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Volume 3, Issue 1 (2016)

Editor's Preface

Editor's Preface

Complete Issue

JORA: Complete Volume 3, Issue 1

Articles

“God Was With Us:” Child Labor in Colonial Kenya, 1922 - 1950s
Samson K. Ndanyi

Establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation
Tokunbo A. Ayoola

From Inaction to Action: The World Health Organisation and Tobacco Control Policies in Nigeria Since 1970
Benjamin Uchenna Anaemene

Book Reviews

Aderinto, Saheed. When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958. University of Illinois Press, 2015, 264pp.
Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale

Ahlers, Theodore, Hiroshi Kato, Harinder Kohli, Callisto Madavo, and Anil Sood, eds. Africa 2050: Realizing the Continent’s Full Potential. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2014, 489 pp.
James Lance

Allan, Tony. Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa: Foreign Direct Investment and Food and Water Security. New York: Routledge, 2013, 488 pp.
Jennifer Yvette Terrell

Caminero-Santangelo, Byron. Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice and Political Ecology. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2014, 214 pp.
Anthony Kola-Olusanya

Candido, Mariana. An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland. Cambridge University Press, 2013, 366 pp.
Anthony A. Lee

Davie, Grace. Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015, 334 pp.
Sandy El Hage

Elischer, Sebastian. Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013, 336 pp.
Elizabeth Miller

Gros, Jean-Germain. Healthcare Policy in Africa: Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 283 pp.
Richard Ehui

French, Howard W. China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, 285 pp.
Richard Ehui

Hicks, Celeste. Africa’s New Oil: Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes. London: Zed, 2015, 239 pp.
Brad Crofford

Higgins, Maryellen. Hollywood’s Africa after 1994. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013, 288 pp.
Dawne Curry

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo. Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2013, 290 pp.
Jason Morgan

Parnell, Susan and Edgar Pieterse, eds. Africa’s Urban Revolution. London: Zed Books, 2014, 309 pp.
Bernard C. Moore

Stanard, Matthew. Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011, 387 pp.
Danielle Sanchez