Journal of African History

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(The median citation count of Journal of African History 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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DISSIDENCE, DICTATORSHIP, AND DEMOCRACY: THE STRUGGLES OF MALIAN EXILES IN AFRICA AND BEYOND, 1968–914
‘SLOW REVOLUTION’ IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: HOUSEHOLD BIOSOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND REGIONAL ENTANGLEMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF CATTLE-KEEPING AMONG NGUNI-SPEAKERS, NINTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURY CE4
REINTERPRETING THE ROLE OF MUSLIMS IN THE WEST AFRICAN MIDDLE AGES3
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar, theBayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi3
RADIO AND THE ROAD: INFRASTRUCTURE, MOBILITY, AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE BEGINNINGS OF RADIO RURALE DE KAYES (1980–EARLY 2000s)3
African Population History: Contributions of Moral Demography3
THE BEARERS OF NEWS: PRINT AND POWER IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA3
Running on Empty: Fossil Fuels, Local Fuels, and Entangled Infrastructures in Colonial Senegal, 1885–19453
‘IF YOU TROUBLE A HUNGRY SNAKE, YOU WILL FORCE IT TO BITE YOU’: RETHINKING POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN ARCHIVAL PESSIMISM, WORKER DISCONTENT, AND PETITION WRITING IN GHANA, 1957–663
Revising the Population History of the Kingdom of Kongo3
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE: SLEEPING SICKNESS, ONCHOCERCIASIS, AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN GHANA, 1930–603
A NOMADIC STATE? THE ‘BLEMMYEAN-BEJA’ POLITY OF THE ANCIENT EASTERN DESERT3
DISASTER IN A ‘PLURAL SOCIETY’: CYCLONES, DECOLONIZATION, AND MODERN AFRO-MAURITIAN IDENTITY2
LANDMARK EMPIRES: SEARCHING FOR MEDIEVAL EMPIRES AND IMPERIAL TRADITION IN HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF WEST AFRICA2
The Demography of Slavery in the Coffee Districts of Angola, c. 1800–702
‘Despite the Fear’: Emancipation Trajectories in Libya, 1890–19302
Moving Histories: Bantu Language Expansions, Eclectic Economies, and Mobilities2
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century2
MOLINACO, the Comorian Diaspora, and Decolonisation in East Africa's Indian Ocean2
Below the Land Deals: The Making of Mineral Property in Ga-Mphahlele, South Africa, 1880–19942
‘The Days of their Heedless Power Were Over and Done’: Dynamics of Power in the Military Structures of the Precolonial Asante State, 1874–19002
FRATERNAL FRIENDS: SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNISTS AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1945–891
POLITICS ON LIBERATION'S FRONTIERS: STUDENT ACTIVIST REFUGEES, INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ZIMBABWE, 1965–791
The Sardauna's Middle East: Regionalism and Backstage Politics in Nigeria's Postcolonial Diplomacy1
Militant Mothers: Gender and the Politics of Anticolonial Action in Côte d'Ivoire1
‘A Modest, but Peculiar Style’: Self-Fashioning, Atlantic Commerce, and the Culture of Adornment on the Urban Gold Coast1
Pan-African Networks, Cold War Politics, and Postcolonial Opportunities: The African Scholarship Program of American Universities, 1961–751
The Reproduction of Urban Capitalism: Street Food and the Working Day in Colonial Mombasa1
Contested Numbers: Census Controversies and the Press in 1960s Nigeria1
A Death in the Family: Property, Inheritance, and Belonging in Late Colonial Asante1
Abolition and the Registration of Slaves and Libertos in Portuguese Mozambique, 1856–761
Neglected Historiography from Africa: The Case for Postindependence Journals1
EXILE, NARRATIVE, AND MIGRATION IN AFRICAN HISTORY - Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law and Identity. Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Nathan Riley Carpenter. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press1
Enslaved Muslim Sufi Saints in the Nineteenth-Century Sahara: The Life of Bilal Ould Mahmoud1
COLONIAL ITINERARIES: MUHAMMADU DIKKO'S METROPOLITAN ADVENTURES1
Emotion and Violence in German Colonial Southwest Africa - The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia By Matthias Häussler. Trans. from German by Elizabeth Jani1
Ethnoarchaology and Food Security in West Africa - The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana By Amanda L. Logan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. x0
Coercion and Dissent: Sleeping Sickness ‘Concentrations’ and the Politics of Colonial Authority in Ulanga, Tanganyika0
Diaspora, Music, and Identity in Senegal - In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory and Social Change in Urban Senegal By Catherine M. Appert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 248. $115.00, har0
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Intellectuals with Pickaxes - A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 328. $104.95, hardcover (0
Archives and Late Nineteenth Century Ethiopia - Colonial Powers and Ethiopian Frontiers 1880–1884: Acta Aethiopica volume IV Edited by Sven Rubenson, Amsalu Aklilu, Shiferaw Bekele, and Samuel Rubenso0
