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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.

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)

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

Buggenhagen, Beth. 2023. The Future Is in Your Hands: Portrait Photography from Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (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 by 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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, 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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.)

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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. (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.

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

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

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.

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

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.)

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

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.)

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.

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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)