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INDIAN PHYSICIANS - Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895–1940: The Forgotten History. By Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. x + 266. $95.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-137-44052-5).

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).

THE NEW AUTHOCHTHONES - Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe. By Joost Fontein . Suffolk, England: James Currey, 2015. Pp. xxiv + 340. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-84701-112-1).

THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL - Apartheid, 1948–1994. By Saul Dubow . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xx + 360. $99.00, hardback (ISBN 9780199550661); $29.95, paperback (ISBN 9780199550678).

LAND AND THE STATE - Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya. By Martin S. Shanguhyia . Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 323. No price given, hardback (ISBN 978-1-58046-539-7).

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).

RACE AND REPRESENTATION - Biko's Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness. By Shannen L. Hill . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp. xxviii + 366. $105.00, hardback (ISBN 9780816676361); $29.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8166-7637-8).

MASKS AND PERFORMANCE - In Step with the Times: Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique. By Paolo Israel . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 329. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2088-1).

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).

A SWISS VILLAGE IN AFRICA - At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging. By Catie Gressier . New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. Pp. xiii + 244. $100.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-78238-773-2).

RECONSTRUCTING MUSICAL PASTS - African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe. By Mhoze Chikowero . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 346. $85.00, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-01768-0); $35.00, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-01803-8).

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).

THE SEMIOTICS OF RHODESIANNESS - Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization. By Luise White . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 343. $30.00, paperback (ISBN 978-0-226-23519-6).

RULES FOR RACIAL INTERACTIONS - Manners Make a Nation: Racial Etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910–1963. By Allison K. Shutt .Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 245. $110.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-58046-520-5).

REBALANCING ATLANTIC HISTORY - Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade. By Roquinaldo Ferreira . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 262. $27.99, paperback (ISBN 9781107671447).

MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN BOTSWANA - Divination's Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said. By Richard Werbner . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 340. $85.00, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-01881-6); $35.00, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-01889-2).

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).

THE HAMITIC MYTH REVISITED - The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent. By Michael F. Robinson . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii + 306. $29.95, hardback (ISBN 9780199978489).

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).

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