New Books in African Studies

Leonard Cassuto, "The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It"

Leonard CassutoView on AmazonThe discontented graduate student is something of a cultural fixture...

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Kristin Peterson, "Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria"

Kristin PetersonView on AmazonKristin Peterson's new ethnography looks carefully at the Nigerian...

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Zachariah Mampilly and Adam Branch, "Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change" (Zed Press, 2015)

Zachariah Mampilly is the author along with Adam Branch of Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and...

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Paul Bjerk, "Building a Peaceful Nation: Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960-1...

Let's begin with what Paul Bjerk's new book isn't: a biography or evaluation of Julius Nyerere....

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Gary Wilder, "Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World"

Gary Wilder's new book, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World...

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Scott Straus, "Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa"

Who, in the field of genocide studies, hasn't at least once used the phrase "The century of...

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Pedro Machado, "Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, c.1750-1850"

Pedro Machado's Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c.1750-1850...

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Nicholas Duncan, "Tales from a Muzungu"

Tales from a Muzungu (Peace Corps Writers, 2014) relates a Peace Corps Volunteer's experiences...

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Matthew M. Heaton, "Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Ps...

In Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of...

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Mariana Candido, "An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland"

Mariana Candido’s book An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World. Benguela and its...

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Erskine Clarke, "By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth Century Atlantic Odyssey"

[Cross-posted from New Books in American Studies] Jane Bayard Wilson and John Leighton Wilson...

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Emilie Cloatre, "Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa &...

[Cross-posted from New Books in Medicine] Emilie Cloatre’s award-winning book, Pills for the...

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Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, "Patrice Lumumba"

Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle, as well as the country’s first...

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Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror"

Elizabeth Schmidt's Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror...

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Randy J. Sparks, "Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade"

[Cross-posted from New Books in American Studies] A kind of biography of the town of Annamaboe, a...

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Clapperton C. Mavhunga, "Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Technology] Words have meaning. More specifically, the...

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Cathy L. Schneider, "Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Political Science] Cathy L. Schneider is the author of Police...

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Michelle Moyd, "Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Afri...

In her imaginative and scrupulous book, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and...

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Lisa L. Gezon, "Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Alcohol, Drugs, and Intoxicants] Khat, the fresh leaves of the...

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James D. Le Sueur, "Algeria Since 1989: Between Terror and Democracy"

[Cross-posted from New Books in French Studies] "History doesn't repeat itself," so the saying...

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