ALGERIAN, FRENCH, AND SOUTH AFRICAN EX-COMBATANTS - Making Peace with Your Enemy: Algerian, French, and South African Ex-Combatants. By Laetitia Bucaille. Translated by Ethan Rundell. Philadelphia: Un0
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Work and Life on the Mission Station - Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926 By Michelle Liebst. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2021. Pp. 20
Scholars, Secrets, and Sultans: Clerical Authority in West Africa, 1450–16500
Ethnic Othering and Governance in Imperial Ethiopia - The Other Abyssinians: The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1913 By Brian J. Yates. Rochester, NY: University of Ro0
The Rise of the ‘Impenetrable Hedge’: African Intermediaries and the Legacy of Colonial Wars in Northern Ghana, 1896–19200
BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY LITERATURE - Fieldwork of Empire, 1840–1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature. By Adrian S. Wisnicki. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. <0
Discordant Nations - Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities By Mahmood Mamdani. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 416. $29.95, hardcover (ISBN:0
Productive Tensions? - An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race By Shobana Shankar. London: Hurst Publishers, 2021. Pp. 256, £22, paperback (ISBN: 9781787385696).0
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Sleeping Sickness, Onchocerciasis and Unintended Consequences in the Gold Coast and Ghana, 1930–60 — ADDENDUM0
POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE CAPE KHOESAN - These Oppressions Won't Cease: An Anthology of the Political Thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777–1879. By Robert Ross. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press,0
Wise Mothers and Wise Buyers: Marketing Tea and Home Improvement in 1930s South Africa0
Lugha ya Dunia - A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili By Morgan J. Robinson. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 270. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424940); $34.90
An Army's Complicated Legacy - Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar By Luise White. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. $104.95, hardcover (ISBN: 97814780100
Music, Culture, and Generational Change after Apartheid - Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa By Xavier Livermon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,0
Changes in the (Namibian) Land - Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia By Michael Bollig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 425. $99.99, 0
Child Trafficking after Abolition - The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria By Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.0
Liberated Africans in West Africa and Beyond - Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896 Edited by Henry Lovejoy and Richard Anderson. Rochester, NY: University of Roch0
THE PEOPLE'S ZION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - The People's Zion: Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement. By Joel Cabrita. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2018.0
Media and the End of Empire - Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire By Caroline Ritter. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 253. $85.00, hardcover 0
The Conditions of Cancer Treatment in Postcolonial Uganda - Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda By Marissa Mika. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 260. $80
The Lutheran Church and the Tanzanian State - Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka's Life and Work By Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu. Lanham: Lexington Book0
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Writing with Light - Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780
THE KITĀB AL-TURJUMĀN: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY HISTORIOGRAPHICAL (RE)MAPPING OF THE SOUTHERN SAHARA AND SAHEL0
Famine Relief and the Writing of African History - In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics By Benjamin Talton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 20200
A Compendium on African Women's History - Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective Edited by Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. 0
The Quest for Scientific Equity in Postcolonial Ghana - Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence By Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xi0
RACE, DECOLONIZATION, AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA - Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa. By Chielozona Eze. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018. $1100
CATHOLICISM AND POLITICS IN MOZAMBIQUE - Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940–1986. By Eric Morier-Genoud. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. Pp. xiii +0
Women and Nationalism in Nigeria - The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith Byfield. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. pp. 334. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821423980
AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD - African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660–1880. Edited by Mariana P. Candido and Adam Jones. London: James Currey, 2019. P0
