Africa

Papers
(The median citation count of Africa is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Peer Schouten, Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £64.99 – 978 1 108 49401 4; pb £22.99 – 978 1 108 71381 8). 2022, 299 pp.10
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Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya9
Nomi Dave, The Revolution’s Echoes, Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$89 – 978 0 226 65446 1; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 65463 8). 2019, 195 pp. - Adri8
Nic Leonhardt and Christopher B. Balme (eds), Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, Networks, Experts. London: UCL Press (hb £55 – 978 1 80008 576 3; pb £30 – 978 1 80008 575 6). 2024,7
‘Why invite her here? Her voice is ʿawra!’: vocal nudity debates and Muslim female preachers in northern Nigeria7
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How to think politically about epidemics: a retrospective and a rejoinder6
Response by the author - James H. Smith, The Eyes of the World: Mining in the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$95 – 978 0 226 77435 0; pb US$33 – 976
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation5
Kundai Manamere, Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890–2015. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 8214 2585 5; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2586 2). 20255
From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic5
Paradigm-breaking pandemics, old academic politics5
Joshua Grace, African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$119.95 – 978 1 4780 1059 3; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 4780 1171 2). 2021, xiii + 4164
Daniel E. Agbiboa, They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £75 – 978 0 19 886154 6). 2022, 288 pp.4
Precarity as infrastructure: displacement, everyday governance and the ordinary politics of waiting in Benue State, Nigeria4
Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville4
Pandemic masculinity: urban low-income men and the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria4
Sarah G. Phillips, When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$36.95 – 978 1 5017 4715 1). 2020, 256 pp.4
José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £50 – 978 1 108 83823 8; pb £25.99 – 94
Juliette Leeb-du Toit, Ruth Simbao and Ross Anthony (eds), Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgression. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (pb ZAR 600/US$80 – 978 1 773
A response to reviews of the book José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century3
Controlling the narratives: three generations of Zarma genealogists and historian-griots from Niger confronting recording and digitization3
Cheikh Anta Babou, The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2437 7; pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2467 4). 2021, xvii + 318 pp.3
Introduction: the social life of music files3
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Time and title deeds in post-reform agrarian Kenya3
Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives. Cambridge: Polity (hb £50 – 978 1 5095 4779 1; pb £15.99 – 978 1 5095 4780 7). 2021, 296 pp.3
Amy Niang, The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty. London: Rowman and Littlefield (hb US$138/£106 – 978 1 78660 652 5; pb US$47/£36 – 978 1 78660 653 2). 20183
Maria Abranches, Food Connections: Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 80073 372 5). 2022, 192 pp.3
Ironies of accomplishment: negative aspiration, economic resentment and the myth of the middle class on Nairobi’s new urban outskirts3
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Alice Franck, Barbara Casciarri and Idris Salim El-Hassan (eds), In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution. Space and Place, Volume 20. Ne2
Marissa Mika, Africanizing Oncology: creativity, crisis, and cancer in Uganda. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2465 0; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2509 1). 2021, 260 pp.2
Annalena Kolloch, Faire la magistrature au Bénin: Careers, Self-Images and Independence of the Beninese Judiciary (1894–2016). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (pb €59.80 – 978 3 89645 847 6). 2022, 248 2
Discrimination and social identity: interrogating the impact of local lingua francas on inclusion politics in public institutions in Nigeria2
Allen F. Isaacman, Joy M. Chadya and Barbara S. Isaacman, Elusive Histories: Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca. 1900–1980. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 8214 2574 9; pb 2
