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Volume 2, Issue 1 (2015)

Editor's Preface

The Editor's Preface

Complete Issue

JORA: Complete Volume 2, Issue 1

Articles

Leadership and African Agency for Development in Post-Fifty Africa
Chikwendu C. Ukaegbu

The Dual Image of the Aro in Igbo Development History: An Aftermath of their Role in the Slave Trade
Ndu Life Njoku

Beyond Political Islam: Nigeria, the Boko Haram Crisis and the Imperative of National Consensus
Simeon Onyemachi Hilary Alozieuwa Dr.

Book Reviews

Adebajo, Adekeye. Africa's Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent. United Kingdom: Zed Books, 2014. 336pp.
Myra A. Houser

Arsan, Andrew. Interlopes of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2014. 341pp.
Kathryn Green

Boucher, Claude (Chisale). When Animals Sing and Spirits Dance: Gule Wamkulu: The Great Dance of the Chewa People of Malawi. Mtakataka: Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art, 2012. 276pp.
Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe

Carrier, Neil and Gernot Klantschnig. Africa and the War On Drugs. London: Zed Books, 2012. 176pp.
Ogechukwu Ezekwem

Cheru, Fantu, and Renu Modi, eds. Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa: The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments. New York: Zed Books, 2013. 263pp.
Jenn Dye

Gallagher, Julia. Britain and Africa under Blair: In Purity of the Good State. Manchester University Press, 2011. 166pp.
Myles Osborne

Giles-Vernick, Tamara and James L. A. Webb Jr., eds. Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. 246pp.
Chau Johnsen Kelly

Hammar, Amanda. Displacement Economies in Africa: Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity. Zed Books, 2014. 260pp.
Mac Dixon-Fyle

Heaton, Matthew M. Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. 249pp
David C. Jones

Kinyanjui, Mary N. Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre. London: Zed Books, 2013. 140pp.
Kristeen Chachage

Muehlenbeck, Philip E. Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 333pp.
Danielle Sanchez

O’Sullivan, Kevin. Ireland, Africa and the End of Empire: Small State Identity in the Cold War, 1955-75. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2012. 230pp.
Timothy A. Nicholosn

Resnick, Danielle and Nicholas van de Walle, eds. Democratic Trajectories in Africa: Unravelling the Impact of Foreign Aid. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 310pp.
Chris W J Roberts

Spiers, Edward. The Victorian Soldier in Africa: Studies in Imperialism. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2013. 212pp. [Book Review]
Samson K. Ndanyi

Takougang, Joseph. Cameroonian Immigrants in the United States: Between the Homeland and the Diaspora. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014. 143pp.
Olanipekun Laosebikan

Terretta, Meredith. Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grasslands Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. 367pp.
Michael G. Panzer

Wendland, Claire L. A Heart for the Work: Journeys Through an African Medical School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 330pp.
Iruka N. Okeke

Youngstedt, Scott M. Surviving with Dignity: Hausa Communities of Niamey, Niger. United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2013. 226pp.
Lori De Lucia