Africa

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Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges	21
‘Making men fall’: queer power beyond anti-normativity	21
‘Human ATMs’: M-Pesa and the expropriation of affective work in Safaricom's Kenya	19
The lived experiences of the African middle classes Introduction	18
Harnessing the ‘hustle’: struggle, solidarities and narratives of work in Nairobi and beyond Introduction	17
Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction	14
Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa	13
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity	13
‘Youth are redrawing the map’: temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi	10
Hloniphaand health: ancestors, taboos and social medicine in South Africa	10
Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda	9
‘Under construction’: everyday anxieties and the proliferating social meanings of China in Kenya	9
Structures, feelings and savoir faire: Ghana's middle classes in the making	8
Quietly queer(ing): the normative value ofsuturaand its potential for young women in urban Senegal	7
History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique	6
Morality in the middle: choosing cars or houses in Botswana	6
Made in China, fashioned in Africa: ethnic dress in Ethiopia and Mozambique	5
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa	5
The making of a conservation landscape: the emergence of a conservationist environmental infrastructure along the Kwando River in Namibia's Zambezi region	5
Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below	5
Death without mourning: homosexuality,homo sacer, and bearable loss in Central Africa	5
Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso	4
The spectre of rootless urban youth (bayaaye) inKulyennyingi,a novel of Amin-era Uganda	4
Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity and austerity in the South African health sector	4
‘You will build me’: fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi's matatu	4

Moral navigation and child fostering in Chiawa, Zambia	3
What's (not) in a leather pouch? Tracing Islamic amulets in Asante, Ghana	3
Chronicles of Bailundo: a fragmentary account in Umbundu of life before and after Portuguese colonial rule	3
Introduction: the stuff of African cities	3
Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region	3
Providing to belong: masculinities, hustling and economic uncertainty in Nairobi ‘ghettos’	3
Elders and transactional relationships in Sierra Leone: rethinking synchronic approaches	3
Tindaanaship and tindaanas in traditional Gurensi (Frafra) communities: land use and practices	3
Kinship and gendered economic conduct in matrilineal Offinso, Ghana	3
‘Like a drag or something’: central texts at the pioneering forefront of contemporary Nigerian queerscapes	3
Government work in Idi Amin's Uganda	3
Dreams and constraints of an African publisher: Walter Bgoya, Tanzania Publishing House and Mkuki na Nyota, 1972–2020	3
Hackers of the heart: digital sorcery and virtual intimacy in Côte d'Ivoire	3
‘We are taught to act’: hustling on the move in Kampala and Nairobi	2
Credible risk: private credit bureaus and the work of loan officers in West Africa	2
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia	2
The dead archive: governance and institutional memory in independent Mozambique	2
From discursive resistance to new genealogies: rethinking Israelite identities in Africa through the case of Nuer Christian Zionists	2
‘Idle minds’ and ‘empty stomachs’: youth, violence and religious diversity in coastal Kenya	2
Reading with the colonial in the life of Shaykh Musa Kamara, a Muslim scholar-saint	2
Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia–British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s	2
‘Monkeys play by sizes’: the reconstruction of military hierarchy in Ghana's armed forces	2
Rhythms of the unemployed: making art and making do through spoken word in Kisumu, Kenya	2
Paradigm-breaking pandemics, old academic politics	1
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange	1
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy	1
‘Madmen, womanizers, and thieves’: moral disorder and the cultural text of refugee encampment in Kenya	1
Becoming militant: embodying the Guinean revolution and Guinea–China relations	1
On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda	1
A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana	1
‘You can’t do politics without money’: female politicians, matronage, and the limits of gender quotas in Kenya	1
Urmila Mohan and Laurence Douny (eds), The Material Subject: rethinking bodies and objects in motion. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £90 – 978 1 350 07736 2). 2021, xxi + 246 pp	1
Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria	1
Ibadi Muslim schools in post-revolutionary Zanzibar	1
Entangled oligarchies: structure, agency and rent seeking in South Africa	1
‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’ in Congo studies: an overview of themes and debates	1
Embracing and denouncing the ‘Mecca uniform’ in Nigerian mass media, 1950s–1970s	1
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation	1
Nico Cloete, Ian Bunting and François van Schalkwyk (eds), Research Universities in Africa. Cape Town: African Minds (R300 – 978 1 928331 87 2). 2018, 314 pp.	1
