Issue 15 | March 2018

A Special Feature, Beyond Eurafrica: Encounters in a Globalized World

• Introduction by  Hélène B. Ducros

Research

• “Eurafrica: History of European Integration, ‘Compromise’ of Decolonization” by Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson

• “A Forgotten Colony: Equatorial Guinea and Spain” by Adriana Chira

• “African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: An Aesthetic Approach” by Annalisa Butticci

• “Behind the Humanitarian Crisis in the Mediterranean: Five Years After Lampedusa, Political Incoherence and Dysfunction Continues to Kill” by Anna Arnone and David O’Kane

• “Family Allowances and the Principle of Universalism in Post-War Morocco” by Margaret Andersen

• “Between Hammer, Machete, and Kalashnikov: Contract Labor Migration from Angola and Mozambique to East Germany, 1979-1990” by Marcia Schenck

• “Layering Over the Wounds of Algeria in Contemporary Pied-Noir Art” by Amy L. Hubbell

• “International Collaboration and Rivalry in the Early Fight Against Rinderpest” by Thaddeus Sunseri

• “Scrambling for Africa, Again: Germans in Kenya” by Nina Berman

• “A Brief History of Dutch in Africa” by Michael Meeuwis

Commentary

• “Gabon and the Enduring Legacies of France’s Françafrique System in Francophone Africa” by Daniel Mengara

• “Eurafrica is Dead. In Fact, it Never Existed” by Veit Bachmann

Fiction

• Excerpt from Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan Alagbé, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

• Excerpt from Lalana by Michèle Rakotoson, translated from the French by Allison M. Charette

• “Jujube” by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, translated from the Italian by Hope Campbell Gustafson

• “Saving Agu’s Wife” by Chika Unigwe

Poetry

• Five poems by Mohammed Kaïr-Eddine, translated from the French by Baba Badji

• Five poems by Léopold Sedar Senghor, translated from the French by Baba Badji

• Nine Poems by Tanella Boni, translated by Todd Fredson

• Three Poems by Nathan Trantraal, translated from the Afrikaans by Alice Inggs

• A Prose-Poem Series by Vincent Broqua, translated from the French by Cole Swensen

Reviews

• Boys Quarter by Chukwuma Ndulue, reviewed by Naomi Falk

• Three Plastic Rooms, reviewed by Andrei Rogatchevski

• Decolonization: A Short History, reviewed by Michael Collins

• Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics, reviewed by Yousuf Al-Bulushi

• The Borders of Europe: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering, reviewed by Ozden Ocak

• Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality, reviewed by Séverin Guillard

• Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far From Jihad, reviewed by Christopher Tozzi

Interviews

• “African Diasporas in Europe (and Beyond): A Conversation Between Two Anthropologists” by Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg and Alma Gottlieb

• “Confronting the Dilemmas of Peacekeeping in Africa: An Interview with Joachim Koops” by Sherman Teichman     

Visual Art

• It Dwells Within, an art series curated by Kayla Maiuri

Editor’s Pick

• Why Europe Intervenes in Africa: Security, Prestige and the Legacy of Colonialism, recommended by Hélène B. Ducros

• The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany, recommended by Louie Dean Valencia-García

• EU-China-Africa Trilateral Relations in a Multipolar World: Hic Sunt Dracones, recommended by Mihai Sebe

• The Politics of Supranational Banking Supervision in Europe, recommended by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

Campus Spotlight: Brandeis University

• “Language, Affect, and Everyday Experience in Post-colonial Africa: An interview with Janet McIntosh” by Hélène Ducros

• Syllabus: “Colonialism and Postcoloniality in Africa: Encounters and Dilemmas” by Janet McIntosh

• Syllabus: “Race, Sex, and Colonialism” by Carina E. Ray