May 19, 2008
Africa: Putting Human Faces on HIV/Aids
The widely acclaimed book, 28: Stories of Aids in Africa, has been highly praised for humanizing the story of HIV and Aids in Africa for readers around the world. The book tells… Read more »
November 28, 2007
Nigeria: A New Publisher, Creating a New Industry
When Bibi Bakare-Yusuf holds her two reviewers' copies of Kemi's Journal—one printed in India and one in Nigeria—side by side, the difference is night and day. Read more »
October 11, 2007
Africa: Philippe Wamba - New Pan-African Generation
"This book is about my own journey along the fault lines of African/African American relations and the wider historical relationship between black Americans and their… Read more »
October 09, 2007
Africa: "Faces Filled with Joy" - The 1994 South African Election
Gail Hovey first went to South Africa in 1966 on the Frontier Internship Program of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. While there, she continued her relationship with the… Read more »
October 04, 2007
Africa: "South Africa Is Next to Namibia": The Lutheran Connection
Dubuque, Iowa, might seem an unlikely hotbed of Southern African organizing, but National Namibia Concerns based at Wartburg Theological Seminary mobilized more than 10,000… Read more »
Africa: Jennifer Davis: Clarity, Determination, and Coalition Building
Jennifer Davis and George Houser had been colleagues for more than a decade when he retired from the American Committee on Africa in 1981 and she became the organization's… Read more »
October 02, 2007
Africa: Sylvia Hill - From the Sixth Pan-African Congress to the Free South Africa Movement
Sylvia Hill and her fellow local activists in the Southern Africa Support Project were at the heart of the Free South Africa Movement that brought demonstrators to be arrested at… Read more »
September 28, 2007
Africa: Robert Van Lierop: A Luta Continua
Bob Van Lierop doesn't know how many copies of his film A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) were made, or how many times it was shown. But there is no doubt that for many… Read more »
September 27, 2007
Africa: Durham, Durban, and AllAfrica
AllAfrica.com is the largest free access source of African news on the World Wide Web. By 2007 it was posting some 1,000 stories daily from African newspapers and other sources.… Read more »
September 25, 2007
Africa: Taking the Lead on Africa in the U.S Congress
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were the two key government institutions in Washington… Read more »
September 24, 2007
Africa: From Tanzania to Kansas and Back Again
In this essay, written for the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the publisher Walter Bgoya tells of his years… Read more »
September 21, 2007
Africa: From Atlanta to East Africa
In an excerpt from the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, journalist Charles Cobb Jr. tells of a meeting with… Read more »
September 10, 2007
Africa: Violence in Developing Countries
As violence and war grip societies all over the world, social scientists, economists and scholars are rushing to answer the question "why?" Several explanations of the… Read more »
Africa: Resistance to Modernization in Africa
The effectiveness of aid and development policies in Africa is almost always measured by scholars and policymakers. Similarly, support of or resistance to such policies is usually… Read more »
June 21, 2007
Africa: A Guide to Reference Material on Africa South of the Sahara
Information about Africa is best accessible to scholars and journalists when available data is organized and widely distributed. The work under review is built upon a historical… Read more »
June 12, 2007
Tanzania: Down the Road to Neo-Liberalism
Issa Shivji, one of Tanzania's premier scholars, has published a new book which provides an introspective look at contemporary politics and social change in Tanzania during a… Read more »
May 07, 2007
Ethiopia: Reflection of a Refugee's Life in America
A new novel by Ethiopian author Dinaw Mengestu tells the story of one Ethiopian refugee's struggle for self-definition and motivation in a world of competing demands and… Read more »
March 26, 2007
Senegal: The Doors of Senegal: Les Portes Du Senegal
This book reminded me two people I used to see at my literature class at the University of Paris VIII. Read more »
January 31, 2007
Africa: Blood Diamonds
Greg Campbell's Blood Diamonds is a detailed and long needed look at blood/conflict diamonds. The book inspired the film Blood Diamond, and research from the book was used in the… Read more »
January 08, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: Review of Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System - An Afrocentric Analysis
In this short book, Peta Ikambana attempts to offer an Afro-centric analysis of the Mobutu regime, which ruled over Zaire (today's DRC) from 1965 to 1997. The book's premise holds… Read more »
December 15, 2006
Africa: African Students in the Urban U.S. High School
The books talks of the social conflicts between African and African American students at an American high school. The authors of the book conducted studies and workshops with… Read more »
December 06, 2006
Africa: Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Sex Practices in Africa
This book is a compilation of articles on the experiences of lesbian women in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. The stories were born out of the… Read more »
Africa: Adjustment Problems of African Students at Public Universities in America
The basis and rationale for this book is great. It is mean to be a tool for African students wishing to study in the United States. The book begins with steps to take after one… Read more »
November 08, 2006
South Africa: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa
We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 Read more »
September 29, 2006
Africa: The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources
The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources Read more »