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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Making men fall’: queer power beyond anti-normativity21
Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges19
‘Human ATMs’: M-Pesa and the expropriation of affective work in Safaricom's Kenya19
The lived experiences of the African middle classes Introduction17
Harnessing the ‘hustle’: struggle, solidarities and narratives of work in Nairobi and beyond Introduction14
Labour, laziness and distribution: work imaginaries among the South African unemployed14
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity12
Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa11
Hloniphaand health: ancestors, taboos and social medicine in South Africa10
Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda9
(Re)inventing development: China, infrastructure, sustainability and special economic zones in Nigeria9
Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction9
From Russia with love: medical modernities, development dreams, and Cold War legacies in Kenya, 1969 and 20158
Structures, feelings and savoir faire: Ghana's middle classes in the making8
‘Under construction’: everyday anxieties and the proliferating social meanings of China in Kenya7
Beyond realism: Africa's medical dreams Introduction7
Kenya and China's labour relations: infrastructural development for whom, by whom?7
‘Youth are redrawing the map’: temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi7
Morality in the middle: choosing cars or houses in Botswana6
Neotraditional authority contested: the corporatization of tradition and the quest for democracy in the Topnaar Traditional Authority, Namibia6
Quietly queer(ing): the normative value ofsuturaand its potential for young women in urban Senegal6
Global health's durable dreams: ethnography, ‘community health workers’ and health without health infrastructure5
The making of a conservation landscape: the emergence of a conservationist environmental infrastructure along the Kwando River in Namibia's Zambezi region5
History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique5
‘We are passing our leisure time’: moving on from education in eastern Uganda5
Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below5
Performing excess: urban ceremony and the semiotics of precarity in Guinea-Conakry4
‘You will build me’: fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi's matatu4
Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity and austerity in the South African health sector4
The spectre of rootless urban youth (bayaaye) in Kulyennyingi, a novel of Amin-era Uganda4
Death without mourning: homosexuality,homo sacer, and bearable loss in Central Africa4
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa4
Made in China, fashioned in Africa: ethnic dress in Ethiopia and Mozambique4
Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso4
Dreams and dream spaces of West African molecular microbiology4
Kinship and gendered economic conduct in matrilineal Offinso, Ghana3
Financing China's engagement in Africa: new state spaces along a variegated landscape3
What's (not) in a leather pouch? Tracing Islamic amulets in Asante, Ghana3
Tindaanaship and tindaanas in traditional Gurensi (Frafra) communities: land use and practices3
Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region3
Afro-Chinese engagements: infrastructure, land, labour and finance Introduction3
The need to travel: Malian women shuttle traders, autonomy and (mis)trust in neoliberal Dakar3
Dreams and constraints of an African publisher: Walter Bgoya, Tanzania Publishing House and Mkuki na Nyota, 1972–20203
Hackers of the heart: digital sorcery and virtual intimacy in Côte d'Ivoire3
Elders and transactional relationships in Sierra Leone: rethinking synchronic approaches3
Dreaming partnership, enabling inequality: administrative infrastructure in global health science3
Of dreams and nightmares: implementing medical male circumcision in eSwatini (Swaziland)3
Rhythms of the unemployed: making art and making do through spoken word in Kisumu, Kenya2
Imagining viral hepatitis in Burkina Faso2
Moral navigation and child fostering in Chiawa, Zambia2
Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia–British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s2
From discursive resistance to new genealogies: rethinking Israelite identities in Africa through the case of Nuer Christian Zionists2
‘Monkeys play by sizes’: the reconstruction of military hierarchy in Ghana's armed forces2
Chronicles of Bailundo: a fragmentary account in Umbundu of life before and after Portuguese colonial rule2
Janus-faced activists: the social and political embeddedness of civil society in Niger2
Introduction: the stuff of African cities2
Providing to belong: masculinities, hustling and economic uncertainty in Nairobi ‘ghettos’2
Apartheid South Africa's segregated legal field: black lawyers and the Bantustans2
‘Like a drag or something’: central texts at the pioneering forefront of contemporary Nigerian queerscapes2
Government work in Idi Amin's Uganda2
Greying mutuality: race and joking relations in a South African nursing home2
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia2
Reading with the colonial in the life of Shaykh Musa Kamara, a Muslim scholar-saint2
The dead archive: governance and institutional memory in independent Mozambique2
‘We are taught to act’: hustling on the move in Kampala and Nairobi2
Credible risk: private credit bureaus and the work of loan officers in West Africa2
