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Current List of Books Available for Review

Abidde, Sabella Ogbobode. 2022. Africa-China-Taiwan Relations, 1949–2020. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Abidde, Sabella Ogbobode, ed. 2023. Taiwan in Africa: Seven Decades of Certainty and Uncertainties. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Achankeng, Fonkem, ed. 2023. Porcupine in a Python’s Throat: The Ambazonia Story in West Central Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Aka, Philip C., and Joseph Abiodun Balogun. 2022. Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: Ten Measured Steps into the Future. Landham, MD: Lexington Books.

Alex, Assensoh, Yvette M., A. B. Assensoh, and Akwasi B. Assensoh. 2023. Africa's Cultural Prince: Dr. A. A. Y. Kyerematen of Ghana: Founder and Founding Director of the National Cultural Center of Ghana. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books.

Anani, Kofi. 2024. Leadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On: The Blended Representation Principle as a Cause for Afro-Optimism. New York: Bloomsbury. (available by request)

Andrikopoulos, Apostolos. 2023. Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Ebook.

April, Funeka Y., Modimowabarwa Kanyane, Yul Derek Davids, and Krish Chetty, eds. 2023. The BRICS in Africa: Promoting Development? Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Ballim, Faeeza. 2023. Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence. New African Histories. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Beoku-Betts, Josephine, and Fredline A. M'Cormack-Hale, eds. 2023. War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone. New York: Bloomsbury. (available by request)

Bezabeh, Samson Abebe. 2023. Djibouti: A Political History. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Biggs, Lisa. 2022. The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. (available by request)

The Black Sash. 2022. Hands Off Our Grants: Defending the Constitutional Right to Social Protection in South Africa. Cape Town: BestRed.

Bohler-Muller, Narnia, Vasu Reddy, Gregory Houston, Maxi Schoeman, and Heather Thuynsma, eds. 2022. The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa. Cape Town: BestRed.

Boswell, Barbara, ed. 2022. Voices of Liberation: Lauretta Ngcobo; Writing as the Practice of Freedom. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Boucher, David, ed. 2022. Language, Culture and Decolonisation. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Bruton, Mike. 2022. Harambee: The Spirit of Innovation in Africa. Cape Town: BestRed.

Buggenhagen, Beth. 2023. The Future Is in Your Hands: Portrait Photography from Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (print or ebook available by request)

Camara, Mohamed Saliou, Alem Hailu, and Sabella O. Abidde, eds. 2024. Issues of Governance, Security, and Development in Contemporary Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Chalfin, Brenda. 2023. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (print copy available on request).

Chappatte, André. 2022. In Search of "Tunga": Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Ebook (print copy available by request).

Chari, Sharad. 2024. Apartheid Remains. Errantries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (print copy available by request).

Chéry, Tshepo Masango. 2023. Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (print copy available by request).

Clark, John F., ed. 2024. Political Identity and African Foreign Policies. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Cleveland, Kimberly. 2024. Africanfuturism: African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds. Foreword by Ainehi Edoro-Glines. Africa in World History. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Conte, Christopher, with Hilda Twongyeirwe, eds. 2023. Remembering the Future: Reflections on Ugandan Culture in Changing Times. Kampala: Ibua Publishing.

Crankshaw, Owen. 2023. Urban Inequality: Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg. New York: Bloomsbury. (available by request)

Degani, Michael. 2022. The Electric City: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (hard copy available on request)

Deets, Mark W. 2023. A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal. New African Histories. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Edozie, Rita Kiki, and Moses Khisa. 2022. Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations. Boulder, CO: Lynn Riener.

Eicher, Joanne B., ed. 2022. Global Trade and Cultural Authentication: The Kalabari of the Niger Delta. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Falola, Toyin. 2023. Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Ebook.

Falola, Toyin, and Celine A. Jacquemin, eds. 2022. Identity Transofrmation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Farred, Grant. 2024. The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (available by request)

Frankel, Philip. 2023. Human Trafficking in South Africa. Cape Town: BestRed.

Hagberg, Sten, Ludovic O. Kibora, Sidi Barry, Yacouba Cissao, Siaka Gnessi, Amado Kaboré, Bintou Koné, and Mariatou Zongo. 2023. Security from Below in Burkina Gaso: Citizen Perceptions and Perspectives. Translated by Anna Harrison. Uppsala Papers in African Studies 7. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet.

Hanchey, Jenna N. 2023. The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (print copy available by request).

Hecht, Gabrielle. 2023. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (print copy available by request).

