If you are interested in reviewing one of these books or another very recently published Africa-related book, please see the Instructions for Book Reviewers page. "Available by request" means that we do not have the book in our office but can ask a publisher to send to a reviewer.

 

Current List of Books Available for Review

Alidou, Ousseina D. 2024. Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society Across Borders. African Perspectives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Ebook. (Print copy available by request)

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)

Araujo, Ana Lucia. 2024. Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Ayodele, Odilile. 2024. The Political Economy of Mobile Telephony in South Africa: MTN, Vodacom and the State. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Bachmann, Olaf. 2024. Quasi-Armies and State-Building in Africa: Towards a Global Understanding of Civil-Military Relations. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Bah, Abu Bakarr. 2024. African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections. Studies in Human Security. Athens: Ohio University Press.

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

Bryson, Devin, and Molley Krueger Enz. Projections of Dakar: (Re) Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema. 2024. Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series No. 101. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

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

Chari, Sharad. 2024. Apartheid Remains. Errantries. 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.

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

Cocodia, Jude. 2024. Complex Solutions to Local Problems: Constructed Narratives and External Intervention in Somalia’s Crisis. London: Anthem Press.

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

Cummiskey, Julia Ross. 2024. Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

Darch, Colin, and David Hedges, eds. 2024. Samora Machel: Leader and Liberator in Southern Africa; Selected Speeches and Writings of Samora Machel. Edited and with analyses by Colin Darch and David Hedges. Voices of Liberation. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

das Nair, Reena, Jonathan Klaaren, and Simon Roberts, eds. 2025. Regulating for Rivalry in Africa: The Development of Competition Regimes. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Duerksen, Mark. 2024. Waterhouses, Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos. Ohio University Research in International Studies Africa Series No. 99. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Esiaka, Darlingtina K., and Jamaine Abidogun, eds. 2024. The Narrative of Africa Rising: Changing Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

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

Ferreira, Roquinaldo. 2025. Worlds of Unfreedom: West Central Africa in the Era of Global Abolition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Fraser-Burgess, Sheron, Joyanne De Four-Babb, Verna Knight, Oluseyi Matthew Odebiyi, Aleshia V. A. Allert, and Ishola A. Salami, eds. 2024.The Bloomsbury Handbook of Caribbean and African Studies in Education. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Gardner, Tom. 2024. The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia. Hurst, 2024.

Godlewski, Joseph. 2024. The Architecutre of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements. London: Routledge. (print or ebook available by request)

Hagberg, Sten. 2024  Réfugié en son propre pays: Enquête collective sur les personnes déplacées internes à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Uppsala Papers in African Studies 9. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet.

Harsch, Ernest. 2024. Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana. Ohio University Research in International Studies Africa Series No. 100. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Hawkins, Charlotte. 2024. Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the Dotcom Age. London: UCL Press.

Hopkins, A.G. 2024. Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos (1851-1931), Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

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

Hudani, Shakirah E. 2024. Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Print or ebook available by request.)

Kegel, John Burton. 2025. The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990–1994. In War and Militarism in African History. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

Kodjo-Grandvaux, Séverine. 2025. African Philosophies. Translated by Matthew B. Smith. Cambridge: Polity.

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.

Lopes, Rui, and Natalia Telepneva, eds. 2024. Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ly, Aliou. 2024. Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War: De-gendering the History of Anticolonial Struggle. London: Zed Books. (available by request)

MacDowell, Marsha, ed.2025. Quilt Arts of South Africa: Threaded Legacies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Machava, Benedito. 2024. The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

Manamere, Kundai. 2024. Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890–2015. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

Martin, Philip A. 2025. Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Mbote, David Kuria, Damaris Parsitau, Barbara Bompani, and Adriaan van Klinken. 2024. Stories of Change: Religious Leaders and LGBTIQ Inclusion in East Africa. Bloomsbury Publishing.

McKittrick, Meredith. 2024. Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (available by request)

Melvern, Linda. A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide. Revised and Expanded Edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. (Available by request)

Moctar, Hassan Ould. 2024. After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania. Bloomsbury Publishing.

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

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.

Park, Emma. Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. (Available in pdf)

Powers, Holiday. 2024. Moroccan Modernism. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 

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

Reddy, Vasu, Narnia Bohler-Muller, Zitha Mokomane, and Crain Soudien, eds. 2024. State of the Nation: Quality of Life and Wellbeing in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Roberts, Tony, and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane, eds. 2024. Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda. Digital Africa. London: Zed Books. (available by request.)

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

Schiødt, Sofie, ed. 2024. Two Medical Manuscripts: The Hieratic P. Carlsberg 8 and the Coptic Codex P. Carlsberg 500. With contributions by Sofie Schiødt and Anne Grons. CNI Publications 48. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. (available by request.)

Smart, Devin. 2025. Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City. New African Histories. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

Straus, Scott, and Aili Mari Tripp, eds. The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. (Available by request)

Swartz, Sharlene, Tarryn De Kock, and Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, eds. 2024. Transformative Leadership in African Contexts: Strategies for Social Change. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Thomas, Charles G. 2024. Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964–1979. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

van Rooyen, Heidi, and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, eds. 2024. Poetic Inquiry for the Human and Social Sciences: Voices from the South and North. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Williams, Phil, Jason M. Blazakis, and Colin P. Clarke. 2024.The Mediterranean Connection: Criminal Networks & Illicit Economies in North Africa. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.