RECONFIGURING SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA - Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories, 2nd edition. Edited by Benedetta Rossi. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. Pp. 256. £85.00, hardcover0
Queering Colonialism - Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa By T. J. Tallie. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. 240. $100, ha0
Remixing a Cultural Festival - FESTAC ’77: The 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture Decomposed, An-Arranged and Reproduced by Chimurenga; Misdirections in Music by Ntone Edjabe<0
SPATIAL HISTORY AND THE LONGUE DURÉE IN SENEGAL - Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal. By François G. Richard. Chicago: University of Chicag0
Intellectual Legacies, Political Morality, and Disillusionment: Connections Between Two Mozambique Research Institutions, 1976–20170
Language, Ethnicity, and Media in South Africa - Radio soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern By Liz Gunner. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019. Pp. 227. $105.00, hardcover (ISBN: 0
States, Archives, and the Vivid Past - A History of West Central Africa to 1850 By John K. Thornton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xx + 384. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 978110710
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African Medicine in the Atlantic World - Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 By Kalle Kananoja. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $99.99, har0
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South Africa's Revolutionary Era - Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries By Paul S. Landau. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 372. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424704); $36.95, paper0
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Race, Tourism, and Conservation in South Africa - Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park By Jacob S. T. Dlamini. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020. Pp. 350. $36.95, paperbac0
Social Speech and Governance in Uganda - To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015 By Holly Elisabeth Hanson. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 268. $80.00,0
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MOZAMBICANS IN POSTCOLONIAL TANZANIA - Displaced Mozambicans in Postcolonial Tanzania: Refugee Power, Mobility, Education, and Rural Development. By Joanna T. Tague. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 2040
WOMEN HIGHLIFE PERFORMERS IN GHANA - Female Highlife Performers in Ghana: Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy. By Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. Pp. 192. $90.00, ha0
People and Animals in Nigerian History - Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria By Saheed Aderinto. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 30
Culture, Class, and Politics in Late Imperial Congo - The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo By Daniel Tödt. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 4280
The View from Western Kenya - Seeing Like a Citizen: Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945–1980 By Kara Moskowitz. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. $80.00, hardco0
West African Soldiers during the Colonial Era - West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860–1960 By Timothy Stapleton. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. Pp. 400. $125.00, hardcover (ISBN0
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Plagiarism, Forgery, and Political Invention in Islamic West Africa - Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in W0
Corporate Colonialism in Liberia - Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia By Gregg Mitman. New York: The New Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $27.99, hardcover (ISBN: 78162090
AFRICAN SACRED SPACES - African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change. Edited by ‘BioDun J. Ogundayo and Julius O. Adekunle. Lanaham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Pp. 268. $95.00, hardcover (ISBN:0
Tensions on the Railway: West Indians, Colonial Hierarchies, and the Language of Racial Unity in West Africa0
A South African Writer - Sol T. Plaatje: A Life in Letters Edited by Brian Willan and Sabata-mpho Mokae. Cape Town: Historical Publications Southern Africa, 2020. Pp. xxi + 359. $40.00, 0
HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND ORATURE IN PRECOLONIAL WEST AFRICA - Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past: Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias. Edited by To0
The State of Play in Sports History - Sports in Africa, Past and Present Edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, and Gerard Akindes. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. $60.00, 0
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Colonial Schemes and African Realities: Vernacular Infrastructure and the Limits of Road Building in German East Africa0
