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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...Category: PAS Bookshelf
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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...
PAS Bookshelf
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...