Saving the ‘indigenous banks’: moral politics of economic sovereignty in Ghana’s 2017–19 financial crisis	1
Female slam poets of francophone Africa: spirited words for social change	1
Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa	1
The death of Adumissa: a suicide at Cape Coast, Ghana, around 1800	1
Never enough: neoliberalizing Namibian middle-class marriages	1
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie	1
Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara	1
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language	1
From ‘ethnic militias’ to ‘jungle justice’? Research and change in vigilantism in Nigeria	1
Ghana muntie: from Station ZOY to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation	1
Flight and fortitude: the decline of the middle class in Zimbabwe	1

Tuning in to his-story: an account of radio in Ghana through the experience of B. S. Gadzekpo	1
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.	1
Chinua Achebe’s postcolony: a literary anthropology of postcolonial decadence	1
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation	1
‘Money looks for money’: managing financialization in eastern Uganda	1
City of icebergs: materiality, surface and depth in Nairobi’s built environment	1
‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa	1
Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola	1
On the theologico-theatrical: popular culture and the economic imperative in Nigerian Pentecostalism	1
The social contract and industrial citizenship: Nigerian trade unions’ role in the recurring fuel subsidy protests	1
Politics by night: histories of extraversion and rumours of body part theft on the south coast of Kenya	1
The politics of literature in Malawi: Filemon Chirwa, Nthanu za Chitonga and the battle for the Atonga tribal council	1
‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement	1
Scientific knowledge and sexual advocacy: African publics, choiceless citizens and potential confounders	1
The meaning and uses of privatization: the case of the Ethiopian developmental state	1
Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity: the materiality of funeral rituals and festivals in Nigeria’s urban space	1
Risk and labour in the archives: archival futures from Uganda	1
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Sarah G. Phillips, When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$36.95 – 978 1 5017 4715 1). 2020, 256 pp.	0
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.	0
Response by the author	0
Alexis Malefakis, Tanzania’s Informal Economy: the micro-politics of street vending. London and New York NY: Zed Books (pb £28.99/US$29.95 – 978 1 7869 9451 6). 2021, v + 192 pp.	0
“How will God hear us?”: Sonic and linguistic difference among Kinshasa’s Églises des Noirs	0
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The unintended consequences of liberalization and austerity on higher education in Mozambique	0
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879–1909. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb US$110 – 978 1 58046	0
Robert Molteno, 11 January 1943–31 January 2022	0
AFR volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Response by the author	0
Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution. London: Pluto Press (hb £20 – 978 0 74534 176 7; pb £12.99 – 978 0 74534 622 9). 2020, 368 pp.	0
Hannah Appel, The Licit Life of Capitalism: US oil in Equatorial Guinea. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 0365 6; pb US$28.95 – 978 1 4780 0391 5). 2019, 344 pp.	0
Tim Glawion, The Security Arena in Africa: local order-making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £75 – 978 1 108 49337 6). 2020, v	0
Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Taxing Africa: coercion, reform and development. London: Zed Books (hb £70 – 978 1 78360 454 8; pb £16.99 – 978 1 78360 453 1). 2018, 288 pp.	0
AFR volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Response by the author	0
Overheated stomachs: notes on urban life and toxicity in Nakuru, Kenya	0
Emily Callaci, Street Archives and City Life: popular intellectuals in postcolonial Tanzania. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 0 8223 6984 4; pb US$26.95 – 978 0 8223 6991 2). 2017,	0
David Morton, Age of Concrete: housing and the shape of aspiration in the capital of Mozambique. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 8214 2367 7; pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2368 4). 2019,	0
Marco Di Nunzio, The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$115 – 978 1 501 73512 7; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 501 73626 1). 2	0
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‘Exertion is not connected to success’: everyday Yoruba discourse of work and success	0
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Goats, materials and uncertainty in Nairobi	0
Bianca Murillo, Market Encounters: consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2288 5; pb US$32.95 – 978 0 8214 2289 2). 2017, vii + 248 pp.	0
Adriaan van Klinken, Kenyan, Christian, Queer: religion, LGBT activism, and arts of resistance in Africa. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (hb US$89.95 – 978 0 271 08380 3; pb U	0
Response by the author	0
Suad M. E. Musa, Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict: al-Hakkamat Baggara women of Darfur. Oxford and Rochester NY: James Currey (hb £60 – 978 1 84701 175 6; pb £25 – 978 1 84701 265 4). 2018, 2	0
