Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 57, Issue 2 (2023)

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RESEARCH ARTICLES / ARTICLES DE RECHERCHE

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Le français du Burkina Faso : un indice de revendication d’une identité culturelle?
Alain Noindonmon Hien
Pages: 265-282
Published online: 26 Aug 2022
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Les corps des tracasseries: circulation, corps et violence sur le corridor Douala–N’Djamena/Bangui
Calvin Minfegue
Pages: 283-303
Published online: 15 May 2023
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Les réseaux sociaux dans la dynamique des conflits au centre du Mali: un exemple de journalisme citoyen à travers la plateforme numérique KI
Mamadou Togola & Mirjam de Bruijn
Pages: 305-325
Published online: 08 Jun 2023
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New directions in conditional policy transfer to sub-Saharan Africa: the case of renewable energy policy transfer to ECOWAS by the EU
Titilayo Soremi
Pages: 327-348
Published online: 09 Dec 2022
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Masculinities in context: how food insecurity shapes conjugal dynamics in northwestern Benin
Rosalind Ragetlie & Isaac Luginaah
Pages: 349-368
Published online: 06 Jan 2023
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The double return experience: rationale for return from Canada to Ghana and Ghana to Canada
Emmanuel Kyeremeh, Senanu Kwasi Kutor, Eunice Annan-Aggrey, Ismahan Yusuf & Godwin Arku
Pages: 369-390
Published online: 08 Jun 2023
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“You have your say, we have our way”: women’s resistance and educational taxation in late colonial Nigeria
Russell Wade Stevenson
Pages: 391-410
Published online: 29 Aug 2022
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Gender dynamics in the history of nursing education at Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School in Swaziland, 1927–2007
Shokahle R. Dlamini
Pages: 411-429
Published online: 14 Jun 2023
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Multi-ethnic vision or ethnic nationalism? The contested legacies of Anderson Mazoka and Zambia’s 2006 election
Sishuwa Sishuwa
Pages: 431-457
Published online: 27 Apr 2023
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Exploring embodied differences in Xhosa manhood masculinity, and reflecting on thematic analysis
Thoko Sipungu
Pages: 459-478
Published online: 11 Dec 2022
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REVIEW ARTICLE / ÉTUDE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE

Review Article
New studies of sexual orientation, gender identities and expression in Africa south of the Sahara: complicating the narrative
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies, by B. Camminga, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xv + 301 pp.Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana, by Serena Owusua Dankwa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, xi + 318 pp.The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers, by Mark Gevisser, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, xv + 525 pp.Hidden Sexualities of South African Teachers: Black Male Educators and Same-Sex Desire, by Thabo Msibi, London and New York, Routledge, 2018, 170 pp.Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana, by Kwame Edwin Otu, Oakland, University of California Press, 2022, xii + 200 pp.Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa, by Adriaan van Klinken, University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019, xiv + 232 pp.Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives and the Bible, by Adriaan van Klinken and Johanna Stiebert, with Sebyala Brian and Fredrick Hudson, Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY, James Currey Press, 2021, xix + 255 pp.Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa, by Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, viii + 256 pp.
Aminata Cécile Mbaye & Marc Epprecht
Pages: 479-488
Published online: 19 Dec 2022
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BOOK REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS

Book Review
Prisoners of the Past: South African Democracy and the Legacy of Minority Rule
by Steven Friedman, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2021, xiii + 218 pp.
Martin Plaut
Pages: 489-490
Published online: 03 Jan 2023
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War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953
by Alfred Tembo, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2021, xvi + 272 pp.
M. T. Howard
Pages: 491-492
Published online: 23 Jan 2023
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Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World
by Crystal Biruk, Durham, Duke University Press, 2018, 296 pp.
Natasha Erlank
Pages: 492-494
Published online: 23 Jan 2023
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Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers: Mobilizing Labor and Land in the Lake Kivu Region, Congo and Rwanda (1918–1960/62)
by Sven Van Melkebeke, Leiden, Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020, xv + 335 pp.
Guy Bud
Pages: 494-496
Published online: 01 Feb 2023
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Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice: Dance and Live Art in Contemporary South Africa and Beyond
by Catherine Cole, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2020, 304 pp.
Mlondolozi Zondi
Pages: 496-498
Published online: 02 Feb 2023
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First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa: Between Law and Grace in Gabon and Madagascar
by Nathan P. Devir, Leiden, Brill, 2022, x + 246 pp.
Tudor Parfitt
Pages: 498-501
Published online: 07 Feb 2023
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Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria
by Saheed Aderinto, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2022, 322 + xviii pp
Ṣeun Williams
Pages: 501-503
Published online: 08 Feb 2023
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West African Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army, 1860–1960
by Timothy Stapleton, Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2022, 304 pp.
Oliver Coates
Pages: 504-505
Published online: 06 Mar 2023
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The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for “The Common Good” & the Youth Exodus
by Gaim Kibreab, New York, Boydell & Brewer, 2017, 215 pp.
Mohamed Kheir Omer
Pages: 506-507
Published online: 13 Mar 2023
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African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development
by Joshua Grace, Durham, Duke University Press, 2021, vii + 416 pp.
Jennifer Hart
Pages: 507-509
Published online: 13 Mar 2023
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Scream for Me, Africa! Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa
by Edward Banchs, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2022, i–viii + 176 pp.
David G. Pier
Pages: 509-512
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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Nuclear: Inside South Africa’s Secret Deal
by Karyn Maughan and Kirsten Pearson, Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2022, 205 pp.
Christopher Williams
Pages: 512-514
Published online: 17 Mar 2023
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TABLISMAN: Histoire de l’industrie sucrière de l’île Maurice
by Jean-Marie Chelin, Cassis, Mauritius, IPC Ltd., 2020, 353 pp.
David Lincoln
Pages: 514-515
Published online: 21 Mar 2023
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Youth on the Move: Views from Below on Ethiopian International Migration
edited by Asnake Kefale and Fana Gebresenbet, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, xviii + 312 pp.
Markus Roos Breines
Pages: 516-517
Published online: 09 Apr 2023
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