Africa

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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
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. - Adri9
Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya9
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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). 2024,8
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 – 977
From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic6
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). 20256
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 – 95
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation5
Precarity as infrastructure: displacement, everyday governance and the ordinary politics of waiting in Benue State, Nigeria5
Pandemic masculinity: urban low-income men and the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria5
A response to reviews of the book José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century4
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
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). 20184
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
Introduction: the social life of music files4
Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville4
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
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
Ironies of accomplishment: negative aspiration, economic resentment and the myth of the middle class on Nairobi’s new urban outskirts3
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.3
Modelling the city: bedroom drawer blueprints as urban planning in Maputo, Mozambique3
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
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White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali3
Downward social mobility among young Ghanaian digital entrepreneurs: navigating family expectations and digital start-up dreams3
Controlling the narratives: three generations of Zarma genealogists and historian-griots from Niger confronting recording and digitization3
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Time and title deeds in post-reform agrarian Kenya3
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 3
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
Discrimination and social identity: interrogating the impact of local lingua francas on inclusion politics in public institutions in Nigeria2
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.2
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.2
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
‘I can’t segregate myself’: self-narrating and ‘small boundary’ work in Nairobi’s ghettos2
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
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
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
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Remapping the study of Islam and Muslim cultures in postcolonial Nigeria2
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.1
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 00901
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
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Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria1
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
Jimi Solanke: popular music and Yoruba folk traditions1
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
Reconstructing the future: taking ownership of copyright in Africa1
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.1
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, 1
“How will God hear us?”: Sonic and linguistic difference among Kinshasa’s Églises des Noirs1
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
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
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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
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
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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
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.1
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 1
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
‘My eyes are my ears’: Deaf people appropriating AIDS education messages in Uganda1
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
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
Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s1
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy1
(Mal)adaptation to environmental pollution: oil and the ‘livelihood dysfunction trap’ in Nigeria’s Niger Delta1
Saving the ‘indigenous banks’: moral politics of economic sovereignty in Ghana’s 2017–19 financial crisis0
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
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language0
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
Beyond crisis: African universities’ global presence before and after structural adjustment0
Introduction: media and world making between West Africa and India0
‘May God protect Nigeria from the calamities that have befallen India’: Nigerian visions of Indian independence and the birth of Pakistan, 1944–500
The Eséka train disaster as a witchcraft collective action: a socio-historical perspective on anger0
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
A leap of faith: football and religion among aspiring migrants in Cameroon0
Technology overrule: pre-literate Akan orality and the musket0
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
Unintended consequences, conflict and resilience in a small-scale irrigation development, Marakwet, Kenya0
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Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity: the materiality of funeral rituals and festivals in Nigeria’s urban space0
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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
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
António Tomás , In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$102.95 – 978 1 4780 1552 9; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 1815 5). 2022, 266 pp.0
Is education haram ? How former members of north-east Nigeria’s insurgency view and experience ‘Western’ education0
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
Africa’s postcolonial states, universities and situated ideologies0
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
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
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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
New currents, old boundaries: exploring the relationship between streaming platforms and Afrikaans music0
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
Debating the Bascom controversy: revisiting the expropriation and repatriation of the Ifẹ̀ bronzes0
James C. Scott in Kinshasa, and a response to Jeremiah Arowosegbe0
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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
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
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
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
Unforgotten shadows: exploring the dynamics of Biafra agitation in south-east Nigeria0
Intimacy in a violent context: photographs from Mbouda (Cameroon) in a time of troubles0
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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
Transits of objects and people: traces of histories that connect the Africana Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds0
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
Sticking around or fading away: water patronage and value in Chad0
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
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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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
Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria0
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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
Chris Brown, David Moore and Blair Rutherford (eds), New Leaders, New Dawns? South Africa and Zimbabwe under Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (hb CA$140
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
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
Aesthetic interruptions: boda drivers and political expression in Kampala0
