Call for Critical Reviews

The Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique is inviting submissions for critical reviews of the following books. If you are interested in writing a review, please email cr.rhca@gmail.com with the following information: your last name, first name, university affiliation, field of expertise, phone number, email address, the book you are interested in reviewing, and your proposed deadline for submitting the review.

Philip Janzen, An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean, Duke University Press, 2025.

Bama Bapio Rosaire, La Namibie sous la domination de l’Eglise protestante et de l’Allemagne coloniale 1842-1915, L’Harmattan, 2024.

Benedeto Machava, The Morality of Revolution. Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique 1968-1990, Ohio University Press, 2024.

Jelmer Vos, Coffee and Colonialism in Angola, James Currey, 2025.

Jeffrey Ahlman, Ghana, a Political and Social History, Zed, 2024.

Charles Schaefer, Peace not War. Traditions of Restorative Justice in Imperial Ethiopia, James Currey, 2025.

Laure Pitti, Algériens au travail, une histoire (post)coloniale. Enquête sur les travailleurs immigrés de l’industrie automobile dans la France des « Trente Glorieuse », Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2025.

Joachim Goma-Thethet, les Cols bleus de Pointe Noire. La révolution congolaise au bout de la chanson. 1965-1972, L’Harmattan, 2024.

Kadiatou Konaté, Les mères de la liberté. Femmes et luttes pour l’indépendance en Guinée, L’Harmattan, 2025.

Hlonipha Mokoena, The Nightwatchman: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa, Witts University Press, 2025.

Jézéquel, Jean-Hervé. Les mangeurs de craies. Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2024.Bernault Florence, Henriet Benoît, Kalema Emery, Textures of Power. Central Africa in the Long Twentieth Century, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2025.

Wale Adebanwi, 2024 How to become a big man in Africa, Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria, Indiana University press.

Benjamin Badier, Mohammed V. Dernier sultant et premier roi du Maroc, Perrin, 2025.