing dispute. One of the dissenting voices to this scholarly trend is the prominent philosopherOlúfe ̣ ́miTáíwò, whose bookAgainst Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously takes aim at contemporary African decolonization discourse for denigrating African agency. Táíwò is the author of How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (2010), Africa Must Be Modern (2011), and several other critical essays that challenge basic presuppositions of contemporary African scholarship. Táíwò maintains, consistent with his position in “Rethinking the Decolonization Trope in Philosophy,” that contemporary African decolonization discourse has lost its way. However, he further clarifies his position by introducing an important distinction between decolonization1 (as the struggle for national independence) and decolonization2 (as the contemporary","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"544 - 546"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41516793","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}
Frantz Fanon’s essay “This is the Voice of Algeria” is a still-underused text in the study of radio. The book it comes from, A Dying Colonialism, is often regarded as one of Fanon’s weaker works, since its sociological studies of the Algerian revolution are considered to lack the rhetorical mastership and philosophical heft seen in his more famous books. At least in the case of his essay on radio, however, this perception is misguided, as recent literature on the history of radio in Africa shows.
{"title":"Radio in Africa","authors":"R. Heinze","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"Frantz Fanon’s essay “This is the Voice of Algeria” is a still-underused text in the study of radio. The book it comes from, A Dying Colonialism, is often regarded as one of Fanon’s weaker works, since its sociological studies of the Algerian revolution are considered to lack the rhetorical mastership and philosophical heft seen in his more famous books. At least in the case of his essay on radio, however, this perception is misguided, as recent literature on the history of radio in Africa shows.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"531 - 543"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41611461","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":"Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh” – ERRATUM","authors":"Zoë Elizabeth Berman","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.24","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":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135613514","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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