Northern Nigerian intellectuals, Sudan, and the “eclectic style” in contemporary Islamic thought0
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
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Indigenizing modern STEM for the public: uncovering a new form of knowledge reproduction in Africa0
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia0
‘Working for the stomach’: sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda0
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
Digital learning in techno-utopia? Do-it-yourself education in Kibera, Nairobi0
West African Sufism and the matter of Black life0
‘Money looks for money’: managing financialization in eastern Uganda0
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
Urban fractures: mobility, risk and the accidenté in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo0
The politics of literature in Malawi: Filemon Chirwa, Nthanu za Chitonga and the battle for the Atonga tribal council0
Azmi Bishara, Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £90 – 978 0 7556 4590 9). 2022, 731 pp.0
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
Being and becoming African in a nimble-footed world0
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
Yoruba ritual: a case of transformation occasioned by ethno-nationalism0
Building concrete futures: materiality and urban lives in West Africa0
Tangled crises in Turkana: investigating the spread of Prosopis in Kenya’s northern drylands0
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Concrete Sape : post-crisis urbanization and the political economy of the real estate boom in the Congos0
On the mobility of ghosts: spectral journeys in the South African lowveld0
Digital fashionistas: young women, wealth-in-followers and matronage in Yaoundé, Cameroon0
Brooks Marmon, Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership: African Decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, 1950–1963. Cham: Springer (hb €109.99 – 978 3 031 25558 8; pb €109.99 – 978 3 031 25561 8). 2020
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
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
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
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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
The motorbike as healthcare infrastructure in rural Uganda: affective ties, intermittent flows0
How to write about African universities0
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
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
Bureaucratic valves: paperwork as a contested tool in the international transfer of the franc CFA in Congo-Brazzaville0
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 1 470
Offloading African academic fodder? A response0
Oceanic intersections: boundary-crossing performances of Indian images in Ewe and Guin-Mina sacred arts0
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
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
Mastering the fertile Betsiboka valley: ritual techniques of allochthonous dominance among a re-anchored ‘lost people’ in Madagascar0
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
Music circulation, war and the diaspora: a history of the travelling music studio during the Eritrean liberation struggle (1970s–1990s)0
Touching scenes: African–Indian intimacy imagined in the contested Ahmadiyya Muslim mission0
A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana0
On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda0
Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction0
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
Credible risk: private credit bureaus and the work of loan officers in West Africa0
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
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Song, mobile phones and the echoes of war: circulating poems and fashioning the past in Amhara (Ethiopia)0
Voices of the abolitionist struggle against contemporary slavery in Mauritania0
Mis/trust and political competition in post-devolution Gusiiland, south-west Kenya: an ethnography of electoral patronage0
Entangled oligarchies: structure, agency and rent seeking in South Africa0
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From Iya Ijebu’s shop to Igbo market: ethnicity and the transformation of Mushin leather market in Lagos, Nigeria0
Imperial debris, intimate partnerships and family law reform in Cameroon0
Ifi Amadiume, African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice. London: Zed Books (hb £20 – 978 1 3503 3380 2). 2024, 248 pp.0
Murder in a quarry: violent encounters and distant intimacy on a Cape convict station0
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
A history of ‘Yan haƙiƙa, a revisionist Islamic group in northern Nigeria0
‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa0
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
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
The clash of sound, image and light: inter- and intra-religious entanglements and contestations during Mawlūd celebrations in the city of Jos, Nigeria0
Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa0
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
Joost Fontein, Tessa Diphoorn, Peter Lockwood and Constance Smith (eds), Nairobi Becoming: Security, Uncertainty, Contingency. Goleta CA: Punctum Books (pb US$26 – 978 1 68571 156 6). 2024, 345 pp.0
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
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
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
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
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
Competition, payment and flexible trust on a Sierra Leonean fishing boat0
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
Thoughts on contemporary humanities scholarship in Nigeria0
Interrogating the postcolonial Nigerian university: pitfalls and pathways0
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
Mobile phones, electoral songs and pastoral populism in northern Kenya: towards a political anthropology of file sharing0
Mobility and marginalization via the Nairobi expressway0
Francis Nyamnjoh: nimble-footedness versus closure0
‘We deserve new things’: (anti-)bricolage in Lomé’s makerspaces0
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
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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Print media and egalitarianism in 1960s Eswatini: Izwi lama Swazi and the columnist ‘Kadebona’0
Introduction: the stuff of African cities0
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange0
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
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 Italian diaspora in Tunisia: colonization without colonialism0
‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement0
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
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
Competition and mis/trust in Africa and beyond0
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
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
Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara0
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
Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below0
African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development0
Land transactions between Majang people and ‘highlanders’ in the Majang forest zone: a case study of land registration in Ethiopia’s Gambella region0
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
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
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
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
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
Waka waka politician: what are the drivers of party switching in Nigeria?0
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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
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
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). 20
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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
Conscripting communalism: surveillance and resistance in contemporary Mauritius0
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
Crossroads: leprosy, Igbo cosmology and cultural worldviews0
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