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AQUATIC CULTURES IN THE ATLANTIC DIASPORA - Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora. By Kevin Dawson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 360. $45.00, har0
Political Authority and Rural Development - Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana By Alice Wiemers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 250. $80.00, har0
State, Urban Space, Race: Late Colonialism and Segregation at the Ikoyi Reservation in Lagos, Nigeria0
Religion and Resistance in an Atlantic Biography - The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic By João José Reis, Flávio dos Samtos Gomes, and Marcus J. M. de Carvalh0
The Party of the Century - Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021 By Tom Lodge. Auckland Park: Jacana, 2021, and Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. Pp. 626. R30
Gendering South Africa's Struggle - Young Women Against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle By Emily Bridger. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, James Currey: 20210
Malian Women in Public History and Public Memory0
William A. Brown and the Assessment of a Scholarly Life0
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African Histories of Health: A New Synthesis - Health, Healing and Illness in African History By Rebekah Lee. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 272. $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781474254380
MAU MAU AND POPULAR MEMORY IN KENYA - Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion. Edited by Julie MacArthur. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. 0
Collaboration, Survival, and Flight: Fulbe Narratives of Guinea-Bissau's War for Independence, 1961–740
Language and Ethnicity in Colonized South Africa - Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities By Jochen S. Arndt. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Pr0
‘Groupwork’ and Community in the East African Past - The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 By David L. Schoenbrun. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Pp. 3760
History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye0
Colonial Theft and Postcolonial Reparation - The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution By Dan Hicks. London: Pluto Press, 2020. Pp. 368. $27.00, hardco0
Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire’s Forking Paths - Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa's Cold War By Marco Wyss. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. $100.00, hardcover 0
Comboni Missionaries in Mahdist Sudan - Faith, War and Slavery: A History of the Colonial Conquest of Sudan (1881–1898) By Patricia Teixeira Santos and Suresh Kumar. Translated by Vanessa Rodrigues Va0
Masculinity in the Atlantic World - Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age By Ndubueze L. Mbah. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 296. $34.95, 0
KENYATTA'S LEGACY IN KENYA - Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years. By Anaïs Angelo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 306. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9780
Revisiting A Classic in African Economic History - An Economic History of West Africa, 2nd edition By A. G. Hopkins. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 414. $79.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9780367002442); $0
The Impact of Informal Mentorship: A Tribute to Professor William Brown0
The following exchange was prompted by Femi J. Kolapo's review of Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine's The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria (University of Massachuse0
Administering the KwaZulu Bantustan - Bantu Authorities: Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity By Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. xxi + 365. $120.000
Religion and Nationalism in South Sudan - Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan By Christopher Tounsel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 205. $99.95, hardco0
Action on the Margins - Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins By Paul Nugent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 616. $39.99,0
PERSPECTIVES ON WEST AFRICA'S EBOLA EPIDEMIC - Understanding West Africa's Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy. Edited by Ibrahim Abdullah and Ismail Rashid. London: Zed Books Ltd, 2017. Pp. <0
CONCRETE AND URBAN HISTORY IN MOZAMBIQUE - Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique. By David Morton. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. $34.95,0
African Art in an Imperial Center - Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art By John Warne Monroe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 30
AFRICAN AMERICANS, SEGREGATION, AND APARTHEID - Winning our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960. By Nicholas Grant. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.0
The Worlding of Architectural Labor - Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War. By Łukasz Stanek. Princeton: Princeton University Press0
COLONIAL TRANSACTIONS AND HISTORIES IN GABON - Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon. By Florence Bernault. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 332. $0
