Journal of African History

Papers
(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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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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, 5
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. xi4
The Demographic Question in Colonial Congo - Démographie coloniale congolaise. Entrespéculation, idéologie, et reconstruction historique By Jean-Paul Sanderson. Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgique: PUL-4
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 Jani4
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. $1203
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 Press3
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: 3
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. 363
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 Ins3
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 Book3
Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–803
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).2
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. x2
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, 2
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: 97808214472
Editors' Introduction2
John Garang On Air: Radio Battles in Sudan's Second Civil War2
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 Va2
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: 9781474254382
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‘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, 1957–661
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 (1
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 Press1
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 To1
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 (1
‘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<1
Abolition and the Registration of Slaves and Libertos in Portuguese Mozambique, 1856–761
The Impact of Informal Mentorship: A Tribute to Professor William Brown1
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. $34.95,1
Dead-End Scandal in M'Pésoba: Local Politics and Colonial Justice in French West Africa, 1913–181
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
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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
‘The Days of their Heedless Power Were Over and Done’: Dynamics of Power in the Military Structures of the Precolonial Asante State, 1874–19000
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
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
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
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
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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
Disciplining Citizens and Commodities: Economic Crimes and Accusations in 1970s Uganda0
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
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Wise Mothers and Wise Buyers: Marketing Tea and Home Improvement in 1930s South Africa0
The Audience Experience of Colonial Cinema - Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 By Samson Kaunga Ndanyi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. Pp. 159. $95.00,0
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
The Quotidian Politics of a Love Story: Researching, Assembling, and Mobilizing the Lunda Legend in the Late Nineteenth Century0
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
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
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar, theBayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi0
Urbanism and Identity in East Africa - Making Identity on the Swahili Coast: Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo By Steven Fabian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxvi0
Collaboration, Survival, and Flight: Fulbe Narratives of Guinea-Bissau's War for Independence, 1961–740
State, Urban Space, Race: Late Colonialism and Segregation at the Ikoyi Reservation in Lagos, Nigeria0
History and Museums in South Africa - Museum Times: Changing Histories in South Africa Leslie Witz. New York: Berghahn, 2022. Pp. 300. £99.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781800735385); £23.95, ebook (IS0
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa0
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
Objects, Materiality, and Persistance in the Black Atlantic - Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic Matthew Francis Rarey. Durham, NC: Duke Universit0
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 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
Militant Mothers: Gender and the Politics of Anticolonial Action in Côte d'Ivoire0
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
Street Hawking or Street Walking in Dahomey?: Debates about Girls’ Sexual Assaults in Colonial Tribunals, 1924–410
‘Compliments from the Housewives’: Contesting White Public Space in Late-Colonial Nairobi0
Missionary Internalizations of Ghanaian Christianity - Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity Paul Glen Grant. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2020. Pp. 327. $60
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Egypt in Africa: William A. Brown and a Liberating African History0
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
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
Assembling a Historiography of South Africa - History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography Thula Simpson, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp.  2630
MOLINACO, the Comorian Diaspora, and Decolonisation in East Africa's Indian Ocean0
“We Were the Army in the Shadows”: The Dynamics of Military Rule and Experiences of Black Women in the South African Defence Force 32 Battalion Military Community0
Caught between the Union Jack and the Nazi Swastika: African Protests over Ambiguous Status under British Imperialism and Potential Transfer to Nazi Colonialism0
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
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
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
DISASTER IN A ‘PLURAL SOCIETY’: CYCLONES, DECOLONIZATION, AND MODERN AFRO-MAURITIAN IDENTITY0
‘To Satisfy My Savage Appetite’: Slavery, Belief, and Sexual Violence on the Mina (Gold) Coast, 1471–15710
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
‘Eating A Country’: The Dynamics of State-Society Encounters in Qellem, Western Ethiopia, 1908–330
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
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
Biography and History in Zimbabwe - The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker By Blessing-Miles Tendi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 348.0
