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Adebanwi, Wale, and Ebenezer Obadare, eds. Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 320 pp. $100.00. Cloth.

Adebajo, Adekeye, and Kaye Whiteman, eds. The EU and Africa: From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 320 pp. $55.00 Cloth.

Adebayo, Akanmu G., and Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina, eds. Managing Conflicts in Africa’s Democratic Transitions. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. 370 pp. $100.00 Cloth.

Ademola, Araoye. Cote D’Ivoire: The Conundrum of a Still Wretched of the Earth. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2012. 526 pp. $39.95. Paper.

Adesanya, Aderonke A., and Toyin Falola, eds. Art, Parody and Politics: Dele Jegede’s Creative Activism, Nigeria, and the Transnational Space. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2014. 432 pp. $69.95. Paper.

Anyanwu, Ogechi E. The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948–2000. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary, 2011. 300 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Attwell, David, and Derek Attridge, eds. The Cambridge History of South African Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 896 pp. $189.99. Cloth.

Ayoade, John A., and Adeoye A. Akinsanya. Nigeria’s Critical Election, 2011. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2013. 348 pp. $100.00. Cloth.

Ayoade, John A. A., Adeoye A. Akinsanya, and Olatunde J. B. Ojo, eds. The Jonathan Presidency: The First Year. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2014. 402 pp. $50.00. Paper.

Baas, Saskia. From Civilians to Soldiers and from Soldiers to Civilians: Mobilization and Demobilization in Sudan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. 240 pp. $62.09. Paper.

Baldridge, Cates. Prisoners of Prester John: The Portuguese Mission to Ethiopia. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2012. 305 pp. $45.00. Paper.

Beah, Ishmael. Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel. Roseburg, Ore.: Sarah Crichton Books, 2014. 272 pp. $19.79. Cloth.

Beck, Teresa Koloma. The Normality of Civil War: Armed Groups and Everyday Life in Angola. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2012; distributed by University of Chicago Press. 162 pp. $49.00. £34.50. Paper.

Beidelman, T. O. The Culture of Colonialism: The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. 400 pp. $27.04. Paper.

Betts, Alexander. Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2013. 256 pp. $26.95. Paper.

Bewaji, John Ayotunde Isola. Narratives of Struggle: The Philosophy and Politics of Development. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. 468 pp. $14.90. Paper.

Bouwer, Karen. Gender and Decolonization in the Congo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 262 pp. $29.00. Paper.

Buggenhagen, Beth. Muslim Families in Global Senegal: Money Takes Care of Shame. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $24.95. Paper.

Bundy, Colin. Ohio Short Histories of Africa: Govan Mbeki. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 168 pp. $14.95. Paper.

Butler, Anthony. Ohio Short Histories of Africa: The Idea of the ANC. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 148 pp. $14.95. Paper.

Campbell, John. Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 240 pp. $88.00. Cloth.

Campioni, Maddalena, and Patrick Noack, eds. Rwanda Fast Forward: Social, Military, Economic, and Reconciliation Prospects. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 296 pp. $105.00. Cloth.

Cann, John P. Counterinsurgency in Africa: The Portuguese Way of War 1961–1974. St. Petersburg, Fl.: Hailer Publishing, 2005. 240 pp. $132.00. Cloth.

Carrier, Neil, and Gernot Klantschnig. Africa and the War on Drugs. London: Zed Books, 2012. 176 pp. $26.95. Paper.

Carter, Donald M. Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2010. 328 pp. $27.00. Paper.

Charry, Eric, ed. Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2012. 404 pp. $35.00. Paper.

Cockcroft, Laurence. Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics in the Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 288 pp. $24.95. Paper.

Cole, Herbert M., and Dierk Dierking, eds. Invention and Tradition: The Art of Southeastern Nigeria. Munich: Prestel Publishing Ltd., 2012. 239 pp. $44.95. Cloth.

Collier, Gordon, ed. Focus on Nigeria: Literature and Culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 520 pp. €105.00. Cloth.

Collins, Robert O., and James M. Burns. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. 2nd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 412 pp. $32.99. Cloth.