Ebola imaginaries and the Senegalese outbreak: anticipated nightmare and remembered victory2
United Nigerian Textiles Limited and Chinese–Nigerian textile-manufacturing collaboration in Kaduna2
Risk and labour in the archives: archival futures from Uganda1
New books on popular transport in East Africa - Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: a history of popular transportation in Nairobi. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 13086 6; pb US$30 –1
Never enough: neoliberalizing Namibian middle-class marriages1
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange1
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation1
From ‘ethnic militias’ to ‘jungle justice’? Research and change in vigilantism in Nigeria1
Becoming militant: embodying the Guinean revolution and Guinea–China relations1
Urmila Mohan and Laurence Douny (eds), The Material Subject: rethinking bodies and objects in motion. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £90 – 978 1 350 07736 2). 2021, xxi + 246 pp1
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie1
‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement1
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language1
Tuning in to his-story: an account of radio in Ghana through the experience of B. S. Gadzekpo1
Remembering Africanization: two conversations among elderly science workers about the perpetually promissory1
‘Idle minds’ and ‘empty stomachs’: youth, violence and religious diversity in coastal Kenya1
Nico Cloete, Ian Bunting and François van Schalkwyk (eds), Research Universities in Africa. Cape Town: African Minds (R300 – 978 1 928331 87 2). 2018, 314 pp.1
Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola1
Female slam poets of francophone Africa: spirited words for social change1
Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa1
On the theologico-theatrical: popular culture and the economic imperative in Nigerian Pentecostalism1
‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa1
A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana1
The politics of literature in Malawi: Filemon Chirwa, Nthanu za Chitonga and the battle for the Atonga tribal council1
Scientific knowledge and sexual advocacy: African publics, choiceless citizens and potential confounders1
Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria1
Flight and fortitude: the decline of the middle class in Zimbabwe1
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.1
City of icebergs: materiality, surface and depth in Nairobi’s built environment1
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation1
‘Madmen, womanizers, and thieves’: moral disorder and the cultural text of refugee encampment in Kenya1
Addressing drought through rural religious communities in Senegal1
The death of Adumissa: a suicide at Cape Coast, Ghana, around 18001
Politics by night: histories of extraversion and rumours of body part theft on the south coast of Kenya1
‘You can’t do politics without money’: female politicians, matronage, and the limits of gender quotas in Kenya1
#weareone: blood donation, terrorism and dreams of inclusion in Kenya1
The social contract and industrial citizenship: Nigerian trade unions’ role in the recurring fuel subsidy protests1
The meaning and uses of privatization: the case of the Ethiopian developmental state1
‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’ in Congo studies: an overview of themes and debates1
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Paul Higate and Mats Utas (editors), Private Security in Africa: from the global assemblage to the everyday. London: Zed Books (pb £24.99 – 978 1 78699 025 9). 2017, 192 pp.0
White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali0
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
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879–1909. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb US$110 – 978 1 58046 0
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‘Money looks for money’: managing financialization in eastern Uganda0
Agurumyela's art of connection: Christopher Azaare's project of curating Gurensi history and culture0
Christopher S. Adam, Paul Collier and Benno Ndulu (eds), Tanzania: the path to prosperity. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £61 – 978 0 19 870481 2). 2017, 336 pp.0
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
Robert Molteno, 11 January 1943–31 January 20220
Angela Impey, Song Walking: women, music, and environmental justice in an African borderland. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$105 – 978 0 226 53796 2; pb US$35 – 978 0 226 53801 3). 2010
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From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic0
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Hannah Appel, The Licit Life of Capitalism: US oil in Equatorial Guinea. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 0365 6; pb US$28.95 – 978 1 4780 0391 5). 2019, 344 pp.0
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.0
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb £45 – 978 1 509 52335 1; pb £14.99 – 978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v + 151 pp.0
Disarming the xenophobic everyday: Muslim migrants and the horizons of urban mutuality in Durban0
Caught in The Act of Living: socialities, history and positionality in an ethnography of Addis Ababa's street life – a response0
Bill Freund (1944–2020)0
Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker (ed.), The Political Thought of African Independence: an anthology of sources. Cambridge MA: Hackett Publishing Company (hb US$89 – 978 1 62466 541 7; pb US$34 – 978 1 62466 50
Adriaan van Klinken, Kenyan, Christian, Queer: religion, LGBT activism, and arts of resistance in Africa. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (hb US$89.95 – 978 0 271 08380 3; pb U0
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
Devaka Premawardhana, Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and mobility in rural Mozambique. Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press (hb US$49.95 – 978 0 8122 4998 9). 2018, 221 pp.0
Embracing and denouncing the ‘Mecca uniform’ in Nigerian mass media, 1950s–1970s0
Adriaan van Klinken, Kenyan, Christian, Queer: religion, LGBT activism, and arts of resistance in Africa. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (hb US$89.95 – 978 0 271 08380 3; pb U0
Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 0
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy0
Ebenezer Obadare, Pentecostal Republic: religion and the struggle for state power in Nigeria. African Arguments. London: Zed Books (hb £70 – 978 1 8699 238 3; pb £16.99 – 978 1 78699 237 6). 2018, 2140
On the mobility of ghosts: spectral journeys in the South African lowveld0
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The chameleonic nature of freedom: notes on the concept of fahafahana in the Highlands of Madagascar0
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Pauline Ada Uwakweh (editor), African Women Under Fire: literary discourses in war and conflict. Lanham MD: Lexington Books (hb US$95/£65 – 978 1 4985 2918 1). 2017, 199 pp.0
Ghana muntie: from Station ZOY to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation0
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Mark Gevisser, The Pink Line: journeys across the world's queer frontiers. New York NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (hb US$30 – 978 0 3742 7996 7). 2020, 544 pp.0
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‘Exertion is not connected to success’: everyday Yoruba discourse of work and success0
Èṣù and ethics in the Yorùbá world view0
Rahmane Idrissa, The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: between persuasion and violence. London: Routledge (hb £100 – 978 1 85743 866 6). 2017, 276 pp.0
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Alexis Malefakis, Tanzania’s Informal Economy: the micro-politics of street vending. London and New York NY: Zed Books (pb £28.99/US$29.95 – 978 1 7869 9451 6). 2021, v + 192 pp.0
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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Simidele Dosekun, Fashioning Postfeminism: spectacular femininity and transnational culture. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press (hb US$110 – 978 0 252 04321 5; pb US$26 – 978 0 252 08508 6). 20200
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
Jörg Wiegratz, Neoliberal Moral Economy: capitalism, socio-cultural change and fraud in Uganda. London: Rowman & Littlefield International (hb £100 – 978 1 7834 8853 7; pb £32.95 – 978 1 7834 88540
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
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On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda0
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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
Reviews of books: debating Africa's middle classes0
Mark Gevisser, The Pink Line: journeys across the world's queer frontiers. New York NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (hb US$30 – 978 0 3742 7996 7). 2020, 544 pp.0
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Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 0
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
Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya0
The clash of sound, image and light: inter- and intra-religious entanglements and contestations during Mawlūd celebrations in the city of Jos, Nigeria0
Michael Woldemariam, Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: rebellion and its discontents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 42325 0). 2018, vii + 330 pp.0
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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
Building concrete futures: materiality and urban lives in West Africa0
Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville0
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
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
Andrew Faull, Police Work and Identity: a South African ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £115 – 978 1 138 23329 4). 2018, xxix + 200 pp.0
Adeline Masquelier, Fada: boredom and belonging in Niger. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0226 62420 4; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 62434 1). 2019, 251 pp.0
Burying at all costs: investing in funerals in southern Benin0
Paradigm-breaking pandemics, old academic politics0
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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
Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria0
Mark Hunter, Race for Education: gender, white tone, and schooling in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £61.99 – 978 1 108 48052 9; pb £18.99 – 978 1 108 72763 1). 2019, v + 304 0
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 pp0
