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Volume 90 - May 2020

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Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 34066 1; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 34083 8). 2018, 256 pp.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
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11 March 2020, pp. 414-416
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Philani Mthembu, China and India's Development Cooperation in Africa: the rise of Southern powers. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £109.99 – 978 3 319 69501 3; pb £74.99 – 978 3 030 09891 9). 2018, 199 pp.
Behzad Abdollahpour
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04 August 2020, pp. 803-805
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Joanna Allan, Silenced Resistance: women, dictatorships, and genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 299 31840 6). 2019, 360 pp.1
Enrique Bengochea Tirado
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03 November 2020, pp. 981-982
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Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 530 1). 2012/2014, xi + 310 pp.
Julia Pauli
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21 May 2020, pp. 591-593
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879–1909. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb US$110 – 978 1 58046 918 0). 2018, 230 pp.
Michael Kevane
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03 November 2020, pp. 982-984
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Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 530 1). 2012/2014, xi + 310 pp.
Lwando Scott
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21 May 2020, pp. 593-594
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Andrew Apter, Oduduwa's Chain: locations of culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic. Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 50638 8; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 50641 8). 2017, x + 216 pp.
Matthew Lecznar
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11 March 2020, pp. 416-417
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Ernest E. Emenyonu (editor), A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £30 – 978 1 84701 162 6; pb £17.99 – 978 1 84701 241 8). 2017, xii + 300 pp.
Grace A. Musila
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04 August 2020, pp. 805-807
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Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker (ed.), The Political Thought of African Independence: an anthology of sources. Cambridge MA: Hackett Publishing Company (hb US$89 – 978 1 62466 541 7; pb US$34 – 978 1 62466 540 0). 2017, v + 280 pp.
Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan
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11 March 2020, pp. 417-419
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Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 530 1). 2012/2014, xi + 310 pp.
Henning Melber
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21 May 2020, pp. 594-596
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Elara Bertho, Sorcières, Tyrans, Héros: mémoires postcoloniales de résistants africains. Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion (pb €50 – 978 2 7453 5045 9). 2019, 520 pp.
Dorothée Boulanger
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04 August 2020, pp. 808-809
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Ernest N. Emenyonou (ed.), Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today 35. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 171 8). 2017, ix + 319 pp.
Raphael Cormack
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03 November 2020, pp. 984-985
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C. Patrick Burrowes, Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea: a history of the Liberian people before 1800. Bomi County: Know Your Self Press (hb US$50 – 978 0 9983905 1 2; pb US$25 – 978 0 9983905 0 5). 2016, xxxi + 413 pp.
Leigh Gardner
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11 March 2020, pp. 419-420
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Olakunle George, African Literature and Social Change: tribe, nation, race. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 253 02546 3; pb US$30 – 978 0 253 02580 7). 2017, ix + 211 pp.
Stephanie Bosch Santana
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04 August 2020, pp. 809-811
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Kristin D. Phillips, An Ethnography of Hunger: politics, subsistence, and the unpredictable grace of the sun. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$75 – 978 0 253 03836 4; pb US$28 – 978 0 253 03837 1). 2018, xvi + 256 pp.
Jonathan Franklin
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03 November 2020, pp. 986-987
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21 May 2020, pp. 596-597
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Nico Cloete, Ian Bunting and François van Schalkwyk (eds), Research Universities in Africa. Cape Town: African Minds (R300 – 978 1 928331 87 2). 2018, 314 pp.
Akiiki Babyesiza
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03 November 2020, pp. 987-989
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Jason Sumich, The Middle Class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47288 3). 2018, 277 pp.
Nkululeko Mabandla
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21 May 2020, pp. 598-599
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Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 34066 1; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 34083 8). 2018, 256 pp.

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AFR volume 90 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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Philani Mthembu, China and India's Development Cooperation in Africa: the rise of Southern powers. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £109.99 – 978 3 319 69501 3; pb £74.99 – 978 3 030 09891 9). 2018, 199 pp.

Joanna Allan, Silenced Resistance: women, dictatorships, and genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 299 31840 6). 2019, 360 pp.1

Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 530 1). 2012/2014, xi + 310 pp.

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AFR volume 90 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879–1909. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb US$110 – 978 1 58046 918 0). 2018, 230 pp.

Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 530 1). 2012/2014, xi + 310 pp.

Andrew Apter, Oduduwa's Chain: locations of culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic. Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 50638 8; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 50641 8). 2017, x + 216 pp.

Ernest E. Emenyonu (editor), A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £30 – 978 1 84701 162 6; pb £17.99 – 978 1 84701 241 8). 2017, xii + 300 pp.

Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker (ed.), The Political Thought of African Independence: an anthology of sources. Cambridge MA: Hackett Publishing Company (hb US$89 – 978 1 62466 541 7; pb US$34 – 978 1 62466 540 0). 2017, v + 280 pp.

Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 530 1). 2012/2014, xi + 310 pp.

Elara Bertho, Sorcières, Tyrans, Héros: mémoires postcoloniales de résistants africains. Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion (pb €50 – 978 2 7453 5045 9). 2019, 520 pp.

Ernest N. Emenyonou (ed.), Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today 35. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 171 8). 2017, ix + 319 pp.

C. Patrick Burrowes, Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea: a history of the Liberian people before 1800. Bomi County: Know Your Self Press (hb US$50 – 978 0 9983905 1 2; pb US$25 – 978 0 9983905 0 5). 2016, xxxi + 413 pp.

Olakunle George, African Literature and Social Change: tribe, nation, race. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 253 02546 3; pb US$30 – 978 0 253 02580 7). 2017, ix + 211 pp.

Kristin D. Phillips, An Ethnography of Hunger: politics, subsistence, and the unpredictable grace of the sun. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$75 – 978 0 253 03836 4; pb US$28 – 978 0 253 03837 1). 2018, xvi + 256 pp.

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Jason Sumich, The Middle Class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47288 3). 2018, 277 pp.

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