African Studies Review

Papers
(The TQCC of African Studies Review 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction – CORRIGENDUM16
Gino Vlavonou. Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 243 pp. Bibliography, Index. $89.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780299345709.14
Hassan Ould Moctar. After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 232 pp. Figures, Tables. References. Index. $80.50 Hardcover. ISBN: 978111
Jörn Ahrens and Ernst Halbmayer, eds. Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa: Social and Cultural Dimensions. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. 224 pp. $180.00 Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-032-01852-2.8
Elizabeth A. Foster. African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2019. 369 pp. Photos. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49.00. Cloth. IS7
Martha Wilfahrt. Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300 pp. Maps. Illustrations7
Yahya Sseremba. America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda. New York: Routledge, 2023. 216 pp. $136.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032412085.7
Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter, and Melanie Samson, eds. Ethnographies of Power: Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022. xi + 247 pp. 3 illustrations. Index. 6
The Collapse of the Gold Standard in Africa: Money and Colonialism in the Interwar Period6
Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku. United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 416 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN6
Aditi Malik. Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xxvi + 285 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $34.99. Paper. I5
Andrew Heffernan. The Global Politics of Local Conservation: Climate Change and Resource Governance in Namibia. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. xix + 250 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Appendix5
From Colonial Shadows to Postcolonial Streets: Rethinking Sex Work in Eastern Nigeria, 1960–19805
Dirk-Jan Koch. Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences. Routledge, 2023. xiv + 219 pp. Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $44.79. Paperback. ISBN: 9781032412146.4
ASR volume 65 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
Sharlene Swartz, Tarryn De Kock, and Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, eds. Transformative Leadership in African Contexts: Strategies for Social Change. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2024. 462 pp. In4
Samuel Kehinde Okunade, Leon Mwambe Tshimpaka, and Willie Eselebor, eds. COVID-19 and African Borders in Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. xiii + 214 pp. Map. Illustrations. References. $173.24. H4
The 32nd New York African Film Festival, New York City, 1–31 May 20254
Olufemi Vaughan. Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. xvii + 256 pp. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Index. $22.95. Paper. ISBN: 780299344504.3
Antoinette Handley. Business and Social Crisis in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 219 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Bibliogra3
(Re)negotiating State Authority: How Hinterland Protests against Global Capital Impact the Mediating Role of Traditional Rulers in Postcolonial Sierra Leone3
Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo3
Aicha Macky, dir. Zinder. 2021. 82 et 52 min. Haoussa. France, Allemagne et Niger. Andanafilms. $7.00.‡3
Boukary Sawagodo. Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. xiv + 203 pp. Images. Preface. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. $27.99. Clot3
Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney. Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2023. 242 pp. Photos. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $36.95. Pa3
Daniel Plaatjies, ed. Making Institutions Work in South Africa. Cape Town: Best Red, 2021. viii + 240 pp. Foreword. List of Tables and Figures. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-928246-36-7.3
George Roberts. Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974. Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 329 pp. Bibliography. Index. $28.30. Paperba2
Africa and the Possibility of Philosophy: Paulin Hountondji’s Intellectual Legacy2
Andrew Eugene Barnes and Toyin Falola, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. xx + 699 pp. Notes. Biblio2
(Don’t) Visit Rwanda: Rwanda’s Sportswashing and Its Western Facilitators2
Yusufu Turaki. Tainted Legacy: Islam, Colonialism and Slavery in Northern Nigeria. McLean, Virginia: Isaac Publishing, 2010. 210 pp. $111.98. Paper. ISBN: 978-0982521830.2
Peter Wafula Wekesa. History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border. London: Lexington Books, 2023. xxi + 213 pp. Index. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Appendices. $100.2
Sarah Quesada. The Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature by Sarah Quesada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 302 pp. $99.99. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1316514351.2
David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien, and Lucien van der Walt, eds. Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919–1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union. Cape Town, South Afric2