Coly, Ayo A. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literature. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. 176 pp. $80.00. Cloth.

Conway, Daniel. Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2012. 176 pp. $100.00. Cloth.

Corbin, Joanne. Children and Families Affected by Armed Conflicts in Africa: Implications and Strategies for Helping Professionals in the United States. Cary, N.C.: NASW Press, 2012. 240 pp. $35.99. Paper.

Cornelissen, Scarlett, Fantu Cheru, and Timothy Shaw, eds. Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 288 pp. $32.00. Paper.

Creary, Nicholas, ed. African Intellectuals and Decolonization. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 160 pp. $26.95. Paper.

Creary, Nicholas M. Domesticating a Religious Import: The Jesuits and the Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879–1980. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. 280 pp. $50.00. Cloth.

Curtis, Devon, Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa, and Adekeye Adebajo, eds. Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 360 pp. $32.95. Paper.

Dilger, Hansjorg, Aboulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick, eds. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. 358 pp. $80.00. Cloth. $27.95. Paper.

Dueppen, Stephen A. Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna: The Origins of a West African Political System. London: Routledge, 2014. 368 pp. $120.00. Cloth.

Elphick, Richard. The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 448 pp. $40.00. Cloth.

Englund, Harri. Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 308 pp. $70.00. Cloth.

Ephirim-Donkor, Anthony. African Religion Defined. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2012. 220 pp. $32.99. Paper.

Etefa, Tsega. Integration and Peace in East Africa: A History of the Oromo Nation. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 286 pp. $105.00. Cloth.

Falen, Douglas J. Power and Paradox: Authority, Insecurity, and Creativity in Fon Gender Relations. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2011. 236 pp. $24.95. Paper.

Falola, Toyin, ed. Esu: Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. 416 pp. $60.00. Paper.

Falola, Toyin, and Bessie House-Soremekun, eds. Gender, Sexuality, and Mothering in Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2011. 360 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Falola, Toyin, Roy Doron, and Okpeh O. Okpeh., eds. Warfare, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Nigeria. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2013. 366 pp. $39.95. Paper.

Faraji, Salim. The Roots of Nubian Christianity Uncovered. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2011. 360 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Fikes, Kesha. Managing African Portugal: The Citizen–Migrant Distinction. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. 224 pp. $79.95. Cloth.

Fisher, Kirsten J. Transitional Justice for Child Soldiers: Accountability and Social Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Contexts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 239 pp. $90.00. Cloth.

Foster, Noel. Mauritania: The Struggle for Democracy. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2010. 315 pp. $70.60. Cloth.

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, and Erin Shay. The Afroasiatic Languages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 708 pp. $166.00. Cloth.

Garretson, Peter P. A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2012. 336 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Gerdes, Felix. Civil War and State Formation: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Liberia. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2013. Distributed by University of Chicago Press. 390 pp. $49.00. Paper.

Giliomee, Hermann. The Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of Power. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 447 pp. $39.50. Paper.

Goody, Jack. Myth, Ritual and the Oral. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 180 pp. $75.00. Cloth. $24.99. Paper.

Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha. Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 207 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Gordon, David M. Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2012. 304 pp. $32.95. Paper.

Graham, Lucy Valerie. State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 272 pp. $73.00. Cloth.

Graw, Knut, and Samuli Schielke, eds. The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East. Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2013. 200 pp. $49.00. Paper.

Green, Toby, ed. Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Precolonial Western Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 320 pp. $125.00. Cloth.

Gulbrandsen, Ornulf. The State and the Social: Botswana. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 364 pp. $120.00. Cloth.

Gunner, Liz, Dina Ligaga, and Dumisani Moyo. Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012. 336 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Hailu, Solomon. Promoting Collective Security in Africa. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2011. 276 pp. $36.99. Paper.

Hamilton, Grant, ed. Reading Marechera. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2013. 208 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Hansen, Jarle Stig. Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005–2012. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 208 pp. $37.50. Cloth.

Hansen, Thomas B. Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. 384 pp. $32.95. Paper.

