Books for Review

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Available Titles

Amadiume, Ifi. 2024. African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice. London: Zed. 229 pp.

Andrikopoulos, Apostolos. 2023. Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 201 pp.

Brubeck, Darius and Cahterine Brubeck. 2024. Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 321 pp.

Byala, Sara. 2023. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 366 pp.

Canham, Hugo. 2023. Riotous Deathscapes. Durham: Duke University Press. 269 pp.

Chery, Tshepo. 2023. Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond. Durham: Duke University Press. 247 pp.

Cleveland, Todd. 2024. Africa and the Olympics: Winning Away from the Podium. Athens: Ohio University Press. 220 pp. 

Deets, Mark. 2023. A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal. Athens: Ohio University Press. 289 pp.

Figueiredo, Estrela and Gideon F. Smith. 2024. Plant Collectors in Angola: Botany, Exploration, and History in South-Tropical Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 354 pp.

Gardner, Tom. 2024. The Abiy Project: God, Power, and War in the New Ethiopia. London: Hurst & Company. 423 pp.

Godlewski, Joseph. The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements. New York: Routledge. 291 pp.

Harsch, Ernest. 2024. Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana. Athens: Ohio University Press. 365 pp.

Hecht, Gabrielle. 2023. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham: Duke University Press. 269 pp.

Hoffmann, Anette. 2024. Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918). Durham: Duke University Press. 209 pp.

Honke, Jana et al. (eds.). 2024. Africa’s Global Infrastructure: South-South Transformations in Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 331 pp.

Hudani, Shakirah E. 2024. Master Plans & Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 247 pp.

Hunt, Nancy. 2024. Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness. Durham: Duke University Press. 345 pp.

Jean-Baptiste, Rachel. 2023. Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 309 pp.

Khisa, Moses. 2024. Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda: Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control. London: Zed. 297 pp.

Kithinji, Michael Mwenda. 2024. Historical Dictionary of Kenya (fourth edition). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 569 pp.

Kleibl, Tanja. 2023. Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique. London: Zed. 193 pp.

Kunz, Sarah. 2023. Expatriate: Following a Migration Category. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 304 pp.

LaRocco, Annette. 2024. The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Athens: Ohio University Press. 394 pp.

Ly, Aliou. 2024. Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War: De-gendering the History of Anticolonial Struggle. London: Zed. 199 pp.

Mangeni, Francis and Andrew Mold. 2024. Borderless Africa: A Sceptic's Guide to the Continental Free Trade Area. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 417pp.

Marr, Stephen and Patience Mususa (eds.). 2024. DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice. London: Bloomsbury. 235 pp.

Moitt, Bernard. 2024. Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 223 pp.

Morier-Genoud, Eric. 2023. Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique. New York: Oxford University Press. 240 pp.

Mudimbe, Valentin-Yves. 2023. The Scent of the Father. Cambridge: Polity. 215 pp.

Newell, Stephanie. 2023. Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s-1960s. Woodbridge: James Curry. 213 pp.

Niehuus, Rachel. 2024. An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo. Durham: Duke University Press. 201 pp.

Osborn, Myles (ed.). 2024. Making Martial Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 337 pp.

Otim, Patrick. 2024. Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850-1960. Athens: Ohio University Press. 288 pp.

Paoletti, Giulia. 2024. Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 230 pp.

Paustian, Megan. 2024. Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination. New York: Fordham University Press. 276 pp.

Pendle, Naomi. 2023. Spiritual Contestations: The Violence of Peace in South Sudan. Rochester: James Currey. 306 pp.

Raeymaekers, Timothy. 2024. The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 227 pp.

Ray, Daren. 2024. Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 329 pp.

Rubner, Nat. 2023. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Political, Intellectual & Cultural Origins (vol. one). Rochester: James Curry. 666 pp.

Rubner, Nat. 2023. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The Political Process (vol. two). Woodbridge: James Curry. 514 pp.

Sarro, Ramon. 2023. Inventing and African Alphabet: Writing Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 199 pp.

Schilling, Hannah. 2023. Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan: Young Men and the Digital Economy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 221 pp.

Schmidt, Mario. 2024. Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City. Woodbridge: James Curry. 174 pp.

Siddiqi, Anooradha. 2024. Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement. Durham: Duke University Press.412 pp.

Sigma, Rachel. 2023. Parties, Political Finance, and Government in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 310 pp.

Straus, Scott and Tripp Aili Mari. 2024. The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa. Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 307 pp.

Traore, Makhroufi. 2024. Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethics-State of Gajaaga. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 459 pp.

Trefon, Theodore. 2023. Bushmeat: Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. 264 pp.

Vaziri, Parisa. 2023. Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 354 pp.

Williams, Elizabet. 2024. Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya. Durham: Duke University Press. 235 pp.

Woolner, Christina. 2023. Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 247 pp.

Ylonen, Alksi. 2024. The Horn Engaging the Gulf: Economic Diplomacy and Statecraft in Regional Relations. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 260 pp.

Young, Hershini. 2023. Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance. New York: New York University Press. 306 pp.