From Coast to Coast and Back Again - Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to circa 1900 By Gwyn Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 306. $29.99,0
LAW, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN COLONIAL ALGERIA - Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930. By Judith Surkis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 333. $29.95, pap0
MARKET ENCOUNTERS AND CONSUMER CULTURE IN GHANA - Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana. By Bianca Murillo. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. 248. $32.95, paperbac0
ABOLITION IN SIERRA LEONE - Abolition in Sierra Leone: Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. By Richard Peter Anderson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp 0
SLEEPING SICKNESS IN EASTERN AFRICA - The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920. By Mari K. Webel. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 272. 0
A Resonant Intellectual - Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church By Harry N. K. Odamtten. East Lansing, 0
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa0
Literature and Politics During the Cold War - At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War By Monica Popescu. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. $26.950
Agency and the Arusha Declaration: Nyerere, NUTA, and Political Discourse in Tanzania, 1966–70
‘An Era Where Racism is Religion’ -Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960-1984By Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp.xi<0
MARRIAGE AND EMPIRE: CONSOLIDATION IN POST-LIBERATION ETHIOPIA (1941–74)0
‘Grande Herói da Banda’: The Political Uses of the Memory of Hoji ya Henda in Angola0
A Cold War City - Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974 By George Roberts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. $32.99, pa0
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Exiles, Expatriates, and Malcolm X: Debating the Racial Politics of Liberation in the Black Star of Africa0
Considering Insurgency in Ethiopia - Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970 By Terje Østebø. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 363. $1200
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Oral Histories, Trauma, and Methodology in Rwanda - Becoming Human Again: An Oral History of the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi By Donald E. Miller, with Lorna Touryan Miller and Arpi Misha Miller.0
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WEST AFRICA'S SLAVE COAST - Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era. By Finn Fuglestad. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 443. $74.00, har0
‘Compliments from the Housewives’: Contesting White Public Space in Late-Colonial Nairobi0
AFRICAN SOLDIERS AND MARRIAGE IN THE FRENCH EMPIRE - Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers’ Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire. By Sarah J. Zimmerman. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press0
Caught between the Union Jack and the Nazi Swastika: African Protests over Ambiguous Status under British Imperialism and Potential Transfer to Nazi Colonialism0
Raids, Resistance, and Retribution: South Africa's Cato Manor Killings, 1960–10
African Intellectuals and Abolitionists - Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century By José Lingna Nafafé. Cambridge: Cambridge Universi0
Deconconstructing Colonial Population Anxiety - Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola By Samuël Coghe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20
SCHOOLS AND COLONIALISM IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA - Contesting French West Africa: Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950. By Harry Gamble. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.0
Editorial Introduction: History Matters on the 2020 Belgian Parliamentary Commission on the Colonial Past0
The Muridiyya Diaspora - Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making By Cheikh Babou. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 326. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424377); $36.950
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥajj ʿUmar, the Bayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi – ADDENDUM0
Politics and Music in Colonised South Africa - The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape By Lindsay Michie. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 298. $10
The Quotidian Politics of a Love Story: Researching, Assembling, and Mobilizing the Lunda Legend in the Late Nineteenth Century0
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COLONIAL SUSPECTS IN INTERWAR FRENCH WEST AFRICA - Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa. By Kathleen Keller. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebr0
AN AFRICAN IN IMPERIAL LONDON - An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor. By Danell Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. $34.95, hardcover (IS0
‘For King and Empire’: The Changing Political, Economic, and Cultural Identities of Kru Mariners in Atlantic Africa, 1460–19450
MOVING BEYOND COLONIAL CONTROL? ECONOMIC FORCES AND SHIFTING MIGRATION FROM RUANDA-URUNDI TO BUGANDA, 1920–60 – CORRIGENDUM0
