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African Studies Review , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , December 2016 , pp. 331 - 334
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Abegunrin, Olayiwola, ed. Africa in the New World Order: Peace and Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Lexington Books, 2014. xxii + 254 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Allen, Tony, with Michael E. Veal. Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. ix + 199 pp. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

Amtaika, Alexius. Local Government in South Africa Since 1994: Leadership, Democracy, Development and Service Delivery in a Post-Apartheid Era. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xviii + 374 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Ascher, William, and Natalia Mirovitskaya, eds. The Economic Roots of Conflict and Cooperation in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiv + 276 pp. $100.00. Cloth.

Badru, Pade, and Brigid Maa Sackey, eds. Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2013. xi + 416 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Barnes, Hazel, ed. Arts Activism, Education, and Therapies: Transforming Communities Across Africa. New York: Rodopi, 2013. xvi + 291 pp. $95.20. Cloth.

Biehl, Joao, and Adriana Petryna. When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. 446 pp. $29.95. Paper.

Bisschoff, Lizelle, and Stefanie Van De Peer, eds. Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xxxiii + 325 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Bjarnesen, Jesper. Diaspora at Home? Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso–Cote d’Iviore Transnational Space. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala Universitet, 2013. 279 pp. No price reported.

Bongila, Jean-Pierre K. Grounding Leadership Ethics in African Diaspora and Election Rights. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013. xiv + 171 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Borzel, A. Tanja, and Thauer R. Christian. Business and Governance in South Africa: Racing to the Top? Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillian, 2013. xiv + 274 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Campbell, Bonnie K., ed. Modes of Governance and Revenue Flows in African Mining. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xv + 253 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Carmody, Padraig. The Rise of the BRICS in Africa: The Geopolitics of South–South Relations. London: Zed Books, 2013. viii + 176 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Chirwa, Danwood M., and Nijzink Lia. Accountable Government in Africa: Perspectives from Public Law and Political Studies. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2012. xii + 448 pp. $42.00. Paper.

Chuku, Gloria, ed. The Igbo Intellectual Tradition: Creative Conflict in African and African Diasporic Thought. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xv + 342 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Chukwuma, Helen O., and Preselfannie E. Whitfield McDaniels, eds. Meeting Points in Black/Africana Women’s Literature. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016. v + 315 pp. $39.95. Paper.

Ciment, James. Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It. New York: Hill and Wang, 2013. xx + 296 pp. $30.00. Cloth.

Cochrane, Laura L. Weaving Through Islam in Senegal. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xix + 147 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Cooper, Brenda. A New Generation of African Writers: Migration, Material, Culture and Language. Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2013. ix + 182 pp. $29.95. Paper.

Cooper, Brenda. Floating in an Antibubble from South Africa to Salford: A Mosiac of Pictures and Stories. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016. vii +198 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Crawford, David, and Rachel Newcomb, eds. Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. ix + 284 pp. $80.00. Cloth. $28.00. Paper. $23.99. E-Book.

Dafinger, Andreas. The Economics of Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Burkina Faso. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2013. xi + 212 pp. $80.00. Cloth.

Deibert, Michael. The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair. London: Zed Books, 2013. xiv + 260 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Desta, Amare, Mengesha Mentesnot, and Muchie Mammo. Putting Knowledge to Work: From Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Exchange. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016. v + 423 pp. $39.95. Paper.

Dibua, Jeremiah I. Development and Diffusion: Looking Beyond Neopatrimonialism in Nigeria, 1962–1985. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xviii + 255 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Dipio, Dominica, and Stuart Sillars, eds. Performing Wisdom: Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society. New York: Rodopi, 2013. xxii + 384 pp. $123.20. Cloth.

Doorenspleet, Renske, and Lia Nijznk, eds. One-Party Dominance in African Democracies. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2013. ix + 257 pp. $58.50. Cloth.

Dubow, Saul. South Africa’s Struggle for Human Rights. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 152 pp. $14.95. Paper.

Duiker, K. Sello. Thirteen Cents. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. xxxiii + 191 pp. $16.95. Paper.

Everill, Bronwen. Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. ix + 232 pp. Cloth. $85.00.

Fagan, Benjamin. The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. ix + 186 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Falola, Toyin. The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2013. xiv + 418 pp. $85.00. Cloth.

Falola, Toyin, Maurice Amutabi, and Sylvester Gundona, eds. Africa After Fifty Years: Retrospections and Reflections. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2013. xxv + 401 pp. $39.95. Paper.

Fitzsimmons, Scott. Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 340 pp. $110.00. Cloth.

Gould, Michael. The Biafran War: Struggle for Modern Nigeria. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xviii + 258 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Habib, Adam. South Africa’s Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. xii + 307 pp. $69.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Hamel, Chouki El. Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiii + 331 pp. $34.99. Paper.

