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GUNS, POLITICS, AND CULTURE IN CENTRAL AFRICA - The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics. By Giacomo Macola. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 249. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780821422120); $32.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821422113).

THE KONGO STATE - Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order. By Jelmer Vos. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 218. $65.00, hardcover (ISBN 9780299306205).

IMAGINING THE CONGO - The Dark Continent? Images of Africa in European Narratives About the Congo. By Frits Andersen. Aarhus University Press, 2016. Pp. 690. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9788771248531).

AMBITIONS AND DISENCHANTMENTS IN THE CONGO - Congo: Ambitions et désenchantements 1880–1960. By Jean-Luc Vellut. Paris: Karthala, 2017. Pp. 520. €30.00, paperback (ISBN 9782811117993).

ANXIETY AND POWER IN COLONIAL CONGO - A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo. By Nancy Rose Hunt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 352. $99.95, hardback (ISBN 978082235946); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 9780822359634).

ARTS AND POLITICS IN THE CONGO - Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture. By Sarah Van Beurden. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. Pp. xix + 372. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780821421901); $34.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821421918)

RELIGION, POLITICS, AND PERFORMANCE IN THE CONGO - Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo. By Yolanda Covington-Ward. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 287. $94.95, hardback (ISBN 9780822360209); $25.95, paperback (ISBN 9780822360360).

BUFFALO BILL IN CENTRAL AFRICA - Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence and Masculinity in Kinshasa. By Ch. Didier Gondola. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 254. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780253020666); $30.00, paperback (ISBN 9780253020772).

THE SLAVE SHIP HARE - The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina. By Sean M. Kelley. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 290. $30.00, hardback (ISBN 9781469627687).

REVISITING THE AMISTAD - Amistad: A Hidden Network of Slavers and Merchants. By Michael Zeuske. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2015. Pp. xiv + 268. $88.95, hardback (ISBN 9781558765924); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 9781558765931).

SLAVERY BEYOND THE ATLANTIC WORLD - Shackles of Iron: Slavery Beyond the Atlantic. By Stewart Gordon. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2016. Pp. xxx + 142. $18.00, paperback (ISBN 9781624664748).

ORGANIZED CRIME IN NIGERIA - This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime. By Stephen Ellis. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 313. $29.95, hardback (ISBN 9780190494315).

VICHY AND THE AFRICAN RESISTANCE - Free French Africa in World War II: The African Resistance. By Eric T. Jennings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 300. $84.99, hardback (ISBN 9781107048485); $27.99, paperback (ISBN 9781107696976).

CITIZENSHIP AND BELONGING IN AFRICA - Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present. Edited by Emma Hunter. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. v + 306. $34.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821422571).

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