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Just last week, I was reading in Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué's book about the Anlu Rebellion, which involved women from the Bamenda Grassfields "stripping naked in front of men" who "considered the sign of the vagina in public to be a bad portent".
Just last week, I was reading in Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué's book about the Anlu Rebellion, which involved women from the Bamenda Grassfields "stripping naked in front of men" who "considered the sign of the vagina in public to be a bad portent".
I'll have a review of Mougoué's @UofMPress book, "Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in #Cameroon" in this week's installment of the @monkeycageblog's African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular. #APSRS20 press.umich.edu/9955318/gender…
Until then, you can hear her interviewed by @thiamm about her book on the @NewBooksAfrica podcast:
Together w/@texasinafrica, I'm excited to share with you the many great books on African politics that we'll be reading as part of the 7th annual @monkeycageblog African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular (#APSRS20): washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Our first book in #APSRS20 will be featured next week and is @BeattyRiedl and @GManMac's From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa, published by @CUP_PoliSci cambridge.org/us/academic/su… 
Following that, we'll have a review of the timely and important new book by @SimuChigudu, also published by @CUP_PoliSci: The Political Life of an Epidemic
Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe cambridge.org/us/academic/su… #APSRS20
Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe cambridge.org/us/academic/su… #APSRS20