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Epistemology and History in Central Ghana - Our Own Way in this Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture and Nation By Kwasi Konadu. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 20200
Africans, Israelis, and the Postcolonial Built Environment - Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler-Colonial Imagination, 1958–1973 By Ayala Le0
Skin, Race, and Business in South Africa - Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners By Lynn M. Thomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 368. $28.95, pap0
RADIO AND THE COLD WAR IN ANGOLA - Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002. By Marissa J. Moorman. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 240. $32.95, pap0
William Allen Brown, Jr., 1934–2007: An Appreciation0
‘Eating A Country’: The Dynamics of State-Society Encounters in Qellem, Western Ethiopia, 1908–330
‘To Satisfy My Savage Appetite’: Slavery, Belief, and Sexual Violence on the Mina (Gold) Coast, 1471–15710
Le témoignage d'Almamy Maliki Yattara sur W. A. Brown: Dr Brown through the Testimony of Almamy Maliki Yattara0
No Place for Honest Men - Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa By Brian Peterson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Pp. 350. $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780253053765); $30
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Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law and Identity. Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Nathan Riley Carpenter — CORRIGENDUM0
Using Dirt to Write History - Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos By Stephanie Newell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. xx + 249. $26.95, pape0
Touring Africa - A History of Tourism in Africa: Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment By Todd Cleveland. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 216. $29.95, paperback (ISBN: 97808214470
PLANTATION SLAVERY IN THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE - Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Historical and Comparative Study. By Mohammed Bashir Salau. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010
Gender and the Economics of Emancipation in Angola - Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce and Economic Transition in Luanda By Vanessa S. Oliveira. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press0
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Confinement and Politics in Uganda - Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda By Katherine Bruce-Lockhart. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 280. $80
Armies and Identities in Southern Africa - Apartheid's Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa By Lennart Bolliger. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $80.00,0
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–18200
John Garang On Air: Radio Battles in Sudan's Second Civil War0
Congo, the Cold War, and the United Nations - Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa By Henning Melber. London: Hurst Publishers, 2019. Pp. 184. £30.00, hardcover (ISBN0
NIGERIA AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict. By Chima J. Korieh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 298. £29.99, hardcover (ISBN0
THOUGHTS ON THE WESTERN SAVANNAH AND SAHEL0
Text and Authority in Nineteenth Century Nigeria - From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State By Paul Naylor. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2021. Pp. 228. $99.00, hardcover0
Performing the Struggle Against Apartheid - Opposing Apartheid on Stage: King Kong the Musical By Tyler Fleming. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020. Pp. 428. $130.00, hardcover (ISBN: 0
Visualizing Mozambican History - Filtering Histories: The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times By Drew A. Thompson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. 360
EDUCATION AND NATION BUILDING IN ETHIOPIA - Éduquer la nation en Éthiopie: École, État et identités dans le Wolaita (1941–1991). By Pierre Guidi. Rennes, France: Presses universitaires de Rennes and I0
PROCEDURE AS POLITICS IN THE CAPE COLONY: THE CAREER OF ANDREW GONTSHI, 1880–19040
MADAGASCAR AND THE PROVISIONING TRADE - Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600–1800. By Jane Hooper. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. 352. $34.95, paperback (IS0
CRUSADES IN MEDIEVAL AFRICA - Croisades en Afrique: Les expéditions occidentales à destination du continent africain, XIIIe–XVIe siècles. Edited by Benjamin Weber. Toulouse: Pres0
The Past, Present, and Future of African Opera - African Theatre 19: Opera & Music Theatre By Christine Mazke, Lena van der Hoven, Christopher Odhiambo, and Hilde Roos (eds.). Rochester, NY0
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An Archive of Colonial Propaganda - Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation Edited by Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas. Los Angeles: Getty Research Ins0
Street Hawking or Street Walking in Dahomey?: Debates about Girls’ Sexual Assaults in Colonial Tribunals, 1924–410
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION0
