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  1. Editor's Introduction: A Journal for Everyone
  2. Benjamin N. Lawrance
  3. pp. 1-5
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  1. Singing Politics: Freedom Songs and Collective Protest in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  2. Omotayo Jolaosho
  3. pp. 6-29
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  1. Private Security in Nairobi, Kenya: Securitized Landscapes, Crosscurrents, and New Forms of Sociality
  2. Nathan Dobson
  3. pp. 30-48
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  1. Well-Oiled Protest: Adding Fuel to Political Conflicts in Niger
  2. Jannik Schritt
  3. pp. 49-71
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  1. Guest Editor's Introduction to Bodily Practices and Aesthetic Rituals in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Africa Forum
  2. Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
  3. pp. 72-79
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  1. Beauty and the Bikini: Embodied Respectability in Nigerian Beauty Pageants
  2. Oluwakemi M. Balogun
  3. pp. 80-102
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  1. Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa by Lisa Lindsay (review)
  2. Richard Anderson
  3. pp. E1-E3
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  1. Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (review)
  2. Fatoumata Seck
  3. pp. E4-E6
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  1. Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa by Kim Yi Dionne (review)
  2. Rhaine Clarke, Melissa Graboyes
  3. pp. E7-E8
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  1. Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group by Stig Jarle Hansen (review)
  2. Akinbode Fasakin
  3. pp. E9-E11
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  1. Sudanese Women's Groups on Facebook and #Civil_Disobedience: Nairat or Thairat? (Radiant or Revolutionary?)
  2. Nada Mustafa Ali
  3. pp. 103-126
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  1. Traveling Companions: The Burial of the Placenta in Niger
  2. Barbara M. Cooper
  3. pp. 127-148
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  1. The Materiality and Social Agency of the Malaḥfa (Mauritanian Veil)
  2. Katherine Ann Wiley
  3. pp. 149-174
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  1. Over-Making Nyanga: Mastering "Natural" Beauty and Disciplining Excessive Bodily Practices In Metropolitan Cameroon
  2. Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
  3. pp. 175-198
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  1. Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion ed. by Julie MacArthur (review)
  2. Martin S. Shanguhyia
  3. pp. E12-E15
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  1. The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya by Mwenda Ntarangwi (review)
  2. RaShelle R. Peck
  3. pp. E16-E18
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  1. The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa by Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer (review)
  2. Jeremy Rich
  3. pp. E19-E20
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  1. Necessary Noise: Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko (review)
  2. Ch. Didier Gondola
  3. pp. E21-E23
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  1. King Leopold's Congo and the "Scramble for Africa": A Short History with Documents by Michael A. Rutz (review)
  2. Marcos Leitão de Almeida
  3. pp. E24-E25
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  1. Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning by Wale Adebanwi (review)
  2. Lynn Schler
  3. pp. E26-E28
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  1. Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa by Paolo Gaibazzi (review)
  2. Lorenzo Ferrarini
  3. pp. E29-E30
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  1. Monrovia Modern: Urban and Political Imagination in Liberia by Danny Hoffman (review)
  2. Maarten Bedert
  3. pp. E31-E33
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  1. Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa's Guinea Coast by Colleen E. Kriger (review)
  2. Toby Green
  3. pp. E34-E36
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  1. Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria by Carl A. LeVan (review)
  2. Siphiwe I. Dube
  3. pp. E37-E39
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  1. A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara ed. by Amber Murrey (review)
  2. Aïdas Sanogo
  3. pp. E40-E42
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  1. Welcome to Greater Edendale: Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City by Marc Epprecht (review)
  2. Nancy J. Jacobs
  3. pp. E43-E45
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  1. The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa by Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha (review)
  2. Robert Maseko
  3. pp. E46-E47
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  1. Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa by Gavin Steingo (review)
  2. Stephanus Muller
  3. pp. E48-E50
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  1. Travels in the Congo by Marc Allégret (review)
  2. Rachel Gabara
  3. pp. E51-E53
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  1. Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu (review)
  2. Julie MacArthur
  3. pp. E54-E55
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  1. The Mercy of the Jungle by Joel Karekezi (review)
  2. Alison MacAulay
  3. pp. E56-E58
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