Karine Ginisty, Services Urbains et Justice Spatiale à Maputo (Urban Services and Spatial Justice in Maputo). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre (hb €23 – 978 2 84016 379 4). 2021, 354 pp2
Uroš Kovač, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 927 3). 2022, 220 pp.2
Downward social mobility among young Ghanaian digital entrepreneurs: navigating family expectations and digital start-up dreams2
Jennifer Hart, Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 253 06932 0; pb US$45 – 978 2
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‘I can’t segregate myself’: self-narrating and ‘small boundary’ work in Nairobi’s ghettos2
White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali2
Modelling the city: bedroom drawer blueprints as urban planning in Maputo, Mozambique2
Mariusz Lukasiewicz, Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902: A View from the Stock Exchange. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £109.99 – 978 3 031 51946 8; pb £109.99 – 978 3 031 51949 9)2
Jumoke Verissimo and James Yékú (eds), Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #EndSARS Anthology. Ibadan: Noirledge (pb US$9.99 – 978 9 7858 7469 3). 2022, 110 pp.1
Giulia Paoletti , Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840–1960. Princeton NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press (hb US$60/£50 – 978 0 691 24601 7). 2024, 230 pp.1
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Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 2691
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$107.95 – 978 1 4780 2659 4; pb US$28.95 – 978 1 4780 3083 6). 2024, 284 pp.1
“How will God hear us?”: Sonic and linguistic difference among Kinshasa’s Églises des Noirs1
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Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria1
Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s1
Migration, authority and the gendered organization of labour in artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique)1
George Paul Meiu, Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$99 – 978 0 226 83056 8; pb US$27.50 – 978 0 226 83058 2). 2023, 239 pp.1
‘My eyes are my ears’: Deaf people appropriating AIDS education messages in Uganda1
Jennifer Riggan and Amanda Poole, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests: Eritrean Refugees in a Time of Migration Deterrence. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 2530 6798 2; pb U1
José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £50 – 978 1 108 83823 8; pb £25.99 – 91
Erik Bähre, Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa. London: Zed Books (pb £22.99 – 978 1 78699 858 3), 2020, 216 pp.1
Jimi Solanke: popular music and Yoruba folk traditions1
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$117.95 – 978 1 4780 2038 7; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 4780 251
Remapping the study of Islam and Muslim cultures in postcolonial Nigeria1
Areej ElSayary and Abdulrasheed Olowoselu (eds), Overcoming Challenges in Online Learning: Perspectives from Asia and Africa. London: Routledge (hb £100 – 978 1 032 37867 1). 2023, 196 pp.1
Kwame Edwin Otu, Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana. Oakland CA: University of California Press (pb US$34.95/£30 – 978 0 520 38185 8)1
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Jordanna Matlon, A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism. Ithaca NY and London: Cornell University Press (hb US$125 – 978 1 5017 6286 4; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 5017 621
Girl at the margin: historicizing Adunni’s subjective rendition of colonial Lagos, 1930–601
(Mal)adaptation to environmental pollution: oil and the ‘livelihood dysfunction trap’ in Nigeria’s Niger Delta1
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy1
Jack Taylor , African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb £85 – 978 1 64825 091 0). 2024, 209 pp.1
Youjin B. Chung, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$130 – 978 1 5017 7200 9; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 50171
Ramon Sarró, Inventing an African Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £85 – 978 1 009 19949 0). 2023, xvi + 199 pp.0
‘Working for the stomach’: sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda0
Vanessa S. Oliveira, Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 29932 580 0; pb US$26.95 – 978 0 2990
Reconstructing the future: taking ownership of copyright in Africa0
Rosalind Fredericks, Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 1 4780 0099 0; pb US$25.95 – 978 1 4780 0141 6). 2018, 20
Intimacy, labour and sexual violence: Nama and Baster women in Namaqualand’s copper mining district, c.1879–19000
Is education haram ? How former members of north-east Nigeria’s insurgency view and experience ‘Western’ education0
