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RELIGION AND THE MAKING OF NIGERIA - Religion and the Making of Nigeria. By Olufemi Vaughan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xi+311. $99.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9780822362067); $25.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780822362272).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 109-111
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ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND A FORMER SLAVE FROM AFRICA - Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’. By Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Harper Collins, 2018. Pp. 208. $24.99, hardback (ISBN: 9780062748201).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 297-299
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FASHION AND BODY POLITICS IN IMPERIAL SUDAN - Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan. By Marie Grace Brown. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. Pp 240. $85.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781503601529); $25.00, paperback (ISBN: 9781503602649).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 478-480
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AFRICAN WOMEN IN AFRICAN HISTORY - African Women: Early History to the 21st Century. By Kathleen Sheldon. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii + 330. $85.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-253-02716-0); $40.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02722-1).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 111-112
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AFRICAN HISTORY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE - Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on Asia and Africa. Edited by Gareth Austin. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. 344. £85.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781474267496).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 113-114
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AFFECT AND COMMUNITY AMONG CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN EAST AFRICA - Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860–1970. By Andreana C. Prichard. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 339. $39.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781611862409); $31.95, e-book (ISBN: 9781628962925).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 299-302
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THE KAMBA PEOPLES OF KENYA - Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race Among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present. By Myles Osborne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 276. $113.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781107061040); $36.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107680524); $30.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781316056905).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 481-483
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MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND LAW IN EGYPT - Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. By Kenneth M. Cuno. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi + 305. $39.95, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-8156-3392-1), ebook (978-0-8156-5316-5).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 115-116
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LABOUR, MOBILITY, AND COLONIALISM IN MOZAMBIQUE - Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940–1965. By Zachary Kagan Guthrie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018. Pp. 240. $45.00, hardback (ISBN: 9780813941547); $45.00, e-book (ISBN: 9780813941554).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 483-485
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THE EAST AFRICAN REVIVAL IN UGANDA - Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda. By Jason Bruner. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 191. $99.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781580465847); $24.99, e-book (ISBN: 9781787440616).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 302-304
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND THE PROBLEM OF CULTURE - Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture: From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania. By Dorothy L. Hodgson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 187. $80.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02520-3); $30.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02535-7); $29.99, e-book (ISBN: 978-0-253-02547-0).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 304-305
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COMBATANTS OF MUSLIM ORIGIN IN EUROPEAN ARMIES - Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad. Edited by Xavier Bougarel, Raphaëlle Branche, and Cloé Drieu. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. xi + 238. £64.99, hardback (ISBN: 9781474249430).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 117-118
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AFRICAN SOCCER PLAYERS IN THE PORTGUESE EMPIRE - Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players Across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975. By Todd Cleveland. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 266. $80.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-89680-313-8); $32.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-89680-314-5).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 485-487
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FOOD, FARMING, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN ETHIOPIA - Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming, and Environmental Change in Ethiopia. By Getnet Bekele. Woodbridge, UK: James Currey. 2017. Pp. 224. Paperback $42.00, (ISBN: 9781847011749).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 118-120
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A SHORT HISTORY OF MOZAMBIQUE - A Short History of Mozambique. By Malyn Newitt. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 254. $24.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780190847425).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 306-309
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THE LIFE OF SOL PLAATJE, REVISTED - Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876–1932. By Brian Willan. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2018. Pp. xxiv + 711. R380, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-4314-2644-7).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 487-489
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MAKING MOVIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - Black and White Bioscope: Making Movies in Africa, 1899 to 1925. By Neil Parsons. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2018. Pp. xii + 252. $80.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781783209439).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 489-491
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THE LIFE OF TIPPU TIP - Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery, and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa. By Stuart Laing. Surbiton, UK: Medina Publishing, 2017. Pp. 196. £25 (ISBN: 9781911487050).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 121-122
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VOICES FROM THE CHILEMBWE RISING - Voices from the Chilembwe Rising: Witness Testimonies Made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915. Edited by John McCracken. Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series No. 14. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xxvi +623. $185.00, hardback (ISBN: 9780197265925).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 309-310
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THE CASSINGA MASSACRE IN NAMIBIA - The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre: Survivors, Deniers and Injustices. By Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2017. Basel Namibia Studies Series. Pp. xiii + 169. $33.38, paperback (ISBN: 978-3-905758-80-1); $22.95, e-book (ISBN: 978-3-905758-92-4).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 491-492
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