AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood by Robert Wyrod Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016. Pp. 304. £24·95 (pbk).

Abstract

speaking about what it means to be a 'good' patron and lover. Further, the author's explicit avoidance of 'postmodern approaches that place researchers in the picture at every turn', (p. ) does away with the affective sides of the complex and unstable patronage relationships that he claims are different from what dependency-theorists have described. Trapido's breadth of knowledge about Congolese history, politics and popular culture is remarkable and this book will no doubt be of interest to readers in African studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, political economy and comparative politics.