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‘An Era Where Racism is Religion’ - Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960-1984 By Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 345. $120.00, hardcover (IBSN: 9781316511794); $96.00, e-book (IBSN: 9781009053860).

Social Speech and Governance in Uganda - To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015 By Holly Elisabeth Hanson. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 268. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424438); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424919); ebook (ISBN: 9780821447352).

Lugha ya Dunia - A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili By Morgan J. Robinson. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 270. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424940); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424957); ebook (ISBN: 9780821447819).

Culture, Class, and Politics in Late Imperial Congo - The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo By Daniel Tödt. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 428. $79.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9783110708691); ebook (ISBN: 9783110709308).

Developing Automobile Culture in Tanzania - African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development By Joshua Grace. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 432. $114.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478010593); $30.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781478011712).

The Past and Present of Chinese Migration to Africa - The Social and Economic History of the Chinese Overseas in Africa, Volumes I, II, and III By Anshan Li. Nanjing, China: Jiangsu People's Press, 2019. Pp. 1457. ¥348.00, paperback (ISBN: 9787214212511).

A Cold War City - Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974 By George Roberts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. $32.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781009281652); open access, e-book (ISBN: 9781108990721).

Congolese Students in Congo's Global History - Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo By Pedro Monaville. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $107.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478015758); $29.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781478018377).

Intellectuals with Pickaxes - A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 328. $104.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478015833); $27.85, paperback (ISBN: 9781478018476).

The Conditions of Cancer Treatment in Postcolonial Uganda - Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda By Marissa Mika. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 260. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424650); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821425091).

Deconconstructing Colonial Population Anxiety - Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola By Samuël Coghe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 317. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108837866); e-book (ISBN: 9781108943307).

The Audience Experience of Colonial Cinema - Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 By Samson Kaunga Ndanyi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. Pp. 159. $95.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781793649249); $45.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781793649256).

South Africa's Revolutionary Era - Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries By Paul S. Landau. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. Pp. 372. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424704); $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424797); ebook (ISBN: 97808214476970).

Women and Nationalism in Nigeria - The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith Byfield. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. pp. 334. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821423981); ebook (ISBN: 9780821446904).

Administering the KwaZulu Bantustan - Bantu Authorities: Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity By Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. xxi + 365. $120.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781793631268); $45.00, e-book, (ISBN: 9781793631275).

Racism, Study, and Cold War Solidarities - African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975 By Sara Pugach. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. 274. $75.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780472075560); $29.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780472055562).

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