Joseph Godlewski. The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements . Routledge, 2024. 312 pp. 92 b/w illustrations. $45.59. Paperback. ISBN2
Colin Darch and David Hedges, eds. Samora Machel: Leader and Liberator in Southern Africa, Selected Speeches and Writings of Samora Machel. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2024. + 454 pp. Maps. Illustrations. 2
Michael Wahman. Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198872825.2
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, writer/director. This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. 2019. 120 minutes. Sotho. Lesotho. Urucu Media. No price reported.2
Ibrahim Bangura, ed. Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa. New York: Routledge, 2023. 302 pp. Bibliography. Index. $31.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781032487793.2
Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam, dir. Mambar Pierrette. 2023. 93 minutes. French with English subtitles. Vimeo. No price reported.2
Susanna L. Sacks. Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. 215 pp. Notes. Index. $99.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781625347688.2
Miranda Melcher. Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 258 pp. $35.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781350407961.2
Tope Oshin, director. Up North. 2018. 99 min. English/Hausa/Pidgin. Nigeria. Anakle Films, Inkblot Productions, and Netflix. No price reported.2
Sara Nacer, dir. La Rockeuse du désert (The Desert Rocker). 2022. 75 minutes. Arabic and French, with English subtitles. Canada. L’Equipage. No Price Reported. Available to stream on Eventive.2
Isaac Vincent Joslin. Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. v + 340 pp. Notes. References. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780892
Historical Memory Matters: Mobilizing the Past in the Boko Haram and Katiba Macina Conflicts1
Ndubueze L. Mbah. Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. 309 pp. List of Illustrations. Appendix: Lineage Charts. Gl1
Biyi Bandele, dir. Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman. 2022. 96 minutes. Yoruba/English. Nigeria. Netflix. No price reported.1
Tasha Rijke-Epstein. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2023. 376 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.91
Gregory Smith. Where Credit is Due: How Africa’s Debt can be a Benefit, not a Burden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Xii + 268 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. £25.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780197619971.1
Khalid Zairi, dir. Mora est là: Une obligation de mémoire (Mora Is Here: An Obligation to Remember). 2023. 87 minutes. Arabic, Tamazight, French, with English subtitles. ZK Productions. No price repor1
Thomas Hendriks. Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp. Note on Photography. Notes. References. Index. $104.95. Har1
Michael W. Thomas. Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 261 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $103.50. Hardback. ISBN: 9781350227408.1
Ama Ata Aidoo: A Fond Remembrance and Farewell1
Alice Diop, dir. Saint Omer. 2022. 123 minutes. French, with English subtitles. France. Srab Films (Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral), Arte France Cinéma, Pictanovo Hauts-de-France. $4.28. Avail1
Saidat Ilo. Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. Between 2001–2011. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-61
Reencuentros with Paulin Hountondji1
The Rumor-Myth of Infertility and Abduction: Murle Exclusion and the Politics of Life in South Sudan1
Joseph Abiodun Balogun. Reimagining Nigeria’s Educational System: Improving Academic Performance Through High Stakes Standardized Testing. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. 328 pp. Illustrations. $43.99. Pap1
Mariana P. Candido. Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality . Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv + 31
Meredith McKittrick. Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 328 pp. $32.50. Paper. ISBN: 9780226834696.1
Hélène Dumas. Sans ciel ni terre: Paroles orphelines du génocide des Tutsis (1994–2006). Paris: Editions la Découverte, 2020. 200 pp. Glossary. Bibliography. Notes. Photos. $30.65. Paper. ISBN: 978-231
Mutale Mulenga Kaunda. Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women’s Agency and Indigenous Cultural Systems. London: Lexington Books, 2024. 165 pp. $45. Paper. ISBN: 9781666926248.1
Matthias de Groof, ed. Lumumba in the Arts. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. 400 pp. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. $79.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9462701748.1
Literary Analysis of a Memory Book by a Schoolteacher with HIV in Rural Uganda: Writing about Living with and Dying of HIV1
Missing Another Democratic Moment: America’s Self-defeating Policy in Sudan1
“More than Disease”: Uncovering the Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Pandemic1
“A Reason Not to Belong”: Political Decentralization, Intercommunal Relations, and Changing Identities in Northeastern Uganda1
Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi and Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi. Modern Nigeria: Understanding Modern Nations. New York: Bloomsbury, 2024. xix + 380 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $90. Hardcover. ISBN: 1
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Tshepo Moloi, and Alda Romão Saúte Saíde, eds. Guerilla Radios in Southern Africa. Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle. Lanham, MD: Rowman &am1
Bernard Forjwuor. Critique of Political Decolonization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 304 pp. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780198871842.1
Antonio Allegretti, Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local-Global Interface. Winwick, Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2022. 208pp. Bibliography. Index. $821
Triangular System in Chinese Studies of African Literature1
Alemseged Tesfai. An African People’s Quest for Freedom and Justice: A Political History of Eritrea, 1941–1962. C. Hurst & Co., 2025. 536 pp. Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $29.55. Pap1
Ashley Miller, ed. Decolonizing Islamic Art in Africa: New Approaches to Muslim Expressive Cultures. Intellect, University of Chicago Press, 2024. 316 pp. Bibliography. Index. $149.95. Hardback. ISBN:1
Shameela Seedat, dir. African Moot. 2022. 85 minutes. English, French, Portuguese, and Swahili (translated to English). No Price Reported. Undercurrent Film & Television.1
Catherine Boone. Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 326 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Index. Bibliography. $39.99. Paper. ISBN:1
African Studies Keyword:Okà1
Marloes Janson, Kai Kresse, Benedikt Pontzen, and Hassan Mwakimako, eds. Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict. New York: James Currey, 2024. xxii + 288 pp. Notes. Figures1
2023 ASR Distinguished Lecture: Decoloniality and Its Fissures. Whose Decolonial Turn?1
Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse, eds. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid 19: Transformative Resistance and Social Production. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2023. 262 pp. Index. $30.001
Lindsay Scorgie. Conflict at the Edge of the African State: The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo–Uganda Borderland. Lexington Books, 2024. 338 pp. Bibliography. Index. $40.45. Paperback. ISBN: 978149856171
Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating “Customary” Ownership of Natural Resources1
Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino, dir. Le Fardeau. 2023. 80 minutes. Central African Republic, Congo Kinshasa, France. Makongo Films. Available to stream on myCANAL.1
Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918.1
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi. Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City. Ohio University Press, 2024. 216 pp. Paperback. ISBN: 9780821424896.1
Christina Seyfried. African Bargaining Power with China: Foreign Investment and Rising Influence. New York: Routledge, 2023. xi + 233 pp. $144. Hardback. ISBN: 9781032312491.1
Kally Forrest. Lydia: Anthem to the Unity of Women. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana, 2024. vii + 230 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ZAR 300. Paper. ISBN: 9781431434800.1
Awam Ampka, dir. The Man Died. 2024. 105 minutes. English and Yoruba, with English subtitles. Nigeria. Zuri 24 Media. No price reported.0
“A Titan”0
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi. Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City . Ohio University Press, 2024. 216 pp. Paperback. ISBN: 9780821424896.0
Osvalde Lewat, dir. MK: Mandela’s Secret Army. 2022. 52 minutes. English version with English subtitles. South Africa and France. Arte France Roches Noires Temps Noir. No Price Reported.0
Going Back to the Roots: Indigenous Language, Media Performance, and Change in Kenya0
Contemporary Narratives on Yoruba History, Modern Society in Nigeria, and the Meaning of Decolonized Humanity in the African Context0
Raphael Chijioke Njoku. Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947–2022. Leuven University Press, 2024. 270 pp. €28.00. Paperba0
Biyi Bandele, dir. Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman. 2022. 96 minutes. Yoruba/English. Nigeria. Netflix. No price reported.0
Remembering Paulin Hountondji: The Zairian Interlude0
Revisiting “Miss Aidoo’s” No Sweetness Here0
Ezra Chitando, Lovemore Togarasei, and Joram Tarusarira, eds. Religion-Regime Relations in Zimbabwe: Co-operation and Resistance. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. 230 pp. Index. $54.99. Paper. ISBN: 97810320
Rebecca Tapscott. Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $100. Cloth. ISBN: 9780198856474.0
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Patrick Nwosu, and Hassan M. Yosimbom, editors. Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs. Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: L0
Ahmed Nara’s Fatal Mission0
J. Siguru Wahutu. In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 230 pp. $30.98. Hardback. ISBN: 9781009431965.0
Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger. Voices of Sharpeville: The Long History of Racial Injustice. New York: Routledge, 2024. xvii + 293 pp. Maps. Photographs. Figures. Documents. Notes. Bibliography.0
Ana Lucia Araujo. The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 224 pp. Maps. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $39.99. Ha0
Reimagining Anthropology: Ferguson, Incompleteness, and Conviviality0
Biyi Bandele, dir. Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman . 2022. 96 minutes. Yoruba/English. Nigeria. Netflix. No price reported.0
Alexander Thurston. Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 360 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $30.39. Paperback. ISBN: 90
Holly Dunn. Legal Consciousness and the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Societies: Emergent Hybrid Legality in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. x + 172 pp. $41.59. Pap0
Island in a Sea of Oppression: Pan-Africa at the Art Institute0
Rabiat Akande. Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 338 pp. Bibliography. Index. $34.00. Paperback. ISBN: 9781009055048.0
Jelmer Vos. Coffee and Colonialism in Angola, 1820–1960. James Currey, 2025. 224 pp. Maps. Plates. Graphs. Bibliography. Index. $91.55. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781847013569.0
Paul M. LoveJr. The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiv + 236 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-0
The Value of Extending Our Scholarly Geographic Scope0
The Underground Lives of Texts: Lamine Senghor’s La Violation d’un pays from Interwar France to Senegal’s Decolonization0
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction0
Wildlife Management in South Sudan, 1901–2021: Conservation amidst Conflict0
China Scherz, George Mpanga, and Sarah Namirembe. Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. 156 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978052039670
From German East African Rupees to British East African Shillings in Tanganyika: The King and the Kaiser Side by Side0
Money for Africa and Money in Africa: Colonial Currencies and the Making of Economies and States, 1860s–1960s0
John Mwangi Githigaro. Countering Violent Extremism in Kenya: Community, State and Security Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. vii + 131 pp. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780
Tanja Bosch and Tony Roberts, eds. Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression. London: Zed Books, 2023. 227 pp. Illustrations. Index. $43.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-350-32445-9.0
George Roberts. Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 352 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $28.0
Jonas Bens. The Sentimental Court: The Affective Life of International Criminal Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 233 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Paper. ISBN: 9780
Linda Melvern. A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide, Revised and Expanded Edition . London: Zed Books, Bloomsbury, 2024. 424 pp. 0
Anthony Egeru, Megan Lindow, and Kay Muir Leresche, eds. University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa: Community Action Research Platforms. New York: Routledge, 2023. 329 pp. Illustrations0
Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa0
Martin Welz. Africa since Decolonization: The History and Politics of a Diverse Continent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ix + 375 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $25.99. Paper. ISBN: 97811084650
Vasu Reddy, 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. 347 pp. Index. $59.97. Paper.0
Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp, eds. The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. 322 pp. 25 black and white0
Devin Smart. Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya’s Port City. Ohio University Press, 2025. 252 pp. $36.95. Paperback. ISBN: 9780821426234.0
Berihun Adugna Gebeye. A Theory of African Constitutionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. ix + 243 pp. Table of cases. Table of legislation. Index. $99.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780192893925.0
Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana0
Underground Revolutionaries: The PAIGC, Leninism, and the Decolonization of Cabo Verde0
Ama Ata Aidoo Challenged the Constructed Absence of African Women’s Leadership0
Paul Amar, ed. Cairo Securitized: Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience. Cairo: University of America in Cairo Press, 2024. xxxvii + 474 pp. Figures. Tables. Index. $45,00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780
Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty. Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 223 pp. List of Abbreviations. Appendices. References. Index. $82.000
Ana Lucia Araujo. Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 640 pp. 47 Halftones. 6 × 9. Maps. Ill0
Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, eds. Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. 0
Bellarmine A. Ezumah, Charles A. Ebelebe, and Olunifesi A. Suraj, eds. Religion and Politics in a Mediatized Society: Critical Analyses and Spheres of Interinfluence in Nigeria 0
Ode Ogede. Nigeria’s Third-Generation Literature: Content and Form. Routledge, 2024. 326 pp. Bibliography. Index. $46.39. Paperback. ISBN: 9781032268439.0
Counterfeits as Social Goods: The Ethics of Chinese Fashion in Mozambique0
Caroline Melly. Bottleneck: Moving, Building, & Belonging in an African City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. References. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-48890-5.0
COVID-19 and the Ugandan Presidential Election: Contesting Lockdown Authority in Popular Songs0
Salvatory S. Nyanto. Slave Emancipation, Christian Communities, and Dissent in Post-abolition Tanzania, 1878–1978. James Currey, 2024. 240 pp. Glossary. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Bibliography. Index.0
Allen F. Isaacman, Joy M. Chadya, and Barbara S. Isaacman. Elusive Histories: Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca. 1900–1980. Ohio University Press, 2025. 300 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. 0
Wale Adebanwi, ed. Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. xxi + 426 pp. Figures. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780821424902.0
Strategies of Subversion of the Kadehine in the Early Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960s–1970s)0
Khalid Shamis, dir. The Colonel’s Stray Dogs. 2021. 73 minutes. English. South Africa. Journeyman Pictures. $7.50. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecolonelsstraydogs20
Liisa Laakso and Siphamandla Zondi, eds. Political Science in Africa: Freedom, Relevance, Impact. London: Bloomsbury Publishing and Nordic Africa Institute, 2024. xiv + 272 pp. Figures. Tables. Biblio0
Alex La Guma. Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966–1985, edited by Christopher J. Lee. London: Seagull Books, 2022. 581 pp. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 978-0857427892.0
Joanna Davidson and Benjamin N. Lawrance, eds. Pathos and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Widowhood in Africa, Past and Present. Ohio University Press, 2025. 340 pp. $36.95. Paperback. ISBN: 0
Decentering the Dollar in Africa-China Trade: How Nigerian Entrepreneurs Navigate Currency Swaps and Digital Currencies in an Era of USD Hegemony and RMB Internationalization0
A Mosaic of Yorùbá Ontology and Materiality of Pleasure Since AD 10000
Sharad Chari. Apartheid Remains. Duke University Press, 2024. xxiv + 460 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478030416.0
George S. MacLeod. Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony after the Cold War. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 227 pp. $65.00. Hardback. ISBN: 97810
Rural Radicalisms and the Politics of Order: Authority, Precarity, and Globality in Africa0
Reconstructing Contemporary Africa: A Historiography of Violence, Defiance, Politics, Religious Syncretism and Revivalism0
Gaël Kamilindi and François-Xavier Destors, dirs. Didy. 2024. 1 hour 30 minutes. French. Switzerland. Adok films and CPB Films (Compagnie des Phares et Balises).0
Climate Change Adaptation in The Gambia: The Role of Kanyeleng Communication and Performance0
Alain Kassanda, director. Coconut Head Generation. 2022. 87 minutes. English. Nigeria. Ajimati Films. No price reported.0
Jide Tom Akinleminu, director. When a Farm Goes Aflame. 2021. 112 minutes. Danish, English, Yoruba, with English subtitles. Germany. Film Five GmbH. No price reported.0
Babayo Sule. Political Party Financing and Electoral Politics in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), 2023. ix + 279 pp. $78.46. Hardcover. ISBN: 978166690
Samuel Fury Childs Daly. Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 284 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 97814780
Nicole Eggers. Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. New African Histories series. 291 pp. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821426081.0
Simon Gikandi and R.N. Sandberg, eds. Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora. London: Methuen Drama, 2024. 413 pp. $42.25. Paper. ISBN: 9781350360
John Kinahan. Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert. Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. xxvi + 546 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $135. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1847012883.0
Maimouna Jallow, dir. Tales of the Accidental City. 2021. 54 minutes. English. Kenya. Positively African Productions. No Price Reported.0
Anita Plummer. Kenya’s Engagement with China: Discourse, Power, Agency. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023. xxxv + 244 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-60
Stephan F. Miescher. A dam for Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. 598 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059956.0
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, dirs. Neptune Frost. 2021. 105 minutes. Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, English. Rwanda, USA. No price reported. Swan Films, Sopherim, Knitting Factory Enterta0
Sarah Jilani. Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781399507288.0
Kenneth W. Harrow: A Legacy in African Studies0
Nelson Alusala, Emmaculate Asige Liaga, and Martin Revai Rupiya, eds. Conflict Management and Resolution in South Sudan. Routledge, 2024. x + 206 pp. Bibliography. Index. $57.99. Paperback. ISBN: 97810
“Welcome, Ali, Please go Home”: Muhammad Ali as Diplomat and African Debates on the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott0
Bacha Kebede Debela, Geert Bouckaert, Meheret Ayenew Warota, and Dereje Terefe Gemechu. Public Administration in Ethiopia: Case Studies and Lessons for Sustainable Development. Leuven: Leuven Universi0
Conditionality Breeds Contempt: Donor and Multilateral Myopia in Sudan0
Ernest Harsch. Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 2024. 380 pp. 5.50 × 8.50 in. 2 black and white illustrations. 2 Figures. 1 Table. Bibliographical Re0
Pathways to Peace0
Jennie E. Burnet. To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. xxix + 277 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.95. Paper. I0
Bolanle Austen-Peters, director. The Bling Lagosians. 2019. 98 minutes. English, Yoruba, Igbo, and Pidgin. Nigeria. BAP Productions. No price reported. Streaming on 9jaRocks.com.0
Reconciling South Africa0
Kerry Ryan Chance. Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. vi + 184 pp. Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30
Olukayode A. Faleye, Inocent Moyo, and Richard Olaniyan, eds. Transborder Pastoral Nomadism and Human Security in Africa: Focus on West Africa. London: Routledge, 2023. 123 pp. Illustrations. $52.95. 0
Jonathan Silver. The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. ix + 305. $50.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780262546874.0
Making Demands on Government: Theorizing Determinants of Backyard Residents’ Collective Action in Cape Town, South Africa0
Sylvia Neame. Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa: I Look Back 30 Years. Cape Town: Best Red, Human Sciences Research Council, 2021. ix + 518 pp. Notes. Source Material. Index. $32.00. Paper. I0
Daniel Akech Thiong. The Politics of Fear in South Sudan: Generating Chaos, Creating Conflict. London: Zed Books, 2021. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 217 pp. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1786996794.0
The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda: Understanding Violence in the Rwenzori Region0
Going Home: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o0
Recent Approaches to the Study of Health, Healing, Illness, and Care in Africa0
Marcia C. Schenck. Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series). Cham, S0
Louisa Lombard. Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 272 pp. List of figures. List of maps. List of acronyms and abbreviations. 0
Christopher Conz. Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress. Suffolk, UK: James Currey; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer. 2024. 282 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. B0
Rose A. Sackeyfio, ed. African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century. London: Lexington Books, 2021. 146 pp. Index. $100.00. Hardback. ISBN: 9781793642431.0
Dynamics of Land Governance, Extractivism, Urban Tech and Waste Infrastructures, and the Everyday State in Contemporary Africa0
Rhiannon Stephens. Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 312 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-4780-0
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi. Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City. Ohio University Press, 2024. 216 pp. $34.95. Paperback. ISBN: 9780821424896.0
Rita Kesselring. Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia’s Northwestern Province: An Ethnography of Inequality and Interdependence. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. 224 pp. $350
Natalia Telepneva. Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 302 pp. Maps. Photog0
“You Feel That You Can Make a Difference in the World”: Contributions and Experiences of Women Cabinet Ministers from Five West African Countries0
A.G. Hopkins. Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 551 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.00. Hardcov0
Vasco Martins. Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola. London: Routledge, 2021. 196 pp. Chronology. Index. Hardcover. $136. ISBN: 9780367860868.0
Abderrahmane Sissako, dir. Black Tea. 2024. 110 minutes. Mandarin Chinese and French, with French subtitles. France, Mauritania, Luxembourg, Taiwan, and Ivory Coast. Gaumont. €19.99.0
Holly Elisabeth Hanson. To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. xiv + 253 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.90
Restitution vs. Retention: Reassessing Discourses on the African Cultural Heritage0
Apartheid South Africa: The Narratives of Three Different Nationalistic Survivors0
Navigating the Underground in Plain Sight: Experiences of Clandestine Solidarity in South Africa0
Sishuwa Sishuwa. Party Politics and Populism in Zambia: Michael Sata and Political Change, 1955–2014. New York: James Currey, 2024. xv + 227 pp. Index. $120. Hardback. ISBN: 9781847013927.0
Mudimbe’s Library0
Coloniality of Waithood: Africa’s Wait for COVID-19 Vaccines amid COVAX and TRIPS0
Gabrielle Hecht. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp. 87 illustrations (incl. 85 in color). Abbreviations. Note on Usage.0
Christy K. Schuetze. Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 286 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliog0
Olaf Zenker, Cherryl Walker, and Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel, eds. Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,0
Debora Pellow. A New African Elite: Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. xi + 259 pp. Photographs, Glossary, References, Index. $135. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-80073-370