Ironies of accomplishment: negative aspiration, economic resentment and the myth of the middle class on Nairobi’s new urban outskirts	0
Sheila D. Collins, Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$50 – 978 0 8214 2424 7; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2450 6).	0
Ebenezer Obadare, Pentecostal Republic: religion and the struggle for state power in Nigeria. African Arguments. London: Zed Books (hb £70 – 978 1 8699 238 3; pb £16.99 – 978 1 78699 237 6). 2018, 214	0
Philippe M. Frowd, Security at the Borders: transnational practices and technologies in West Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47010 0). 2018, 218 pp.	0
Daniel E. Agbiboa, They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £75 – 978 0 19 886154 6). 2022, 288 pp.	0
Federico Donelli, Turkey in Africa: Turkey’s strategic involvement in sub-Saharan Africa. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £85 – 978 0 7556 3697 6; pb £28.99 – 978 0 7556 3701 0). 2021/2022, 224 pp.	0
Jeff D. Grischow and Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy (eds), Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Challenges, and Change. Woodbridge: James C	0
Digital fashionistas: young women, wealth-in-followers and matronage in Yaoundé, Cameroon	0
AFR volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
William Mark (Bill) Freund (1944–2020)	0
Reviews of books: debating Africa's middle classes	0
Theodore Trefon, Bushmeat: Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa. London: C. Hurst for the International African Institute (pb £20 – 978 1 78738 814 7). 2023, 256 pp.	0
Conscripting communalism: surveillance and resistance in contemporary Mauritius	0
AFR volume 93 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	0
Richard M. Shain, Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism. Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8195 7708 5; pb US$24.95 – 978 0 8195 7709 2).	0
Bénédicte Savoy, Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press (hb US$29.95/£25 – 978 0 691 23473 1). 2022, vi + 240 pp.	0
From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic	0
Sebabatso C. Manoeli, Sudan’s ‘Southern Problem’: Race, Rhetoric and International Relations, 1961–1991. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £64.99 – 978 3 030 28770 2; pb £44.99 – 978 3 030 28773 3). 2019,	0
Migration, authority and the gendered organization of labour in artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique)	0
Harri Englund, Visions for Racial Equality: David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 316 51400 9). 2022, xvi	0
Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press (hb £80 – 978 1 5261 6402 5). 2022, 244 pp.	0
Ohiniko M. Toffa, Christliche Moral und koloniale Herrschaft in Togo: Die Missionskonzeption Franz Michael Zahns (1862–1900). Bielefeld: transcript (pb €50 – 978 3 8376 6537 6). 2023, 346 pp.	0
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Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria	0
Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville	0
AFR volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	0
AFR volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
The impacts of Covid policy responses in Africa: The Covid Consensus one year on	0
Rahmane Idrissa, The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: between persuasion and violence. London: Routledge (hb £100 – 978 1 85743 866 6). 2017, 276 pp.	0
Mehita Iqani and Simidele Dosekun (eds), African Luxury: aesthetics and politics. Bristol: Intellect (pb £25 – 978 1 7893 8221 1). 2020, v + 172 pp.	0
AFR volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Robert Molteno, 11 January 1943–31 January 2022	0

Simukai Chigudu, The Political Life of an Epidemic: cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 108 48910 2; pb £26.99 – 978 1 108 73344 1). 2	0
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Adriaan van Klinken, Kenyan, Christian, Queer: religion, LGBT activism, and arts of resistance in Africa. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (hb US$89.95 – 978 0 271 08380 3; pb U	0
Public authority and its demons: the Sherbro leopard murders in Sierra Leone	0
Accelerated fragility: exploring the supply–demand nexus in health facilities in rural Burkina Faso	0
Serena Owusua Dankwa, Knowing Women: same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 49590 5; Open Access at <https://doi.or	0
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb £45 – 978 1 509 52335 1; pb £14.99 – 978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v + 151 pp.	0
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula and SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (editors), Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: perspectives from developing countries. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £9	0
Marco Di Nunzio, The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$115 – 978 1 501 73512 7; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 501 73626 1). 2	0
Iain Edwards and Marc Epprecht, Working Class Homosexuality in South African History: voices from the archive. Cape Town: HSRC Press (pb US$35 – 978 0 7969 2583 1). 2020, 255 pp.	0
Northern Nigerian intellectuals, Sudan, and the “eclectic style” in contemporary Islamic thought	0
