Books for Review

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Available Titles

Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi. 2024. Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City. Athens: Ohio University Press. 239 pp.  

Ifi Amadiume. 2024. African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice. London: Zed. 229 pp.  

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

Walter E.A. Van Beek and Harrie M. Leyten. 2023. Masquerades in African Society: Gender, Power and Identity.  Rochester: James Currey. 397 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.  

Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz. 2024. Projections of Dakar: (Re) imagining Urban Senegal Through Cinema. Athens: Ohio University Press. 258 pp.  

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

Hugo Canham. 2023. Riotous Deathscapes. Durham: Duke University Press. 269 pp.  

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

Mark Deets. 2023. A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal. Athens: Ohio University Press. 289 pp.  

Marie-Eve Desrosiers. 2023. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda. Elusive Control before the Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press. 386 pp.   

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

Joseph Godlewski. The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements. New York: Routledge. 291 pp.  

Gabrielle Hecht. 2023. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham: Duke University Press. 269 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.  

Mingwei Huang. 2024. Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century. Durham: Duke University Press. 303 pp.    

Moses Khisa. 2024. Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda: Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control. London: Zed. 297 pp.  

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

Sarah Kunz. 2023. Expatriate: Following a Migration Category. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 304 pp.  

Liisa Laakso and Siphamandi Zondi (eds). 2024. Political Science in Africa: Freedom, Relevance, Impact. New York: Zed. 272 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.   

Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa (eds.). 2024. DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice. London: Bloomsbury. 235 pp.  

Achille Mbembe. 2024. Brutalism. Translated by Steven Corcoran. Durham: Duke University Press. 181 pp. 

Stephanie Newell. 2023. Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s-1960s. Woodbridge: James Curry. 213 pp.  

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

Myles Osborn (ed.). 2024. Making Martial Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 337 pp.  

Patrick Otim. 2024. Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850-1960. Athens: Ohio University Press. 288 pp.  

Giulia Paoletti. 2024. Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 230 pp.

Emma Park. 2024. Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya. Durham: Duke University Press. 282 pp.   

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

Naomi Pendle. 2023. Spiritual Contestations: The Violence of Peace in South Sudan. Rochester: James Currey. 306 pp.  

Timothy Raeymaekers. 2024. The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 227 pp.  

Daren Ray. 2024. Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 329 pp.  

Paula C. Roque. 2025. Insurgent Nations: Rebel Rule in Angola and South Sudan. New York: Oxford University Press. 372 pp.   

Nat Rubner. 2023. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The Political Process (vol. two). Woodbridge: James Curry. 514 pp.  

Nat Rubner. 2023. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Political, Intellectual & Cultural Origins (vol. one). Rochester: James Curry. 666 pp.  

Ramon Sarró. 2023. Inventing and African Alphabet: Writing Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 199 pp.   

Rachel Sigma. 2023. Parties, Political Finance, and Government in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 310 pp.  

Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp . 2024. The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa. Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 307 pp.  

Charles G. Thomas. 2024. Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964-1979. Athens: Ohio University Press. 282 pp.  

Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré. 2024. Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethics-State of Gajaaga. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 459 pp.  

Theodore Trefon. 2023. Bushmeat: Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. 264 pp.  

Parisa Vaziri. 2023. Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 354 pp.  

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

Christina Woolner. 2023. Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 247 pp.  

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

Hershini B. Young. 2023. Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance. New York: New York University Press. 306 pp.