Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 58, Issue 1 (2024)

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Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 58, Issue 1 (2024)

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RESEARCH ARTICLES / ARTICLES DE RECHERCHE

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De l’ancrage d’une ville africaine : Abidjan, la mondialisation et le colonialisme tardif en Côte d'Ivoire
Abou B. Bamba
Pages: 1-21
Published online: 29 Sep 2023
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Sortir de l’ombre, défier la peur : opportunités et défis des technologies numériques pour les minorités sexuelles et de genre au Cameroun
Larissa Kojoué
Pages: 23-38
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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China in Africa, environmental governance and civil society: the case of the Kua Forest in Burkina Faso
Asma Amina Belem
Pages: 39-59
Published online: 17 Oct 2023
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Spreading the word of God and Benga: the Presbyterian Church in Corisco Bay
Susana Castillo-Rodríguez
Pages: 61-86
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Controlling consent, dealing with dissent, and planting misinformation: how the Museveni regime stifled Bobi Wine's youth movement in Uganda
Gerald Bareebe
Pages: 87-107
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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Framing spaces as (il)legitimate: “dirty” cobalt and the (mis)uses of artisanal and small-scale mining sites in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Sarah Katz-Lavigne
Pages: 109-131
Published online: 02 Jan 2024
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Diamonds, risk and insurance practices in British Africa, with an emphasis on the Gold Coast and Tanganyika
E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor & Francis Daudi
Pages: 133-156
Published online: 21 Jan 2024
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Governing street trading in post-apartheid Cape Town: neo-colonial or neo-liberal order?
Marianne Morange & Sophie Didier
Pages: 157-180
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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Subjects without history? Sexual citizenship, queer temporality, and postcoloniality in Mozambique
Caio Simões de Araújo
Pages: 181-198
Published online: 21 Jan 2024
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Culture, politics and material landscaping as strategies of belonging: the case of ex-farm workers of foreign origin in Bushu communal areas, Zimbabwe
Patience Chadambuka & Kirk Helliker
Pages: 199-216
Published online: 24 Jan 2024
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BOOK REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS

Book Review
Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change
by Erin Pettigrew, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, xviii + 344 pp.
Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh
Pages: 217-218
Published online: 02 Jan 2024
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De quoi la littérature africaine est-elle la littérature? Pour une critique décoloniale
by Eric Essono Tsimi, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2022, 306 pp.
Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Pages: 219-220
Published online: 04 Jan 2024
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Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
by John M. Janzen, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2019, 288 pp.
Jonathan Roberts
Pages: 220-222
Published online: 02 Oct 2023
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Transport Corridors in Africa
edited by Hugh Lamarque and Paul Nugent, Woodbridge, Suffolk, James Currey, 2022, xii + 325 pp.
Kurt Beck
Pages: 222-224
Published online: 10 Oct 2023
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A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana
by Stephan F. Miescher, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2022, xx1 + 572 pp.
Allen Isaacman
Pages: 225-226
Published online: 11 Oct 2023
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Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address
by Matthew H. Brown, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2021, ix + 316 pp.
Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola
Pages: 226-228
Published online: 29 Nov 2023
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Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864–1926
by Michelle Liebst, Suffolk, UK, James Currey, 2021, xiv + 224 pp.
Paul Glen Grant
Pages: 228-230
Published online: 13 Dec 2023
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Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters
edited by Wale Adebanwi, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2022, xxi + 427 pp.
Daniel Mulugeta
Pages: 230-232
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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A Village and Its NGOs: Co-Constructing NGO Presence in Rural Malawi
by Thomas McNamara, Leiden, Brill, 2022, x + 169 pp.
Yonatan N. Gez
Pages: 232-235
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa
by Jean Luc Enyegue, Suffolk, James Currey, 2022, xx + 299 pp.
Charlotte Walker-Said
Pages: 235-238
Published online: 17 Dec 2023
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Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State
by Leslie Bank and Nelly Sharpley, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, 275 pp.
Isabel Bosman
Pages: 238-239
Published online: 26 Dec 2023
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Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga
by David Maxwell, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2022, xx + 327 pp.
Guy Bud
Pages: 240-242
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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