Rabiat Akande. Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 338 pp. Bibliography. Index. $34.00. Paperback. ISBN: 9781009055048.0
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué. Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliogra0
Gardner Thompson. A Critical History of Southern Rhodesia. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2024. vii + 245 pp. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781685859886.0
George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi A. Kalu, eds. Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. xii + 242 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $100. Hardba0
Joseph Tonda (translated by Chris Turner). The Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon). Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2021. 456 pp. Cloth. $45. ISBN: 9780857426888.0
Crain Souidien, Sharlene Swartz and Gregory Houston, eds. Society, Research and Power: A History of the Human Sciences Research Council from 1929 to 2019. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2021. 540 pp. $54.91. 0
Paulin Hountondji: The Struggle for Meaning and the Struggle for Action0
Rural Radicalism in the Capital City: The Impact of Histories of Inequitable Safety on Patterns of Violence0
Jacob Kurtzer. Out of Sight: Northeast Nigeria’s Humanitarian Crisis. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Humanitarian Agenda; Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 20
Darius Brubeck and Catherine Brubeck. Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2024. 321 pp. Photographs. Appendices. Discography. 0
Klaus Bachmann. A History of Rwanda from the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice. London: Routledge, 2023. 274 pp. $55.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781032272351.0
Ryan Shaffer, ed. African Intelligence Services: Early Postcolonial and Contemporary Challenges. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 294 pp. $121.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1538150825.0
Liz Carmichael. Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord, 1991–1994. Cape Town: James Currey, 2023. 492 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 978184701360
François Ngoa Kodena. Afrosofian Knowledge and Cheikh Anta Diop: Geo-ethical and Political Implications. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 220 pp. $90. Hardback. ISBN: 9781666909135.0
Nationhood in South Sudan Cinema: The Iconicity of Motherhood in Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home (2023)0
Editi Effiong, dir. The Black Book. 2023. 2 hours 4 minutes. English/Pidgin. Lagos Kaduna Nigeria Anakle Films. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported.0
Morad Mostafa, dir. I Promise You Paradise. 2023. 25 mins. Arabic with French and English subtitles. Egypt and Qatar. No price reported.0
Mario Schmidt. Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2024. 184 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $0
Sarah Maldoror, director. Sambizanga. 1972/ Restored 2022. 98 minutes. Portuguese, Lingala and Kimbundu with English subtitles. Republic of the Congo. Criterion Collection. No price reported.0
Of Bonds and Commitment: In Memoriam Ama Ata Aidoo0
Paul Nugent. Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xx + 353 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index.0
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Moritz A. Mihatsch, and Michelle M. Sikes, eds. The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. 230 pp. $21.99. Paper. ISBN:0
Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré. Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 452 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $150
Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. 330 pp. $27.00. Paper. ISBN0
Global Forces, Rural Radicalism, and the Dual Transformation of Urban and Rural Protest in Africa0
Popular Poesis: Language and the Pleasures of Everyday Creation0
Adriaan Van Klinken and Ezra Chitando. Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-01970
Staying with the Culture Struggle: The African Union and Eliminating Violence Against Women0
Manuel Castells and Bernard Lategan. eds. National Identity and State Formation in Africa. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. v + 217 pp. Notes. References. Index. $ 25.09. Paper. ISBN: 9781509545612.0
Holistic Articulations: On Women’s Discursive Labor in an African City0
William J. Spurlin. Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb (part of the Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture, and Politics 0
Mariusz Lukasiewicz. Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902: A View from the Stock Exchange (part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies). Palgrave Macmilla0
Minabere Ibelema. Cultural Chauvinism: Intercultural Communication and the Politics of Superiority. New York: Routledge, 2021. xiv + 140 pp. Notes. References. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780367710030
Lindiwe Dovey, Out of the Box: The Screen Worlds of Judy Kibinge. 2023. 81 minutes. English. Produced by Circle & Square Productions, Screen World Collective, Chouette Films.0
Amanda Lock Swarr. Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 248 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.950
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