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New Books in African Studies
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Ruma Chopra, “Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone” (Yale UP, 2018)
39 mins; November 21, 2018
Jonathon Earle, “Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
50 mins; November 13, 2018
Joanna Davidson, “Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa” (Oxford UP, 2015)
59 mins; November 08, 2018
Edward J. Watts, “Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny” (Basic Books, 2018)
64 hours 13 mins; November 05, 2018
Miranda Kaufmann, “Black Tudors: The Untold Story” (Oneworld, 2017)
35 mins; November 02, 2018
Ching Kwan Lee, “The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
48 mins; October 25, 2018
Jill Kelly, “To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996” (Michigan State UP, 2018)
62 hours 58 mins; October 16, 2018
Jennifer Yusin, “The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetition” (Fordham UP, 2017)
33 mins; October 15, 2018
Paul Bjerk, “Julius Nyerere” (Ohio University Press, 2017)
86 hours 56 mins; October 05, 2018
Laila Amine, “Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
37 mins; September 27, 2018
Nicholas Grant, “Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960” (UNC Press, 2017)
65 hours 2 mins; September 25, 2018
Jeremy Martens, “Empire and Asian Migration: Sovereignty, Immigration Restriction and Protest in the British Settler Colonies, 1888–1907” (UWA Publishing, 2018)
16 mins; September 14, 2018
Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)
43 mins; August 10, 2018
Naomi André, “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
56 mins; August 08, 2018
Pablo Gomez, “The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic” (UNC Press, 2017).
53 mins; July 24, 2018
Gordon Mathews, “The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
54 mins; July 03, 2018
Jeff Koelher, “Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
47 mins; July 02, 2018
Darcie Fontaine, “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
60 hours 8 mins; June 26, 2018
Alden Young, “Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
57 mins; May 29, 2018
Jeffrey Ahlman, “Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana” (Ohio University Press, 2017).
53 mins; May 23, 2018
Kate Skinner, “The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-2014” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
61 hours 35 mins; May 15, 2018
Nancy Mitchell, “Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War” (Stanford UP, 2016)
49 mins; May 09, 2018
John Nathaniel Clarke, “British Media and the Rwandan Genocide” (Routledge Press, 2018)
71 hours 59 mins; May 04, 2018
Omina El Shakry, “The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2017)
50 mins; May 01, 2018
Marie E. Berry, “War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia Herzegovina” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
67 hours 42 mins; April 30, 2018
Lisa A. Lindsay, “Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey” (UNC Press, 2017)
57 mins; April 27, 2018
Aidan Forth, “Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903” (U California Press, 2017)
67 hours 46 mins; April 24, 2018
Katelyn Knox, “Race on Display in Twentieth- and Twenty First-Century France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
58 mins; April 17, 2018
Sharla Fett, “Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade” (UNC Press, 2017)
68 hours 6 mins; April 12, 2018
Amy Bass, “One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together” (Hachette Books, 2018)
38 mins; April 04, 2018
Fahad Bishara, “A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
51 mins; April 03, 2018
George Paul Meiu, “Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money and Belonging in Kenya” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
53 mins; March 26, 2018
Nic Cheeseman, “Institutions and Democracy in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
36 mins; March 12, 2018
Bonny Ibhawoh, “Human Rights in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
93 hours 50 mins; March 02, 2018
John Broich, “Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade” (Overlook Duckworth Press, 2017)
32 mins; March 01, 2018
Jennifer Hart, “Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation” (Indiana UP, 2016)
59 mins; February 23, 2018
Christopher J. Lee, “Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition” (Lexington Books, 2017)
58 mins; February 22, 2018
Seth Markle, “A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism 1964-1974” (Michigan State UP, 2017).
51 mins; February 16, 2018
Kim Yi Dionne, “Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
42 mins; February 06, 2018
Alexander Thurston, “Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement” (Princeton UP, 2017)
48 mins; February 05, 2018
Claire Eldridge, “From Empire to Exile” (Manchester UP, 2016)
58 mins; January 26, 2018
Samuel Totten, “Sudan’s Nuba Mountains People Under Siege” (McFarland, 2017)
67 hours 8 mins; January 24, 2018
Herman Salton, “Dangerous Diplomacy: Bureaucracy, Power Politics and the Role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda” (Oxford UP, 2017)
85 hours 43 mins; January 08, 2018
Randy M. Browne, “Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
50 mins; January 08, 2018
Jessica Marglin, “Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco” (Yale UP, 2016)
52 mins; December 24, 2017
Michel Leiris, “Phantom Africa” (Seagull Books, 2017)
77 hours 54 mins; December 20, 2017
Hilary Matfess, “Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses” (Zed Books, 2017)
44 mins; December 18, 2017
Sowande Mustakeem, “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage” (U. Illinois Press, 2016)
48 mins; December 14, 2017
Marie Grace Brown, “Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan” (Stanford UP, 2017)
51 mins; December 04, 2017
Padraic Scanlan, “Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolutions” (Yale UP, 2017)
75 hours 33 mins; December 04, 2017
Stephane Robolin, “Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing” (U. Illinois Press, 2015)
58 mins; November 30, 2017
Sara E. Brown, “Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators” (Routledge, 2017)
66 hours 2 mins; November 28, 2017
Gregory Mann, “From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Non-Governmentality” (Cambridge UP, 2014).