A tribute to Abdul Raufu Mustapha: living a constructive life	0
Mark Hunter, Race for Education: gender, white tone, and schooling in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £61.99 – 978 1 108 48052 9; pb £18.99 – 978 1 108 72763 1). 2019, v + 304	0
Simukai Chigudu, The Political Life of an Epidemic: cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 108 48910 2; pb £26.99 – 978 1 108 73344 1). 2	0
The chameleonic nature of freedom: notes on the concept offahafahanain the Highlands of Madagascar	0
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Judith A. Byfield, The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2398 1). 2021, v + 320 pp.	0
Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya	0
Olakunle George, African Literature and Social Change: tribe, nation, race. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 253 02546 3; pb US$30 – 978 0 253 02580 7). 2017, ix + 211 pp.	0
Kristin D. Phillips, An Ethnography of Hunger: politics, subsistence, and the unpredictable grace of the sun. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$75 – 978 0 253 03836 4; pb US$28 – 978 0 2	0
AFR volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Elleni Centime Zeleke, Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964–2016. Leiden and Chicago IL: Brill and Haymarket Books (hb €139 – 978 90 04 41475 4; pb US$30 – 978 1 64259 341 9).	0
Technology overrule: pre-literate Akan orality and the musket	0
Jason Sumich, The Middle Class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47288 3). 2018, 277 pp.	0
Reviews of books: debating decolonization, post-feminism and museums - Francis B. Nyamnjoh, #RhodesMustFall: nibbling at resilient colonialism in South Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG (pb £24	0
Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: A Political Biography. Second Edition. London: I. B. Tauris (pb £14.99 – 978 0 7556 3821 5). 2021, xxi + 279 pp.	0
Liz Gunner, Radio Soundings: South Africa and the black modern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 1084 7064 3; pb £19.99 – 978 1 1084 5635 7). 2019/2020, x + 224 pp.	0
A history of ‘Yan haƙiƙa, a revisionist Islamic group in northern Nigeria	0
Saheed Aderinto, Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2469 8; pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 247	0
AFR volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s	0
Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution. London: Pluto Press (hb £20 – 978 0 74534 176 7; pb £12.99 – 978 0 74534 622 9). 2020, 368 pp.	0
‘We deserve new things’: (anti-)bricolage in Lomé’s makerspaces	0
Kwame Edwin Otu, Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana. Oakland CA: University of California Press (pb US$34.95/£30 – 978 0 520 38185 8)	0
Chris Brown, David Moore and Blair Rutherford (eds), New Leaders, New Dawns? South Africa and Zimbabwe under Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (hb CA$14	0
Jumoke Verissimo and James Yékú (eds), Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #EndSARS Anthology. Ibadan: Noirledge (pb US$9.99 – 978 9 7858 7469 3). 2022, 110 pp.	0
Zainab Usman, Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy. London: Zed Books (hb £90 – 978 1 7869 9394 6). 2022, v + 352 pp.	0
Azmi Bishara, Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £90 – 978 0 7556 4590 9). 2022, 731 pp.	0
Maher Habbob, Nubian Proverbs (Fadijja/Mahas). Goleta CA: Dotawo (pb US$21 – 978 1 68571 018 7). 2022, xiii + 146 pp.	0
Toby Green , The Covid Consensus: the new politics of global inequality. London: C. Hurst & Co. (hb £14.99 – 978 1 78738 522 1). 2021, 294 pp.	0
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Is it hustling this world, or something else? Reflections on three engagements with Improvised Lives	0
The anthropology and sociology of the Somali diaspora - Cawo M. Abdi, Elusive Jannah: the Somali diaspora and a borderless Muslim identity. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press (hb US$94.50 –	0
Obi Nwakanma, Christopher Okigbo 1930–67: thirsting for sunlight. Martlesham, Suffolk: James Currey (pb £17.99 – 978 1 8470 1179 4). 2017, 276 pp.	0
Jordanna Matlon, A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism. Ithaca NY and London: Cornell University Press (hb US$125 – 978 1 5017 6286 4; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 5017 62	0
Philani Mthembu, China and India's Development Cooperation in Africa: the rise of Southern powers. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £109.99 – 978 3 319 69501 3; pb £74.99 – 978 3 030 09891 9)	0
Agurumyela's art of connection: Christopher Azaare's project of curating Gurensi history and culture	0
Alison Heller, Fistula Politics: birthing injuries and the quest for continence in Niger. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press (hb US$125 – 978 1 9788 0037 3; pb US$34.95 – 978 1 9788 0036 6). 2	0
Marissa Mika, Africanizing Oncology: creativity, crisis, and cancer in Uganda. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2465 0; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2509 1). 2021, 260 pp.	0
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, #RhodesMustFall: nibbling at resilient colonialism in South Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG (pb £24 – 978 9 95676 316 0). 2016, 312 pp.	0
Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution. London: Pluto Press (hb £20 – 978 0 74534 176 7; pb £12.99 – 978 0 74534 622 9). 2020, 368 pp.	0
Angela Impey, Song Walking: women, music, and environmental justice in an African borderland. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$105 – 978 0 226 53796 2; pb US$35 – 978 0 226 53801 3). 201	0
How to think politically about epidemics: a retrospective and a rejoinder	0
Rethinking Achille Mbembe’s ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’	0
Disarming the xenophobic everyday: Muslim migrants and the horizons of urban mutuality in Durban	0
Ernest N. Emenyonou (ed.), Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today 35. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 171 8). 2017, ix + 319 pp.	0
Marie Grace Brown, Khartoum at Night: fashion and body politics in imperial Sudan. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press (hb US$85 – 978 1 503 60152 9; pb US$25 – 978 1 503 60264 9). 2017, v + 222 pp	0
Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Rwanda After Genocide: gender, identity and post-traumatic growth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £22.99 – 978 1 108 44459 0). 2018, xiii + 219 pp.	0
Adriaan van Klinken, Kenyan, Christian, Queer: religion, LGBT activism, and arts of resistance in Africa. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (hb US$89.95 – 978 0 271 08380 3; pb U	0
Girl at the margin: historicizing Adunni’s subjective rendition of colonial Lagos, 1930–60	0
Adeline Masquelier, Fada: boredom and belonging in Niger. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0226 62420 4; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 62434 1). 2019, 251 pp.	0
AFR volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
AFR volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Elaine R. Salo, Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters: producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa. Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research and Publishing (pb £30 – 978 9956 550 26 5). 2	0
George Roberts, Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African liberation and the global Cold War, 1961–1974. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £90 – 978 1 108 84573 1). 2021, xvi + 329	0
Reviews of books: queer politics - Serena Owusua Dankwa, Knowing Women: same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 49590 5	0
Response by the author	0
From Africanizing oncology to decolonizing global health: reflections on the biomedical turn in African health histories	0
Response by the author	0
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.	0
Malebogo Mvimi, Past Environments and Plant Use in Holocene Southern Africa: A Study of Charcoal and Seed Remains from the Late Stone Age Sites of Toteng (Botswana), Leopard Cave and Geduld (Namibia).	0
AFR volume 93 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Mapping hidden journeys of Gambian migration and return	0
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb £45 – 978 1 509 52335 1; pb £14.99 – 978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v + 151 pp.	0
Simidele Dosekun, Fashioning Postfeminism: spectacular femininity and transnational culture. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press (hb US$110 – 978 0 252 04321 5; pb US$26 – 978 0 252 08508 6). 2020	0
Alice Bullard, Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal: A History of Transcultural Psychiatry. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £96 – 978 0 367 63100 0). 2022, 264 pp.	0
Amy Niang, The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty. London: Rowman and Littlefield (hb US$138/£106 – 978 1 78660 652 5; pb US$47/£36 – 978 1 78660 653 2). 2018	0
Peer Schouten, Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £64.99 – 978 1 108 49401 4; pb £22.99 – 978 1 108 71381 8). 2022, 299 pp.	0
AFR volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Mark Gevisser, The Pink Line: journeys across the world's queer frontiers. New York NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (hb US$30 – 978 0 3742 7996 7). 2020, 544 pp.	0
Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. London: Verso (pb £11.99 – 978 1 7866 3482 5). 2021, v + 384 pp.	0
AFR volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	0
Patience Mususa, There Used to Be Order: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia consolidated copper mines. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press (hb US$75 – 978 0 472 07499	0
AFR volume 93 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
William Finbarr (Barry) Burgess, 8 October 1948–7 February 2021	0
Burying at all costs: investing in funerals in southern Benin	0
‘My eyes are my ears’: Deaf people appropriating AIDS education messages in Uganda	0
AFR volume 93 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
‘Why invite her here? Her voice is ʿawra!’: vocal nudity debates and Muslim female preachers in northern Nigeria	0
Digital learning in techno-utopia? Do-it-yourself education in Kibera, Nairobi	0
West African Sufism and the matter of Black life	0
AFR volume 93 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	0
Kenneth King and Meera Venkatachalam (eds), India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa. Woodbridge and Rochester NY: James Currey (pb £25/US$36.95 – 978 1 84701 274 6). 2021, v + 219 pp.	0