{"title":"An African History of Development - The Idea of Development in Africa: A History Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. £74.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781107103696); £23.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107503229); £23.99, ebook (ISBN: 9781316217344).","authors":"Joseph Morgan Hodge","doi":"10.1017/s0021853724000148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853724000148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509651,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140969178","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":"Christian Family Life in South Africa - Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa Natasha Erlank. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 288. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424988); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424995).","authors":"Selina Makana","doi":"10.1017/s0021853724000215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853724000215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509651,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141000810","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":"A Return to Khaki Rule? Democracy and Africa's Lost History of Military Government","authors":"Gregory Mann","doi":"10.1017/s0021853724000094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853724000094","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Much of West Africa (and particularly the Sahel) may be once falling again under military government. This essay asks what, if anything, historians of Africa can contribute to an understanding of this phenomenon. I argue that writing the history and understanding the memory of military government will entail a renewed approach to political history and social theory. It will also entail confronting — just as so many citizens are currently doing — the peculiar failures of democracy in Africa's neoliberal era.","PeriodicalId":509651,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141020547","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":"Water and History in Southern Africa","authors":"A. Webster","doi":"10.1017/s0021853724000021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853724000021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 How has water shaped the history of a region that is bordered by ocean, brimming with ephemeral rivers, and yet prone to drought? This article explores water histories in Southern Africa over the past two hundred years. Using oral traditions, epic poetry, archival sources, and secondary anthropological and archaeological literature, I examine how Africans and Europeans related to, claimed, and used different bodies of water. In the first section I discuss how water was central to isiNguni conceptions of social and political life. In the second section I discuss how European empires used water to enclose and dispossess African land and to build hydropolitical colonial orders over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I conclude by reflecting on afterlives of these water histories in the present.","PeriodicalId":509651,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140416787","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":"Malian Women in Public History and Public Memory","authors":"Devon Golaszewski","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000774","url":null,"abstract":"Bamako, March 1991. 100,000 protesters took to the street challenging Mali's military regime. Both men and women participated in six months of protests, their actions shaped by class, gender, and generation. The press, in its reporting, produced a specific, gendered, image of protest, involving young men protesters and their exceptional mères indociles (rebellious mothers) motivated to protest by the risk of bodily harm to their children.1","PeriodicalId":509651,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140441442","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":"Women and Nationalism in Nigeria - The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith Byfield. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. pp. 334. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821423981); ebook (ISBN: 9780821446904).","authors":"C. J. Korieh","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000750","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509651,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140477404","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":"Culture, Class, and Politics in Late Imperial Congo - The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo By Daniel Tödt. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 428, $79.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9783110708691); ebook (ISBN: 9783110709308).","authors":"Charlotte Grabli","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000701","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509651,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","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":"139446026","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":"Confinement and Politics in Uganda - Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda By Katherine Bruce-Lockhart. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 280. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424773); $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424780); ebook (ISBN: 9780821447741)","authors":"Alicia C. Decker","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509651,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","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":"139448284","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}