Books for Review

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Available Titles

Robert Barnes. 2026. The South Africa Disputes before Apartheid: The United Nations and Commonwealth Relations, 1946-1952. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 280 pp.

Stephen Coan. 2025. The Buried Man: A Life of H. Rider Haggard. New York: Oxford University Press. 646 pp. 

Corrie Decker. 2025. The Age of Sex: Custom, Law, and Ritual in Twentieth-Century East Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 332 pp.

Robert Desjarlais. 2025. The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar. Durham: Duke University Press. 321 pp.

Jordache A. Ellapen. 2025. Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press. 253 pp.

Sten Hagberg. 2025. Comment briser le plafond de verre?: Une recherche engagée sur la participation politique des femmes maliennes. Uppsala: Uppsala University. 115 pp.

Olivier Hein. 2025. Star and Key: The Historical Adventure of Mauritius. London: Hurst. 295 pp.

Catherine Higgs. 2026. Sisters for Justice: Small Acts in the Transformation of Apartheid South Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 327 pp.

Joseph Odùmósù. 2026. Book of Healing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 608 pp.

Holiday Powers. 2025. Moroccan Modernism. Athens: Ohio University Press. 321 pp.

Nathalie Raunet. 2026. Political Belonging in the Ghana-Togo Borderlands: Citizenship and the Vote at the Margins of the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 350 pp.

Robert Ross. 2026. Orchards of Privilege: Water, Oranges, and Race in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, 1700-2023. Athens: Ohio University Press. 214 pp.

Robert M. Rouphail. 2026. Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius. Athens: Ohio University Press. 240 pp.

Alemseged Tesfai. 2025. An African People's Quest for Freedom and Justice: A Political History of Eritrea, 1941-1962. London: Hurst. 509 pp.

Erin Torkelson. 2026. Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers. Durham: Duke University Press. 328 pp.

Mesrob Vartavarain. 2026. Privileged Minorities: A History of Wealth Concentration in South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 230 pp.

M. Wolff. 2025. Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us about Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging. Durham: Duke University Press. 320 pp.