Journal of Retracing Africa Volume 2 | Issue 1 Article 2 January 2016 JORA: Complete Volume 2, Issue 1 Follow this and additional works at: https://encompass.eku.edu/jora Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation . "JORA: Complete Volume 2, Issue 1." Journal of Retracing Africa: Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2015): i-125. https://encompass.eku.edu/jora/ vol2/iss1/2 This Complete Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Retracing Africa by an authorized editor of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. JORA: Complete Volume 2, Issue 1 Cover Page Footnote Special thanks are due to our authors and book reviewers for their dedication, and for trusting us with their manuscripts. Many thanks to our readers for revising the manuscripts with care and intelligence. Without the dedication of members of the editorial team, this volume would not have appeared. Thank you. I am especially indebted to Drs. Tiffany F. Jones and Tamba M’bayo for accepting more than their fair share of responsibilities to ensure that this volume is published. This volume, more importantly, benefited from the unrelenting support of Berkeley Electronic Press, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, University Programs at Eastern Kentucky University, the African/African-American Studies program and the Department of History at Eastern Kentucky University. I appreciate them. This complete issue is available in Journal of Retracing Africa: https://encompass.eku.edu/jora/vol2/iss1/2 Journal of Retracing Africa VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1 FALL 2015 ISSN 2333-3081 JOURNAL OF RETRACING AFRICA (JORA) Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Ogechi E. Anyanwu Eastern Kentucky University, USA Copy Editor: Associate Editor: Dr. Tiffany F. 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Anyanwu, [email protected], or Editorial Assistant, Alexandra Szarabajko, [email protected] ii | JORA JOURNAL OF RETRACING AFRICA (JORA) Volume 2 Number 1 Fall 2015 ___________________________________________________ Table of Contents Editor’s Preface (v-vii) Articles Leadership and African Agency for Development in Post-Fifty Africa Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu (1-28). The Dual Image of the Aro in Igbo Development History: An Aftermath of their Role in the Slave Trade Ndu Life Njoku (29-48). Beyond Political Islam: Nigeria, the Boko Haram Crisis and the Imperative of National Consensus Simeon H. O. Alozieuwa (49-72). Book Reviews Adebajo, Adekeye, ed. Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Laureates of African Descent. Cape Town: Zed Books, 2014, iii + 336 pp. Review by Myra Ann Houser (73-75). Arsan, Andrew. Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, xviii + 341 pp. Review by Kathryn Green (76-77). 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. xxviii + 276 pp. Review by Ibigbolade Aderibigbe (78-79). Carrier, Neil and Gernot Klantschnig. Africa and the War on Drugs. London: Zed Books, 2012, i + 176 pp. Review by Ogechukwu Ezekwem (80-82). Cheru, Fantu and Renu Modi, eds. Agricultural Development and Food Security in Journal of Retracing Africa, Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2015 http://encompass.eku.edu/jora/ JORA | iii Africa: The Impact of Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian Investments. New York: Zed Books, 2013, xiii + 263 pp. Review by Jennifer Dye (83-85). Gallagher, Julia. Britain and Africa Under Blair: In Pursuit of the Good State. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011, viii + 166 pp. Review by Myles Osborne (86-88). Giles-Vernick, Tamara and James L.A. Webb Jr, eds. Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013, 1 + 246 pp. Review by Chau Johnsen Kelly (89-91). Hammar, Amanda, ed. Displacement Economies in Africa: Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity. London: Zed Books, 2014, vii + 260 pp. Review by Mac Dixon-Fyle (92-95). Heaton, Matthew M. Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization and the Globalization of Psychiatry. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013, x + 249 pp. Review by David Crawford Jones (96-98). Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri. Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: from the Margins to the Centre. London: Zed Books, 2014, x + 140 pp. Review by Kristeen Chachage (99-101). Muehlenbeck, Philip E. Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xxi + 333 pp. Review by Danielle Porter Sanchez (102-104). O’Sullivan, Kevin. Ireland, Africa and the End of Empire: Small