Hashim, Iman, and Dorte Thorsen. Child Migration in Africa. London: Zed Books, 2011. 162 pp. $43.95. Paper.

Hazan, Pierre. Judging War, Judging History: Behind Truth and Reconciliation. Redwood City, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010. 240 pp. $22.95. Paper.

Hazan, Pierre. Localizing Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence. Redwood City, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010. 368 pp. $75.00. Cloth.

Hellweg, Joseph. Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Côte D’Ivoire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 312 pp. $31.00. Paper.

Higgins, Maryellen, ed. Hollywood’s Africa after 1994. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $28.95. Paper.

Higgs, Catherine. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. 236 pp. $22.95. Paper.

Hill, J. N. C. Nigeria since Independence: Forever Fragile? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 192 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Hornsby, Charles. Kenya: A History since Independence. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. 976 pp. $30.00. Paper.

Imbua, David. Intercourse and Crosscurrents in the Atlantic World. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2011. 230 pp. $30.00. Paper.

Jackson, Tony P. Black Male Violence in Perspective: Toward Afrocentric Intervention. Baltimore: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 188 pp. $80.00. Cloth.

Jemmott, Jenny M. Ties That Bind: The Black Family in Post-Slavery Jamaica, 1834–1882. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Longleaf Services, 2015. 274 pp. $30.00. Paper.

Jonas, Raymond. The Battle of Adwa. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2011. 432 pp. $29.95. Paper.

Joseph, Celucien L. Race, Religion, and the Haitian Revolution: Essays on Faith, Freedom, and Decolonization. Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. 184 pp. $18.50. Paper.

Kane, Abdoulaye, and Todd H. Leedy. African Migrations: Patterns and Perspectives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2013. 316 pp. $32.00. Paper.

Kane, Ousmane O. The Homeland Is the Arena: Religion and Senegalese Immigrants in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 336 pp. $38.95. Paper.

Keller, Edmond J., and Ruth Iyob, eds. Religious Ideas and Institutions: Transitions to Democracy in Africa. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2012. 192 pp. $30.00. Paper.

Kelley, Robin D. G. Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 272 pp. $24.95. Cloth.

Kelsall, Tim. Culture under Cross-Examination: International Justice and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 314 pp. $35.99. Paper.

Khatab, Sayed. Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2011. 320 pp. $29.95. Paper.

Kinoti, Hannah W. African Ethics: Gĩkũyũ Traditional Morality. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 288 pp. $77.00. Paper.

Kravtsov, Vlad. Norm Diffusion and HIV/AIDS Governance in Putin’s Russia and Mbeki’s South Africa. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. 272 pp. $59.95. Cloth.

Kuenzi, Michelle T. Education and Democracy in Senegal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 204 pp. $105.00. Cloth.

Kufuor, Kofi O. The African Human Rights System. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 192 pp. $105.00. Cloth.

K’wan. Black Lotus. New York: Akashic Books, 2014. 128 pp. $11.95. Cloth.

Lamothe, Ronald. Slaves of Fortunes: Sudanese Soldiers. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2011. 245 pp. $80.00. Cloth.

Lawrance, Benjamin N., and Richard L. Roberts, eds. Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $32.95. Paper.

Levine, Roger S. A Living Man from Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 328 pp. $30.00. Paper.

Levey, Zach. Israel in Africa 1956–1976. Dordrecth, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012. 244 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Levinger, Matthew. Conflict Analysis: Understanding Causes, Unlocking Solutions. Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 2013. 280 pp. $24.95. Paper.

Lindley, Anna. The Early Morning Phonecall: Somali Refugees’ Remittances. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. 192 pp. $70.00. Cloth.

Lynch, Hollis R. K. O. Mbadiwe: A Nigerian Political Biography, 1915–1990. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 302 pp. $105.00. Cloth.

Magazinger, Daniel R. The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. 280 pp. $28.95. Paper.

Mahoney, Michael R. The Other Zulus: The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. 312 pp. $24.95. Paper.

Mamabolo, Matoane M. Moral and Spiritual Challenges Facing 21st Century Africa. Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2012. 194 pp. $19.95. Paper.

