{"title":"John Lwanda. Making Music in Malawi. Lilongwe: Logos Open Culture, 2021. viii+451pp. Notes. Index. £25/MWK 20,000. Paper. ISBN 978-99960-979-2-8.","authors":"Lourdes R Vijayan","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139437633","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":"Lauren Carruth. Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia’s Somali Region. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 240 pp. Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Note on Transliteration and Somali Language Pronunciation. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781501759666.","authors":"Sara Ghebremicael","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139626321","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 Mediation of Autocratic Regimes: How Local Officials Shaped Authoritarian Systems in Rwanda and Sudan","authors":"M. Desrosiers, Anne-Laure Mahé","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.100","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Local state officials impact authoritarian systems through the mediation they perform. Desrosiers and Mahé argue that these local functionaries fulfill a number of mediating functions, including translating and representing authoritarian systems at the local level. By enacting these two roles, however, local officials do not straightforwardly reproduce the system. Instead, their interpretations and choices fundamentally influence the imprint authoritarianism has on society, from how the regime is experienced at the local level to its groundings and resilience. They demonstrate this argument by looking at pre-genocide Rwanda and Sudan under President Omar al-Bashir.","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139446364","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}