A HISTORY OF THE BASOTHO IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA - Land, Migration and Belonging: A History of the Basotho in Southern Rhodesia c. 1890–1960s. By Joseph Mujere. Suffolk, UK: James Currey, 2019. Pp. 197. 0
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VIOLANCE, TRAUMA, AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN SIERRA LEONE - Out of War: Violence, Trauma and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone. By Mariane C. Ferme. Berkeley: University of California Pr0
Dead-End Scandal in M'Pésoba: Local Politics and Colonial Justice in French West Africa, 1913–180
Medical Legitimacy: Childbirth, Pluralism, and Professionalization in Nigeria's Faith-Based Aladura Birthing Homes0
A Biography of a South African Martyr - Chris Hani By Hugh Macmillan. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 152. $16.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424544).0
Public Piety in Nigeria's Recent History - Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism Abimbola A. Adelakun. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 290. $99.990
Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–800
Public Pleasure and Authoritarian Politics - The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea By Nomi Dave. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 208. $27.0
Religion and Nationalism in South Sudan - Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan By Christopher Tounsel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 205. $99.95,0
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‘MY TRAINING IS DEEPLY CHRISTIAN AND I AM AGAINST VIOLENCE’: JASON SENDWE, THE BALUBAKAT, AND THE KATANGESE SECESSION, 1957–640
The Past and Present of Chinese Migration to Africa - The Social and Economic History of the Chinese Overseas in Africa, Volumes I, II, and III By Anshan Li. Nanjing, China: Jiangsu People's Pr0
The Demographic Question in Colonial Congo - Démographie coloniale congolaise. Entrespéculation, idéologie, et reconstruction historique By Jean-Paul Sanderson. Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgique: PUL-0
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION0
Les sources orales à la conquête du passé colonial0
ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN WEST AFRICA - Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa. Edited by Rudolph Ware, Zachary Wright, and Amir Syed. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press0
Water and History in Southern Africa0
Rethinking Colonial Science and Development in East Africa - African Environmental Crisis: A History of Science for Development By Gufu Oba. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 258. $160.00, hardcover (ISB0
Africa in The Cuban Imagination - Beyond Cuban Waters: África, La Yuma, and the Island's Global Imagination By Paul Ryer. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. Pp. 240. $39.95, paperback (0
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‘When There Is a Ban, There Is a Way’: Everyday Gambling and the Nigerian Political Economy, 1977–830
Congolese Students in Congo's Global History - Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo By Pedro Monaville. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $107.95, 0
Civil War in Liberia Revisited - Liberia's First Civil War: A Narrative History By Edmund Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 344. $160.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781032113043); $48.95, e-book (ISBN: 9780
Cold War and Decolonization in Lusophone Africa - Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975 By Natalia Telepneva. Chapel Hill: The Uni0
Egypt in Africa: William A. Brown and a Liberating African History0
A Multimedia History of a Musical Genre - Cool Running: The Story of Ghana's Honk Horn Lorries and Por Por Music By Nii Yemo Nunu, Steven Feld, and Hannah Schreckenbach. Santa Fe: VoxLox, 2020.0
PIRACY IN SOMALIA - Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa. By Awet Tewelde Weldemichael. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xix + 238. $29.99, paperbac0
Film, Leisure, and Urban Life in West Africa - Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa By Odile Goerg. London: Hurst Publishers, 2020. Pp. 201. £45.00 hardcover, (ISBN: 9781787382053).0
Politics of Disaster: Earthquake, Rehousing, and Confronting Colonial Rule in Accra (Gold Coast/Ghana), 1939–450
Zambia and Zambians during the Second World War - War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953 By Alfred Tembo. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821420
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The Collective Biography of a Muslim Community - Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition By Paul M. Love Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre0
An Ocean of Debt and Possibility - Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean By Thomas F. McDow. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2018. Pp. 378. $36.95, paperback, (ISBN: 978-0-82140
Revisiting the Colonial Encounter in the Sahel - Des Pays au Crépuscule: le moment de l'occupation coloniale (Sahara-Sahel) By Camille Lefebvre. Paris: Fayard, 2021. Pp. 352. 24.00 €, paperback (ISBN:0
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