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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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); $34.913
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 Uni12
African Correspondents in the Second World War in Burma: Reporting on Soldiers’ Experiences of Conflict, June–August 19456
The Making of Early Colonial Dar es Salaam - Dividing Dar: Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920 Patrick Christopher Hege. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 26
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 Va5
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: 97808214474
Universities, Apartheid, and Decolonisation - Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa: From Liberalism to Decolonization Teresa Barnes. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 173. $52.95, paperb3
History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye3
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. $83
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:2
Biography of a White Opponent to Settler Colonialism - Norman Leys and Settler Colonialism in Kenya Colin Leys . London: Merlin Press, 2025. Pp. 288. £202
Water and History in Southern Africa2
Making Violators: Employers and African Workers in Colonial Dakar, 1918–432
Christian Family Life in South Africa - Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa Natasha Erlank. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2
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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, paper1
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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, hardcover1
Assembling a Historiography of South Africa - History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography Thula Simpson, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp.  2631
Ritual Violence and Traditions of Origin: Mung'aro in Mijikenda History1
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 Press1
Disciplining Citizens and Commodities: Economic Crimes and Accusations in 1970s Uganda1
Living Histories Across Borders - History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border Peter Wafula Wekesa. London: Lexington Books, 2023. Pp. xxii + 212. $100.00, h1
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 W1
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 Pr1
‘Despite the Fear’: Emancipation Trajectories in Libya, 1890–19301
South Africa, 1994 + 30: A Conversation About History After Apartheid1
‘A Modest, but Peculiar Style’: Self-Fashioning, Atlantic Commerce, and the Culture of Adornment on the Urban Gold Coast1
Egypt in Africa: William A. Brown and a Liberating African History1
Intellectual Legacies, Political Morality, and Disillusionment: Connections Between Two Mozambique Research Institutions, 1976–20171
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 C1
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, hardco1
Lesotho and the QwaQwa Ski Resort, 1975–82: Border Disputes and South Africa's Increasingly Deadly Responses1
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 (IS1
Neoliberalism and the Global Production of the Girl-in-Development Paradigm - Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi Sarah Bellow1
Street Hawking or Street Walking in Dahomey?: Debates about Girls’ Sexual Assaults in Colonial Tribunals, 1924–411
A Return to Khaki Rule? Democracy and Africa's Lost History of Military Government0
In the Light of a Tswana Star: Koranta ea Becoana and the Pursuit of Multiethnic Liberalism in South Africa0
Building Legacy: Sports, Kasarani Stadium, and Moi’s Transnational Populist Politics, 1978–870
‘To Satisfy My Savage Appetite’: Slavery, Belief, and Sexual Violence on the Mina (Gold) Coast, 1471–15710
Everyday People and the Making of Authoritarianism0
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
“How Our Heritage is Looted”: Legal Meaning-Making, Cultural Property, and Customs Enforcement in Nigeria, 1938–790
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The Quotidian Politics of a Love Story: Researching, Assembling, and Mobilizing the Lunda Legend in the Late Nineteenth Century0
‘Eating A Country’: The Dynamics of State-Society Encounters in Qellem, Western Ethiopia, 1908–330
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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
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Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia0
Segu and its Wake: Authority, Legitimacy, and Narratives of Power in Mali’s History0
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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
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
“A Man of Africa”: Emotions and Political Kinship in Forming Transnational Connections0
Resurrecting the African Independent Pentecostal Church: Land, Education, and the Politics of Reconciliation during Kenya’s Decolonisation, 1952–690
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William A. Brown and the Assessment of a Scholarly Life0
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
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
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The Ovambo Genocide: The Portuguese Military Campaign in Southern Angola, 19150
“The Net That Catches the Most Fish”: Fishing, Innovation, and Law in the Gold Coast Colony (Ghana), c. 1898–19230
Neo-Colonialism, Underdevelopment, and the Making of a Radical Pan-African and Leftist Economic Institute, 1970–800
The Moral Economy of the Ugandan Crowd in 19450
‘When There Is a Ban, There Is a Way’: Everyday Gambling and the Nigerian Political Economy, 1977–830
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
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Dead-End Scandal in M'Pésoba: Local Politics and Colonial Justice in French West Africa, 1913–180
The Reproduction of Urban Capitalism: Street Food and the Working Day in Colonial Mombasa0
