New Books in African Studies

Simon P. Newman, "A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic"

[Cross-posted from New Books in American Studies] Ask most educated people about the development...

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John K. Thornton, "A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820"

[Cross-posted from New Books in American Studies] Thanks in no small part to John K. Thornton,...

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Elizabeth Foster, "Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940"

[Cross-posted from New Books in French Studies] How did French colonial administrators,...

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Helen Tilley, "Africa as Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1...

[Cross-posted from New Books in Science, Technology, and Society] Helen Tilley’s new book Africa...

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Lee Ann Fujii, "Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda"

The question Lee Ann Fujii asks in her new book Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda...

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Martin Plaut, "Who Rules South Africa?"

Anybody who has been following the news in recent months knows that bloodshed has returned to...

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Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb, "Religion and AIDS in Africa"

The liberal media in the Western World takes a firm line on how two of the big issues facing...

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Bruce Whitehouse, "Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging"

Every so often a book lands on my desk about something so obviously interesting that I have never...

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Steve Kemper, "Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa"

Three years ago I travelled overland with my wife from Victoria Falls through Zambia, Malawi,...

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Mary Harper, "Getting Somalia Wrong: Faith, War, and Hope in a Shattered State"

Several months ago I interviewed Steve Bloomfield, the author of a book on African football, for...

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Orla Ryan, "Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa"

When was the last time you ate some chocolate? If you live in the developed world there's a...

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Richard Bourne, "Catastrophe: What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe?"

Much of the literature on modern Africa makes the unhappy comparison between hopes, especially...

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Richard Hamilton, "The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco"

Few places can match the Djemaa el Fna in Marrakech for spectacle. As the shadows lengthen and...

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Steve Bloomfield, "Africa United: How Football Explains Africa"

A couple of days ago I had an unusual experience. I was staying in a hotel in Kampala, with a...

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Stephen Ellis, "Seasons of Rains: Africa and the World"

Globalisation has not passed Africa by. The recent boom in commodity prices has had a direct...

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Erin Haney, "Exposures: Photography and Africa"

In Chapter 3 of Erin Haney's excellent book Photography and Africa (Reaktion Books, 2010) there...

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Chuck Korr, "More Than Just a Game—Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told"

[Crossposted from New Books in Sports] Chances are, if you were one of the 700 million people who...

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James Brabazon, "My Friend the Mercenary: A Memoir"

It's a routine observation that journalists never give Africa a fair shake of the dice: they're...

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Richard Fogerty, "Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918"

[Crossposted from New Books in History] The thing about empire building is that when you're done...

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James Zug, "The Guardian: The History of South Africa’s Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper"

[Crossposted from New Books in History] Every so often I read a book that reminds me that things...

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