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Volume 62 - November 2021

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MAU MAU AND POPULAR MEMORY IN KENYA - Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion. Edited by Julie MacArthur. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. 432. $34.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-89680-317-6); $90.00, hardcover (978-0-89680-316-9).

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Music, Culture, and Generational Change after Apartheid - Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa By Xavier Livermon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 288. $26.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-4780-0663-3).

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The View from Western Kenya - Seeing Like a Citizen: Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945–1980 By Kara Moskowitz. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2395-0); $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2396-7).

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Gender and the Economics of Emancipation in Angola - Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce and Economic Transition in Luanda By Vanessa S. Oliveira. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Pp. 272. $79.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9780299325800).

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NIGERIA AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict. By Chima J. Korieh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 298. £29.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108425803).

The Quest for Scientific Equity in Postcolonial Ghana - Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence By Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 278. $32.88, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-108-45737-8); $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-108-47124-4).

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Literature and Politics During the Cold War - At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War By Monica Popescu. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. $26.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-4780-0940-5).

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A Compendium on African Women's History - Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective Edited by Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. Pp. 384. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780299321109).

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Public Pleasure and Authoritarian Politics - The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea By Nomi Dave. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 208. $27.50, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-226-65463-8); $82.50, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-226-65446-1).

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LAW, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN COLONIAL ALGERIA - Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930. By Judith Surkis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 333. $29.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781501739507).

AQUATIC CULTURES IN THE ATLANTIC DIASPORA - Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora. By Kevin Dawson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 360. $45.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-8122-4989-7).

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An Archive of Colonial Propaganda - Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation Edited by Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021. Pp vii + 200. $55.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-60606-668-3).

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Film, Leisure, and Urban Life in West Africa - Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa By Odile Goerg. London: Hurst Publishers, 2020. Pp. 201. £45.00 hardcover, (ISBN: 9781787382053).

COLONIAL TRANSACTIONS AND HISTORIES IN GABON - Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon. By Florence Bernault. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 332. $27.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-4780-0158-4); $104.95, hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-4780-0123-2).

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Child Trafficking after Abolition - The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria By Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. Pp. 224. $26.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781625345240).

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Congo, the Cold War, and the United Nations - Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa By Henning Melber. London: Hurst Publishers, 2019. Pp. 184. £30.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781787380042).

EDUCATION AND NATION BUILDING IN ETHIOPIA - Éduquer la nation en Éthiopie: École, État et identités dans le Wolaita (1941–1991). By Pierre Guidi. Rennes, France: Presses universitaires de Rennes and IRD éditions, 2020. Pp. 350. €30.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-2-7535-7681-0).

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A Resonant Intellectual - Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church By Harry N. K. Odamtten. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2019. Pp. xxv + 272. $49.50, paperback (ISBN: 9781611863208).

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