Harbeson, John W., and Donald Rothchild, eds. Africa in World Politics: Engaging a Changing Global Order. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2013. xvi + 368 pp. $45.00. Paper.

Hatzky, Christine. Cubans in Angola: South–South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. xvi + 388 pp. $39.95. Paper.

Hazen, Jennifer M. What Rebels Want: Resources and Supply Networks in Wartime. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv + 194 pp. $45.00. Cloth.

Hellermann, Pauline Von. Things Fall Apart? The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. 206 pp. $120.00. Cloth.

Hutchison, Yvette. South African Performance and Archives of Memory. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2013. xi + 245 pp. $100.00. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.

Iddrisu, Abdulai. Contesting Islam in Africa. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xvi + 279 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Jackson, John L., Jr. Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. vii + 394 pp. $45.00. Cloth.

Jones, Hilary. The Metis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xi + 276 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Judd, Denis, and Keith Surridge. The Boer War: A History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xvi + 352 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Kalu, Anthonia C., Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, and Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, eds. Reflections: An Anthology of New Work by African Women Poets. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2013. xix + 193 pp. Cloth. $49.95.

Kidula, Jean Ngoya. Music in Kenya Christianity: Logooli Religious Song. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xx + 233 pp. $30.00. Paper.

Klose, Fabian. Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. xviii + 369 pp. $89.95. Cloth.

Kruger, Loren. Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing, and Building Johannesburg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxv + 274 pp. $74.00. Cloth.

Leonard, Emma, and Gilbert Ramsey, eds. Globalizing Somalia: Multilateral, International, and Transnational Repercussions of Conflict. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. xviii + 321 pp. $130.00. Cloth. $34.95. Paper.

Lundy, Brandon D., and Negash Solomon. Teaching Africa: A Guide for the 21st Century Classroom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. 299 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Mangvwat, Monday Yakiban. A History of Class Formation in the Plateau Province of Nigeria, 1902–1960. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xxviii + 258 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Mazrui A. Alia, and Mhando L. Lindah. Julius Nyerere, Africa’s Titan on A Global Stage: Perspectives from Arusha to Obama. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xxvi + 390 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Mirak-Weissbach, Muriel. Madmen at the Helm: Pathology and Politics in the Arab Spring. Reading, U.K.: Garnet, 2013. xxv + 163 pp. $14.95. Paper.

Mohlele, Nthikeng. Small Things. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013. 108 pp. $22.50. Paper.

Namikas, Lise. Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960–1965. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013. xiv + 350 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, J. Sabelo. Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. xiii + 272 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Nicolini, Beatrice. The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Ninteenth-Century Indian Ocean. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2012. 216 pp. $24.99. Paper.

Mine, Yoichi, et al., eds. Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa: Inequalities, Perceptions, and Institutions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xviii + 307 pp. $95.00.

Ojukutu-Macauley, Sylvia, and Ismail Rashid, eds. Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. 323 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Okome, Olufunke Mojubaolu. Contesting the Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. viii + 259 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Omeje, Kenneth, and Tricia Redeker Hepner, eds. Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xiii + 245 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Owusu, J. Henry. Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs, and Trade: Geographic Perspectives on Ghana’s Timber Industry and Development. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. xix + 263 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Pienaar, U. de V., et al. A Cameo from the Past: The Prehistory and Early History of the Kruger National Park. Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2012. 757 pp. No price recorded. Cloth.

Renne, Elisha P., ed. Veiling in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. 238 pp. $80.00. Cloth. $28.00. Paper. $23.99. E-Book.

Rush, Dana. Vodun in Coastal Benin: Unfinished, Open-Ended, Global. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. xvii + 190 pp. $65.00. Cloth.

Smith, James Howard, and Rosalind I. J. Hackett. Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa. South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. 312 pp. $30.00. Paper.

Spencer, Leon P. Toward an African Church in Mozambique: Kamba Simango and the Protestant Community in Manica and Sofala, 1892–1945. Luinga, Malawi: Mzuni Press, 2013. 173 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Spiers, Edward M., ed. Letters from Kimberley: Eyewitness Accounts from the South African War. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 2013. x + 184 pp. $39.95. Cloth.

Thomas, Dominic. Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. 329 pp. $80.00. Cloth. $28.00. Paper. $23.99. E-Book.

Umeh, Marie Linton. Kema Chikwe Across Borders: Selected Speeches and Essays. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016 vii +330 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Wilson, Amrit. The Threat of Liberation: Imperialism and Revolution in Zanzibar. London: Pluto Press, 2013. xii + 175 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Woldemariam, Kasshun. The Chinese Eldorado and the Prospects for African Development. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016. v + 233 pp. $29.95. Paper.

Wrangham, Elizabeth. Ghana During the First World War: The Colonial Administration of Sir Hugh Clifford. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xxvii + 310 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Zeilig, Leo. Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xx + 336 pp. No price reported. Paper.