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Posted August 8, 2024
Queens of Afrobeat: Women, Play, and Fela Kuti’s Music Rebellion (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2024). Professor Dotun Ayobade (performance studies) highlights the role...Category: PAS Bookshelf
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Posted October 12, 2023
Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) Emerita Karen Tranberg Hansen (anthropology) distills five...
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Posted February 1, 2023
Rethinking Civil Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup D’etat (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022). Political science alumni Moses Khisa (2016) and Christopher...
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Posted June 10, 2022
Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies, edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Jennifer Le Zotte (London:. Routledge, 2022) Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this...
PAS Bookshelf: The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930
Posted July 6, 2021
by LaRay Denzer, PAS Editor of newsletter and working papers The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 (Madison, WI:...
PAS Bookshelf: Amanda Logan
Posted March 15, 2021
The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana he Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana (University of California Press,...
PAS Bookshelf: Alex Thurston
Posted February 18, 2021
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups (Cambridge University Press, 2020)Drawing on case studies from Algeria, Libya, Mali, Niger,...
PAS Bookshelf: Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the 18th-Century
Posted October 15, 2020
A new book by Zachary Wright—Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) faculty affiliate, Northwestern alumnus, and associate professor at Northwestern...
PAS bookshelf: The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
Posted September 15, 2020
The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics, University of Michigan Press, 2019 Evan Maina Mwangi (English) analyzes the importance of African writing to...