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AllAfrica News: Book Listings and Reviews

• Africa: Israel in Africa - Transactional Politics and Medium-Sized States
  [African Arguments] Israel in Africa deals with the evolution of Israel's strategy in Africa under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, the country's prime minster since 2009. When I finished working on the book about a year ago, Israeli leaders seemed to be locked in a political battle whose outcomes were difficult to predict.
  
  
• Africa: Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics
  [African Arguments] Yotam Gidron's Israel in Africa is an important piece of scholarship. The book fills intellectual gaps in the field of African international relations in two significant respects. First, it provides an up-to-date accounting of Israeli engagement on the continent, capturing both historical trends and more recent developments during Benjamin Netanyahu's second stint as Prime Minister. Second, Gidron offers us insight into a type of external actor in Africa too often ignored in discussions of African internat
  
  
• Malawi: Journo Releases Book - 'Khobidi Malawi, the Power of Investment'
  [Nyasa Times] Alick Sichali, a journalists, who works for Ufulu Radio, has written a business book titled 'Khobidi Malawi, The Power of Investment' which is aimed at encouraging individuals to start investing by explaining its benefits and the whole investment journey.
  
  
• South Africa: Book Review - An Eternal Audience of One
  [New Frame] Set primarily in Windhoek, Rémy Ngamije's debut novel is a story of family, friendship and migration. Across six countries, it questions the idea and experience of home.
  
  
• Africa: Africa and Israel - Re-Opening the Debate
  [African Arguments] Israel's role in Africa is a blind spot within a blind spot. For an academic generation, Africa's relationship to the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula has been neglected, during which time scholarship on Africa and on the Middle East has travelled on parallel tracks, too rarely bridging the Red Sea.
  
  
• Southern Africa: 'The Night Trains' - a Masterly Study Into Southern Africa's Murderous Migrant System
  [The Conversation Africa] It would be a truism to say that the functions of trains in modern history have been diverse and multifarious. Steam engines were drivers of the British industrial revolution, and the motors of internal westward expansion in North America. Railways were instruments of imperial expansion, as exemplified in Cecil Rhodes' Cape-to-Cairo fantasy, and instruments of extermination, carrying Holocaust victims to their awful fate.
  
  
• Mali: Thirty-Five Years of Village Life in Mali
  [African Arguments] In one neat volume Camilla Toulmin has documented the deepest historic change that humanity makes; the change from hand-to-mouth diurnal farming to modern agriculture. The book's story is told through 35 years of one Sahelian village in the north of Mali, Dlonguebougou - DBG as it is called.
  
  
• Africa: Israel in Africa - Security, Migration, Interstate Politics - Book Launch Webinar
  [African Arguments] Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments.