Africa

Papers
(The TQCC of Africa is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Exertion is not connected to success’: everyday Yoruba discourse of work and success7
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.7
‘Why invite her here? Her voice is ʿawra!’: vocal nudity debates and Muslim female preachers in northern Nigeria7
Nic Leonhardt and Christopher B. Balme (eds), Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, Networks, Experts. London: UCL Press (hb £55 – 978 1 80008 576 3; pb £30 – 978 1 80008 575 6). 2024,6
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Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya6
Pandemic masculinity: urban low-income men and the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria4
Nomi Dave, The Revolution’s Echoes, Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$89 – 978 0 226 65446 1; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 65463 8). 2019, 195 pp. - Adri4
How to think politically about epidemics: a retrospective and a rejoinder4
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Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation3
From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic3
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Response by the author - James H. Smith, The Eyes of the World: Mining in the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$95 – 978 0 226 77435 0; pb US$33 – 973
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.3
Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville3
Joshua Grace, African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$119.95 – 978 1 4780 1059 3; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 4780 1171 2). 2021, xiii + 4163
Paradigm-breaking pandemics, old academic politics3
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.3
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Cheikh Anta Babou, The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2437 7; pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2467 4). 2021, xvii + 318 pp.2
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Time and title deeds in post-reform agrarian Kenya2
White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali2
Annalena Kolloch, Faire la magistrature au Bénin: Careers, Self-Images and Independence of the Beninese Judiciary (1894–2016). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (pb €59.80 – 978 3 89645 847 6). 2022, 248 2
Ironies of accomplishment: negative aspiration, economic resentment and the myth of the middle class on Nairobi’s new urban outskirts2
Maria Abranches, Food Connections: Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 80073 372 5). 2022, 192 pp.2
Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives. Cambridge: Polity (hb £50 – 978 1 5095 4779 1; pb £15.99 – 978 1 5095 4780 7). 2021, 296 pp.2
Discrimination and social identity: interrogating the impact of local lingua francas on inclusion politics in public institutions in Nigeria2
‘I can’t segregate myself’: self-narrating and ‘small boundary’ work in Nairobi’s ghettos2
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). 20182
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Juliette Leeb-du Toit, Ruth Simbao and Ross Anthony (eds), Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgression. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (pb ZAR 600/US$80 – 978 1 772
Uroš Kovač, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 927 3). 2022, 220 pp.2
Downward social mobility among young Ghanaian digital entrepreneurs: navigating family expectations and digital start-up dreams1
Jumoke Verissimo and James Yékú (eds), Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #EndSARS Anthology. Ibadan: Noirledge (pb US$9.99 – 978 9 7858 7469 3). 2022, 110 pp.1
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)1
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy1
Chronicles of Bailundo: a fragmentary account in Umbundu of life before and after Portuguese colonial rule1
‘You can’t do politics without money’: female politicians, matronage, and the limits of gender quotas in Kenya1
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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). 21
Alice Franck, Barbara Casciarri and Idris Salim El-Hassan (eds), In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution. Space and Place, Volume 20. Ne1
A contested financial frontier: banking and empire building in Eritrea,c.1952–731
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.1
Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s1
Girl at the margin: historicizing Adunni’s subjective rendition of colonial Lagos, 1930–601
George Paul Meiu, Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$99 – 978 0 226 83056 8; pb US$27.50 – 978 0 226 83058 2). 2023, 239 pp.1
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Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 2691
Youjin B. Chung, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$130 – 978 1 5017 7200 9; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 50171
The carnality of power1
Remapping the study of Islam and Muslim cultures in postcolonial Nigeria1
Jennifer Hart, Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 253 06932 0; pb US$45 – 978 1
On the theologico-theatrical: popular culture and the economic imperative in Nigerian Pentecostalism1
Karine Ginisty, Services Urbains et Justice Spatiale à Maputo (Urban Services and Spatial Justice in Maputo). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre (hb €23 – 978 2 84016 379 4). 2021, 354 pp1
Jimi Solanke: popular music and Yoruba folk traditions1
Reconstructing the future: taking ownership of copyright in Africa1
Erik Bähre, Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa. London: Zed Books (pb £22.99 – 978 1 78699 858 3), 2020, 216 pp.1
Migration, authority and the gendered organization of labour in artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique)1
Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria1
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie1
Areej ElSayary and Abdulrasheed Olowoselu (eds), Overcoming Challenges in Online Learning: Perspectives from Asia and Africa. London: Routledge (hb £100 – 978 1 032 37867 1). 2023, 196 pp.1
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Modelling the city: bedroom drawer blueprints as urban planning in Maputo, Mozambique1
Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype and Daivi Rodima-Taylor (eds), Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 80539 029 9). 2023, vii + 245 0
Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu, Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work. Lanham MD: Lexington Books (hb US$95/£73 – 978 1 7936 0359 3). 2020, 150 pp.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
‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement0
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‘Monkeys play by sizes’: the reconstruction of military hierarchy in Ghana's armed forces0
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
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“How will God hear us?”: Sonic and linguistic difference among Kinshasa’s Églises des Noirs0
‘Money looks for money’: managing financialization in eastern Uganda0
Waka waka politician: what are the drivers of party switching in Nigeria?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
Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press (hb US$99 – 978 1 4696 7466 7; pb US$24.950
From Iya Ijebu’s shop to Igbo market: ethnicity and the transformation of Mushin leather market in Lagos, Nigeria0
Jennifer Riggan and Amanda Poole, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests: Eritrean Refugees in a Time of Migration Deterrence. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 2530 6798 2; pb U0
The narrative of Zaga Christ (Ṣägga Krәstos): the first published African autobiography (1635)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
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Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives. Cambridge: Polity (hb £50 – 978 1 5095 4779 1; pb £15.99 – 978 1 5095 4780 7). 2021, 296 pp.0
Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £85 – 978 1 108 49199 0). 2020, 376 pp.0
Robyn d’Avignon, A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 1583 3; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 1847 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
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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
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Crossroads: leprosy, Igbo cosmology and cultural worldviews0
Robert Molteno, 11 January 1943–31 January 20220
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
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
Achille Mbembe, Brutalism, translated by Steven Corcoran. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 1 4780 2087 5; pb US$25.95 – 978 1 4780 2558 0). 2024, 196 pp. - Achille Mbembe, Brutalis0
Intimacy, labour and sexual violence: Nama and Baster women in Namaqualand’s copper mining district, c.1879–19000
Unintended consequences, conflict and resilience in a small-scale irrigation development, Marakwet, Kenya0
The Eséka train disaster as a witchcraft collective action: a socio-historical perspective on anger0
Nathalie Arnold Koenings, Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast: Uchawi in Pemba. Martlesham and Rochester NY: Boydell & Brewer (hb £95/US$130– 978 1 8470 1384 2). 2024, 310 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
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
Beyond crisis: African universities’ global presence before and after structural adjustment0
Brooks Marmon, Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership: African Decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, 1950–1963. Cham: Springer (hb €109.99 – 978 3 031 25558 8; pb €109.99 – 978 3 031 25561 8). 2020
Azmi Bishara, Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution. London: I. B. Tauris (hb £90 – 978 0 7556 4590 9). 2022, 731 pp.0
‘Working for the stomach’: sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda0
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 pp0
Response by the author - Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 470
Conscripting communalism: surveillance and resistance in contemporary Mauritius0
Transnational Muslim crossings and race in Africa: Introduction0
James H. Smith, The Eyes of the World: Mining in the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$95 – 978 0 226 77435 0; pb US$33 – 978 0 226 81606 7). 2021, v 0
James C. Scott in Kinshasa, and a response to Jeremiah Arowosegbe0
‘We deserve new things’: (anti-)bricolage in Lomé’s makerspaces0
Robtel Neajai Pailey, Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 83654 8; p0
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A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana0
Unforgotten shadows: exploring the dynamics of Biafra agitation in south-east Nigeria0
On the mobility of ghosts: spectral journeys in the South African lowveld0
‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa0
Joris Schapendonk, Finding Ways Through Eurospace: West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 680 7). 2020, 221 pp.0
Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$107.95 – 978 1 4780 0361 8; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 4780 0394 6). 2019, 360 pp.0
Marrying in a single moment: Zimbabwean Baptist ethics and the management of kin relations0
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 2470
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). 20
Mis/trust and political competition in post-devolution Gusiiland, south-west Kenya: an ethnography of electoral patronage0
Sean Jacobs, Media in Postapartheid South Africa: postcolonial politics in the age of globalization. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (pb ZAR 300 – 978 1 7761 4489 1). 2019, ix + 191 pp.0
Burying at all costs: investing in funerals in southern Benin0
Politics by night: histories of extraversion and rumours of body part theft on the south coast of Kenya0
Cristiana Strava, Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco. London: Bloomsbury (hb £90 – 978 1 3502 3254 9; pb £28.99 – 978 1 3502 3258 7). 2021/20230
Oka Day as an institution of power: kingship, chieftaincy and the community day in contemporary Yorubaland0
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). 20
Reginald Elias Kirey, Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (hb €89.95 – 978 3 11099 629 6). 2023, 247 pp. Also available Open Access.0
Debating the Bascom controversy: revisiting the expropriation and repatriation of the Ifẹ̀ bronzes0
From discursive resistance to new genealogies: rethinking Israelite identities in Africa through the case of Nuer Christian Zionists0
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
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
