Journal of African History

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of African History 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Ethnoarchaology and Food Security in West Africa - The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana By Amanda L. Logan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. x11
Lugha ya Dunia - A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili By Morgan J. Robinson. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 270. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424940); $34.911
Cold War and Decolonization in Lusophone Africa - Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975 By Natalia Telepneva. Chapel Hill: The Uni5
Considering Insurgency in Ethiopia - Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970 By Terje Østebø. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 363. $1204
Touring Africa - A History of Tourism in Africa: Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment By Todd Cleveland. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 216. $29.95, paperback (ISBN: 97808214473
History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye3
Comboni Missionaries in Mahdist Sudan - Faith, War and Slavery: A History of the Colonial Conquest of Sudan (1881–1898) By Patricia Teixeira Santos and Suresh Kumar. Translated by Vanessa Rodrigues Va3
Confinement and Politics in Uganda - Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda By Katherine Bruce-Lockhart. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 280. $83
Universities, Apartheid, and Decolonisation - Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa: From Liberalism to Decolonization Teresa Barnes. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 173. $52.95, paperb2
Water and History in Southern Africa2
Text and Authority in Nineteenth Century Nigeria - From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State By Paul Naylor. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2021. Pp. 228. $99.00, hardcover2
Revisiting the Colonial Encounter in the Sahel - Des Pays au Crépuscule: le moment de l'occupation coloniale (Sahara-Sahel) By Camille Lefebvre. Paris: Fayard, 2021. Pp. 352. 24.00 €, paperback (ISBN:2
Colonial Theft and Postcolonial Reparation - The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution By Dan Hicks. London: Pluto Press, 2020. Pp. 368. $27.00, hardco2
The State of Play in Sports History - Sports in Africa, Past and Present Edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, and Gerard Akindes. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. $60.00, 2
Christian Family Life in South Africa - Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa Natasha Erlank. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2
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Epistemology and History in Central Ghana - Our Own Way in this Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture and Nation By Kwasi Konadu. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 20201
Assembling a Historiography of South Africa - History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography Thula Simpson, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp.  2631
The Past and Present of Chinese Migration to Africa - The Social and Economic History of the Chinese Overseas in Africa, Volumes I, II, and III By Anshan Li. Nanjing, China: Jiangsu People's Pr1
An African History of Development - The Idea of Development in Africa: A History Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. £74.00, hardcover (IS1
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar, theBayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi1
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–18201
Living Histories Across Borders - History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border Peter Wafula Wekesa. London: Lexington Books, 2023. Pp. xxii + 212. $100.00, h1
Intellectual Legacies, Political Morality, and Disillusionment: Connections Between Two Mozambique Research Institutions, 1976–20171
Catholicism, Politics, and Nationalism in Postcolonial Uganda - Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney. London: James C1
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Plagiarism, Forgery, and Political Invention in Islamic West Africa - Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in W1
South Africa's Revolutionary Era - Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries By Paul S. Landau. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 372. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424704); $36.95, paper1
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Lesotho and the QwaQwa Ski Resort, 1975–82: Border Disputes and South Africa's Increasingly Deadly Responses1
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Caught between the Union Jack and the Nazi Swastika: African Protests over Ambiguous Status under British Imperialism and Potential Transfer to Nazi Colonialism0
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Child Trafficking after Abolition - The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria By Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.0
The Demographic Question in Colonial Congo - Démographie coloniale congolaise. Entrespéculation, idéologie, et reconstruction historique By Jean-Paul Sanderson. Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgique: PUL-0
Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law and Identity. Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Nathan Riley Carpenter — CORRIGENDUM0
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi0
Neo-Imperial Cold War? Biafra's Franco-African Arms Triangle0
Who Deserves to Die? The Moral Logic of Mau Mau Killings in Colonial Kenya, 1952–560
The Audience Experience of Colonial Cinema - Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 By Samson Kaunga Ndanyi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. Pp. 159. $95.00,0
Humanitarianism in a Cold War Hot Spot - Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC: The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa By Jeremy Rich. Suffolk: James Currey, 2020. Pp. 277. $100
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa0
The Party of the Century - Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021 By Tom Lodge. Auckland Park: Jacana, 2021, and Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. Pp. 626. R30
