Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 52, Issue 3 (2018)

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Article
Government paper: the negotiated production and life of state documents
S. J. Cooper-Knock & Olly Owen
Pages: 269-287
Published online: 11 Feb 2019
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State writing, subversion and citizenship in Southern Rhodesia’s state of emergency, 1959–1960
Jocelyn Alexander
Pages: 289-309
Published online: 10 Jan 2019
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“Not a death of that hospital”: the social production of maternity statistics in Freetown
Tara Dosumu Diener
Pages: 311-330
Published online: 27 Jan 2019
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The politics of paper: negotiating over and around indigeneship certification in Plateau State, Nigeria
Henry Gyang Mang & David Ehrhardt
Pages: 331-347
Published online: 07 Feb 2019
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Review Articles

Review Article
Boy Wives, Female Husbands twenty years on: reflections on scholarly activism and the struggle for sexual orientation and gender identity/expression rights in Africa
Marc Epprecht, Stephen O. Murray, Kuukuwa Andam, Francisco Miguel, Aminata Cécile Mbaye & Rudolf P. Gaudio
Pages: 349-364
Published online: 11 Jan 2019
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Bonny Ibhawoh’s human rights in Africa: rethinking Africa in the human rights discourse
Paul Ugor
Pages: 365-370
Published online: 21 Jan 2019
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The shadows of colonialism and liberation: political development implications for hegemonic and opposition parties
Robert W. Compton
Pages: 371-378
Published online: 05 Dec 2018
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Book Review

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Women’s Activism in Africa
Ademolawa Michael Adedipe
Pages: 379-380
Published online: 30 Apr 2018
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Resilience and contagion: invoking human rights in African HIV advocacy
Laura Ferguson
Pages: 380-382
Published online: 30 Apr 2018
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Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa
Nate Plageman
Pages: 382-384
Published online: 30 Apr 2018
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Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses
Eleanor Seymour
Pages: 384-386
Published online: 02 May 2018
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Entrepreneurship in Africa
Grietjie Verhoef
Pages: 386-389
Published online: 04 May 2018
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Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
Paul Gifford
Pages: 389-390
Published online: 08 May 2018
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Nigeria’s University Age: Reframing Decolonisation and Development
Elisa Prosperetti
Pages: 391-392
Published online: 15 May 2018
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The French Army and its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization
Nancy Lawler
Pages: 393-394
Published online: 16 May 2018
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Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain
Hewan Girma
Pages: 394-396
Published online: 16 May 2018
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Congo’s Violent Peace: Conflict and Struggle Since the Great African War
Odette Murara
Pages: 396-397
Published online: 16 May 2018
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Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Colonial Mozambique
Malyn Newitt
Pages: 398-399
Published online: 25 May 2018
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The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, 1300–1700
Daniel Ayana
Pages: 399-402
Published online: 11 Jun 2018
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State and Pan-Africanism in Ghana
Philip S. Zachernuk
Pages: 402-404
Published online: 01 Aug 2018
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Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905–1965
Kyle Prochnow
Pages: 404-406
Published online: 01 Aug 2018
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Domains of Freedom: Justice, Citizenship and Social Change in South Africa
Ralph Callebert
Pages: 406-407
Published online: 01 Aug 2018
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The Fabric of Peace in Africa: Looking Beyond the State
Patrick Tom
Pages: 408-409
Published online: 03 Aug 2018
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African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility
Noémi Tousignant
Pages: 409-411
Published online: 03 Aug 2018
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Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast
Katrina Keefer
Pages: 412-413
Published online: 03 Aug 2018
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Culture and Customs of the Yorùbá
Morenikeji Asaaju
Pages: 414-415
Published online: 06 Aug 2018
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Getting Our Universities Back on Track: Reflections and Governance Paradigms from My Vice-Chancellorship
Morenikeji Asaaju
Pages: 415-417
Published online: 06 Aug 2018
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Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya
Sara Fumagalli
Pages: 417-419
Published online: 06 Aug 2018
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Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900–1920
Philip Janzen
Pages: 419-421
Published online: 06 Aug 2018
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Response

Reply
Author’s response to MacPhee’s review of We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
Keren Weitzberg
Page: 423
Published online: 04 Dec 2018
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