Volume 5, Issue 3 – December 2021

Volume 5 (2021), Issue 3 # 1-9

These reviews may be found on the RA Reviews website at:

RA Reviews’ Editorial Voice:
Calling Back the Past, Casting Sights on the Future.
By the Editorial Team.

#1 Obituary: Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu’s Black Prophetic Fire for Justice.
Tribute by: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South University of Bayreuth, Germany.

#2 Obituary: Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021): Prophetic Witness for Social Justice.
Tribute by: A. Rashied Omar, the University of Notre Dame.

#3 Obituary Essay: Reviewing Tutu: A Man of the Cloth, A Man of Integrity.
Reviewed by: Muhammed Haron, Associate Researcher at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

#4 Book: Sports in Africa, Past and Present.
Author: Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, and Gerard Akindes, eds., 2020.
Reviewed by: Mark W. Deets, Department of History, The American University in Cairo.

#5 Book: Birthing Black Mothers.
Author: Jennifer C. Nash. Year: 2021.
Reviewed by: Oyinade Adekunle, McMaster University.

#6 Book: Foreign Policy as Nation Making: Turkey & Egypt in the Cold War.
Author: El-Fadl, Reem. Year: 2018.
Reviewed by: Driss Bouyahya, Associate Professor at Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco.

#7 Book: Chadian Sister Engages Kansas City Youth about Peace and Justice.
Author: Nelkem Jeannette Londadjim, 2020.
Reviewed by: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine.

#8 Book: Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism.
Author: Aaron G. Jake, 2020.
Reviewed by: Addis Gedefaw Birhanu, Emlyon Business School, France.

#9 Exhibition Review: Talismanic writing practices from Northern Nigeria. Naples (Italy).
Curated by: Andrea Brigaglia, African Studies, the University of Naples. 7th of May-21 of July 2021.
Reviewed by: Barbara Fiore, lecturer of Anthropology, the University of Naples, Italy.

Review Team
Editor-In-Chief & Associate Editors:
• Muhammed Haron, Associate Researcher, University of Stellenbosch
(haronm@hotmail.com). (Editor-In-Chief);
• Wendy Wilson-Fall, Associate Professor and Chair, Africana Studies Program Oeschle Center for International Education, Lafayette College (wilsonfw@lafayette.edu);
• Hassan Juma Ndzovu, Associate professor, Department of Religious Studies, Moi University, Kenya (hassan.ndzovu@gmail.com);
• Yunus Dumbe, PhD. Religious Studies Department, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana, (ydumbe@gmail.com);
• Badr Abdelfattah Badr, PhD. Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (badr_elkafy@edu.asu.edu.eg);
• Bamba Drame, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniyya Institute, Rabat, Morocco, (ndrame.online@gmail.com);
• Mbaye Lo, Associate Professor of the Practice, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies & International Comparative Studies, Duke University; (mbayelo@duke.edu).

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