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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.

Adams, Rachel, Gary Pienaar, Michael Gastrow, Nokuthula Olorunju, Mark Gaffley, Yuri Ramkissoon, Shanelle van der Bert,  Fadlah Adams, and Tseliso Thipanyane. 2021. Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Ahlman, Jeffrey S. 2021. Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation. Ohio Short Histories of Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press.

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.

André, Naomi, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo, eds. 2021. African Performance Arts and Political Acts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Ebook. (hardcopy 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 Afirca: Promoting Development? Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Araoye, Ademola. 2021. The Ghettos of Pan-Africanism. Austin, TX: Pan-African University Press.

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

Bernhardsdotter, Ann-Britt. 2021. The Power of Being: A Study of Poverty, Fertility and Sexuality among the Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthroplogy 61. Uppslaa: Uppsala Universitet.

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. (ebook 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, Crain Soudien, and Vasu Reddy, eds. 2021. Ethics, Politics, Inequality: New Directions. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

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.

Bolliger, Lennart. 2021. Apartheid's Black Soldiers: Un-National Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa. War and Militarism in African History. Athens: Ohio University Press.

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.

Branström, Per. 2021. Mhola—The Utopia of Peace: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Sungusungu  Movement in Tanzania.  Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 59. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.

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

Cabrita, Joel. 2023. Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala. Athens: Ohio University Press.

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).

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).

Cloete, Elene, Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov, and Mariah C. Stember, eds. 2021. African Women and Their Networks of Support: Intervening Connections. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

D'Avignon, Robyn. 2022. A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna, West Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (hard copy available on request)

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

Driscoll, Barry. 2023. Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Dubinsky, Itamar. 2022. Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (Ebook available by request)

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.

Erlank, Natasha. 2022. Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa. Athens: Ohio 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.

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

Gez, Yonatan N., Yvan Droz, Jeanne Rey, and Edio Soares. 2021. Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Grant, Andrea Mariko, and Yolana Pringle. 2021. Anexiety in and about Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Approaches. Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Green-Sims, Lindsey B. 2022. Queer African Cinemas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ebook (hardcopy available by request).

Gqola, Pumla Dineo, ed. 2021, Miriam Tlali: Writing Freedom. Voices of Liberation. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Hagberg, Sten, Ludovic O. Kibora, Bintou Koné, Adjara Konkobo, Eulalie Zongo, Sidi Barry, Yacouba Cissao, and Pascaline Kaboré. 2021. “Femmes de devant!” Combat du leadership féminin au Burkina Faso. Uppsala Papers in African Studies 6. Uppsala: Uppsala University.

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 American 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.

Landau, Paul S. 2022. Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. 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. (Ebook or hard copy available on 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.

Mika, Marissa. 2021. Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda. New African Histories. Athens: Ohio University 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.

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

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

Obeng-Odoom, Franklin. 2021. Global Migration beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (hard copy available by request)

Omeni, Akali. 2022. Policing and Politics in Nigeria: A Comprehensive History. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

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

Plaatjies, Daniel, ed. 2021. Making Institutions Work in South Africa. Cape Town: Bestred.

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).

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)

Schneider, William H., ed. 2021. The Histories of HIVs: The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses that Caused the AIDS Epidemics. Perspectives on Global Health. Athens: Ohio University Press.

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

Seely, Jennifer C., and Samuel Decalo. 2021. Historical Dictionary of Togo. 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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

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.

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

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

Tembo, Alfred. 2021. War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953. War and Militarism in African History. Athens: Ohio University Press.

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

Tonda, Joseph. 2021. The Modern Sovreign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon). Translated by Chris Turner. Calcutta: Seagull Books.

Wiemers, Alice. 2021. Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana. Athens: Ohio University Press.

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).