Marback, Richard C. Managing Vulnerability: South Africa’s Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. 168 pp. $39.95. Cloth.

Martin, Pablo San. Western Sahara: The Refugee Nation. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011. 224 pp. $5.00. Paper.

Masolo, D. A. Self and Community in a Changing World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 360 pp. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Matthies, Volker. The Siege of Magdala: The British Empire against the Emperor of Ethiopia. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2011. 250 pp. $88.95. Cloth.

Mbah, M. Emmanuel, and Salm J. Steven, eds. Globalization and the African Experience. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. 318 pp. $40.00 Paper.

McCracken, John. A History of Malawi. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2012. 503 pp. $34.95. Paper.

McCulloch, Jock. South Africa’s Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2012. 202 pp. $34.95. Paper.

McGovern, Mike. Making War in Cote d’Ivoire. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2011. 240 pp. $31.00. Paper.

McVety, Amanda K. Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 312 pp. $78.00. Cloth.

Mengel, Ewald, and Michela Borzaga, eds. Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 436 pp. €94.00. Cloth.

Mengistead, Kidane, and Redie Bereketeab, eds. Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2012. 280 pp. $50.00. Cloth.

Miescher, Giorgio. Namibia’s Red Line: The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 340 pp. $100.00. Cloth.

Miller, Norman N. Encounters with Witchcraft: Field Notes from Africa. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. 134 pp. $26.95. Paper.

Mohlele, Nthikeng. Rusty Bell. Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2015. 168 pp. $22.00. Paper.

Monroe, Cameron J., and Akinwumis Ogundiran, eds. Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 400 pp. £74.99. Cloth.

Msindo, Enocent. Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Transformations in Kalanga and Ndebele Societies. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2012. 320 pp. $99.00. Cloth.

Munemo, Ngonidzashe. Domestic Politics and Drought Relief in Africa. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2012. 217 pp. $25.00. Cloth.

Murphy, Laura. Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Ngculu, James. The Honour to Serve: Recollections of an Umkhonto. South Africa: New Africa Books, 2011. 272 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Nolte, Insa. Obafemi Aolowo and the Making of Remo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2010. 336 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Norridge, Zoe. Perceiving Pain in African Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 248 pp. $95. Cloth.

Nouwen, Sarah M. H. Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 525 pp. $110.00. Cloth.

Oden, Thomas C. Early Libyan Christianity: Uncovering a North African Tradition. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2011. 334 pp. $22.00. Paper.

Ojaide, Tanure. Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. 208 pp. $28.00. Paper.

Ojo, Olatunji, and Nadine Hunt, eds. Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean: A History of Enslavement and Identity since the Eighteenth Century. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012. 320 pp. $99.00. Cloth.

Okia, Opolot. Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 194 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Okome, Olufunke M. Contesting the Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 272 pp. $90.00. Cloth.

Okome, Olufunke M., ed. State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 276 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Okome, Mojubaolu Olufunke, and Olufemi Vaughan, eds. Transnational Africa and Globalization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 274 pp. $105.00. Cloth.

Okome, Mojubaolu Olufunke and Olufemi Vaughan, eds. West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 294 pp. $105.00. Cloth.

Ola, Yomi. Satires of Power in Yoruba Visual Culture. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. 272 pp. $45.60. Paper.

Oriji, John N. Political Organization in Nigeria since the Late Stone Age: A History of the Igbo People. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 258 pp. $85.00. Cloth. $32.00. Paper.

Paden, John N. Postelection Conflict Management in Nigeria. Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University, 2013. 184 pp. $19.95. Cloth.

Parnell, Anjahli, ed. The Biography of Empress Menen Afsaw: The Mother of the Ethiopian Nation. Kealakekua, Hi.: Roots Publishing, 2011. Original Book by Yared Gebre Michael, 1954. Translated from Ge’ez by Abby Chanie. 240 pp. $19.99. Paper.

Peterson, Brian J. Islamization from Below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880–1960. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 336 pp. $40.85. Paper.

Phillipson, David W. Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC –1300 AD. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2012. 304 pp. $90.00. Cloth.