55 mins; November 17, 2017
Keren Weitzberg, “We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya” (Ohio UP, 2017)
4 mins; November 14, 2017
Regine Jean-Charles, “Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary” (OSU Press, 2014)
43 mins; October 26, 2017
Anne C. Bailey, “The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
44 mins; September 20, 2017
Joanna Dee Das, “Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora” (Oxford UP, 2017)
47 mins; September 07, 2017
Michael Allan, “In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2016)
31 mins; August 14, 2017
Michael Barnett, “Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda” (Cornell UP, 2016)
63 hours 22 mins; August 06, 2017
Adriana Helbig, “Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration” (Indiana UP, 2014)
48 mins; July 25, 2017
Ira Dworkin, “Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State” (UNC Press, 2017)
57 mins; July 20, 2017
Patrick N. Hunt, “Hannibal” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
101 hours 17 mins; July 13, 2017
Sarah Ladipo Manyika, “Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun” (Cassava Republic Press, 2016)
27 mins; July 13, 2017
Sarah Eltantawi, “Shari’ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria’s Islamic Revolution” (U. California Press, 2017)
41 mins; July 12, 2017
Anita Hannig, “Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
52 mins; July 10, 2017
Linda Heywood, “Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen” (Harvard University Press, 2017)
54 mins; May 19, 2017
Grace Davie, “Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
60 hours 58 mins; April 19, 2017
Bert Ingelaere, “Inside Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice After Genocide” (U. Wisconsin Press, 2016)
79 hours 7 mins; April 13, 2017
Brandon Kendhammer, “Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy and Law in Northern Nigeria” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
43 mins; April 04, 2017
Anuradha Chakravarty, “Investing in Authoritarian Rule: Punishment and Patronage in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts for Genocide Crimes,” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
65 hours 27 mins; March 28, 2017
Daniel Magaziner, “The Art of Life in South Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2016)
56 mins; February 17, 2017
Telesphore Ngarambe, “Practical Challenges in Customary Law Translation: The Case of Rwanda’s Gacaca Law” (OSSREA, 2015)
66 hours 11 mins; February 06, 2017
Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken, “Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
54 mins; February 04, 2017
Nathan Hofer, “The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
49 mins; January 27, 2017
Toni Pressley-Sanon, “Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen” (McFarland, 2016)
55 mins; January 18, 2017
Sylvester Johnson, “African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
71 hours 40 mins; December 29, 2016
Noah Salomon, “For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State (Princeton UP, 2016)
37 mins; December 17, 2016
Jean-Germain Gros, “Healthcare Policy in Africa” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
95 hours 21 mins; December 02, 2016
Susan Verde, “The Water Princess” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016)
32 mins; November 29, 2016
Carina E. Ray, “Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana” (Ohio UP, 2015)
59 mins; October 07, 2016
Ethan Katz, “The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France” (Harvard UP, 2015)
58 mins; June 28, 2016
Steve Kemper, “A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham” (W. W. Norton, 2016)
32 mins; June 13, 2016
Michael F. Robinson, “The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent” (Oxford UP, 2016)
70 hours 36 mins; June 03, 2016
Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)
43 mins; June 02, 2016
Birgit Meyer, “Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana” (U of California Press, 2015)
65 hours 12 mins; April 30, 2016
Allison Drew, “We Are No Longer in France: Communists in Colonial Algeria” (Manchester UP, 2014)
57 mins; March 31, 2016
Krista A. Thompson, “Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice” (Duke UP, 2015)
44 mins; March 04, 2016
Elizabeth M. Williams, “The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa” (I. B. Tauris, 2015)
49 mins; December 18, 2015
Paul Bjerk, “Building a Peaceful Nation: Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960-1964”
85 hours 4 mins; December 18, 2015
Alice J. Kang, “Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
17 mins; December 16, 2015
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria” (U of Chicago, 2014)
44 mins; December 07, 2015
Marjorie Feld, “Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
32 mins; November 23, 2015
Kelly M. Duke Bryant, “Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914” (U of Wisconsin Press, 2015)
66 hours 16 mins; November 20, 2015
Chike Jeffers, “Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy”
76 hours 49 mins; October 20, 2015
Gregory O’Malley, “Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807” (UNC Press for the Omohundro Institute, 2014)
48 mins; September 26, 2015
Kristin Peterson, “Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria” (Duke UP, 2015)
64 hours 47 mins; September 10, 2015
Zachariah Mampilly and Adam Branch, “Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change” (Zed Press, 2015)
24 mins; August 24, 2015
Gary Wilder, “Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World” (Duke UP, 2015)
61 hours 36 mins; June 28, 2015
Scott Straus, “Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
74 hours 47 mins; June 09, 2015
Pedro Machado, “Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, c.1750-1850” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
44 mins; May 05, 2015
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