Books for Review

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Available Titles

Anne K. Bang.  2024. Zanzibari Muslim Moderns. Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period. New York: Oxford University Press. 237 pp.   

Paul F. Berliner. 2024. A Prodigy’s Calling: The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 317 pp.  

Doyle D. Calhoun. 2024. The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire. Durham: Duke University Press. 323 pp.  

Todd Cleveland. 2024. Africa and the Olympics: Winning Away from the Podium. Athens: Ohio University Press. 220 pp.   

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

Ernest Cole. 2025. Migration and Return in Modern African Literature: Black Bodies in White Spaces. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 220 pp. 

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

Lindiwe Dovey, Anulika Agina & Michael W. Thomas (eds.). 2025. Contemporary African Screen Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press. 336 pp.

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

Haggai Erlich. 2024. Greater Tigray and the Mysterious Magnetism of Ethiopia. New York: Oxford University Press. 220 pp. 

Yaari Felber-Seligman. 2025. Fashioning Inland Communities: Trade and Popular Culture in Central East Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 308 pp.

Claudia Gastrow. 2024. The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 220 pp.   

Mariam Goshadze. 2025. The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars. Durham: Duke University Press. 200 pp.

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

Beatrice Hibou & Mohamed Tozy. 2025. Weaving Political Time in Morocco: The Imaginary of the State in the Neoliberal Age. New York: Oxford University Press. 308 pp.

Anette Hoffmann. 2024. Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918). Durham: Duke University Press. 209 pp.  

Anneeth Kaur Hundle. 2025. Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda. Durham: Duke University Press. 385 pp.

Philip Janzen. 2025. An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean. Durham: Duke University Press. 258 pp.

Michael Mwenda Kithinji. 2024. Historical Dictionary of Kenya (fourth edition). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 569 pp.    

Léa Lacan. 2024. Forest Politics in Kenya’s Tugen Hills: Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest. Rochester: James Currey. 283 pp.

Annette LaRocco. 2024. The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Athens: Ohio University Press. 394 pp.  

Aliou Ly. 2024. Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War: De-gendering the History of Anticolonial Struggle. London: Zed. 199 pp.   

Kundai Manamere. 2025. Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015. Athens: Ohio University Press. 217 pp.

Rachel Niehuus. 2024. An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo. Durham: Duke University Press. 201 pp.    

Megan Paustian. 2024. Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination. New York: Fordham University Press. 276 pp.  

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

Richard Reid. 2025. The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 410 pp.

Devin Smart. 2025. Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-class Food in Kenya's Port City. Athens: Ohio University Press. 245 pp.

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

Tycho van der Hoog. 2025. Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. 336 pp.

Elizabeth Williams. 2024. Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya. Durham: Duke University Press. 235 pp.  

Stephanie Williams. 2025. Libya since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace. New York: Oxford University Press. 351 pp.

Alksi Ylönen. 2024. The Horn Engaging the Gulf: Economic Diplomacy and Statecraft in Regional Relations. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 260 pp.