The Rise of the ‘Impenetrable Hedge’: African Intermediaries and the Legacy of Colonial Wars in Northern Ghana, 1896–19200
Africans, Israelis, and the Postcolonial Built Environment - Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler-Colonial Imagination, 1958–1973 By Ayala Le0
Ray Kea and the Historians of the Gold Coast: Debates Over Continuity and Rupture in African and African Diaspora Atlantic Histories0
No Place for Honest Men - Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa By Brian Peterson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Pp. 350. $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780253053765); $30
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Language and Ethnicity in Colonized South Africa - Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities By Jochen S. Arndt. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Pr0
Rethinking the Frontline - Guerillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa Siphokazi Magadla. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2023. Pp0
Mwene Muji: A Medieval Empire in Central Africa?0
Agency and the Arusha Declaration: Nyerere, NUTA, and Political Discourse in Tanzania, 1966–70
Navigating Lingala: Linguistic Change, Political Power, and Everyday Authoritarianism in Congo-Zaire, 1965–970
Administering the KwaZulu Bantustan - Bantu Authorities: Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity By Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. xxi + 365. $120.000
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The Muridiyya Diaspora - Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making By Cheikh Babou. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 326. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424377); $36.950
Work and Life on the Mission Station - Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926 By Michelle Liebst. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2021. Pp. 20
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Deconconstructing Colonial Population Anxiety - Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola By Samuël Coghe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20
West African Soldiers during the Colonial Era - West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860–1960 By Timothy Stapleton. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. Pp. 400. $125.00, hardcover (ISBN0
Action on the Margins - Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins By Paul Nugent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 616. $39.99,0
Street Hawking or Street Walking in Dahomey?: Debates about Girls’ Sexual Assaults in Colonial Tribunals, 1924–410
Political Authority and Rural Development - Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana By Alice Wiemers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 250. $80.00, har0
Missionary Internalizations of Ghanaian Christianity - Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity Paul Glen Grant. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2020. Pp. 327. $60
Culture, Class, and Politics in Late Imperial Congo - The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo By Daniel Tödt. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 4280
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Dead-End Scandal in M'Pésoba: Local Politics and Colonial Justice in French West Africa, 1913–180
Pan-African Networks, Cold War Politics, and Postcolonial Opportunities: The African Scholarship Program of American Universities, 1961–750
‘A Modest, but Peculiar Style’: Self-Fashioning, Atlantic Commerce, and the Culture of Adornment on the Urban Gold Coast0
‘For King and Empire’: The Changing Political, Economic, and Cultural Identities of Kru Mariners in Atlantic Africa, 1460–19450
‘Groupwork’ and Community in the East African Past - The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 By David L. Schoenbrun. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Pp. 3760
African Intellectuals and Abolitionists - Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century By José Lingna Nafafé. Cambridge: Cambridge Universi0
“Natives Around the Township”: State Spaces and the Struggle for Karamoja's Future, 1950–660
“Sodabi Calamity Number One”: The Production of Palm Alcohol in Dahomey and its Repression, 1840–19750
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South Africa, 1994 + 30: A Conversation About History After Apartheid0
Intimate Archives and Anterooms0
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Muslim Intellectuals and the Slave Trade in West Africa - Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa Jennifer Lofkrantz. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2023. Pp. 228. $99.0
Liberated Africans in West Africa and Beyond - Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896 Edited by Henry Lovejoy and Richard Anderson. Rochester, NY: University of Roch0
Public Pleasure and Authoritarian Politics - The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea By Nomi Dave. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 208. $27.0
Women and Nationalism in Nigeria - The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith Byfield. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. pp. 334. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821423980
Editorial Introduction: History Matters on the 2020 Belgian Parliamentary Commission on the Colonial Past0
Politics Of and Through the Thoroughfare - Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa Peer Schouten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 299. $33.95, paperback (0
A Return to Khaki Rule? Democracy and Africa's Lost History of Military Government0
Learned Societies, Knowledge Production, and Public Engagement in Colonial and Postcolonial Ghana, 1930–900
The Moral Economy of the Ugandan Crowd in 19450
Coercion and Dissent: Sleeping Sickness ‘Concentrations’ and the Politics of Colonial Authority in Ulanga, Tanganyika0
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Visualizing Mozambican History - Filtering Histories: The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times By Drew A. Thompson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. 360
African Medicine in the Atlantic World - Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 By Kalle Kananoja. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $99.99, har0