Unintended consequences, conflict and resilience in a small-scale irrigation development, Marakwet, Kenya0
Building concrete futures: materiality and urban lives in West Africa0
Kofi Vincent Anani , Leadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On: The Blended Representation Principle as a Cause for Afro-Optimism. London: Zed Books (hb £85 – 978 1 3503 7967 1). 2024, 250 pp.0
Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 2690
Beyond crisis: African universities’ global presence before and after structural adjustment0
Saving the ‘indigenous banks’: moral politics of economic sovereignty in Ghana’s 2017–19 financial crisis0
Crystal Biruk, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Durham NC: Duke University Press (pb US$27.95 – 978 0 8223 7089 5). 2018, 277 pp.0
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Elizabeth W. Williams, Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$102.95 – 978 1 4780 2071 4; pb US$26.95 – 978 1 4780 2549 8). 0
‘We deserve new things’: (anti-)bricolage in Lomé’s makerspaces0
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A leap of faith: football and religion among aspiring migrants in Cameroon0
West African Sufism and the matter of Black life0
James C. Scott in Kinshasa, and a response to Jeremiah Arowosegbe0
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Ohiniko M. Toffa, Christliche Moral und koloniale Herrschaft in Togo: Die Missionskonzeption Franz Michael Zahns (1862–1900). Bielefeld: transcript (pb €50 – 978 3 8376 6537 6). 2023, 346 pp.0
New currents, old boundaries: exploring the relationship between streaming platforms and Afrikaans music0
Beyond Christian perspectives: new studies of Yoruba Islam and religious coexistence0
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Murder in a quarry: violent encounters and distant intimacy on a Cape convict station0
Cristiana Strava, Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco. London: Bloomsbury (hb £90 – 978 1 3502 3254 9; pb £28.99 – 978 1 3502 3258 7). 2021/20230
Sheila D. Collins, Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$50 – 978 0 8214 2424 7; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2450 6). 0
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Reginald Elias Kirey, Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (hb €89.95 – 978 3 11099 629 6). 2023, 247 pp. Also available Open Access.0
Interrogating the postcolonial Nigerian university: pitfalls and pathways0
A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana0
Federico Donelli, Turkey in Africa: Turkey’s strategic involvement in sub-Saharan Africa. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £85 – 978 0 7556 3697 6; pb £28.99 – 978 0 7556 3701 0). 2021/2022, 224 pp.0
Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press (hb US$99 – 978 1 4696 7466 7; pb US$24.950
Burying at all costs: investing in funerals in southern Benin0
Daniel K. Thompson, Smugglers, Speculators, and the City in the Ethiopia–Somalia Borderlands. New York NY and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb US$120/£90 – 978 1 009 55626 2). 2025, 259 pp.0
Song, mobile phones and the echoes of war: circulating poems and fashioning the past in Amhara (Ethiopia)0
Land transactions between Majang people and ‘highlanders’ in the Majang forest zone: a case study of land registration in Ethiopia’s Gambella region0
Digital fashionistas: young women, wealth-in-followers and matronage in Yaoundé, Cameroon0
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Paul Amar (ed.), Cairo Securitized: Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience. Cairo: AUC Press (hb £35/US$45 – 978 1 6490 3171 6; pb £35/US$44.95 – 978 1 6490 3436 6). 2024/2025, 500 pp.0
Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction0
Noni Jabavu, A Stranger at Home, with an introduction by Makhosazana Xaba and Athambile Masola. Cape Town: Tafelberg (pb R370 – 978 0 624 08936 0). 2023, 228 pp.0
Joshua R. Hall, Carthage at War: Punic Armies c.814–146 BC. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military (hb £25 – 978 1 4738 8538 7). 2023, x + 323 pp.0
Tatiana Thieme, Hustle Urbanism: Making Life Work in Nairobi. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press (hb US$120 – 978 1 5179 1798 2; pb US$30 – 978 1 5179 1799 9). 2025, 355 pp.0
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Entangled oligarchies: structure, agency and rent seeking in South Africa0
Scientific knowledge and sexual advocacy: African publics, choiceless citizens and potential confounders0
Yoruba ritual: a case of transformation occasioned by ethno-nationalism0
Waka waka politician: what are the drivers of party switching in Nigeria?0
George Roberts, Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African liberation and the global Cold War, 1961–1974. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £90 – 978 1 108 84573 1). 2021, xvi + 329 0
