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New Books in African Studies
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Nicholas Duncan, “Tales from a Muzungu” (Peace Corps Writers, 2014)
47 mins; May 01, 2015
Ellen Boucher, “Empire’s Children” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
55 mins; May 01, 2015
Matthew M. Heaton, “Black Skin, White Coats” (Ohio UP, 2013)
66 hours 12 mins; April 27, 2015
Mariana Candido, “An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
60 hours 0 mins; April 17, 2015
Erskine Clarke, “By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth Century Atlantic Odyssey” (Basic Books, 2013)
67 hours 3 mins; February 09, 2015
Emilie Cloatre, “Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa” (Palgrave, 2013)
46 mins; February 09, 2015
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, “Patrice Lumumba” (Ohio University Press, 2014)
51 mins; February 02, 2015
Elizabeth Schmidt, “Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
43 mins; January 21, 2015
Randy J. Sparks, “Where the Negroes Are Masters” (Harvard UP, 2014)
60 hours 56 mins; January 01, 2015
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, “Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe” (MIT Press, 2014)
39 mins; December 14, 2014
Cathy L. Schneider, “Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
29 mins; December 08, 2014
Michelle Moyd, “Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa” (Ohio UP, 2014)
66 hours 5 mins; December 04, 2014
Lisa L. Gezon, “Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective” (Left Coast Press, 2012)
82 hours 35 mins; November 28, 2014
Olufemi Taiwo, “Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto” (Indiana UP, 2014)
63 hours 49 mins; November 06, 2014
Amy Evrard, “The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement” (Syracuse University Press, 2014)
65 hours 4 mins; October 30, 2014
Ernest Harsch, “Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary” (Ohio UP, 2014)
73 hours 0 mins; October 10, 2014
Todd Cleveland, “Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds” (Ohio University Press, 2014)
48 mins; October 03, 2014
Rebecca Rogers, “A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story” (Stanford UP, 2013)
32 mins; October 02, 2014
Deborah Mayersen, “On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined” (Berghahn Books, 2014)
64 hours 39 mins; September 23, 2014
What Do We Now Know About the Rwandan Genocide Twenty Years On?
69 hours 36 mins; September 13, 2014
Toby Green, “The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
43 mins; July 30, 2014
Samuel Totten, “Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan” (Transaction Publishers, 2012)
84 hours 36 mins; July 18, 2014
Donovan Chau, “Exploiting Africa: The Influence of Maoist China in Algeria, Ghana, and Tanzania” (NIP, 2014)
34 mins; July 07, 2014
James Copnall, “A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan’s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce” (Hurst, 2014)
45 mins; June 20, 2014
Susan Thomson, “Whispering Truth to Power” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)
56 mins; May 24, 2014
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
72 hours 9 mins; April 10, 2014
Sean D. Murphy et al., “Litigating War: Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission” (Oxford UP, 2013)
53 mins; April 06, 2014
Ellen J. Amster, “Medicine and the Saints” (University of Texas Press, 2013)
78 hours 44 mins; March 16, 2014
Xolela Mangcu, “Biko: A Life” (Tauris, 2013)
33 mins; January 25, 2014
Jennie Burnet, “Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
65 hours 24 mins; December 27, 2013
Jennifer Sessions, “By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria” (Cornell UP, 2011)
61 hours 13 mins; December 21, 2013
Gabrielle Hecht, “Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade” (MIT Press, 2012)
61 hours 3 mins; November 10, 2013
Lidwien Kapteijns, “Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
51 mins; October 16, 2013
Simon P. Newman, “A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
59 mins; October 10, 2013
John K. Thornton, “A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820” (Cambridge UP, 2012).
66 hours 55 mins; September 12, 2013
Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann (editors), “Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space” (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
48 mins; September 05, 2013
Elizabeth Foster, “Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940” (Stanford University Press, 2013)
80 hours 54 mins; June 26, 2013
Lee Ann Fujii, “Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda” (Cornell UP, 2009)
71 hours 40 mins; December 21, 2012
Catherine Higgs, “Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2012)
73 hours 54 mins; November 14, 2012
Martin Plaut and Paul Holden, “Who Rules South Africa?” (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2012)
45 mins; November 07, 2012
Jason Brownlee, “Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
61 hours 17 mins; October 28, 2012
Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb, “Religion and AIDS in Africa” (Oxford UP, 2012)
50 mins; October 16, 2012
Sandra Chait, “Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest” (University of Washington Press, 2011)
46 mins; September 18, 2012
Bruce Whitehouse, “Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging” (Indiana UP, 2012)
37 mins; August 17, 2012
Steve Kemper, “Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa” (Norton, 2012)
49 mins; July 20, 2012
Nwando Achebe, “The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe” (Indiana University Press, 2011)
73 hours 36 mins; June 29, 2012
Trevor Getz and Liz Clarke, “Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History” (Oxford UP, 2012)
76 hours 10 mins; June 08, 2012
Mary Harper, “Getting Somalia Wrong: Faith, War, and Hope in a Shattered State” (Zed Books, 2012)
48 mins; May 29, 2012
Helen Tilley, “Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950” (University of Chicago, 2011)
66 hours 27 mins; May 01, 2012
Raymond Jonas, “The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire” (Harvard UP, 2011)
36 mins; May 01, 2012
Orla Ryan, “Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa” (Zed Books, 2011)
49 mins; April 27, 2012
Richard Bourne, “Catastrophe: What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe?” (Zed Books, 2011)
50 mins; April 02, 2012
Stacy Schiff, “Cleopatra: A Life” (Back Bay Books, 2011)
41 mins; December 07, 2011
Andrew Curran, “The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
54 mins; October 10, 2011
Richard Hamilton, “The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco” (I. B. Taurus, 2011)
43 mins; September 09, 2011
Steve Bloomfield, “Africa United: How Football Explains Africa” (Canongate Books, 2010)
52 mins; August 23, 2011
Stephen Ellis, “Season of Rains: Africa in the world” (Hurst, 2011 )
39 mins; July 26, 2011
Erin Haney, “Exposures: Photography and Africa” (Reaktion Books, 2010)
51 mins; July 13, 2011
Chuck Korr, “More Than Just a Game–Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Greatest Soccer Story Ever Told” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010)
67 hours 43 mins; May 26, 2011
James Brabazon, “My Friend the Mercenary: A Memoir” (Canongate, 2010)
64 hours 44 mins; May 23, 2011
Patrick Manning, “The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture” (Columbia UP, 2010)
63 hours 33 mins; April 09, 2010
Jack Greene and Philip Morgan, “Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal” (Oxford UP, 2008)
67 hours 34 mins; October 02, 2009
Richard Fogarty, “Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008)
62 hours 55 mins; November 02, 2008
Joyce Tyldesley, “Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt” (Basic Books, 2008)
65 hours 44 mins; September 05, 2008
James Zug, “The Guardian: The History of South Africa’s Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper” (Michigan State UP, 2007)
58 mins; June 26, 2008
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