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African Studies Review , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , September 2016 , pp. 323 - 324
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Ambwa, Jean-Claude, et al. Mongala: Jonction des Territoires et Bastion d’une identite supra-ethnique. Tervuren: Musee Royal de L’Afrique Centrale, 2015. 372 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Beliso-De Jesus, Aisha M. Electric Santeria: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion . New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 322 pp. $30.00. Paper.

Briggs, Gabriel A. The New Negro in the Old South . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 239 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Buchenua, Barbara, Virginia Richter, and Marijke Denger, eds. Post-Empire Imaginaires? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires . Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2015. 501 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Cooper, Brenda. Floating in the Antibubble: From South Africa to Salford, a Mosaic of Picture and Stories. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. 2016. 205 pp. $34.95. Paper.

des Forges, Alison Liebhafsky. Defeat Is the Only Bad News: Rwanda under Musinga, 1896–1931. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 344 pp. $26.95. Paper.

Ellis, Nadia. Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. 255 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Fraleigh, Sondra, ed. Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 288 pp. $25.00. Paper.

Franklin, V. P., ed. The Journal Of African American History: Symposium: “The Legacy of Malcom X: Black Nationalism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism.” Washington, D.C.: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2015. 168 pp. $65 Paper.

Frohne, Andrea E. The African Burial Ground in New York City . Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2015. 451 pp. $49.95. Paper.

Gateward, Francis, and John Jennings, eds. The Blacker the Ink: Construction of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 350 pp. $29.95. Paper.

Green, Keith Michael. Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2015. 243 pp. $49.95. Cloth.

Harrison, Olivia, C. and Teresa Villa-Ignacio, eds. Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics . Stanford. Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. 302 pp. $21.95. Paper.

Hutton, Clinton A., et al., eds. Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari. Kingston, Jamaica: The University of the the West Indies Press, 2015. 288 pp. $35.00. Cloth.

Isaac, Teseggai. The Third World in Global Perspective: A Journey from Hope to Despair. Trenton N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016. 347 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Joseph, James A. Saved for a Purpose: A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. 311 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Keller, J. Edmond and Ruth Lyob, eds. Religious Ideas and Institutions: Transitions to Democracy in Africa . Pretoria, South Africa: UNISA Press, 2012. 192 pp. $34.00. Paper.

Koopman, Adrian. Zulu Plant Names . Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2015. 342 pp. $37.00. Paper.

Larrier, Renee, and Ousseina D. Alidou, eds. Writing through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. 397 pp. $110.00. Cloth.

Lauro, Sarah Juliet. The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 288 pp. $28.95. Paper.

Lewis, Patsy, Gary Williams, and Peter Clegg, eds. Grenada: Revolution and Invasion. Kingston, Jamaica: The University of the West Indies Press, 2015. 278 pp. $38.00. Paper.

Lorcin, Patricia M. E., and Todd Shephard, eds. French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 426 pp. $65.00. Cloth.

Alonso, Maria Alonso. Diasporic Marvellous Realism: History, Identity, and Memory in Caribbean Fiction. Danvers, Mass: Brill Rodopi, 2015. 257 pp. $71.00. Cloth.

Matthies, Volker. The Siege of Magdala: The British Empire against the Emperor of Ethiopia. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2012. 233 pp. $88.95. Cloth. $28.95. Paper.

McDaniel, Justin Thomas, and Lynn Ransom, eds. From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls: New Approaches to the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 301 pp. $49.95. Cloth.

Millward, Jessica. Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2015. 144 pp. $49.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Munro, Martin, ed. The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories. Kingston, Jamaica: The University of West Indies Press, 2015. 222 pp. No price reported.

Myhre, Knut Christian, ed. Cutting and Connecting: “Afrinesian” Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. 168 pp. $27.95. Paper.

Okara, Gabriel. Collected Poems. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 167 pp. $19.95. Paper.

Preziozi, Donald, and Claire Farago. Art Is Not What You Think It Is. Malden, Mass.: Wiley & Sons, 2012. 189 pp. $ 20.80. Paper.

Seigel, Jerrold. Between Cultures: Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 283 pp. $49.95. Cloth.

Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 784 pp. $37.50. Cloth.

Sparks, Randy J. Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives Across the Atlantic World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 224 pp. $26.95. Cloth.

Waidzunas, Tom. The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 329 pp. $27.00. Paper.

Welles, Hannes. A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2015. 272 pp. $32.95. Cloth.

Ze Winters, Lisa. The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. 240 pp. $59.95. Cloth.