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
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
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 Press0
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
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
Ritual Violence and Traditions of Origin: Mung'aro in Mijikenda History0
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
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‘Despite the Fear’: Emancipation Trajectories in Libya, 1890–19300
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
Malian Women in Public History and Public Memory0
“Natives Around the Township”: State Spaces and the Struggle for Karamoja's Future, 1950–660
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 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
Unimaginable Community: Watchwords and Frelimo's Abandoned Nationalism in Independence-Era Mozambique0
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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
POLITICS ON LIBERATION'S FRONTIERS: STUDENT ACTIVIST REFUGEES, INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ZIMBABWE, 1965–790
Humanitarianism in a Cold War Hot Spot -Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC: The Politics of Aid in Cold War AfricaBy Jeremy Rich. Suffolk: James Currey, 2020. Pp. 277. $105.0
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
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
“How Our Heritage is Looted”: Legal Meaning-Making, Cultural Property, and Customs Enforcement in Nigeria, 1938–790
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Racism, Study, and Cold War Solidarities - African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975 By Sara Pugach. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. 274. $75.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780472070
The Sardauna's Middle East: Regionalism and Backstage Politics in Nigeria's Postcolonial Diplomacy0
A Death in the Family: Property, Inheritance, and Belonging in Late Colonial Asante0
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
Running on Empty: Fossil Fuels, Local Fuels, and Entangled Infrastructures in Colonial Senegal, 1885–19450
‘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
Neglected Historiography from Africa: The Case for Postindependence Journals0
Moving Histories: Bantu Language Expansions, Eclectic Economies, and Mobilities0
The Demography of Slavery in the Coffee Districts of Angola, c. 1800–700
Le témoignage d'Almamy Maliki Yattara sur W. A. Brown: Dr Brown through the Testimony of Almamy Maliki Yattara0
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
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
New Approaches to the Prison in African History - L'Afrique en prisons: Sociétés, Espaces, Temps. Edited by Frédéric Le Marcis and Marie Morelle. Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2022. Pp. 332. €25.00, hard0
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
Politics of Disaster: Earthquake, Rehousing, and Confronting Colonial Rule in Accra (Gold Coast/Ghana), 1939–450
The Reproduction of Urban Capitalism: Street Food and the Working Day in Colonial Mombasa0
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
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
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‘Grande Herói da Banda’: The Political Uses of the Memory of Hoji ya Henda in Angola0
Universities, Apartheid, and Decolonisation - Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa: From Liberalism to Decolonization Teresa Barnes. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 173. $52.95, paperb0
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥajj ʿUmar, the Bayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi – ADDENDUM0
Neo-Imperial Cold War? Biafra's Franco-African Arms Triangle0
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
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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
Cattle Circulation, Beef Market Control Strategies, and African Agropastoralists in Southern Mozambique, 1900s–30s0
The Moral Economy of the Ugandan Crowd in 19450
South Africa, 1994 + 30: A Conversation About History After Apartheid0
Mobility and Identity at the Tanzania-Rwanda Border - From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border Jill Rosenthal. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 330
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
Medical Legitimacy: Childbirth, Pluralism, and Professionalization in Nigeria's Faith-Based Aladura Birthing Homes0
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–18200
Women, Kinship, and Intimacy in the Atlantic World - Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Jessica Marie Johnson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press0
Catholicism, Politics, and Nationalism in Postcolonial Uganda - Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney. London: James C0
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The Challenges of Transforming Political Consciousness - Making New People: Politics, Cinema and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 James E. Genova. East Lansing: Michigan State University P0
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
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THE BEARERS OF NEWS: PRINT AND POWER IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA0
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
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
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
Colonial Schemes and African Realities: Vernacular Infrastructure and the Limits of Road Building in German East Africa0
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
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Agency and the Arusha Declaration: Nyerere, NUTA, and Political Discourse in Tanzania, 1966–70
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
African Population History: Contributions of Moral Demography0
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
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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
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 Rise of the ‘Impenetrable Hedge’: African Intermediaries and the Legacy of Colonial Wars in Northern Ghana, 1896–19200
A Return to Khaki Rule? Democracy and Africa's Lost History of Military Government0
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
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Mwene Muji: A Medieval Empire in Central Africa?0
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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