Aesthetic interruptions: boda drivers and political expression in Kampala0
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Mariana P. Candido, Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £85 – 978 1 3165 1150 3; pb £26.99 – 978 1 00900
Leila Aboulela, River Spirit. New York NY: Grove Press (hb US$27 – 978 0 8021 6066 9; pb US$17 – 978 0 8021 6275 5). 2023, 311 pp.0
Ifi Amadiume, African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice. London: Zed Books (hb £20 – 978 1 3503 3380 2). 2024, 248 pp.0
Achille Mbembe, Brutalism, translated by Steven Corcoran. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 1 4780 2087 5; pb US$25.95 – 978 1 4780 2558 0). 2024, 196 pp. - Achille Mbembe, Brutalis0
Indigenizing modern STEM for the public: uncovering a new form of knowledge reproduction in Africa0
‘Actions speak louder than words’: from postcolonial critique to actionable reform of African universities0
Simukai Chigudu, The Political Life of an Epidemic: cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 108 48910 2; pb £26.99 – 978 1 108 73344 1). 20
Meitamei Olol Dapash and Mary Poole, Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures. London: Bloomsbury (hb £65 – 978 1 3504 2744 0; pb £19.99 – 978 1 3504 2743 3). 2025, 244 pp. Op0
Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. London: Verso (pb £11.99 – 978 1 7866 3482 5). 2021, v + 384 pp.0
Francis Nyamnjoh: nimble-footedness versus closure0
Touching scenes: African–Indian intimacy imagined in the contested Ahmadiyya Muslim mission0
‘Money looks for money’: managing financialization in eastern Uganda0
Urban fractures: mobility, risk and the accidenté in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo0
Rachel Marie Niehuus, An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb US$102.95 – 978 1 4780 2101 8; pb US$26.95 – 978 0
Thoughts on contemporary humanities scholarship in Nigeria0
Robyn d’Avignon, A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 1583 3; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 1847 0
Tom Lodge, Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021. Woodbridge and Rochester NY: James Currey (hb £70/US$105 – 978 1 84701 321 7). 2022, 626 pp.0
The problem of academic freedom in Africa0
Marissa Mika, Africanizing Oncology: creativity, crisis, and cancer in Uganda. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2465 0; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2509 1). 2021, 260 pp.0
Azmi Bishara, Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £90 – 978 0 7556 4590 9). 2022, 731 pp.0
Giuseppe T. Cirella (ed.), Uncertainty Shocks in Africa: Impact and Equilibrium Strategies for Sound Economic and Social Development. Cham: Springer (hb €159.99 – 978 3 031 21884 2; pb €159.99 – 978 30
Vanessa S. Oliveira , Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 29932 580 0; pb US$26.95 – 978 0 290
How to write about African universities0
Robert Ross, Things Change: Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800–2020. Leiden: Brill (pb €55 – 978 90 04 54374 4). 2023, ix + 187 pp.0
James H. Smith, The Eyes of the World: Mining in the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$95 – 978 0 226 77435 0; pb US$33 – 978 0 226 81606 7). 2021, v 0
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange0
Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press (hb £80 – 978 1 5261 6402 5). 2022, 244 pp.0
Offloading African academic fodder? A response0
Tangled crises in Turkana: investigating the spread of Prosopis in Kenya’s northern drylands0
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The Italian diaspora in Tunisia: colonization without colonialism0
Bureaucratic valves: paperwork as a contested tool in the international transfer of the franc CFA in Congo-Brazzaville0
Concrete Sape : post-crisis urbanization and the political economy of the real estate boom in the Congos0
Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara0
Simukai Chigudu, The Political Life of an Epidemic: cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 108 48910 2; pb £26.99 – 978 1 108 73344 1). 20
Conscripting communalism: surveillance and resistance in contemporary Mauritius0
Oceanic intersections: boundary-crossing performances of Indian images in Ewe and Guin-Mina sacred arts0
Africa’s postcolonial states, universities and situated ideologies0
Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu, Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work. Lanham MD: Lexington Books (hb US$95/£73 – 978 1 7936 0359 3). 2020, 150 pp.0
Intimacy in a violent context: photographs from Mbouda (Cameroon) in a time of troubles0
Competition, payment and flexible trust on a Sierra Leonean fishing boat0