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 620
From ‘ethnic militias’ to ‘jungle justice’? Research and change in vigilantism in Nigeria0
Sticking around or fading away: water patronage and value in Chad0
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Myles Osborne, Making Martial Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2617 3; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2618 0). 2023, 348 pp.0
Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below0
Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 19100
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Print media and egalitarianism in 1960s Eswatini: Izwi lama Swazi and the columnist ‘Kadebona’0
Indigenizing modern STEM for the public: uncovering a new form of knowledge reproduction in Africa0
Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye (eds), Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies. Washington DC: Rowman and Littlefield (hb US$111/£85 –0
‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’ in Congo studies: an overview of themes and debates0
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
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
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
Tangled crises in Turkana: investigating the spread of Prosopis in Kenya’s northern drylands0
A history of ‘Yan haƙiƙa, a revisionist Islamic group in northern Nigeria0
Robert Molteno, 11 January 1943–31 January 20220
Imperial debris, intimate partnerships and family law reform in Cameroon0
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
Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 2690
Emily Bridger, Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £75/US$115 – 978 1 8470 1263 0; pb £19.99/US$29.95 – 978 1 8470 0
Digital fashionistas: young women, wealth-in-followers and matronage in Yaoundé, Cameroon0
Digital learning in techno-utopia? Do-it-yourself education in Kibera, Nairobi0
Joost Fontein, Tessa Diphoorn, Peter Lockwood and Constance Smith (eds), Nairobi Becoming: Security, Uncertainty, Contingency. Goleta CA: Punctum Books (pb US$26 – 978 1 68571 156 6). 2024, 345 pp.0
Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola0
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language0
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Sara Salem, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £83.99 – 978 1 108 49151 8; pb £25.99 – 978 1 108 79838 9). 2020, 294 pp.0
Rosalind Fredericks, Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 1 4780 0099 0; pb US$25.95 – 978 1 4780 0141 6). 2018, 20
Elizabeth A. Foster, African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press (hb US$45/£41.95 – 978 0 6749 8766 1). 2019, vii + 369 pp.0
Ike Okonta, The Failure of Leadership in Africa’s Development. Lanham MD and London: Lexington Books (hb US$105/£81 – 978 1 7936 1235 7). 2020, 202 pp.0
Competition, payment and flexible trust on a Sierra Leonean fishing boat0
Thoughts on contemporary humanities scholarship in Nigeria0
Offloading African academic fodder? A response0
Robert Ross, Things Change: Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800–2020. Leiden: Brill (pb €55 – 978 90 04 54374 4). 2023, ix + 187 pp.0
Khalid Mustafa Medani, Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa, 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £22.99 – 978 1 009 25772 5; open access – 970
Crystal Biruk, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Durham NC: Duke University Press (pb US$27.95 – 978 0 8223 7089 5). 2018, 277 pp.0
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Land transactions between Majang people and ‘highlanders’ in the Majang forest zone: a case study of land registration in Ethiopia’s Gambella region0
Urban fractures: mobility, risk and the accidenté in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo0
Tom Lodge, Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021. Woodbridge and Rochester NY: James Currey (hb £70/US$105 – 978 1 84701 321 7). 2022, 626 pp.0
On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda0
Intimacy in a violent context: photographs from Mbouda (Cameroon) in a time of troubles0
Credible risk: private credit bureaus and the work of loan officers in West Africa0
Beyond Christian perspectives: new studies of Yoruba Islam and religious coexistence0
Competition and mis/trust in Africa and beyond0
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia0
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
Scientific knowledge and sexual advocacy: African publics, choiceless citizens and potential confounders0
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange0
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). 20200
Noni Jabavu, A Stranger at Home, with an introduction by Makhosazana Xaba and Athambile Masola. Cape Town: Tafelberg (pb R370 – 978 0 624 08936 0). 2023, 228 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
Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 2690
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
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The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation0
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Yoruba ritual: a case of transformation occasioned by ethno-nationalism0
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‘My eyes are my ears’: Deaf people appropriating AIDS education messages in Uganda0
Stephanie Newell, Histories of Dirt: media and urban life in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 1 4780 0539 1; pb US$26.95 – 978 1 4780 0640
Introduction: the stuff of African cities0
Ibadi Muslim schools in post-revolutionary Zanzibar0
Technology overrule: pre-literate Akan orality and the musket0
The clash of sound, image and light: inter- and intra-religious entanglements and contestations during Mawlūd celebrations in the city of Jos, Nigeria0
Northern Nigerian intellectuals, Sudan, and the “eclectic style” in contemporary Islamic thought0
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
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
Entangled oligarchies: structure, agency and rent seeking in South Africa0
Mapping hidden journeys of Gambian migration and return0
Elizabeth W. Williams, Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$102.95 – 978 1 4780 2071 4; pb US$26.95 – 978 1 4780 2549 8). 0
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
The impacts of Covid policy responses in Africa: The Covid Consensus one year on0
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