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Volume 87, Number 1, February 2017Table of Contents

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View D. A. Ọbasa (1879–1945): A Yoruba poet, culture activist and local intellectual in colonial Nigeria
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View Migrant workers into contract farmers: Processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique
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View Challenging ‘umthetho we femu’ (the law of the firm): Gender relations and shop-floor battles for union recognition in Natal’s textile industry, 1973–85
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View Rivalries of proximity beyond the household in Niger: Political elites and the baab-izey pattern
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View The making of a ‘superstar’: The politics of playback and live performance in post-genocide Rwanda
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View From Slavery to Aid: politics, labour, and ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000 by Benedetta Rossi (review)
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View Unreasonable Histories: nativism, multiracial lives, and the genealogical imagination in British Africa by Christopher J. Lee (review)
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Manners Make a Nation: racial etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910–1963 by Allison K. Shutt (review)

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View The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: literacy, politics and nationalism, 1914–2014 by Kate Skinner (review)
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View African Fashion, Global Style: histories, innovations, and ideas you can wear by Victoria Rovine (review)
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African Dress: fashion, agency, performance by Karen Tranberg Hansen and D. Soyini Madisoni (review)

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View Who Shall Enter Paradise? Christian origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, c. 1890–1975 by Shobana Shankar (review)
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View Faith in the Time of AIDS: religion, biopolitics and modernity in South Africa by Marian Burchardt (review)
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View Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the civil war by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (review)
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View Making Sense of the Central African Republic ed. by Tatiana Carayannis and Louisa Lombard (review)
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View Introduction Work across Africa: Labour exploitation and mobility in Southern, Eastern and Western Africa
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ISSN | 1750-0184 |
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Print ISSN | 0001-9720 |
Launched on MUSE | 2017-02-09 |
Open Access | No |