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West African Sufism and the matter of Black life0
The unintended consequences of liberalization and austerity on higher education in Mozambique0
Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Rwanda After Genocide: gender, identity and post-traumatic growth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £22.99 – 978 1 108 44459 0). 2018, xiii + 219 pp.0
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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
“How will God hear us?”: Sonic and linguistic difference among Kinshasa’s Églises des Noirs0
Adia Benton, HIV Exceptionalism: development through disease in Sierra Leone. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press (pb US$22.50 – 978 0 8166 9243 9). 2015, 192 pp.0
A contested financial frontier: banking and empire building in Eritrea, c.1952–730
Oka Day as an institution of power: kingship, chieftaincy and the community day in contemporary Yorubaland0
‘We deserve new things’: (anti-)bricolage in Lomé’s makerspaces0
C. Patrick Burrowes, Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea: a history of the Liberian people before 1800. Bomi County: Know Your Self Press (hb US$50 – 978 0 9983905 1 2; pb US$25 – 978 0 9983905 0
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Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs and Jesper Bjarnesen (eds), Violence in African Elections: between democracy and big man politics. London: Zed Books (hb £70 – 978 1 78699 229 1; pb £24.99 – 978 1 78699 228 4).0
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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
Girl at the margin: historicizing Adunni’s subjective rendition of colonial Lagos, 1930–600
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Martin Prowse and Paul Grassin, Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £44.99 – 978 3 030 33984 5; pb £44.99 – 978 3 030 33987 0
Mike McGovern, A Socialist Peace? Explaining the absence of war in an African country. Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 45357 6; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 45360 6). 0
Goats, materials and uncertainty in Nairobi0
Rethinking Achille Mbembe’s ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’0
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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
Ernest N. Emenyonou (ed.), Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today 35. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 171 8). 2017, ix + 319 pp.0
Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution. London: Pluto Press (hb £20 – 978 0 74534 176 7; pb £12.99 – 978 0 74534 622 9). 2020, 368 pp.0
Robert J. Gordon, The Enigma of Max Gluckman: the ethnographic life of a ‘Luckyman’ in Africa. Lincoln NE and London: University of Nebraska Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8032 9083 9). 2018, xxii + 475 pp.0
Disability and technology in Africa: introduction0
Azmi Bishara, Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £90 – 978 0 7556 4590 9). 2022, 731 pp.0
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
Saving the ‘indigenous banks’: moral politics of economic sovereignty in Ghana’s 2017–19 financial crisis0
Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 0
Jesse Salah Ovadia, The Petro-developmental State in Africa: making oil work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea. London: C. Hurst and Company (hb £45 – 978 1 84904 476 9). 2016, 246 pp.0
Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Taxing Africa: coercion, reform and development. London: Zed Books (hb £70 – 978 1 78360 454 8; pb £16.99 – 978 1 78360 453 1). 2018, 288 pp.0
Marie E. Berry, War, Women, and Power: from violence to mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 41618 4; pb £24 – 978 1 108 40151 7). 20
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Olakunle George, African Literature and Social Change: tribe, nation, race. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 253 02546 3; pb US$30 – 978 0 253 02580 7). 2017, ix + 211 pp.0
Alden Young, Transforming Sudan: decolonization, economic development, and state formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 107 17249 4). 2018, 180 pp.0
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
Northern Nigerian intellectuals, Sudan, and the “eclectic style” in contemporary Islamic thought0
Emily Callaci, Street Archives and City Life: popular intellectuals in postcolonial Tanzania. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 0 8223 6984 4; pb US$26.95 – 978 0 8223 6991 2). 2017,0
Khalid Mustafa Medani, Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa, 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £22.99 – 978 1 009 25772 5; open access – 970
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
Jason Sumich, The Middle Class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47288 3). 2018, 277 pp.0
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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. Ne0
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Elaine R. Salo, Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters: producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa. Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research and Publishing (pb £30 – 978 9956 550 26 5). 20
Ironies of accomplishment: negative aspiration, economic resentment and the myth of the middle class on Nairobi’s new urban outskirts0
