OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Hloniphaand health: ancestors, taboos and social medicine in South Africa	21
On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda	16
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. - Adri	14
Jimi Solanke: popular music and Yoruba folk traditions	13
West African Sufism and the matter of Black life	10
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.	10
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).	8
Burying at all costs: investing in funerals in southern Benin	7
Jumoke Verissimo and James Yékú (eds), Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #EndSARS Anthology. Ibadan: Noirledge (pb US$9.99 – 978 9 7858 7469 3). 2022, 110 pp.	6
Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria	5
Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s	5
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.	4
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	4
William Mark (Bill) Freund (1944–2020)	4
Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya	4
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.	3
Migration, authority and the gendered organization of labour in artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique)	3
‘Exertion is not connected to success’: everyday Yoruba discourse of work and success	3
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.	3
‘Why invite her here? Her voice is ʿawra!’: vocal nudity debates and Muslim female preachers in northern Nigeria	3
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). 2020	3
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,	2
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.	2
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 U	2
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). 2	2

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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 U	2
Disarming the xenophobic everyday: Muslim migrants and the horizons of urban mutuality in Durban	2
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). 201	2
Dreams and constraints of an African publisher: Walter Bgoya, Tanzania Publishing House and Mkuki na Nyota, 1972–2020	2
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.	2
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie	2
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.or	2
Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria	2
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Introduction: the stuff of African cities	2
From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic	1
Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa	1
Goats, materials and uncertainty in Nairobi	1
Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola	1
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, 2	1
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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.	1
‘You can’t do politics without money’: female politicians, matronage, and the limits of gender quotas in Kenya	1
Conscripting communalism: surveillance and resistance in contemporary Mauritius	1
The chameleonic nature of freedom: notes on the concept offahafahanain the Highlands of Madagascar	1
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.	1
Competition, payment and flexible trust on a Sierra Leonean fishing boat	1
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Azmi Bishara, Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £90 – 978 0 7556 4590 9). 2022, 731 pp.	1
Competition and mis/trust in Africa and beyond	1
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation	1
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language	1
Response by the author	1
Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa	1
Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction	1
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia	1
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Technology overrule: pre-literate Akan orality and the musket	1
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 247	1
Response by the author	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
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
Paradigm-breaking pandemics, old academic politics	1
City of icebergs: materiality, surface and depth in Nairobi’s built environment	1
Never enough: neoliberalizing Namibian middle-class marriages	1
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,	1
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Clive Gabay, Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £63 – 978 1 108 47360 6). 2018, xi + 270 pp.	1
The social contract and industrial citizenship: Nigerian trade unions’ role in the recurring fuel subsidy protests	1
Digital fashionistas: young women, wealth-in-followers and matronage in Yaoundé, Cameroon	1
The politics of literature in Malawi: Filemon Chirwa, Nthanu za Chitonga and the battle for the Atonga tribal council	1
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).	1
Mapping hidden journeys of Gambian migration and return	1
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	1

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
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange	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
The narrative of Zaga Christ (Ṣägga Krәstos): the first published African autobiography (1635)	0
Unforgotten shadows: exploring the dynamics of Biafra agitation in south-east Nigeria	0
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
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
Debating the Bascom controversy: revisiting the expropriation and repatriation of the Ifẹ̀ bronzes	0
“How will God hear us?”: Sonic and linguistic difference among Kinshasa’s Églises des Noirs	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
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
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 – 97	0
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 pp	0
Sticking around or fading away: water patronage and value in Chad	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
From ‘ethnic militias’ to ‘jungle justice’? Research and change in vigilantism in Nigeria	0
Disability and technology in Africa: introduction	0
Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara	0
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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
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
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
Love and homophobia in Malawi's spoken-word poetry movement	0
Politics by night: histories of extraversion and rumours of body part theft on the south coast of Kenya	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
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White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali	0
Bill Freund (1944–2020)	0
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
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
Credible risk: private credit bureaus and the work of loan officers in West Africa	0
Bureaucratic valves: paperwork as a contested tool in the international transfer of the franc CFA in Congo-Brazzaville	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
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 pp	0
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 U	0
Mis/trust and political competition in post-devolution Gusiiland, south-west Kenya: an ethnography of electoral patronage	0
Hackers of the heart: digital sorcery and virtual intimacy in Côte d'Ivoire	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 + 269	0
Moral navigation and child fostering in Chiawa, Zambia	0
The meaning and uses of privatization: the case of the Ethiopian developmental state	0
Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe, Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 2530 6021 1; pb US$40 – 978 0 2530 6020 4). 2	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). 2	0
Urban fractures: mobility, risk and the accidenté in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo	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, 2	0
Violence, intimacy and veins of madness in a fraught border city	0
Archie Mafeje, The Theory and Ethnography of African Social Formations: The Case of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms. London: CODESRIA (pb US$13 – 978 1 8707 8408 5). 1991, v + 149 pp. - Olúfémi O. Táíwò	0
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
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. Ne	0
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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
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.or	0
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy	0
Performative agency and transition in Àlàbí Ògúndépò’s ìjálá and Yẹmí Ẹlẹ́buìbọn’s Ifá chants	0
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
From Iya Ijebu’s shop to Igbo market: ethnicity and the transformation of Mushin leather market in Lagos, Nigeria	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
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
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). 2016	0
Crossroads: leprosy, Igbo cosmology and cultural worldviews	0
Discrimination and social identity: interrogating the impact of local lingua francas on inclusion politics in public institutions in Nigeria	0
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; p	0
Murder in a quarry: violent encounters and distant intimacy on a Cape convict station	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
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Print media and egalitarianism in 1960s Eswatini: Izwi lama Swazi and the columnist ‘Kadebona’	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). 2020	0
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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 62	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 064	0
A leap of faith: football and religion among aspiring migrants in Cameroon	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
Ike Okonta, The Failure of Leadership in Africa’s Development. Lanham MD and London: Lexington Books (hb US$105/£81 – 978 1 7936 1235 7). 2020, 202 pp.	0
Unintended consequences, conflict and resilience in a small-scale irrigation development, Marakwet, Kenya	0
Response by the author	0
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Beyond Christian perspectives: new studies of Yoruba Islam and religious coexistence	0
Female slam poets of francophone Africa: spirited words for social change	0
Erin Pettigrew, Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £90 – 978 1 009 22461 1). 2023, ccclxviii + 368 pp.	0
Robert Molteno, 11 January 1943–31 January 2022	0

Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction	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
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
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
Chronicles of Bailundo: a fragmentary account in Umbundu of life before and after Portuguese colonial rule	0
African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development	0
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‘If there is trust there is no need for words’: embodying trust in a competitive environment	0
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Remapping the study of Islam and Muslim cultures in postcolonial Nigeria	0
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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
The making of a conservation landscape: the emergence of a conservationist environmental infrastructure along the Kwando River in Namibia's Zambezi region	0
Marrying in a single moment: Zimbabwean Baptist ethics and the management of kin relations	0
Response by the author - 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 47	0
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 – 97	0
Waka waka politician: what are the drivers of party switching in Nigeria?	0
Government work in Idi Amin's Uganda	0
‘I can’t segregate myself’: self-narrating and ‘small boundary’ work in Nairobi’s ghettos	0
How to think politically about epidemics: a retrospective and a rejoinder	0
Aleksi Ylönen, The Horn Engaging the Gulf: Economic Diplomacy and Statecraft in Regional Relations. London: Bloomsbury Academic (hb £85 – 978 0 7556 3515 3). 2024, 272 pp.	0
Girl at the margin: historicizing Adunni’s subjective rendition of colonial Lagos, 1930–60	0
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
Bronwen Manby, Citizenship in Africa: The Law of Belonging. Oxford: Hart Publishing (hb £110 – 978 1 509 92077 8; pb £44.99 – 978 1 509 94400 2). 2018/2021, v + 399 pp.	0
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
Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region	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
On the theologico-theatrical: popular culture and the economic imperative in Nigerian Pentecostalism	0
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
On the mobility of ghosts: spectral journeys in the South African lowveld	0
Northern Nigerian intellectuals, Sudan, and the “eclectic style” in contemporary Islamic thought	0
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William H. Schneider (ed.), The Histories of HIVs: The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses that Caused the AIDS Epidemics. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$85 – 978 0 8214 2458 2; pb US$36.95 – 9	0
‘Making men fall’: queer power beyond anti-normativity	0
Imperial debris, intimate partnerships and family law reform in Cameroon	0
Vernacular historiography and self-translation in early colonial Nigeria: Ajiṣafẹ's History of Abẹokuta	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). 2	0
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.	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
Intimacy, labour and sexual violence: Nama and Baster women in Namaqualand’s copper mining district, c.1879–1900	0
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 + 416	0
The clash of sound, image and light: inter- and intra-religious entanglements and contestations during Mawlūd celebrations in the city of Jos, Nigeria	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
A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana	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). 2	0
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.	0
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
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
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 + 269	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
Angela Lewis, Chinese Television and Soft Power in Africa. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £135 – 978 1 0323 2883 6). 2024, 142 pp.	0
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The impacts of Covid policy responses in Africa: The Covid Consensus one year on	0
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
The carnality of power	0
A contested financial frontier: banking and empire building in Eritrea,c.1952–73	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
Robert Molteno, 11 January 1943–31 January 2022	0
Building concrete futures: materiality and urban lives in West Africa	0
AFR volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	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
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
Response by the author	0
Rhiannon Stephens, Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 1619 9; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 1882 7). 2022, ix + 312 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
Response by the author	0
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.	0
‘We built Ethiopia by replacing the expatriates’: how Gurage entrepreneurs shaped the national economy and political culture in post-liberation Ethiopia (1941–74)	0
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
Quietly queer(ing): the normative value ofsuturaand its potential for young women in urban Senegal	0
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation	0
Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below	0
Addendum	0
AFR volume 94 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
AFR volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Tangled crises in Turkana: investigating the spread of Prosopis in Kenya’s northern drylands	0
Risk and labour in the archives: archival futures from Uganda	0
Tanja Kleibl, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique: Governance, Politics and Spiritual Systems. London: Zed Books (hb £95 – 978 1 7869 9934 4; pb £28.99 – 978 1 7869 9935 1). 2021/2023, 193 pp.	0
Lesley Nicole Braun, Congo’s Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 299 34030 8). 2023, 201 pp.	0
AFR volume 93 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
AFR volume 93 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	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
Modelling the city: bedroom drawer blueprints as urban planning in Maputo, Mozambique	0
‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement	0
‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa	0
Oka Day as an institution of power: kingship, chieftaincy and the community day in contemporary Yorubaland	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 5	0
Debating mining - 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	0
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
AFR volume 93 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Intimacy in a violent context: photographs from Mbouda (Cameroon) in a time of troubles	0
‘Working for the stomach’: sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda	0
Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910	0