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NYERERE AND FREEDOM - Building a Peaceful Nation: Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960–1964. By Paul Bjerk . Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. xvii + 374. $120.00, hardback (ISBN 9781580465052).

PROTESTANTS IN MOZAMBIQUE - Toward an African Church in Mozambique: Kamba Simango and the Protestant Community in Manica and Sofala, 1892–1945. By Leon P. Spencer . Mzuzu, Malawi: Mzuni Press, 2013. Pp. 173. £18.95, paperback (ISBN 978-99960-27-06-2).

EMERGENCY IN NYASALAND - Malawi in Crisis: The 1959/60 Nyasaland State of Emergency and its Legacy. Edited by Kings M. Phiri , John McCracken , and Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu . Zomba, Malawi: Kachere Series, 2012. Pp. xii + 413. $40.00, paperback (ISBN 978-99908-87-77-8)

ORAL HISTORIES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA - Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa: Oral Traditions and Histories, 1400–1830. By Elizabeth A. Eldredge . Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 438. $99.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-58406-514-4).

POLITICS OF FIRE - Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula. By Simon Pooley . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xi + 315. $90.00, hardback (ISBN 9781137415431).

RICE ACROSS CONTINENTS - Rice: Global Networks and New Histories. Edited by Francesca Bray , Peter A. Coclanis , Edda L. Fields-Black , and Dagmar Schäfer . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv + 421. No price given, hardback (ISBN 978-1-107-04439-5).

ANGOLA'S PAST - A Short History of Modern Angola. By David Birmingham . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 159. $29.95, hardback (ISBN 9780190271305).

THE ASSASSINATION OF LUMUMBA - Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba. By Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 276. £20.00/$29.95, hardcover (ISBN 9780674725270).

DECOLONIZING CAMEROON - Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon. By Meredith Terretta . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 367. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 9780-08214-2069-0).

SALAFISM AND AFRICAN CONTRIBUTIONS - West African ‘ulamā’ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina: Jawāb al-Ifrīqī – The Response of the African. By Chanfi Ahmed . Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2015. Pp. xi + 213. €104.00/$135.00, hardback (ISBN 978-90-04-27031-2).

QUALITY OF LIFE BEFORE COLONIALISM - Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The Case of the Gold Coast. By Klas Rönnbäck . London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xvii + 209. $160.00, hardback (ISBN 9781848935785).

ASANTE ECONOMICS - The Political Economy of the Interior Gold Coast: The Asante and the Era of Legitimate Trading, 1807–1875. By Jarvis L. Hargrove . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. Pp. xxii + 215. £60.00/$90.00, hardback (ISBN 978-0-7391-8785-2).

THE ASANTE KINGDOM - Asante, Kingdom of Gold: Essays in the History of an African Culture. By Tom McCaskie . Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2015. Pp. xxvi + 1031. $150.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-61163-592-8).

MUSIC IN MALI - Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music. By Ryan Thomas Skinner . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp. 233. $87.50, hardback (ISBN 9780816693498); $25.00, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8166-9350-4).

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