Philani Mthembu, China and India's Development Cooperation in Africa: the rise of Southern powers. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £109.99 – 978 3 319 69501 3; pb £74.99 – 978 3 030 09891 9)0
Elara Bertho, Sorcières, Tyrans, Héros: mémoires postcoloniales de résistants africains. Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion (pb €50 – 978 2 7453 5045 9). 2019, 520 pp.0
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Conscripting communalism: surveillance and resistance in contemporary Mauritius0
Donald Donham, The Erotics of History: an Atlantic African example. Oakland CA: University of California Press (pb US$29.95 – 978 0 520 29631 2). 2018, 136 pp.0
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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). 20180
Chinua Achebe’s postcolony: a literary anthropology of postcolonial decadence0
Beyond Christian perspectives: new studies of Yoruba Islam and religious coexistence0
Ibadi Muslim schools in post-revolutionary Zanzibar0
Technology overrule: pre-literate Akan orality and the musket0
Martin Legassick ,Hidden Histories of Gordonia: land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (pb ZAR 390 – 978 1 86814 954 4). 20160
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
Suad M. E. Musa, Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict: al-Hakkamat Baggara women of Darfur. Oxford and Rochester NY: James Currey (hb £60 – 978 1 84701 175 6; pb £25 – 978 1 84701 265 4). 2018, 20
Philippe M. Frowd, Security at the Borders: transnational practices and technologies in West Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47010 0). 2018, 218 pp.0
Maher Habbob, Nubian Proverbs (Fadijja/Mahas). Goleta CA: Dotawo (pb US$21 – 978 1 68571 018 7). 2022, xiii + 146 pp.0
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, #RhodesMustFall: nibbling at resilient colonialism in South Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG (pb £24 – 978 9 95676 316 0). 2016, 312 pp.0
Histories of authority in the African Great Lakes: trajectories and transactions0
William Finbarr (Barry) Burgess, 8 October 1948–7 February 20210
Digital fashionistas: young women, wealth-in-followers and matronage in Yaoundé, Cameroon0
Vernacular historiography and self-translation in early colonial Nigeria: Ajiṣafẹ's History of Abẹokuta0
Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, The Truth about Crime: sovereignty, knowledge, social order. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$85 – 978 0 226 42488 0; pb US$27.50 – 978 0 226 42491 0)0
Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution. London: Pluto Press (hb £20 – 978 0 74534 176 7; pb £12.99 – 978 0 74534 622 9). 2020, 368 pp.0
William Mark (Bill) Freund (1944–2020)0
A history of ‘Yan haƙiƙa, a revisionist Islamic group in northern Nigeria0
Robin Horton of the Niger Delta0
Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: A Political Biography. Second Edition. London: I. B. Tauris (pb £14.99 – 978 0 7556 3821 5). 2021, xxi + 279 pp.0
‘Why invite her here? Her voice is ʿawra!’: vocal nudity debates and Muslim female preachers in northern Nigeria0
Daniel Jordan Smith, To Be a Man Is Not a One-day Job: masculinity, money, and intimacy in Nigeria. Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (hb US$82.50 – 978 0 226 49151 6; pb US$27.50 – 90
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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
Modelling the city: bedroom drawer blueprints as urban planning in Maputo, Mozambique0
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.0
Response by the author0
Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £85 – 978 1 108 49199 0). 2020, 376 pp.0
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
Marco Di Nunzio, The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$115 – 978 1 501 73512 7; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 501 73626 1). 20
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
Overheated stomachs: notes on urban life and toxicity in Nakuru, Kenya0
Public authority and its demons: the Sherbro leopard murders in Sierra Leone0
Susan Williams, White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa. New York NY: PublicAffairs (hb US$35 – 978 1 5417 6829 1). 2021, 651 pp.0
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 620
Alison Heller, Fistula Politics: birthing injuries and the quest for continence in Niger. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press (hb US$125 – 978 1 9788 0037 3; pb US$34.95 – 978 1 9788 0036 6). 20
Simidele Dosekun, Fashioning Postfeminism: spectacular femininity and transnational culture. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press (hb US$110 – 978 0 252 04321 5; pb US$26 – 978 0 252 08508 6). 20200
Jason Sumich, The Middle Class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47288 3). 2018, 277 pp.0
Reviews of books: queer politics - Serena Owusua Dankwa, Knowing Women: same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 49590 50
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
Mehita Iqani and Simidele Dosekun (eds), African Luxury: aesthetics and politics. Bristol: Intellect (pb £25 – 978 1 7893 8221 1). 2020, v + 172 pp.0
Marco Di Nunzio, The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$115 – 978 1 501 73512 7; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 501 73626 1). 20