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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Scholars, Secrets, and Sultans: Clerical Authority in West Africa, 1450–16500
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
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
‘An Era Where Racism is Religion’ - Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960-1984 By Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 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
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
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
A Spatio-Cultural History of Coastal Southeastern Nigeria - The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements Joseph Godlewski. New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 312. $95.00, hardcove0
African Worldmaking on a Global Stage - The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 Frank Gerits. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U0
African Entrepreneurs as Agents of Capitalism - Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 A. G. Hopkins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton0
John Garang On Air: Radio Battles in Sudan's Second Civil War0
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Who Deserves to Die? The Moral Logic of Mau Mau Killings in Colonial Kenya, 1952–560
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
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
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
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
Caught between the Union Jack and the Nazi Swastika: African Protests over Ambiguous Status under British Imperialism and Potential Transfer to Nazi Colonialism0
‘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
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi0
‘For King and Empire’: The Changing Political, Economic, and Cultural Identities of Kru Mariners in Atlantic Africa, 1460–19450
Le témoignage d'Almamy Maliki Yattara sur W. A. Brown: Dr Brown through the Testimony of Almamy Maliki Yattara0
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa0
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
Deconconstructing Colonial Population Anxiety - Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola By Samuël Coghe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20
“History in a Wine Glass” - Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective Paul Nugent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 374. $130.00, hardcover (ISBN: 0
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
State, Urban Space, Race: Late Colonialism and Segregation at the Ikoyi Reservation in Lagos, Nigeria0
The Caliphate, the Black Writer, and a World in Revolution, 1957–690
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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
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
Between Land Reform and Postcolonial Frustration: Understanding the Social Roots of Local Opposition to the PAIGC/PAICV in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 1975–910
Of Cattle and Community: Women’s History-telling in Western Uganda’s Nanga Performances, 1900–Present0
Politics of Disaster: Earthquake, Rehousing, and Confronting Colonial Rule in Accra (Gold Coast/Ghana), 1939–450
Navigating Lingala: Linguistic Change, Political Power, and Everyday Authoritarianism in Congo-Zaire, 1965–970
Historical Scholarship and the Public Square: The Belgian Commission on Colonialism Through the Lens of Wiriyamu0
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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
Spilling Millet: The East African Post and Studied Bureaucratic Knowledge0
Ray Kea and the Historians of the Gold Coast: Debates Over Continuity and Rupture in African and African Diaspora Atlantic Histories0
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
Capitalist Flows and Working-Class Conditions: Colonial Labor Management and Racial Formations in Southeastern Africa, 1851–19000
Of “Akankyemaa” and Beyond: Gender and Mining Income Disruptions in Late Colonial Asante0
The New Instrumental Turn in Nigerian Historical Scholarship0
Militant Mothers: Gender and the Politics of Anticolonial Action in Côte d'Ivoire0
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
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
Childbirth, Colonialism, and Faith Healing - Birth Politics: Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in Nigeria Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams. Balt0
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
Decolonizing Archival Narratives: Exploring Digital Bias in the Catalogs of Portuguese-Colonized African Territories0
The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West Central Africa0
Malian Women in Public History and Public Memory0
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
Diplomacy of Intimacy: Cameroonian Women’s Anticolonial Diplomacy with China in the Era of Decolonization0
Humanitarianism in a Cold War Hot Spot - Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC: The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa By Jeremy Rich. Suffolk: James Currey, 2020. Pp. 277. $100
An Activist History of the Maasai - Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures - Meitamei Olol Dapash and Mary Poole. London: Zed 0
An African Society’s Perception of Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa, the Ethnic-State of Gajaaga Makhroufi Ous0
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
Politics Of and Through the Thoroughfare - Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa Peer Schouten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 299. $33.95, paperback (0
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
Women’s Livelihood and Status Struggles in Tabora after the End of Slavery, 1920s–600
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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
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
Wise Mothers and Wise Buyers: Marketing Tea and Home Improvement in 1930s South Africa0
Unimaginable Community: Watchwords and Frelimo's Abandoned Nationalism in Independence-Era Mozambique0
Les sources orales à la conquête du passé colonial0
“Sodabi Calamity Number One”: The Production of Palm Alcohol in Dahomey and its Repression, 1840–19750
The Impact of Informal Mentorship: A Tribute to Professor William Brown0
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The Colonial African: Godwin Mbikusita-Lewanika and His Struggle For and Against Zambian Nationalism0
Learned Societies, Knowledge Production, and Public Engagement in Colonial and Postcolonial Ghana, 1930–900
Moving Histories: Bantu Language Expansions, Eclectic Economies, and Mobilities0
Neglected Historiography from Africa: The Case for Postindependence Journals0
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
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
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
Francis Fearon’s Ideas and Hidden Network of African Antislavery in Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast0
“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
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
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
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
Between Economic Nationalism and Liberalization: Ideas of Development and the Neoliberal Moment in Mobutu's Congo, 1965–740
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
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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Ambiguous Echoes of the Colonial Partition: Alternative Futures from the Casamançais Past in Senegal0
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
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
A Hidden Repository of Arabic Manuscripts from Mali: The William A. Brown Collection0
‘Compliments from the Housewives’: Contesting White Public Space in Late-Colonial Nairobi0
British Political Hegemony and Imperialism: Crushing of the Usuthu and the Onkweni Sections of the Zulu Royal Family, 1880s–19130
‘Grande Herói da Banda’: The Political Uses of the Memory of Hoji ya Henda in Angola0
Les lacs Tumba et Maï-Ndombe dans la cartographie européenne du 16 e –18 e siècle0
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Editorial Introduction: History Matters on the 2020 Belgian Parliamentary Commission on the Colonial Past0
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
Echoes of History: Legacies of the Benin Bronzes and Restitution Within the Black Atlantic0
Intimate Archives and Anterooms0
William Allen Brown, Jr., 1934–2007: An Appreciation0
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
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
Neo-Imperial Cold War? Biafra's Franco-African Arms Triangle0
Traditional Institutions and Cultural Heritage Law: The Case of Benin Bronzes0
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
Collaboration, Survival, and Flight: Fulbe Narratives of Guinea-Bissau's War for Independence, 1961–740
Cattle Circulation, Beef Market Control Strategies, and African Agropastoralists in Southern Mozambique, 1900s–30s0
Built Forms, Things, and Urban Belonging - Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar Tasha Rijke-Epstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 376. $109.95, hard0
Mwene Muji: A Medieval Empire in Central Africa?0
A Diplomat-cum-Historian’s Chronicle of US Diplomacy vis-à-vis Africa - US Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik Herman J. Cohen. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 20200
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
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
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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
Colonial Schemes and African Realities: Vernacular Infrastructure and the Limits of Road Building in German East Africa0
Medical Legitimacy: Childbirth, Pluralism, and Professionalization in Nigeria's Faith-Based Aladura Birthing Homes0
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
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Religion and Nationalism in South Sudan - Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan By Christopher Tounsel. Durham, NC: Duke 0
Resource for Historians of The Gambia - Historical Dictionary of The Gambia, 6th edition David Perfect. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. Pp. 707. $225.00, hardcover (ISBN: 97815381780
Muslim Intellectuals and the Slave Trade in West Africa - Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa Jennifer Lofkrantz. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2023. Pp. 228. $99.0
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
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
Agency and the Arusha Declaration: Nyerere, NUTA, and Political Discourse in Tanzania, 1966–70
The Rise of the ‘Impenetrable Hedge’: African Intermediaries and the Legacy of Colonial Wars in Northern Ghana, 1896–19200
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Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade0
Raids, Resistance, and Retribution: South Africa's Cato Manor Killings, 1960–10
The Voracious Frontier: Policing, War, and Mercantilism in Dutch South Africa, 1652–18300
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
Harambee Co-operative Savings and Credit Society: Wealth, Inequality, and Accumulation in 1970s Kenya0
The Sardauna's Middle East: Regionalism and Backstage Politics in Nigeria's Postcolonial Diplomacy0
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
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Tensions on the Railway: West Indians, Colonial Hierarchies, and the Language of Racial Unity in West Africa0
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
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
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
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
“Natives Around the Township”: State Spaces and the Struggle for Karamoja's Future, 1950–660
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