Dear Colleagues,
The third volume of the Journal of Retracing Africa (JORA) is now available. To download the volume, please visit: http://encompass.eku.edu/jora/. We are currently accepting submissions for the fourth volume of the journal. I encourage you to submit your articles, book reviews, and review articles for consideration. JORA is a no-fee, peer-reviewed, open access journal, and authors enjoy wide readership. It is published by Eastern Kentucky University Libraries in collaboration with the African & African American Studies Program at EKU and the Berkeley Electronic Press. For detailed information on submitting manuscripts, please visit http://encompass.eku.edu/jora/.
If you are interested in reviewing a book for JORA, select one from the list below and send a note to the Editorial Assistant, Brenna Brown at brenna_brown104@mymail.eku.edu. Please make sure you include your mailing address.
Ogechi E. Anyanwu
Editor-in-chief.
JORA
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Journal of Retracing Africa
Volume 3, Issue 1 (Fall 2016)
Articles
"God Was With Us:" Child Labor in Colonial Kenya, 1922 - 1950s
Samson K. Ndanyi (1-20).
Prelude to the Establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1949-1955
Tokunbo A. Ayoola (21- 42).
From Inaction to Action: The World Health Organisation and Tobacco Control Policies in Nigeria Since 1970
Benjamin Uchenna Anaemene (43-58).
Book Reviews
Aderinto, Saheed. When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial
Nigeria, 1900-1958. University of Illinois Press, 2015, 264pp.
Reviewed by Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale (59-61).
Ahlers, Theodore, Hiroshi Kato, Harinder Kohli, Callisto Madavo, and Anil Sood, eds. Africa 2050:
Realizing the Continent's Full Potential. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2014, 489 pp.
Reviewed by James Lance (62-65).
Allan, Tony. Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa: Foreign Direct Investment and Food and
Water Security. New York: Routledge, 2013, 488 pp.
Reviewed by Jennifer Yvette Terrell (66-70).
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron. Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice and
Political Ecology. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2014, 214 pp.
Reviewed by Anthony Kola-Olusanya (71-73).
Candido, Mariana. An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland.
Cambridge University Press, 2013, 366 pp.
Reviewed by Anthony A. Lee (74-78).
Davie, Grace. Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015, 334 pp.
Reviewed by Sandy S. El Hage (79-81).
Elischer, Sebastian. Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 2013, 336 pp.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Bissell Miller (82-83).
French, Howard W. China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, 285 pp.
Reviewed by Richard Ehui (84-86).
Gros, Jean-Germain. Healthcare Policy in Africa: Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 283 pp.
Reviewed by Richard Ehui (87-89).
Hicks, Celeste. Africa's New Oil: Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes. London: Zed, 2015, 239 pp.
Reviewed by Brad Crofford (90-92).
Higgins, Maryellen. Hollywood's Africa after 1994. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013, 288 pp.
Reviewed by Dawne Y. Curry (93-95).
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo. Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization. Dakar:
CODESRIA, 2013, 290 pp.
Reviewed by Jason Morgan (96-98).
Parnell, Susan and Edgar Pieterse, eds. Africa's Urban Revolution. London: Zed Books, 2014, 309 pp.
Reviewed by Bernard C. Moore (99-100).
Stanard, Matthew. Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of
Belgian Imperialism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011, 387 pp.
Reviewed by Danielle Sanchez (101-102).
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Books Available for Review:
- Adebajo, Adekeye. Africa's Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent. London, UK: Zedbooks, 2015. 336pp.
- Akesson, Lisa and Eriksson-Baaz, Maria. Africa's Return Migrants: The New Developers? London, UK: Zedbooks, 2015. 175pp.
- Amadiume, Ifi and Caplan, Pat. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in African Society. London, UK: Zedbooks, 2015. 248pp.
- Amony, Evelyn. I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 181pp.
- Black, David R. Canada and Africa in the New Millennium: The Politics of the Consistent Inconsistency. Ontario, CA: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 310pp.
- Bleck, Jaimie. Education and Empowerment Citizenship in Mali. Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 2015. 232pp.
- Burill, Emily. States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali. Ohio University Press, 2015. 213pp.
- Carmody, Padraig. The Rise of BRICS in Africa. The Geopolitics of South-South Relations. United Kingdom: Zed Books, 2013.
- Chuku, Gloria. Ethnicities, Nationalities, and Cross-Cultural Representations in Africa and the Diaspora. Dunham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2015. 410pp.
- Cleveland, Todd. Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917-1975. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015. 280pp.
- Curto, Roxanna Nydia. Inter-tech(s): colonialism and the question of technology in Francophone literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016.
- Dowd, R. A. Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2015. 224pp.
- Fitzsimmons, Scott. Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.332 pp.
- Gallagher, Julia. Images of Africa: Creation, Negotiation, and Subversion. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2015. 203pp.
- Hunter, Emma. Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 235pp.
- Huttenbach, Laura Lee P. The Boy Is Gone: Conversations with a Mau Mau General. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015. 256pp.
- Imafidon, Elivis and John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji. Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014. 221 pp.
- Jerven, Morten. Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong. London, UK: Zedbooks, 2015. 176pp.
- Johnson, Jennifer. The Battle For Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 270pp.
- Lawrence, Benjamin N., Osborn, Emily Lynn., Roberts, Richard L. Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 330pp.
- Mazrui, Ali A. and Francis Wiafe-Amoako. African Institutions: Challenges to Political, Social, and Economic Foundations of Africa's Development. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. 184pp.
- Nustad, Knut G. Creating Africas: Struggles over Nature, Conservation and Land. United Kingdom: C. Hurst & Co. / Oxford University Press 2015. 224pp.
- Okuyande, O. Eco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscape. African Heritage Press, 2013.
- Omeje, Kenneth. Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region. Edited by Tricia R. Hepner. Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Osborne, Myles. Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race Among the Kamba, c.1800 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 276pp.
- Robolin, Stephane. Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing. University of Illinois Press, 2015. 256pp.
- Ross, Robert. The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 340pp.
- Soderlund, Walter C., and E. Donald Briggs. The independence of South Sudan: the role of mass media in the responsibility to prevent. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.
- Stadler, Koos. Recce: small team missions behind enemy lines. Kaapstad: Tafelberg, 2015.
- Straus, Scott. Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa. New York: Cornell University Press, 2015. 386pp.
- Udogu, E. Ike. Examining Human Rights Issues and the Democracy Project in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Theoretical Critique and Prospects for Progress in the Millennium. UK: Lexington Books, 2014. 219pp.
- Urban-Mead, Wendy. The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, and Colonial Rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015. 338pp.
- Vigneswaran, D., Quirk, J. Mobility Makes States: Migration and Power in Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 303pp.
- Voorhoeve, Maaike. Gender and Divorce Law in North Africa: Sharia, Custom and the Personal Status Code in Tunisia. United Kingdom: I.B. Tauris, 2014. 320pp.
- Vos, Jelmer. Kongo in the Age of Empire 1860-1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 218pp.
- Zisga, Elizabeth C., Boyer, One Tlale, Kramer, Ruth. Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2015. 160pp.
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Ogechi E. Anyanwu, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Director of African/African-American Studies
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, KY
Richmond, KY
Keith 124
Office Phone: 859-622-3483
Cell Phone: 859-248-1394
Email: ogechi.anyanwu@eku.edu
Website: http://afastudies.eku.edu/
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