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Philip Roessler, Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa: the logic of the coup–civil war trap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £22.99 – 978 1 316 62821 8). 2017, 414 pp.
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- 16 July 2019, pp. 614-615
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Steven Pierce, Moral Economies of Corruption: state formation and political culture in Nigeria. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 0 8223 6077 3; pb US$27.95 – 978 0 8223 6091 9). 2016, 304 pp.
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- 05 November 2019, pp. 769-770
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Amid Boko Haram's persistence, an increasingly specialized literature emerges - Hilary Matfess, Women and the War on Boko Haram: wives, weapons, witnesses. London: Zed Books (pb £14.99 – 978 1 78699 145 4). 2017, 270 pp. - Scott MacEachern, Searching for Boko Haram: a history of violence in Central Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £21.99 – 978 0 19 049252 6). 2018, 248 pp. - Abdulbasit Kassim and Michael Nwankpa (eds), The Boko Haram Reader: from Nigerian preachers to the Islamic State. London: Hurst (pb £25 – 978 1 84904 884 2). 2018, 384 pp.
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- 14 May 2019, pp. 406-409
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João Afonso Baptista, The Good Holiday: development, tourism and the politics of benevolence in Mozambique. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$120/£85 – 978 1 78533 546 4). 2017, 292 pp.
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- 27 March 2019, pp. 193-194
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Alexander Thurston, Boko Haram: the history of an African jihadist movement. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press (hb US$29.95 – 978 0 691 17224 8). 2017, 352 pp.
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- 14 May 2019, pp. 409-411
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Alden Young, Transforming Sudan: decolonization, economic development, and state formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £78.99 – 978 1 107 17249 4). 2018, 180 pp.
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- 05 November 2019, pp. 770-771
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Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer, The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: fighting their way home. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$85 – 978 0 253 02130 4; pb US$35 – 978 0 253 02139 7). 2016, xvi + 289 pp.
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- 16 July 2019, pp. 616-617
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Christopher D. Gore, Electricity in Africa: the politics of transformation in Uganda. Woodbridge and Rochester NY: James Currey (hb £60 – 978 1 84701 169 5; pb £19.99 – 978 1 84701 168 8). 2017, 200 pp.
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- 27 March 2019, pp. 194-195
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Jason Bruner, Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb US$99 – 978 1 58046 584 7). 2017, 191 pp.
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- 14 May 2019, pp. 411-412
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Christopher Clapham, The Horn of Africa: state formation and decay. London: C. Hurst and Company (pb £17.99 – 978 1 8490 4828 6). 2017, x + 224 pp.
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- 16 July 2019, pp. 617-618
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Mirjam van Reisen and Munyaradzi Mawere, Human Trafficking and Trauma in the Digital Era: the ongoing tragedy of the trade in refugees from Eritrea. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG (pb £36 – 978 9956 764 87 7). 2017, 498 pp.
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- 27 March 2019, pp. 196-197
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Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, The Truth about Crime: sovereignty, knowledge, social order. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$85 – 978 0 226 42488 0; pb US$27.50 – 978 0 226 42491 0). 2016, xix + 347 pp.
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- 05 November 2019, pp. 771-773
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John H. Hanson, The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim cosmopolitans in the British Empire. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$85 – 978 0 253 02619 4; pb US$35 – 978 0 253 02933 1). 2017, 288 pp.
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- 14 May 2019, pp. 412-414
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Seán Morrow, The Fires Beneath: the life of Monica Wilson, South African anthropologist. Cape Town: Penguin Books (hb £17.50 – 978 1 77609 039 6). 2016, xv + 443 pp.
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- 27 March 2019, pp. 197-199
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Jesse Salah Ovadia, The Petro-developmental State in Africa: making oil work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea. London: C. Hurst and Company (hb £45 – 978 1 84904 476 9). 2016, 246 pp.
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- 05 November 2019, pp. 773-774
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Andrew W. M. Smith and Chris Jeppesen (eds), Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: future imperfect? London: UCL Press (pb £15 – 978 1 91130 775 4; open access PDF – 978 1 91130 773 0). 2017, 242 pp.
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- 16 July 2019, pp. 619-620
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Thomas Molony, Nyerere: the early years. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £25 – 978 1 8470 1090 2; pb £19.99 – 978 1 8470 1150 3). 2014, xvii + 284 pp.
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- 16 July 2019, pp. 620-621
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Franck Beuvier, Danser les Funérailles: associations et lieux de pouvoir au Cameroun. Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (pb €29 – 978 2 7132 2457 7). 2015, 303 pp.
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- 27 March 2019, pp. 199-200
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Jon Schubert, Working the System: a political ethnography of the new Angola. New York NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$95 – 978 1 50171 369 9; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 50171 370 5). 2017, xx + 247 pp.
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- 05 November 2019, pp. 775-776
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Catherine Besteman, Making Refuge: Somali Bantu refugees and Lewiston, Maine. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$99.95 – 978 0 8223 6027 8; pb US$26.95 – 978 0 8223 6044 5). 2016, xiii + 336 pp.
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- 14 May 2019, pp. 414-416
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