‘A Modest, but Peculiar Style’: Self-Fashioning, Atlantic Commerce, and the Culture of Adornment on the Urban Gold Coast0
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); $70
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
William Allen Brown, Jr., 1934–2007: An Appreciation0
Raids, Resistance, and Retribution: South Africa's Cato Manor Killings, 1960–10
Learned Societies, Knowledge Production, and Public Engagement in Colonial and Postcolonial Ghana, 1930–900
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
The Caliphate, the Black Writer, and a World in Revolution, 1957–690
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
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Sleeping Sickness, Onchocerciasis and Unintended Consequences in the Gold Coast and Ghana, 1930–60 — ADDENDUM0
Les sources orales à la conquête du passé colonial0
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
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
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
Property, Power, and Imperialism in Angola - Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality By Mariana P. Candido. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre0
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
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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
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A Hidden Repository of Arabic Manuscripts from Mali: The William A. Brown Collection0
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century0
Editors' Introduction0
Scholars, Secrets, and Sultans: Clerical Authority in West Africa, 1450–16500
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
Migrants and the Black Atlantic in Liberia - More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic By Caree A. Banton. Cambridge: Cambridge Un0
Developing Automobile Culture in Tanzania - African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development By Joshua Grace. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 432. $114.95, hardcover 0
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
AFH volume 63 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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
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
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE: SLEEPING SICKNESS, ONCHOCERCIASIS, AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN GHANA, 1930–600
An African History of Development - The Idea of Development in Africa: A History Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. £74.00, hardcover (IS0
Rethinking the Frontline - Guerillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa Siphokazi Magadla. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2023. Pp0
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
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
Editors’ Introduction0
Between Economic Nationalism and Liberalization: Ideas of Development and the Neoliberal Moment in Mobutu's Congo, 1965–740
MOVING BEYOND COLONIAL CONTROL? ECONOMIC FORCES AND SHIFTING MIGRATION FROM RUANDA-URUNDI TO BUGANDA, 1920–60 – CORRIGENDUM0
Exiles, Expatriates, and Malcolm X: Debating the Racial Politics of Liberation in the Black Star of Africa0
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
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
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
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
Ray Kea and the Historians of the Gold Coast: Debates Over Continuity and Rupture in African and African Diaspora Atlantic Histories0
Therapeutic Practices and Healing Cultures in Accra - Sharing the Burden of Sickness: A History of Healing and Medicine in Accra Jonathan Roberts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. P0
Lesotho and the QwaQwa Ski Resort, 1975–82: Border Disputes and South Africa's Increasingly Deadly Responses0
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
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
Deconconstructing Colonial Population Anxiety - Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola By Samuël Coghe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20
RADIO AND THE ROAD: INFRASTRUCTURE, MOBILITY, AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE BEGINNINGS OF RADIO RURALE DE KAYES (1980–EARLY 2000s)0
Military Instrumentality in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe - Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race M. T. Howard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x0
The Colonial African: Godwin Mbikusita-Lewanika and His Struggle For and Against Zambian Nationalism0
AFH volume 62 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Editorial Introduction: History Matters on the 2020 Belgian Parliamentary Commission on the Colonial Past0
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
Revising the Population History of the Kingdom of Kongo0
Water and History in Southern Africa0
Editors’ Introduction0
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
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
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
History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye0
Surveying the Archives of the Congo Free State - The Congo Free State: What Could the Archives Tell Us? New Light and Research Perspective Patricia Van Schuylenbergh and Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi0
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
An Institute of Residual Studies? Nkrumah and the “Afroepistemic” Origins of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana0
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
Editors’ Introduction0
AFH volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Editors’ Introduction0
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
Coercion and Dissent: Sleeping Sickness ‘Concentrations’ and the Politics of Colonial Authority in Ulanga, Tanganyika0
Intellectual Legacies, Political Morality, and Disillusionment: Connections Between Two Mozambique Research Institutions, 1976–20170
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
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
Pan-African Networks, Cold War Politics, and Postcolonial Opportunities: The African Scholarship Program of American Universities, 1961–750
William A. Brown and the Assessment of a Scholarly Life0
Editors’ Introduction0
‘When There Is a Ban, There Is a Way’: Everyday Gambling and the Nigerian Political Economy, 1977–830
Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law and Identity. Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Nathan Riley Carpenter — CORRIGENDUM0
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