Ravindra Kumar Vemula and SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (editors), Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: perspectives from developing countries. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £90
Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction0
The impacts of Covid policy responses in Africa: The Covid Consensus one year on0
Steven Pierce, Moral Economies of Corruption: state formation and political culture in Nigeria. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 0 8223 6077 3; pb US$27.95 – 978 0 8223 6091 9). 200
Jason Sumich, The Middle Class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47288 3). 2018, 277 pp.0
Love and homophobia in Malawi's spoken-word poetry movement0
Theodore Trefon, Bushmeat: Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa. London: C. Hurst for the International African Institute (pb £20 – 978 1 78738 814 7). 2023, 256 pp.0
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.0
AFR volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
AFR volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Maxim Bolt, Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms: the roots of impermanence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £21.99 – 978 1 107 52783 6). 2017, 246 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
Robert Molteno, 11 January 1943–31 January 20220
Lindsey B. Green-Simms, Postcolonial Automobility: car culture in West Africa. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press (pb US$28 – 978 1 5179 0114 1). 2017, 280 pp.0
AFR volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Joanna Allan, Silenced Resistance: women, dictatorships, and genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 299 31840 6). 2019, 30
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Tim Glawion, The Security Arena in Africa: local order-making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £75 – 978 1 108 49337 6). 2020, v 0
Mark Hunter, Race for Education: gender, white tone, and schooling in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £61.99 – 978 1 108 48052 9; pb £18.99 – 978 1 108 72763 1). 2019, v + 304 0
Ignatius Chukwumah (ed.), Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £130 – 978 0 3677 7624 4). 2022, 310 pp.0
AFR volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Adriaan van Klinken, Kenyan, Christian, Queer: religion, LGBT activism, and arts of resistance in Africa. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (hb US$89.95 – 978 0 271 08380 3; pb U0
Reviews of books: debating the ‘hustle’ - Marco Di Nunzio, The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$115 – 978 1 501 730
Bureaucratic valves: paperwork as a contested tool in the international transfer of the franc CFA in Congo-Brazzaville0
The anthropology and sociology of the Somali diaspora - Cawo M. Abdi, Elusive Jannah: the Somali diaspora and a borderless Muslim identity. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press (hb US$94.50 –0
From Africanizing oncology to decolonizing global health: reflections on the biomedical turn in African health histories0
AFR volume 93 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Remembering Africanization: excerpt of reunion transcripts0
David Morton, Age of Concrete: housing and the shape of aspiration in the capital of Mozambique. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 8214 2367 7; pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2368 4). 2019,0
Serena Owusua Dankwa, Knowing Women: same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 49590 5; Open Access at <https://doi.or0
Ernest E. Emenyonu (editor), A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £30 – 978 1 84701 162 6; pb £17.99 – 978 1 84701 241 8). 2017, xii + 300 pp.0
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
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb £45 – 978 1 509 52335 1; pb £14.99 – 978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v + 151 pp.0
AFR volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
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
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
Iain Edwards and Marc Epprecht, Working Class Homosexuality in South African History: voices from the archive. Cape Town: HSRC Press (pb US$35 – 978 0 7969 2583 1). 2020, 255 pp.0
Response by the author0
AFR volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Harri Englund, Gogo Breeze: Zambia's radio elder and the voices of free speech. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 49876 8; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 49893 5). 2018, 288 p0
AFR volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Bianca Murillo, Market Encounters: consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2288 5; pb US$32.95 – 978 0 8214 2289 2). 2017, vii + 248 pp.0
Urban fractures: mobility, risk and the accidenté in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo0
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.0
Andrew Apter, Oduduwa's Chain: locations of culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic. Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 50638 8; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 50641 8). 2017, x + 20
Entangled oligarchies: structure, agency and rent seeking in South Africa0
AFR volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Serena Owusua Dankwa, Knowing Women: same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 49590 5; Open Access at <https://doi.or0