Emily Bridger, Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £75/US$115 – 978 1 8470 1263 0; pb £19.99/US$29.95 – 978 1 8470 0
Music circulation, war and the diaspora: a history of the travelling music studio during the Eritrean liberation struggle (1970s–1990s)0
The clash of sound, image and light: inter- and intra-religious entanglements and contestations during Mawlūd celebrations in the city of Jos, Nigeria0
Joris Schapendonk, Finding Ways Through Eurospace: West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 680 7). 2020, 221 pp.0
On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda0
Kenneth King and Meera Venkatachalam (eds), India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa. Woodbridge and Rochester NY: James Currey (pb £25/US$36.95 – 978 1 84701 274 6). 2021, v + 219 pp.0
The historiography of slavery and abolitionism - José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Universit0
Andrea Behrends, Lifeworlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in the Chad–Sudan Borderlands. London: C. Hurst in collaboration with the International African Institute (pb £22 – 978 1 9117 2322 6). 2024, 3070
Mobile phones, electoral songs and pastoral populism in northern Kenya: towards a political anthropology of file sharing0
Debating the Bascom controversy: revisiting the expropriation and repatriation of the Ifẹ̀ bronzes0
Voices of the abolitionist struggle against contemporary slavery in Mauritania0
From Iya Ijebu’s shop to Igbo market: ethnicity and the transformation of Mushin leather market in Lagos, Nigeria0
Elleni Centime Zeleke, Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964–2016. Leiden and Chicago IL: Brill and Haymarket Books (hb €139 – 978 90 04 41475 4; pb US$30 – 978 1 64259 341 9).0
Myles Osborne, Making Martial Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2617 3; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2618 0). 2023, 348 pp.0
Sticking around or fading away: water patronage and value in Chad0
Imperial debris, intimate partnerships and family law reform in Cameroon0
A history of ‘Yan haƙiƙa, a revisionist Islamic group in northern Nigeria0
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David J. Mattingly, Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press (hb US$44.95 – 978 0 4721 3345 1). 2023, 744 pp.0
Introduction: media and world making between West Africa and India0
Stephanie Newell, Histories of Dirt: media and urban life in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 1 4780 0539 1; pb US$26.95 – 978 1 4780 0640
Judith A. Byfield, The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2398 1). 2021, v + 320 pp.0
The Eséka train disaster as a witchcraft collective action: a socio-historical perspective on anger0
Patience Mususa, There Used to Be Order: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia consolidated copper mines. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press (hb US$75 – 978 0 472 07499 0
Digital learning in techno-utopia? Do-it-yourself education in Kibera, Nairobi0
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation0
Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell (eds), Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region. London: Pluto Press (pb £22.99 – 978 0 7453 4921 3). 2023, 299 pp.0
Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives. Cambridge: Polity (hb £50 – 978 1 5095 4779 1; pb £15.99 – 978 1 5095 4780 7). 2021, 296 pp.0
Nathalie Arnold Koenings, Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast: Uchawi in Pemba. Martlesham and Rochester NY: Boydell & Brewer (hb £95/US$130– 978 1 8470 1384 2). 2024, 310 pp.0
Nicole Eggers, Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2607 4; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2608 1). 2023, xii + 291 pp.0
Vanessa S. Oliveira , Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 29932 580 0; pb US$26.95 – 978 0 290
Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity: the materiality of funeral rituals and festivals in Nigeria’s urban space0
‘May God protect Nigeria from the calamities that have befallen India’: Nigerian visions of Indian independence and the birth of Pakistan, 1944–500
On the mobility of ghosts: spectral journeys in the South African lowveld0
‘If there is trust there is no need for words’: embodying trust in a competitive environment0
Print media and egalitarianism in 1960s Eswatini: Izwi lama Swazi and the columnist ‘Kadebona’0
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia0
Sara Salem, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £83.99 – 978 1 108 49151 8; pb £25.99 – 978 1 108 79838 9). 2020, 294 pp.0
AFR volume 93 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language0
