17 books to read from 2021
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Dear friends of This Week in Africa,
We are considering migrating our newsletter to a new platform. Before we do so, we want to try a few posts to make sure it has the functionality we need. Check out our list of 17 books to read from 2021 which comes from our Top Africa Stories of the Year 2021. If you have any suggestions on newsletter templates or platforms, send an email to jpaller@usfca.edu.
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Jeff and Phil
The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: How the State Shapes Private Governance
By Shelby Grossman
War and Genocide in South Sudan
By Clemence Pinaud
Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation
By Jeffrey S. Ahlman
The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid
By Kevin O’Sullivan
A Theory of African Constitutionalism
By Berihun Adugna Gebeye
Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa
By Stephanie Diepeveen
African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics
By Cajetan Iheka
Salafism and Political Order in Africa
By Sebastian Elischer
Rethinking Smart Urbanism: City-Making and the Spread of Digital Infrastructure in Nairobi
By Prince K. Guma
Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia’s Somali Region
By Lauren Carruth
By Martha Wilfahrt
Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display
By Lee Ann Fujii
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra
By Anima Adjepong
Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda
By Ulrike Krause
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability
By Jacob Doherty
When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans
By Sharath Srinivasan
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
By Joshua D. Rubin