Obi Nwakanma, Christopher Okigbo 1930–67: thirsting for sunlight. Martlesham, Suffolk: James Currey (pb £17.99 – 978 1 8470 1179 4). 2017, 276 pp.0
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)0
Robin W. G. Horton (1932–2019): his life and work0
Kristin D. Phillips, An Ethnography of Hunger: politics, subsistence, and the unpredictable grace of the sun. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$75 – 978 0 253 03836 4; pb US$28 – 978 0 20
Jeff D. Grischow and Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy (eds), Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Challenges, and Change. Woodbridge: James C0
‘Like a real hospital’: imagining hospital futures through homegrown public–private partnerships in Tanzania0
The carnality of power0
AFR volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
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.0
Douglas H. Johnson, South Sudan: a new history for a new nation. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb US$14.95 – 978 0 8214 2242 7). 2016, 224 pp.0
Remapping the study of Islam and Muslim cultures in postcolonial Nigeria0
AFR volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Reviews of books: debating decolonization, post-feminism and museums - Francis B. Nyamnjoh, #RhodesMustFall: nibbling at resilient colonialism in South Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG (pb £24 0
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
AFR volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Response by the author0
Alice Bullard, Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal: A History of Transcultural Psychiatry. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £96 – 978 0 367 63100 0). 2022, 264 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
The narrative of Zaga Christ (Ṣägga Krәstos): the first published African autobiography (1635)0
Jon Schubert, Working the System: a political ethnography of the new Angola. New York NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$95 – 978 1 50171 369 9; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 50171 370 5). 2017, xx + 247 pp.0
‘My eyes are my ears’: Deaf people appropriating AIDS education messages in Uganda0
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
Marrying in a single moment: Zimbabwean Baptist ethics and the management of kin relations0
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.0
Migration, authority and the gendered organization of labour in artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique)0
Kathrin Tiewa, The Lion and his Pride: the politics of commemoration in Cameroon. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (pb €39.80 – 978 3 89645 838 4). 2016, 253 pp.0
Mark Gevisser, The Pink Line: journeys across the world's queer frontiers. New York NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (hb US$30 – 978 0 3742 7996 7). 2020, 544 pp.0
Jennifer Tappan, The Riddle of Malnutrition: the long arc of biomedical and public health interventions in Uganda. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 8214 2245 8; pb US$32.95 – 978 0
Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s0
How to think politically about epidemics: a retrospective and a rejoinder0
Robtel Neajai Pailey, Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 83654 8; p0
Bénédicte Savoy, Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press (hb US$29.95/£25 – 978 0 691 23473 1). 2022, vi + 240 pp.0
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Guy Scott, Adventures in Zambian Politics: a story in black and white. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner (hb US$45 – 978 1 62637 759 2). 2019, 259 pp.0
AFR volume 93 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
A tribute to Abdul Raufu Mustapha: living a constructive life0
Jumoke Verissimo and James Yékú (eds), Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #EndSARS Anthology. Ibadan: Noirledge (pb US$9.99 – 978 9 7858 7469 3). 2022, 110 pp.0
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Accelerated fragility: exploring the supply–demand nexus in health facilities in rural Burkina Faso0
Marie Grace Brown, Khartoum at Night: fashion and body politics in imperial Sudan. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press (hb US$85 – 978 1 503 60152 9; pb US$25 – 978 1 503 60264 9). 2017, v + 222 pp0
Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara0
Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity: the materiality of funeral rituals and festivals in Nigeria’s urban space0
Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 34066 1; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 34083 8). 200
Harri Englund, Gogo Breeze: Zambia's radio elder and the voices of free speech. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 49876 8; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 49893 5). 2018, 288 pp.0
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb £45 – 978 1 509 52335 1; pb £14.99 – 978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v + 151 pp.0
Laura Routley, Negotiating Corruption: NGOs, governance and hybridity in West Africa. London: Routledge (hb £120 – 978 0 415 82526 9; pb £30.99 – 978 1 138 30843 5). 2016, xiii + 159 pp.0
Is it hustling this world, or something else? Reflections on three engagements with Improvised Lives0
Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution. London: Pluto Press (hb £20 – 978 0 74534 176 7; pb £12.99 – 978 0 74534 622 9). 2020, 368 pp.0
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