{"title":"Salvaging Mogadishu from Ruin and Rubble","authors":"Nuruddin Farah","doi":"10.57054/arb.v11i1.5035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v11i1.5035","url":null,"abstract":"For decades, exiled author Nuruddin Farah has dreamt, written and carried Somalia, ‘the country of his imagination,’ throughout his nomadic existence. His eleven novels, one non-fictional study of the Somali diaspora, articles, essays, broadcasts and interviews bear testimony to this fact and are literary manifestations of the tragic turn of events in postcolonial Somalia. He was forced to flee Somalia, after having incurred the wrath of Mohamed Siyad Barre, for his satirical and critical remarks against the Barre regime in his second novel, A Naked Needle (1978). Today, Farah hasearned a distinguished and rightful place for himself among Anglophone-African writers and internationally. A Naked Needle is one of his least Somali novels and a very silly work, (when compared to his later works that engage explicitly with Somali politics, culture and society), as Farah puts it across in a conversation with Kenyan author and journalist Binyavanga Wainaina.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128418242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great Lakes Region and Southern Africa in Historical and Contemporary Perspective","authors":"Moses Khisa","doi":"10.57054/arb.v11i1.5036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v11i1.5036","url":null,"abstract":"The two volumes under review offer rich insights into the checkered histories but also the present and future prospects of the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of east and central africa and the Southern Africa region. The volumes lay out in greater depth the varied social struggles and political contests that have defined the two regions in quite important ways. These volumes have intersecting and contrasting thrusts. While Murindwa-Rutanga’s Politics, Religion and Power in the Great Lakes Region (hereafter PRP) is largely steeped in historical inquiry – the precolonial and colonial power struggles and the role of religion, with rather limited glimpse into contemporary implications – Region-Building in Southern Africa (hereafter RBSA) starts off with a somewhat truncated historical reference but proceeds to give considerable attention to contemporary attempts at ‘region-building’ in Southern Africa.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117178103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nigeria’s Iron Lady","authors":"Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala","doi":"10.57054/arb.v11i1.5034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v11i1.5034","url":null,"abstract":"On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Cape Town in March 2013, I chaired a book launch starring Nigeria’s formidable first female finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, resplendent in her trademark African traditional dress and matching head-gear. She talked unpretentiously, without the affected foreign accent of some Nigerians that have spent two decades abroad. She had recently published a book titled Reforming the Unreformable on her time – between 2003 and 2006 – as finance minister of Africa’s largest economy, the world’s eighth most populous state, and its sixth largest oil-producer. She had been the architect of the deal to pay off Nigeria’s $30 billion debt (the second largest such debt deal with the Paris Club of creditors at the time), and led a team of technocratic reformers seeking to tackle corruption, build efficient public and private institutions, obtain Nigeria’s first sovereign debt rating, and transform the country into an emerging economy.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126098968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pierre Bourdieu et la problématique de l’État","authors":"Mustapha Haddab","doi":"10.57054/arb.v10i2.5025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v10i2.5025","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>resume</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126193247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Africa Review of Books, Volume 10, n° 2, 2014: 10th Anniversary Issue","authors":"Journal system","doi":"10.57054/arb.v10i2.1408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v10i2.1408","url":null,"abstract":"Contents Dark Days in Somalia Lee Cassanelli ........................................... 4 Love and Politics in the Time of Revolution Shimelis Bonsa .......................................... 6 An Incommensurate Burden Gerry Salole ................................................ 8 From a Small to a Long War: Somalia Coping with al-Shabaab Roland Marchal ........................................ 10 Between Agency and Liberation: The Slippery Subject of Resistance Graham Harrison ..................................... 12 Rethinking Africa’s Future beyond its European Past Toni Haastrup ........................................ 13 Les manuscrits de Tombouctou : un moment de l’histoire africaine Aïcha Benamar ........................................ 15 Sur la vulnérabilité du Sahel et la crise de l’État malien : éléments pour un état des lieux Hassan Remaoun ................................ 16 Joseph Ki-Zerbo : faire renaître l’Afrique Khedidja Mokeddem ............................. 19 La guerre du Yémen est-elle à l’origine du déclin de la puissance égyptienne ? Clément Steuer ................................... 20 Douala, une ville africaine Fouad Soufi ........................................ 22 Pierre Bourdieu et la problématique de l’État Mustapha Haddab ................................... 23","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114084168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Douala, une ville africaine","authors":"Fouad Soufi","doi":"10.57054/arb.v10i2.5024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v10i2.5024","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>resume</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"97 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115701628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La guerre du Yémen est-elle à l’origine du déclin de la puissance égyptienne ?","authors":"Clément Steuer","doi":"10.57054/arb.v10i2.5016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v10i2.5016","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>resume</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126964092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sur la vulnérabilité du Sahel et la crise de l’État malien : éléments pour un état des lieux","authors":"Hassan Remaoun","doi":"10.57054/arb.v10i2.5014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v10i2.5014","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>resume</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"242 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115189830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}