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WAYS WITH WORDS AND WOODS - Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa. By Kathryn M. de Luna . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 332. $85.00, hardback (ISBN 978-0-300-21853-4).

COUSINS AND COLONIZERS - Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991. By Christine Hatzky . Translated by Mair Edmunds-Harrington.Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 386. $39.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-299-30104-0).

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).

STYLING ACCUMULATION - De la Signare à la Diriyanké sénégalaise: trajectoires féminines et visions partagées. By Aissata Kane Lo . Dakar: L'Harmattan Sénégal, 2014. Pp. 290. No price given (ISBN 9782336352473).

A NEW EPIC OF ANCIENT MALI - Sunjata: A New Prose Version. Edited and translated by David C. Conrad . Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 2016. Pp. xl + 140. $43.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-62466-495-3); $14.00, paperback (ISBN 978-1-62466-494-6).

THE HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD COMES OF AGE - Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories. Edited by Saheed Aderinto . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xviii + 235. $90.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-137-50162-2).

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).

NIGERIA'S TWENTIETH CENTURY - Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century. By Richard Bourne . London: Zed Books, 2015. Pp. xxiii + 320. £12.99/$18.95, paperback (ISBN 978-4-78032-906-2).

BOUNDARIES OF RACE AND SEX IN COLONIAL GHANA - Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana. By Carina E. Ray . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 333. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2179-6); $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2180-2).

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).

BECOMING NON-ANLO - Slavery, Memory, and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850–Present. By Meera Venkatachalam . Cambridge: International African Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xix + 247. $99.99, hardback (ISBN 978-1-107-10827-1).

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A NEW TYPE OF CITIZEN: YOUTH, GENDER, AND GENERATION IN THE GHANAIAN BUILDERS BRIGADE – CORRIGENDUM

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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).

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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).

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