AFR volume 94 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Nicholas Radburn, Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New Haven CT and London: Yale University Press (hb US$35/£25 – 978 0 300 25761 8). 2023, 341 pp.0
Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa0
Introduction: the stuff of African cities0
Sean Jacobs, Media in Postapartheid South Africa: postcolonial politics in the age of globalization. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (pb ZAR 300 – 978 1 7761 4489 1). 2019, ix + 191 pp.0
Richard M. Shain, Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism. Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8195 7708 5; pb US$24.95 – 978 0 8195 7709 2). 0
Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype and Daivi Rodima-Taylor (eds), Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 80539 029 9). 2023, vii + 245 0
Elizabeth A. Foster, African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press (hb US$45/£41.95 – 978 0 6749 8766 1). 2019, vii + 369 pp.0
The politics of literature in Malawi: Filemon Chirwa, Nthanu za Chitonga and the battle for the Atonga tribal council0
Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria0
‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement0
Being and becoming African in a nimble-footed world0
Mastering the fertile Betsiboka valley: ritual techniques of allochthonous dominance among a re-anchored ‘lost people’ in Madagascar0
Malebogo Mvimi, Past Environments and Plant Use in Holocene Southern Africa: A Study of Charcoal and Seed Remains from the Late Stone Age Sites of Toteng (Botswana), Leopard Cave and Geduld (Namibia).0
AFR volume 95 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Competition and mis/trust in Africa and beyond0
AFR volume 94 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 2690
Sanya Osha, An Ethos of Transdisciplinarity: Conversations with Toyin Falola. London and New York NY: Anthem Press (hb £80 – 978 1 8399 9320 6). 2021, 187 pp.0
Technology overrule: pre-literate Akan orality and the musket0
Mariana P. Candido, Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £85 – 978 1 3165 1150 3; pb £26.99 – 978 1 00900
Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below0
Liz Gunner, Radio Soundings: South Africa and the black modern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 1084 7064 3; pb £19.99 – 978 1 1084 5635 7). 2019/2020, x + 224 pp.0
Toby Green, The Covid Consensus: the new politics of global inequality. London: C. Hurst & Co. (hb £14.99 – 978 1 78738 522 1). 2021, 294 pp.0
Saheed Aderinto, Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2469 8; pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2470
Sharad Chari, Apartheid Remains. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$119.95 – 978 1 4780 2617 4; pb US$32.95 – 978 1 4780 3041 6). 2024, vii + 460 pp.0
AFR volume 94 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Tshepo Masango Chéry, Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 1722 6; pb US$27.95 – 978 10
Mis/trust and political competition in post-devolution Gusiiland, south-west Kenya: an ethnography of electoral patronage0
Willow Berridge, Justin Lynch, Raga Makawi and Alex de Waal, Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People’s Revolution. London: C. Hurst in collaboration with International Afric0
AFR volume 96 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Rebecca Tapscott, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £87 – 978 0 19 885647 4). 2021, 256 pp.0
Elena Vezzadini, Iris Seri-Hersch, Lucie Revilla, Anaël Poussier and Mahassin Abdul Jalil (eds), Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019: From Social History to Politics from Below. Volumes 10
AFR volume 93 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$107.95 – 978 1 4780 0361 8; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 4780 0394 6). 2019, 360 pp.0
Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye (eds), Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies. Washington DC: Rowman and Littlefield (hb US$111/£85 –0
Zainab Usman, Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy. London: Zed Books (hb £90 – 978 1 7869 9394 6). 2022, v + 352 pp.0
Crossroads: leprosy, Igbo cosmology and cultural worldviews0
AFR volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Sebabatso C. Manoeli, Sudan’s ‘Southern Problem’: Race, Rhetoric and International Relations, 1961–1991. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £64.99 – 978 3 030 28770 2; pb £44.99 – 978 3 030 28773 3). 2019, 0
Shimelis B. Gulema, Hewan Girma and Mulugeta F. Dinbabo (eds), The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections, and Belonging. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb US$130 – 978 1 6480
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