Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 54, Issue 3 (2020)

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Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 54, Issue 3 (2020)

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Women, Trade, and Landed Property in Africa

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Introduction: Women, trade and landed property in Africa
Vanessa S. Oliveira
Pages: 367-371
Published online: 14 Aug 2020
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Women along the Catumbela River, 1797: land ownership, agricultural production, labour and trade
José C. Curto
Pages: 373-393
Published online: 14 Aug 2020
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Understanding African women’s access to landed property in nineteenth-century Benguela
Mariana P. Candido
Pages: 395-417
Published online: 14 Aug 2020
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Baskets, Stalls, and Shops: Experiences and Strategies of Women in Retail Sales in Nineteenth Century Luanda
Vanessa S. Oliveira
Pages: 419-436
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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“A mere business affair”?Women in the social and commercial worlds of nineteenth-century Madagascar
Jane Hooper
Pages: 437-457
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Women and trade in the Nupe–Borgu region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Constanze Weise
Pages: 459-477
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Not normal, not just: protest against large-scale mining from a moral economy perspective
Bettina Engels
Pages: 479-496
Published online: 30 Aug 2019
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The youth after land reform in Zimbabwe: exploring the redistributive and social protection outcomes from a transformative social policy perspective
Clement Chipenda
Pages: 497-518
Published online: 11 Sep 2019
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“Chiefs do not talk law, most of them talk power.” Traditional authorities in conflicts over land grabbing in Ghana*
Sarah Kirst
Pages: 519-539
Published online: 24 Feb 2020
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“The service had to come first”: leave and ocean passages of British officials and their dependants in inter-war West Africa
Ayodeji Olukoju
Pages: 541-556
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Commentary

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The politics behind Kenya’s Building Bridges Initiative (BBI): Vindu Vichenjanga or sound and fury, signifying nothing?
Philip Onguny
Pages: 557-576
Published online: 04 Nov 2020
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Book Review

Book Review
Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa
by Melissa Hackman, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2018, 216 pp.
Cal Biruk
Pages: 577-586
Published online: 28 Aug 2020
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Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
by Stephanie Newell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, xix + 249 pp.
Olukayode A. Faleye
Pages: 579-581
Published online: 24 Sep 2020
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From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola
by Jess Auerbach, Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 2020, vii + 230 pp.
Raphael Deberdt
Pages: 581-583
Published online: 29 Sep 2020
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Countless Blessings: A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel
by Barbara M. Cooper, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2019, xii + 345 pp.
Scott M. Youngstedt
Pages: 583-584
Published online: 30 Sep 2020
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Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy
by Emma Christopher, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2018, xii + 310 pp.
K. James Myers
Pages: 585-586
Published online: 07 Oct 2020
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