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People and Animals in Nigerian History - Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria By Saheed Aderinto. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 30
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥajj ʿUmar, the Bayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi – ADDENDUM0
Le témoignage d'Almamy Maliki Yattara sur W. A. Brown: Dr Brown through the Testimony of Almamy Maliki Yattara0
Militant Mothers: Gender and the Politics of Anticolonial Action in Côte d'Ivoire0
Cattle Circulation, Beef Market Control Strategies, and African Agropastoralists in Southern Mozambique, 1900s–30s0
The Past, Present, and Future of African Opera - African Theatre 19: Opera & Music Theatre By Christine Mazke, Lena van der Hoven, Christopher Odhiambo, and Hilde Roos (eds.). Rochester, NY0
Civil War in Liberia Revisited - Liberia's First Civil War: A Narrative History By Edmund Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 344. $160.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781032113043); $48.95, e-book (ISBN: 9780
State, Urban Space, Race: Late Colonialism and Segregation at the Ikoyi Reservation in Lagos, Nigeria0
‘To Satisfy My Savage Appetite’: Slavery, Belief, and Sexual Violence on the Mina (Gold) Coast, 1471–15710
The Impact of Informal Mentorship: A Tribute to Professor William Brown0
Below the Land Deals: The Making of Mineral Property in Ga-Mphahlele, South Africa, 1880–19940
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century0
Mobility and Identity at the Tanzania-Rwanda Border - From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border Jill Rosenthal. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 330
Neglected Historiography from Africa: The Case for Postindependence Journals0
Media and the End of Empire - Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire By Caroline Ritter. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 253. $85.00, hardcover 0
History and Museums in South Africa - Museum Times: Changing Histories in South Africa Leslie Witz. New York: Berghahn, 2022. Pp. 300. £99.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781800735385); £23.95, ebook (IS0
Intellectuals with Pickaxes - A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 328. $104.95, hardcover (0
MOLINACO, the Comorian Diaspora, and Decolonisation in East Africa's Indian Ocean0
Segu and its Wake: Authority, Legitimacy, and Narratives of Power in Mali’s History0
Urbanism and Identity in East Africa - Making Identity on the Swahili Coast: Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo By Steven Fabian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxvi0
Medical Legitimacy: Childbirth, Pluralism, and Professionalization in Nigeria's Faith-Based Aladura Birthing Homes0
Gender and the Economics of Emancipation in Angola - Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce and Economic Transition in Luanda By Vanessa S. Oliveira. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press0
John Garang On Air: Radio Battles in Sudan's Second Civil War0
Corporate Colonialism in Liberia - Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia By Gregg Mitman. New York: The New Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $27.99, hardcover (ISBN: 78162090
‘Grande Herói da Banda’: The Political Uses of the Memory of Hoji ya Henda in Angola0
Biography and History in Zimbabwe - The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker By Blessing-Miles Tendi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 348.0
Remixing a Cultural Festival - FESTAC ’77: The 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture Decomposed, An-Arranged and Reproduced by Chimurenga; Misdirections in Music by Ntone Edjabe<0
The Colonial African: Godwin Mbikusita-Lewanika and His Struggle For and Against Zambian Nationalism0
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Social Speech and Governance in Uganda - To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015 By Holly Elisabeth Hanson. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 268. $80.00,0
Exiles, Expatriates, and Malcolm X: Debating the Racial Politics of Liberation in the Black Star of Africa0
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A South African Writer - Sol T. Plaatje: A Life in Letters Edited by Brian Willan and Sabata-mpho Mokae. Cape Town: Historical Publications Southern Africa, 2020. Pp. xxi + 359. $40.00, 0
Politics of Disaster: Earthquake, Rehousing, and Confronting Colonial Rule in Accra (Gold Coast/Ghana), 1939–450
“How Our Heritage is Looted”: Legal Meaning-Making, Cultural Property, and Customs Enforcement in Nigeria, 1938–790
Collaboration, Survival, and Flight: Fulbe Narratives of Guinea-Bissau's War for Independence, 1961–740
The Reproduction of Urban Capitalism: Street Food and the Working Day in Colonial Mombasa0
Wise Mothers and Wise Buyers: Marketing Tea and Home Improvement in 1930s South Africa0
An African Society’s Perception of Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa, the Ethnic-State of Gajaaga Makhroufi Ous0
Objects, Materiality, and Persistance in the Black Atlantic - Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic Matthew Francis Rarey. Durham, NC: Duke Universit0
Egypt in Africa: William A. Brown and a Liberating African History0
African Art in an Imperial Center - Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art By John Warne Monroe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 30
From Coast to Coast and Back Again - Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to circa 1900 By Gwyn Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 306. $29.99,0
A Spatio-Cultural History of Coastal Southeastern Nigeria - The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements Joseph Godlewski. New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 312. $95.00, hardcove0
“We Were the Army in the Shadows”: The Dynamics of Military Rule and Experiences of Black Women in the South African Defence Force 32 Battalion Military Community0
Language, Ethnicity, and Media in South Africa - Radio soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern By Liz Gunner. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019. Pp. 227. $105.00, hardcover (ISBN: 0
Skin, Race, and Business in South Africa - Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners By Lynn M. Thomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 368. $28.95, pap0
The Worlding of Architectural Labor - Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War. By Łukasz Stanek. Princeton: Princeton University Press0