Pienaar, U. de V., ed. A Cameo from the Past: The Prehistory and Early History of the Kruger National Park. Translated by Helena Bryden. Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2012. 757 pp. R750.00 Cloth.

Pype, Kathrien. The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 350 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Reid, Richard J. Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 296 pp. $110.00. Cloth.

Sadomba, Zvakanyorwa W. War Veterans in Zimbabwe’s Revolution. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2011. 259 pp. $90.00. Cloth.

Salau, Mohammed B. The West African Slave Plantation: A Case Study. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 208 pp. $100.00. Cloth.

Sarsar, Saliba, and Adekunle O. Julius. Democracy in Africa: Political Changes and Challenges. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. 346 pp. $42.00. Paper.

Schulz, Dorothea E. Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 328 pp. $27.95. Paper.

Schlee, Gunther, et al. Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. Suffolk, U..K: James Currey, 2012. 196 pp. $90.00. Cloth.

Silva, Sónia. Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 188 pp. $39.95. Cloth.

Sodikoff, Genese Marie. Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xix + 245 pp. $25.00. Paper.

Spronk, Rachel. Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. 322 pp. $27.40. Paper.

Sriram, Chandra L., and Surren Pillay, eds. Peace Versus Justice? The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice in Africa. Germany: BOYE6, 2010. 387 pp. $32.95. Paper.

Standard, Matthew G. Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. $65.00. Cloth.

Stapleton, Timothy. African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2011. 330 pp. $90.00. Cloth.

Straus, Scott, ed. Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 320 pp. $24.57. Paper.

Stroeken, Koen. Moral Power: The Magic of Witchcraft. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 284 pp. $29.95. Paper.

Taylor, Scott D. Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa: From Patrimonialism to Profit. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xvi + 247 pp. $27.00. Paper.

Tillery, B. Alvin, Jr. Between Homeland and Motherland: Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011. 216 pp. $24.85. Paper.

Tissières, Hélène Colette. Transmigrational Writings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa: Literature, Orality, Visual Arts. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 256 pp. $59.50. Cloth. $29.50. Paper.

Torrent, Melanie. Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa: Franco-British Relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012. $100.00. Cloth.

Tijani, Hakeem I. Union Education in Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 304 pp. $100.00. Cloth.

Tshimanga, Charles, Ch. Didier Gondola, and Peter J. Bloom, eds. Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 352 pp. $32.00. Paper.

Tshonda, Jean Omasombo. Ba-uele: Pouvoirs locaux et economie agricole: heritages d’un passe brouille. Musee royal de l’Afrique centrale, 2015. 471 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Tshonda, Jean Omasombo. Tanganyika: Espace feconde par le lac et le rail. Musee royal de l’Afrique centrale, 2015. 438 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Tufte, Thomas, et al. Speaking Up and Talking Back? Media, Empowerment and Civic Engagement among East and Southern African Youth. Goteborg, Sweden: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media. Yearbook 2012/2013. 302 pp. $25.00. Paper.

Udogu, Emmanuel Ike. Liberating Namibia: The Long Diplomatic Struggle between the United Nations and South Africa. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2011. 264 pp. $55.00. Paper.

Ugarte, Michael. Africans in Europe: The Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 224 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Ulysse, Katia D. Drifting. New York: Akashic Books, 2014. 224 pp. $15.95. Paper.

Usman, Aribidesi. The Yoruba Frontier: A Regional History of Community Formation, Experience and Changes in West Africa. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. 268 pp. $35.00. Paper.

van Beek, Walter E. A. The Dancing Dead: Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 368 pp. $52.00. Paper.

Vanthemsche, Guy. Belgium and the Congo, 1885‒1980. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 300 pp. $109.99. Cloth.

Veloso, Jacinto. Memories at Low Altitude: Autobiography of a Mozambican Security Chief. South Africa: Random House Struik, 2012. 288 pp. $25.00. Paper.

Veney, Cassandra R. and Dick Simpson, eds. African Democracy and Development: Challenges for Post-Conflict African Nations. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. 314 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

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