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BOOKS RECEIVED

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Achebe, Nwando. The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugabe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. $29.00. Paper. $80.00. Cloth.

Arthur, John A., Joseph Takougang, and Thomas Owusu, eds. Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. No price reported.

Ball, Erica L. To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. $69.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper. $22.95. E-Book.

Berthier-Foglar, Susanne, Sheila Collingwood-Whittick, and Sandrine Tolazzi, eds. Biomapping Indigenous Peoples: Towards an Understanding of the Issues. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. €100,000. Cloth.

Burrill, Emily S., Richard L. Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry, eds. Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. $59.95. Cloth. $28.95. Paper.

Bush, Ray, and Habib Ayeb, eds. Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $34.95. Paper.

Campoy-Cubillo, Adolfo. Memories of the Maghreb: Transnational Identities in Spanish Cultural Production. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. No price reported.

Ebersohn, Wessel. Those Who Love Night. New York: Minotaur Books, 2012. $15.95. Paper.

Ellis, Stephen. Season of Rains: Africa in the World. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. $25.00. Cloth.

Emenyonu, Ernest N., ed. Teaching African Literature Today. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2011. $29.95. Paper.

Falola, Toyin, and S. U. Fwatshak, eds. Beyond Tradition: African Women and Cultural Spaces. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2011. $39.95. Paper.

Fu, Bennett Yu-Hsiang. Transgressive Transcripts: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Women’s Writing. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. €40,00. Paper.

Gatore, Gilbert. The Past Ahead: A Novel. Translated by Marjolijn De Jager. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. $19.00. Paper.

Gruesser, John Cullen. The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. $22.95. Paper. $59.95. Cloth. $22.95. E-Book.

Haney, Erin. Photography and Africa. London: Reaktion Book Ltd., 2010. Distributed in the U.S. by University of Chicago Press. $29.95. Paper.

Ittmann, Karl, Dennis D. Cordell, and Gregory H. Maddox, eds. The Demographics of Empire: The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. $64.95. Cloth. $28.95. Paper.

Jankowsky, Richard C. Stambeli: Music, Trance and Alterity in Tunisia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. $27.00. Paper w/CD.

Jones, Eldred Durosimi. The Freetown Bond: A Life Under Two Flags. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2012. $50.00. Cloth.

LeFanu, Sarah. S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream. London: Hurst & Co, 2012. £16.99. Paper.

Newbury, Darren. Defiant Images Photography and Apartheid South Africa. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2009. No price reported.

Ntarangwi, Mwenda. Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology. Champagne: University of Illinois Press, 2010. $65.00. Cloth. $20.00 Paper.

Renne, Elisha P. The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. $70.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Saul, Mahir. and Ralph A. Austen, eds. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. $55.00. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Scheele, Judith. Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia, Algeria. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2009. $90.00. Cloth.

Sears, Christine E. American Slaves and African Masters: Algiers and the Western Sahara 1776–1820. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. No price reported.

Selasi, Taiye. Ghana Must Go. New York: Penguin, 2013. $25.95. Paper.

Sims, David. Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2011. $29.50. Cloth.

Sims, Lowery Stokes, and Leslie King-Hammond, eds. Global Africa Project. New York: Museum of Arts and Design and Prestel Publishing, 2010. $45.00. Cloth.

Sluyter, Andrew. Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. No price reported.

Spaarwater, Maritz. A Spook’s Progress: From Making War to Making Peace. Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2012. $27.00. Paper.

St. Aubyn Gosse, Dave. Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica 1807–1838. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2012. No price reported.

Sterling, Cheryl. African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity in Brazil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. No price reported.

Tilley, Elspeth. White Vanishing: Rethinking Australia’s Lost-in-the-Bush Myth. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. €83,00. Cloth.

Tonchi, Victor L., William A. Lindeke, and John J. Grotpeter. Historical Dictionary of Namibia. Plymouth, U.K.: Scarecrow Press, 2012. No price reported.

Valdés, Vanessa K., ed. The Future is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. No price reported.

Van Dyke, Kristina, and Bisi Silva, eds. The Progress of Love. Houston, Tx.: Menil Foundation Inc., 2012. Distributed by Yale University Press. $55.00. Paper.

Waberi, Abdourahman A. Transit: A Novel. Translated by David Ball and Nicole Ball. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. $17.00. Paper.