Leeds African Studies Bulletin No. 74 (2012/13)
Featuring an article by renowned Kenyan playwright, novelist and cultural activist (and alumnus of the School of English of the University of Leeds), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, alongside atricles by James Currey, Toussaint Nothias and Farai Michael Magunha.
Studying Africa
- Understanding Remittances as a Form of Social Protection: An analysis of Kinships and Transnationalism amongst the Zimbabwean Diaspora
- Definition and scope of Afro-pessimism: Mapping the concept and its usefulness for analysing news media coverage of Africa
Analysing Africa
Reading Africa
- Review of Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous / I Say to You / Pastoralism & Politics
- Review of When a State turns on its Citizens /Zimbabwe’s Lost Decade: Politics, Development & Society
- Review of The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe
- Review of Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: Monuments, Deities, and Money
- Review of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
- Review of Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique: Rethinking Gender in Africa
- Review of German Colonialism: A Short History
- Review of The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman: Women and Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle
- Review of Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa.
- Review of Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author
- Review of The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988
- Review of Luka Jantjie: Resistance hero of the South African frontier
- Review of Slavery By Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
- Review of Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa
- Review of Africanists on Africa: Current Issues
- Review of The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade