Journal of African History

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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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); $34.911
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. x11
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 Uni5
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. $1204
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 Va3
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
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: 97808214473
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, 2
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
Universities, Apartheid, and Decolonisation - Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa: From Liberalism to Decolonization Teresa Barnes. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 173. $52.95, paperb2
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
History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye2
Making Violators: Employers and African Workers in Colonial Dakar, 1918–432
Water and History in Southern Africa2
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
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Lesotho and the QwaQwa Ski Resort, 1975–82: Border Disputes and South Africa's Increasingly Deadly Responses1
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
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
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
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Intellectual Legacies, Political Morality, and Disillusionment: Connections Between Two Mozambique Research Institutions, 1976–20171
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
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–18201
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
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, 20201
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
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
‘Grande Herói da Banda’: The Political Uses of the Memory of Hoji ya Henda in Angola0
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Spilling Millet: The East African Post and Studied Bureaucratic Knowledge0
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
Cattle Circulation, Beef Market Control Strategies, and African Agropastoralists in Southern Mozambique, 1900s–30s0
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Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia0
Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade0
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Scholars, Secrets, and Sultans: Clerical Authority in West Africa, 1450–16500
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
Between Economic Nationalism and Liberalization: Ideas of Development and the Neoliberal Moment in Mobutu's Congo, 1965–740
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
Agency and the Arusha Declaration: Nyerere, NUTA, and Political Discourse in Tanzania, 1966–70
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi0
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
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
Coercion and Dissent: Sleeping Sickness ‘Concentrations’ and the Politics of Colonial Authority in Ulanga, Tanganyika0
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
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
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
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
John Garang On Air: Radio Battles in Sudan's Second Civil War0
Egypt in Africa: William A. Brown and a Liberating African History0
Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–800
Le témoignage d'Almamy Maliki Yattara sur W. A. Brown: Dr Brown through the Testimony of Almamy Maliki Yattara0
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
Deconconstructing Colonial Population Anxiety - Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola By Samuël Coghe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20
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
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
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
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
‘Eating A Country’: The Dynamics of State-Society Encounters in Qellem, Western Ethiopia, 1908–330
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
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
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
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
Ritual Violence and Traditions of Origin: Mung'aro in Mijikenda History0
State, Urban Space, Race: Late Colonialism and Segregation at the Ikoyi Reservation in Lagos, Nigeria0
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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
Caught between the Union Jack and the Nazi Swastika: African Protests over Ambiguous Status under British Imperialism and Potential Transfer to Nazi Colonialism0
‘For King and Empire’: The Changing Political, Economic, and Cultural Identities of Kru Mariners in Atlantic Africa, 1460–19450
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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
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
The New Instrumental Turn in Nigerian Historical Scholarship0
Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law and Identity. Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Nathan Riley Carpenter — CORRIGENDUM0
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
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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
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
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
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
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa0
Intimate Archives and Anterooms0
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
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
Neo-Imperial Cold War? Biafra's Franco-African Arms Triangle0
Navigating Lingala: Linguistic Change, Political Power, and Everyday Authoritarianism in Congo-Zaire, 1965–970
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The Demographic Question in Colonial Congo - Démographie coloniale congolaise. Entrespéculation, idéologie, et reconstruction historique By Jean-Paul Sanderson. Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgique: PUL-0
Malian Women in Public History and Public Memory0
‘When There Is a Ban, There Is a Way’: Everyday Gambling and the Nigerian Political Economy, 1977–830
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥajj ʿUmar, the Bayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi – ADDENDUM0
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 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
Who Deserves to Die? The Moral Logic of Mau Mau Killings in Colonial Kenya, 1952–560
Wise Mothers and Wise Buyers: Marketing Tea and Home Improvement in 1930s South Africa0
The Reproduction of Urban Capitalism: Street Food and the Working Day in Colonial Mombasa0
‘To Satisfy My Savage Appetite’: Slavery, Belief, and Sexual Violence on the Mina (Gold) Coast, 1471–15710
Dead-End Scandal in M'Pésoba: Local Politics and Colonial Justice in French West Africa, 1913–180
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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
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
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
The Quotidian Politics of a Love Story: Researching, Assembling, and Mobilizing the Lunda Legend in the Late Nineteenth Century0
“Sodabi Calamity Number One”: The Production of Palm Alcohol in Dahomey and its Repression, 1840–19750
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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
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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 Institute of Residual Studies? Nkrumah and the “Afroepistemic” Origins of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana0
Collaboration, Survival, and Flight: Fulbe Narratives of Guinea-Bissau's War for Independence, 1961–740
Exiles, Expatriates, and Malcolm X: Debating the Racial Politics of Liberation in the Black Star of Africa0
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
William A. Brown and the Assessment of a Scholarly Life0
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
Learned Societies, Knowledge Production, and Public Engagement in Colonial and Postcolonial Ghana, 1930–900
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
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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
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
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
Abolition and the Registration of Slaves and Libertos in Portuguese Mozambique, 1856–760
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
Francis Fearon’s Ideas and Hidden Network of African Antislavery in Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast0
“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
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The Colonial African: Godwin Mbikusita-Lewanika and His Struggle For and Against Zambian Nationalism0
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
William Allen Brown, Jr., 1934–2007: An Appreciation0
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
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
A Hidden Repository of Arabic Manuscripts from Mali: The William A. Brown Collection0
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
“How Our Heritage is Looted”: Legal Meaning-Making, Cultural Property, and Customs Enforcement in Nigeria, 1938–790
‘Despite the Fear’: Emancipation Trajectories in Libya, 1890–19300
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The Voracious Frontier: Policing, War, and Mercantilism in Dutch South Africa, 1652–18300
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
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
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century0
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
Street Hawking or Street Walking in Dahomey?: Debates about Girls’ Sexual Assaults in Colonial Tribunals, 1924–410
Historical Scholarship and the Public Square: The Belgian Commission on Colonialism Through the Lens of Wiriyamu0
Ray Kea and the Historians of the Gold Coast: Debates Over Continuity and Rupture in African and African Diaspora Atlantic Histories0
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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
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
Between Land Reform and Postcolonial Frustration: Understanding the Social Roots of Local Opposition to the PAIGC/PAICV in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 1975–910
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
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
Mwene Muji: A Medieval Empire in Central Africa?0
‘Compliments from the Housewives’: Contesting White Public Space in Late-Colonial Nairobi0
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
Medical Legitimacy: Childbirth, Pluralism, and Professionalization in Nigeria's Faith-Based Aladura Birthing Homes0
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Sleeping Sickness, Onchocerciasis and Unintended Consequences in the Gold Coast and Ghana, 1930–60 — ADDENDUM0
The Impact of Informal Mentorship: A Tribute to Professor William Brown0
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 Jani0
Unimaginable Community: Watchwords and Frelimo's Abandoned Nationalism in Independence-Era Mozambique0
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Militant Mothers: Gender and the Politics of Anticolonial Action in Côte d'Ivoire0
Neglected Historiography from Africa: The Case for Postindependence Journals0
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Diplomacy of Intimacy: Cameroonian Women’s Anticolonial Diplomacy with China in the Era of Decolonization0
Colonial Schemes and African Realities: Vernacular Infrastructure and the Limits of Road Building in German East Africa0
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
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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
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
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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
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
‘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
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
Running on Empty: Fossil Fuels, Local Fuels, and Entangled Infrastructures in Colonial Senegal, 1885–19450
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
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
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
Resurrecting the African Independent Pentecostal Church: Land, Education, and the Politics of Reconciliation during Kenya’s Decolonisation, 1952–690
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The Moral Economy of the Ugandan Crowd in 19450
Politics of Disaster: Earthquake, Rehousing, and Confronting Colonial Rule in Accra (Gold Coast/Ghana), 1939–450
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
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
Raids, Resistance, and Retribution: South Africa's Cato Manor Killings, 1960–10
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