Issue 2 – Aug, 2023

Volume 7 (2023), Issue 2 # 1-9
These reviews may be found on the Research Africa Reviews website.

RA Reviews’ Editorial Voice:

France Has Always Been a Problem for Africa: A Conversation Long Overdue in America.
Written by: Mbaye Lo, Duke University.

#1 Book: The Gambia in transition towards a new constitutional order.
Author: Satang Nabaneh, Adem Adebe, and Gaye Sowe (editors). Year: 2022.
Reviewed by: Reem Abohussien, researcher in African politics, Egypt.

#2 Book: The Gambia in transition towards a new constitutional order.
Author: Satang Nabaneh, Adem Adebe, and Gaye Sowe (editors). Year: 2022.
Reviewed by: Tadesse Melaku, Deakin University, Australia.

#3 Book: History of Yorubaland. An Abridged English Translation of Azhār ar-Rubā fī akhbār Bilād Yawrubā.
Author: Shaykh Mustapha Zuglool Sanūsī. Year: 2023
Reviewed by: Professor Amidu Olalekan SANNI, Lagos State University.

#4 Book: Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention.
Author: Leonardo R. Arriola, Lise Rakner, and Nicolas van de Walle (editors). Year: 2023.
Reviewed by: Hamdy A. Hassan, Political Science, Zayed University, UAE.

#5 Book: Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History.
Author: Stephen, Rhiannon. Year: 2022.
Review by: Addis Gedefaw Birhanu, Emlyon Business School, France.

#6 Book: Oil-Age Africa: Critical Reflections on Oil Politics, Resource Economies and Extractive Communities.
Author: Jannik Schritt and Annika Witte. Year: 2023.
Reviewed by: Bourouayah Mohamed, Former Vice-president of Emir Abdelkader University, Constantine, Algeria.

#7 Book: Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence.
Author: Brahim El Guabli. Year: 2023.
Reviewed by: Nathaniel Mathews, SUNY-Binghamton.

#8: Conference Report: Illicit Financial Flows and Tax Injustice in Africa: A Brief Report.
Written by: Muhammed Haron, Former Professor of Religious Studies: University of Botswana & Associate Researcher: Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

#9 Literature Review: Gender Apartheid in Mosques: Al-Qarwīyīn Mosque in Fez as a Case in Point.
Written by: Loubna Belmekki, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco.

Review Team
Editor-In-Chief & Associate Editors
• Muhammed Haron, Former Professor of Religious Studies: University of Botswana & Associate Researcher: Stellenbosch University, South Africa. (haronm@hotmail.com). (Editor-In-Chief);
• Wendy Wilson-Fall, Professor and Chair, Africana Studies Program Oeschle Center for International Education, Lafayette College (wilsonfw@lafayette.edu);
• Hassan Juma Ndzovu, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Moi University, Kenya (hassan.ndzovu@gmail.com);
• Bamba Drame, PhD, Dar El Hadith El Hassaniya Institute, Rabat Morocco, (ndrame.online@gmail.com);
Alinah Segobye, Professor, Northwest University, South Africa & Botswana, (alinah.segobye@gmail.com);
Ifeyinwa Okolo, Associate Professor, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria, (sweeteve222@gmail.com);
• Hamdy Hassan, Professor of political science, Cairo University, Egypt & Zayd University, UAE (hamdy.hassan@zu.ac.ae).
• Mbaye Lo, Associate Professor of the Practice, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and International Comparative Studies, Duke University; (mbayelo@duke.edu).

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