Hern, Erin Accampo. 2023. Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Hochfeld, Tessa. 2022. Granting Justice: Cash, Care, and the Child Support Grant. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Hooper, Jane. 2022. Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786-1860. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Jolaosho, Omotayo. 2022. You Can’t Go to War without Song: Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Joslin, Isaac Vincent. 2023. Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions. Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series 96. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Kresse, Kai, and Oriare Nyarwath, eds. 2023. Rethinking Safe Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and beyond H. Odera Oruka. African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

LaRocco, Annette A. 2024. The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Ohio University Research in International Studies: Africa Series 98. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Levin, Ayala. 2022. Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958–1973. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook. (hard copy available on request)

Lehmann, Elmar. 2023. The Rise of the South African Novel. Leiden: Brill. (available by request)

Luescher, Thierry M., Angelina Wilson Fadiji, Keamogetse G. Morwe, Antonio Erasmus, Tshireletso S. Letsoalo, and Seipati B. Mokhema. 2022. #Feesmustfall and its Aftermath: Violence, Wellbeing and the Student Movement in South Africa. Cape Town: HRSC Press.

Manjate, Fernando Matai. 2022. Something Good But Nothing to Be Proud of: Inheritance and Succession Practices, and Sociopolitical Stakes in Times of Decentralization in Marracuene, Mozambique. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 63. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.

Masters, Lesley, Philani Mthembu, and Jo-Ansie van Wyk, eds. 2022. South African Foreign Policy Review Vol. 4: Ramaphosa and a New Dawn for South African Foreign Policy. Pretoria: AISA Press.

Mazwi, Freedom. 2022. The Political Economy of Contract Farming in Zimbabwe. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Miescher, Stephan F. 2022. A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Meiu, George Paul. 2023. Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

More, Mabogo Percy. 2023. Noel Chabani Maganyi: Being-while-Black-and-Alienated in Apartheid South Africa. Pretoria: AISA Press.

Muhonja, Besi Brillian, and Babacar M'Baye, eds. 2022. Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Kenyan Societies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Murray, Noëleen, and Jonathan Cane. 2023. Creative Cities in Africa. Critical Architecture and Urbanism. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Ndanyi, Samson Kaunga. 2022. Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Nnodim, Paul, and Austin Okigbo, eds. 2024. Ubuntu: A Comparative Study of an African Concept of Justice. Leuven: Leuven University Press. (print or ebook available by request)

Nwagbara, Ucheoma. 2022. The Struggles of Post-independence Nigeria: Missed Opportunities and a Continuing Crisis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Osborne, Myles, ed. 2024. Making Martial Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa. War and Militarism in African History. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Otim, Patrick William. 2024. Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960. New African Histories. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Patterson, Amy S., Tracy Kuperas, and Megan Hershey. 2023. Africa's Urban Youth: Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (available by request.)

Ray, Daren E. 2024. Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa. Indian Ocean Studies. Athens, Ohio University Press.

Rijke-Epstein, Tasha. 2023. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (Print copy available by request).

Ryan, Connor. 2023. Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life. African Perspectives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Ebook (Print copy available by request).

Sacks, Susanna L. 2024. Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry. Page and Screen. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Sarr, Felwine. 2022. African Meditations. Translated by Drew S. Burk with a foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Print or ebook available)

Schnepel, Burkhard, and Julia Verne, eds. 2022. Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean. Indian Ocean Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Shaffer, Ryan, ed. 2023. The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Sheridan, Michael. 2023. Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants. Routledge Studies in Political Ecology. London: Routledge.

Shiino, Wkana, and Ian Karusigarira, eds. 2021. Youths in Struggles: Unemployment, Politics, and Cultures in Contemporary Africa. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.

Siddiqi, Anooradha Iyer. 2023. Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (print copy available by request).

Simpson, Thula. 2022. History of South Africa: 1902 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press.

Skinner, Ryan Thomas. 2022. Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Soyinka, Wole. 2023. Death and the King’s Horseman. Second Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Simon Gikandi. New York: W. W. Norton.

Strava, Cristiana. 2023. Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco. New York: Bloomsbury. (available by request)

Tomás, António. 2022. The Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (hard copy available by request).

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

Williams, James S. 2023. Frantz Fanon. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion Books.

Williams, Michael. 2022. The Pan-African Imperative: Revisiting Kwame Nkrumah's Vision for African Development. New York: Routledge. Ebook.

Winch, Jonty. 2022. World Champions: The Story of South African Rugby. Cape Town: BestRed.

Wynn, Graeme, Jane Carruthers, and Nancy J. Jacobs, eds. 2022. Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories. Series in Ecology and History. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Zack, Tanya. 2022. Wake Up: This is Joburg. Photographs by Mark Lewis. With a foreword by Achal Prabhala. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (hard copy available by request).