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African Studies Review 67.4 is out! The latest issue features thought-provoking articles on a variety of topics, including decoloniality, wartime Biafran art, the Sudan crisis, and "science" as a keyword in African Studies. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Call for Proposals: ASR seeks keyword essays for the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting, New Orleans. Engage emerging trends & topics for a broad Africanist audience through critical terms. Peer-reviewed; publication opportunity. Submit by March 13: ow.ly/VcKz50YgzP2

Chijioke Onah’s ASR article “#BringBackOurGirls,” from our vol. 67, no. 2, has been named a finalist for the ASWAD Article Prize, which honours outstanding scholarship on Africa and/or the African Diaspora. Congratulations, Chijioke! @kizichiji cambridge.org/core/journals/…

In this issue’s In Memoriam section, Aliko Songolo, Anjali Prabhu, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, & Tsitsi Jaji each pay tribute to the late Congolese philosopher & writer V. Y. Mudimbe. Read their thoughtful contributions here: tinyurl.com/6sfz5u4u

Reviewing recent works that focus on “governance deficit in public authority” in Nigeria and Ghana, Bernard Nwosu examines the relationship of such fragility to the “current condition of the political state in Africa.” doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

Jennifer Lofkrantz, Bréma Ely Dicko, and Chitra Nagarajan examine how an individual’s perceived positionality affects their response to the evocation of historical memory in the Katiba Macina and Boko Haram-related conflicts. doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

Using the concept of “deep listening,” Fauziyatu Moro and Reginold A. Royston examine “podcasting, as a technology of sound…for the way its content resonates with listeners in Africa, with and beyond the physical aspects of hearing.” doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

Despite similarly undelivered promises, Pritish Behuria documents how “the ‘democratic’ Mauritian and Botswana governments were more flexible in adapting their luxury tourism strategies than the ‘authoritarian’ Rwandan government. ow.ly/NRbA50Y58EU

Hangala Siachiwena challenges “the narrow framing of [former Zambian president Michael] Sata as a populist” and instead, “situates his politics within broader debates on development in post-adjustment Africa.” doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

Mahder Serekberhan discusses the central importance of working peoples’ nonhierarchical coordination to the success of the 2018/2019 Sudanese Uprising, an essay for which she won the 2023 ASA Graduate Student Paper Prize. doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

The latest ASR issue (68.4) is now out! Like ASA’s recent 68th meeting, this issue “highlights the rich panoply of research into the urgent questions and issues besetting African societies.” Read the Editors' Introduction here: ow.ly/burI50Y55qf.

African Studies Review is celebrating some incredible prize winners at the 2025 Annual Meeting! Join us in congratulating these exceptional scholars and attend the celebration at 12:00pm Friday, Nov. 21 at the ASR Distinguished Lecture in Atlanta.

Erin Pettigrew and Mark Drury offer an anthropological history of the Kadehine, a clandestine Mauritanian cultural and political movement, arguing that its “ethos and organizing principles constituted, and were made possible by, a ‘political underground.’” doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

Desmond Fonseca relies on neglected archives and documents of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde to “highlight that the impact of the political-organizational model of Lenin was an early source of inspiration” for its leaders. doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

In studying the underground republication and repurposing of Lamine Senghor’s work during the long 1960s, Fatoumata Seck “elucidate[s] transtemporal forms of anti-imperial solidarity and the role of literary texts in such a configuration.” doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

Focusing on Brazilian Thereza Santos and the role of poetry in anti-colonial solidarity, C. Darius Gordon "explores the production and circulation of [Portuguese Negritude] to think through [its] reach, legacies, and limits...within a Lusophone context." doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

Sten Hagberg highlights “the public presence of the underground” through a detailed analysis of the Marxist-Leninist party, Parti communiste révolutionnaire voltaïque, in Burkina Faso, emphasizing its ongoing influence in anti-imperialist struggles. doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

In her study of the African National Congress’ strategy of recruiting young, “white,” non-South African individuals from 1967 onward, Birgit Englert “examines how [the recruits] exploited their white privilege to support the liberation struggle.” doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

The latest ASR issue (68.3) is now out! It features a forum on Decolonization and Cultural Underground guest edited by Mark Drury, Erin Pettigrew, and Fatoumata Seck. Read more in the Editors’ Introduction here: doi.org/10.1017/asr.20….

The awards committee also selected one article for honorable mention: Christopher Tounsel, "A Tale of Two Divestments: South Africa, Sudan and Howard University." ASR 67.3 (September 2024): 590-609. doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…

The final ASR prize this year is our Best Article Prize, and we are happy to announce that this year’s winner is Charles Lwanga, "'Watch Your Tone!': Bobi Wine's 'Tugambire ku Jennifer' and the Kampala Street Vendors." ASR 67.4 (December 2024): 920-940. doi.org/10.1017/asr.20…