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African Studies Review, a multi-disciplinary scholarly journal published by the African Studies Association, contains articles based on original research and analysis of Africa as well as book reviews three times annually. It encourages scholarly debates across disciplines. The editing of the African Studies Review is supported by Five Colleges, Inc., a consortium representing Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The African Studies Review is edited by Ralph Faulkingham of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Elliot Fratkin of Smith College, and Mitzi Goheen and Sean Redding of Amherst College. John Lemly of Mount Holyoke College serves as book review editor. Manuscripts & correspondence concerning manuscripts should be sent to: African Studies Review, 706 Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Drive, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003. Email: asr@anthro.umass.edu.
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Volume 65, Number 2, June 2022Table of Contents
Articles
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View Laughing through the Virus the Zimbabwean Way: WhatsApp Humor and the Twenty-one-day COVID-19 Lockdown
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Forum: Farmer-Pastroalist Interactions and Resource-Based Conflicts in Africa:
Drivers, Actors, and Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
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View Pastoralists and Violent Conflict along the Oromia–Somali Border in Eastern Ethiopia: Institutional Options toward Peacebuilding
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View Promoting Peace and Managing Farmer-Herder Conflict: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Agogo, Ghana
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View Cattle Rustling and Competing Land Claims: Understanding Struggles Over Land in Bunambutye, Eastern Uganda
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View Harnessing the Social Energies of Youths in Farming and Pastoral Communities in Managing Conflicts in Nigeria
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Scholarly Review Essays
Film Review Essay
Addendum
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View La Maison des esclaves de Gorée: à l'intersection entre histoire, mémoires et émotions – ADDENDUM
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Corrigendum
Book Reviews (Online)
Africa - General
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View Visions of African Unity: New Perspectives on the History of Pan-Africanism and African Unification Projects ed. by Matteo Grilli and Frank Gerits (review)
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View Sorcières, tyrans, héros: Mémoires postcoloniales de résistants africains by Elara Bertho (review)
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View Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature by Cajetan Iheka (review)
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West Africa
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View Senegalese Stagecraft. Decolonizing Theatre-Making in Francophone Africa by Brian Valente-Quinn (review)
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View A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger by Johann Peter Oettinger (review)
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Central Africa
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View The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo by Daniel Tödt (review)
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Eastern Africa
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View Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation by Alden Young (review)
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Soutern Africa
Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa by Julie Livingston (review)
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View Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life by Tony Perman (review)
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Film Reviews (Online)
Documentaries
Feature Films
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| ISSN | 1555-2462 |
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| Print ISSN | 0002-0206 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2022-07-21 |
| Open Access | No |



