African Studies Review

Reporting on electoral violence in Nigerian news media: “Saying it as it is”?

Mande hunters and the state: cooperation and contestation in post-conflict Côte d’Ivoire

Hustling the mtaa way: the Brain Work of the Garbage Business in Nairobi’s Slums

You are where you build: Hierarchy, Inequality, and Equalitarianism in Mandara Highland Architecture

The Emergence and Development of Ethnic Strongholds and Frontiers of Collective Violence in Jos, Nigeria

Resources and Rape: Congo’s (toxic) Discursive Complex

West Africa’s First Coup: Neo-Colonial and Pan-African Projects in Togo’s “Shadow Archives”

Expenditures on Malevolent Magico-Religious Powers: Empirical Evidence from Benin

Looters vs. Traitors: The Muqawama (“Resistance”) Narrative, and its Detractors, in Contemporary Mauritania

Homosexuality, Witchcraft, and Power: the Politics of Ressentiment in Cameroon

Traveling Companions: The Burial of the Placenta in Niger

Mediating Solutions to Territorial Civil Wars in Africa: Norms, Interests, and Major Power Leverage

Colonial Intrusion and Stages of Colonialism in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Power of Performance—the Performance of Power Forum

The Global Dynamism of African Studies

The Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in Burkina Faso: Bioeconomy of Science, Public Engagement and Trust in Medicine

Singing Politics: Freedom Songs and Collective Protest in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Beauty and the Bikini: Embodied Respectability in Nigerian Beauty Pageants

Elodie Razy and Marie Rodet, eds. Children on the Move in Africa: Past & Present Experiences of Migration. Suffolk: James Currey, 2016. vii + 255 pp. List of Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781847011381.

Danny Hoffman. Monrovia Modern: Urban and Political Imagination in Liberia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. xvi+205pp. Map. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. $94.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6357-6. Paper. $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5884-8.

Adekeye Adebajo. The Eagle and the Springbok: Essays on Nigeria and South Africa. Cape Town: Jacana Media, 2017. 312 pp. Acknowledgements. Notes. Index. $23.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1928232476.

Anne Donadey, ed. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2017. x + 188 pp. Notes on Contributors. Works Cited. Index. $40.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1603292955.

The Materiality and Social Agency of the Malaḥfa (Mauritanian Veil)

#RhodesMustFall: How a Decolonial Student Movement in the Global South Inspired Epistemic Disobedience at the University of Oxford

Marc Epprecht. Welcome to Greater Edendale: Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. xii + 342 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $110.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4772-5. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4772-2.

ASR volume 62 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

The Shirts of the Donso Hunters: materiality and power between concealment and visual display

Abubakar S. Shehu, dir. Risala (“Message”). 2018. 126 minutes. Hausa, with English subtitles. 3SP International Limited. No price reported.

Joanna Grabski. Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xiii + 307 pp. 57 Color Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-02605-7.

ASR volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Axel Fleisch and Rhiannon Stephens, editors. Doing Conceptual History in Africa. New York: Berghahn, 2016. xi+243 pp. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Index. $120.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781785331633.

When “Green” Equals Thorny and Mean: The Politics and Costs of an Environmental Experiment in East Africa

Virginia Comolli. Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency. London: Hurst & Co, 2015. vii + 230 pp. Acknowledgments. Maps. Notes. Index. $27.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9781849044912.

Mickie Mwanzia Koster. The Power of the Oath: Mau Mau Nationalism in Kenya. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2016. xvii + 244 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth. ISBN 978-1-58046-546-5.

Naaborle Sackeyfio. Energy Politics and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. 193 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $119.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3-319-60121-2.

Violence, Autochthony, and Identity Politics in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa): A Processual Perspective on Local Political Dynamics

Resisting Democratic Backsliding: Malawi’s Experience in Comparative Perspective

Over-Making Nyanga: Mastering “Natural” Beauty and Disciplining Excessive Bodily Practices In Metropolitan Cameroon

Sylvestre Amoussou, director. L’Orage Africain: Un continent sous influence. 2017. 88 min. French, with English subtitles. Benin, France. Koffi Productions. Vimeo. $5.00.

Evan Mawarire’s #ThisFlag as Tactical Lyric: The Role of Digital Speech in Imagining a Networked Zimbabwean Nation

John Collins. Highlife Time 3. Accra: DAkpabli & Associates, 2018. 631 pp. Photographs. References. Bibliography. $34.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-9988-2-7619-5.

Jane I. Guyer. Legacies, Logics, Logistics: Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii + 312 pp. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780226326870.

Joel Karekezi, director. The Mercy of the Jungle. 2018. 91 minutes. French and Kinyarwanda (with English Subtitles). Belgium/France. Neon Rouge Production. No price reported.

Charles Didier Gondola. Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. xii + 201 pp. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-02080-2.

Mostafa Minawi. The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. xvii+240 pp. List of Figures. Acknowledgments. Note on Translation and Transliteration. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.99. Paper. ISBN: 978-0804799270.

The Invisible Social Body: Experience and Poro Ritual in Northern Côte d’Ivoire

Thomas F. McDow. Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean.Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. xiv + 364 pp. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2281-6.