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Sleeping Sickness, Onchocerciasis and Unintended Consequences in the Gold Coast and Ghana, 1930–60 — ADDENDUM0
An Institute of Residual Studies? Nkrumah and the “Afroepistemic” Origins of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana0
Congolese Students in Congo's Global History - Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo By Pedro Monaville. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $107.95, 0
Writing with Light - Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780
New Approaches to the Prison in African History - L'Afrique en prisons: Sociétés, Espaces, Temps. Edited by Frédéric Le Marcis and Marie Morelle. Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2022. Pp. 332. €25.00, hard0
The Conditions of Cancer Treatment in Postcolonial Uganda - Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda By Marissa Mika. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 260. $80
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William A. Brown and the Assessment of a Scholarly Life0
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Using Dirt to Write History - Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos By Stephanie Newell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. xx + 249. $26.95, pape0
Ritual Violence and Traditions of Origin: Mung'aro in Mijikenda History0
Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia0
Politics and Music in Colonised South Africa - The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape By Lindsay Michie. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 298. $10
A Diplomat-cum-Historian’s Chronicle of US Diplomacy vis-à-vis Africa - US Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik Herman J. Cohen. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 20200
Migrants and the Black Atlantic in Liberia - More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic By Caree A. Banton. Cambridge: Cambridge Un0
Archives and Late Nineteenth Century Ethiopia - Colonial Powers and Ethiopian Frontiers 1880–1884: Acta Aethiopica volume IV Edited by Sven Rubenson, Amsalu Aklilu, Shiferaw Bekele, and Samuel Rubenso0
Military Instrumentality in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe - Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race M. T. Howard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x0
‘An Era Where Racism is Religion’ - Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960-1984 By Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 0
Spilling Millet: The East African Post and Studied Bureaucratic Knowledge0
The Lutheran Church and the Tanzanian State - Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka's Life and Work By Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu. Lanham: Lexington Book0
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Performing the Struggle Against Apartheid - Opposing Apartheid on Stage: King Kong the Musical By Tyler Fleming. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020. Pp. 428. $130.00, hardcover (ISBN: 0
William Allen Brown, Jr., 1934–2007: An Appreciation0
Colonial Schemes and African Realities: Vernacular Infrastructure and the Limits of Road Building in German East Africa0
Productive Tensions? - An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race By Shobana Shankar. London: Hurst Publishers, 2021. Pp. 256, £22, paperback (ISBN: 9781787385696).0
A Resonant Intellectual - Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church By Harry N. K. Odamtten. East Lansing, 0
Malian Women in Public History and Public Memory0
Moving Histories: Bantu Language Expansions, Eclectic Economies, and Mobilities0
Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire’s Forking Paths - Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa's Cold War By Marco Wyss. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. $100.00, hardcover 0
A Multimedia History of a Musical Genre - Cool Running: The Story of Ghana's Honk Horn Lorries and Por Por Music By Nii Yemo Nunu, Steven Feld, and Hannah Schreckenbach. Santa Fe: VoxLox, 2020.0
Religion and Nationalism in South Sudan - Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan By Christopher Tounsel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 205. $99.95, hardco0
Therapeutic Practices and Healing Cultures in Accra - Sharing the Burden of Sickness: A History of Healing and Medicine in Accra Jonathan Roberts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. P0
The Sardauna's Middle East: Regionalism and Backstage Politics in Nigeria's Postcolonial Diplomacy0
The Challenges of Transforming Political Consciousness - Making New People: Politics, Cinema and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 James E. Genova. East Lansing: Michigan State University P0
Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade0
A Cold War City - Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974 By George Roberts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. $32.99, pa0
Raids, Resistance, and Retribution: South Africa's Cato Manor Killings, 1960–10
Unimaginable Community: Watchwords and Frelimo's Abandoned Nationalism in Independence-Era Mozambique0
Gendering South Africa's Struggle - Young Women Against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle By Emily Bridger. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, James Currey: 20210
Queering Colonialism - Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa By T. J. Tallie. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. 240. $100, ha0
Property, Power, and Imperialism in Angola - Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality By Mariana P. Candido. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre0
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Zambia and Zambians during the Second World War - War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953 By Alfred Tembo. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821420
Francis Fearon’s Ideas and Hidden Network of African Antislavery in Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast0
Discordant Nations - Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities By Mahmood Mamdani. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 416. $29.95, hardcover (ISBN:0
Revisiting A Classic in African Economic History -An Economic History of West Africa, 2nd edition By A. G. Hopkins. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 414. $79.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9780367002442); $70
The Quotidian Politics of a Love Story: Researching, Assembling, and Mobilizing the Lunda Legend in the Late Nineteenth Century0
Diaspora, Music, and Identity in Senegal - In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory and Social Change in Urban Senegal By Catherine M. Appert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 248. $115.00, har0
African Worldmaking on a Global Stage - The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 Frank Gerits. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U0
‘When There Is a Ban, There Is a Way’: Everyday Gambling and the Nigerian Political Economy, 1977–830
Music, Culture, and Generational Change after Apartheid - Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa By Xavier Livermon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,0
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Disciplining Citizens and Commodities: Economic Crimes and Accusations in 1970s Uganda0
Tensions on the Railway: West Indians, Colonial Hierarchies, and the Language of Racial Unity in West Africa0
Literature and Politics During the Cold War - At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War By Monica Popescu. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. $26.950
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Religion and Nationalism in South Sudan - Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan By Christopher Tounsel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 205. $99.95,0
African Histories of Health: A New Synthesis - Health, Healing and Illness in African History By Rebekah Lee. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 272. $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781474254380
A Hidden Repository of Arabic Manuscripts from Mali: The William A. Brown Collection0
Abolition and the Registration of Slaves and Libertos in Portuguese Mozambique, 1856–760
Enslaved Muslim Sufi Saints in the Nineteenth-Century Sahara: The Life of Bilal Ould Mahmoud0
Les sources orales à la conquête du passé colonial0
Running on Empty: Fossil Fuels, Local Fuels, and Entangled Infrastructures in Colonial Senegal, 1885–19450
“History in a Wine Glass” - Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective Paul Nugent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 374. $130.00, hardcover (ISBN: 0
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Ethnic Othering and Governance in Imperial Ethiopia - The Other Abyssinians: The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1913 By Brian J. Yates. Rochester, NY: University of Ro0
An Archive of Colonial Propaganda - Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation Edited by Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas. Los Angeles: Getty Research Ins0
The following exchange was prompted by Femi J. Kolapo's review of Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine's The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria (University of Massachuse0
Between Economic Nationalism and Liberalization: Ideas of Development and the Neoliberal Moment in Mobutu's Congo, 1965–740
AFH volume 65 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Racism, Study, and Cold War Solidarities - African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975 By Sara Pugach. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. 274. $75.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780472070
‘Eating A Country’: The Dynamics of State-Society Encounters in Qellem, Western Ethiopia, 1908–330
Public Piety in Nigeria's Recent History - Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism Abimbola A. Adelakun. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 290. $99.990
Historical Scholarship and the Public Square: The Belgian Commission on Colonialism Through the Lens of Wiriyamu0
Famine Relief and the Writing of African History - In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics By Benjamin Talton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 20200
Surveying the Archives of the Congo Free State - The Congo Free State: What Could the Archives Tell Us? New Light and Research Perspective Patricia Van Schuylenbergh and Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi0
Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–800
Developing Automobile Culture in Tanzania - African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development By Joshua Grace. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 432. $114.95, hardcover 0
‘Despite the Fear’: Emancipation Trajectories in Libya, 1890–19300
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Women, Kinship, and Intimacy in the Atlantic World - Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Jessica Marie Johnson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press0
Religion and Resistance in an Atlantic Biography - The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic By João José Reis, Flávio dos Samtos Gomes, and Marcus J. M. de Carvalh0
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Armies and Identities in Southern Africa - Apartheid's Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa By Lennart Bolliger. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $80.00,0
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AFH volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Between Land Reform and Postcolonial Frustration: Understanding the Social Roots of Local Opposition to the PAIGC/PAICV in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 1975–910
Emotion and Violence in German Colonial Southwest Africa - The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia By Matthias Häussler. Trans. from German by Elizabeth Jani0
The Caliphate, the Black Writer, and a World in Revolution, 1957–690
‘Compliments from the Housewives’: Contesting White Public Space in Late-Colonial Nairobi0
An Army's Complicated Legacy - Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar By Luise White. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. $104.95, hardcover (ISBN: 97814780100
Scholars, Secrets, and Sultans: Clerical Authority in West Africa, 1450–16500
Changes in the (Namibian) Land - Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia By Michael Bollig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 425. $99.99, 0
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