Operação Produção e a invenção dos “improductivos” urbanos no Moçambique Socialista, 1983-1988 Carlos Quembo, 2017, Maputo, Alcance Editores Collection “Regards Croisés França|Moçambique” In May 1983, Frelimo, the party-state which has been running the country since independence in 1975, implemented a nationwide policy aiming at transforming “urban unproductive people” into “rural productive people”, largely through agriculture, called […]

Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2017, 344 p. On the occasion of the launch of Raphaël Botiveau’s Organise or Die? Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers, the author will take part in a series of public discussions. This publication and the series are brought to […]

Circulations internationales et sociabilités citadines Catherine Fournet-Guérin Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, collection “Géographie Sociale”, 2017, 200 p. Ce livre s’intéresse au cosmopolitisme méconnu et pourtant ancien des villes d’Afrique au sud du Sahara, processus ravivé dans le cadre de la mondialisation depuis les années 1990. De ces mobilités et de ces échanges naissent des […]

A South African Heritage Site José Braga & John Francis Thackeray (ed.) African Sun Media, Stellenbosch, 2016, 111p. This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the ‘Cradle of Humankind’, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to […]

Investigation of an Archaeological Myth Jean-Loïc Le Quellec Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2016, 320p. This meticulous investigation, based around a famous rock image, the ‘White Lady’, makes it possible to take stock of the mythical presuppositions that infuse a great deal of scientific research, especially in the case of rock art studies. It also highlights […]

Memory, Humour & Resilience Armelle Gaulier, Denis-Constant Martin Cape Town, African Minds, 2017, 368p. “Cape Town’s public cultures can only be fully appreciated through recognition of its deep and diverse soundscape. We have to listen to what has made and makes a city. The ear is an integral part of the ‘research tools’ one needs […]

Elands Bay Cave and the Stone Age of the Verlorenvlei, South Africa John Parkington, Guillaume Porraz (ed.) Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2016, 306p. Elands Bay Cave is a small coastal rock shelter formed in quartzite that contained up to ca. 3 m of anthropogenic and geogenic deposits with archaeological materials dating to the Middle Stone Age […]

Geoffroy Heimlich Cambridge, Archaeopress, collection Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 95, 2017, vol.1, 196 p. et vol.2, 512 p. À la différence des arts rupestres du Sahara ou d’Afrique australe, ceux d’Afrique centrale restent encore aujourd’hui largement méconnus. Bien que signalé dès le XVIe par Diego del Santissimo Sacramento, l’art rupestre du Kongo Central n’a […]

Sylvy Jaglin, Alain Dubresson Cape Town, UCT Press, 2016, 196 p. Africa’s leading producer of electricity, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, is also a vertically integrated monopoly owned by the South African state. Eskom was shaken in 2008, when it was obliged to introduce ‘load shedding’, or rolling blackouts, and again in late 2014 . Since […]

Raphaël Porteilla, Judith Hayem, Marianne Séverin, Pierre-Paul Dika (dir.) Paris, L’Harmattan, 2016, 355p. Les récents revers électoraux du Congrès national africain (ANC) signent comme la clôture d’un cycle, ouvert il y a un peu plus de vingt ans avec la fin de l’apartheid. Tirées d’un colloque pluridisciplinaire tenu à Dijon en 2014, les contributions permettent […]