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1. Abadi, Jacob. 2013. Tunisia since the Arab Conquest: The Saga of a Westernized Muslim State. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press. 586pp.

2. Akitoby, Bernardin and Sharmini Coorey eds. 2012. Oil Wealth in Central Africa: Policies for Inclusive Growth. Washington, D.C. :International Monetary Fund. 226pp.

3. Akitoby, Bernardin and Sharmini Coorey eds. 2012. Oil Wealth in Central Africa: Policies for Inclusive Growth. Washington, D.C. :International Monetary Fund. 226pp.

4. Ayoade, John A. and Adeoye A. Akinsanya. 2013. Nigeria’s Critical Election. Lanham: Lexington Books.

5. Ballantine, Christopher. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘race’ and society in early apartheid South Africa. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 247pp.

6. Bangura, Abdul Karim. 2012. African Mathematics: From Bones to Computers. Lanham: University Press of America. 219 pp.

7. Bekoe, Dorina A., ed. 2012.Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C.: Endowment of the United States Institute of Peace. 266pp.

8. Bellagamba, Alice, Sandra E. Greene, and Martin Klein (eds). 2013. The Bitter Legacy: African Slavery Past and Present. Princeton: Markus Weiner Publishers. 211pp.

9. Bennett, Huw. 2013. Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 307pp.

10. Brennan, James R. Taifa. 2012. Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. Athens: Ohio University Press. 292 pp.

11. Britt, Samuel Irving. 2012. The Children of Salvation: Ritual Struggle in a Liberian Aladura Church. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 246pp.

12. Brosché, Johan and Daniel Rothbart. 2012. Violent Crisis and Peacebuilding: The continuing crisis in Darfur. London: Routledge. 175 pp.

13. Buggenhagen, Beth. 2012. Muslim Families in Global Senegal: Money Takes Care of Shame. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 242 pp.

14. Burnet, Jennie E. 2012. Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 277 pp.

15. Bush, Ray, and Habib Ayeb, eds. 2012. Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt. New York: Zed Books. 247 pp.

16. Call, Charles T. 2012. Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 313 pp.

17. Campell, Chloe. 2012. Race and empire: Eugenics in colonial Kenya. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 214 pp.

18. Campoy-Cubilo, Adolfo. 2012. Memories of the Maghreb: Transnational Identities in Spanish Cultural Production. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 219pp..

19. Camrioni, Maddalena and Patrick Noack (eds). 2012. Rwanda Fast Forward: Social, Economic, Military and Reconciliation Prospects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 283 pp.

20. Chapman, Michael, ed. 2012. Africa Inside Out: Stories, Tales and Testimonies. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 125 pp.
    

21. Charry, Eric, ed. 2012. Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 390pp.
    

22. Ciantar, Philip. 2012. The Ma’lūf in Contemporary Libya: An Arab Andalusian Musical Tradition. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited.183pp.
    

23. Clark, John F. and Samuel Decalo. 2012. Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo. 4th ed. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 521 pp.
    

24. Conway, Daniel. 2012. Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War resistance in apartheid South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 176pp.
    

25. Curry, Dawne Y. 2012. Apartheid on A Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 180pp.

26. Curtis, Devon and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa, eds. 2012. Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 352pp.

27. Dibua, Jeremiah I. 2013. Development and Diffusionism: Looking Beyond Neopatrimonialism in Nigeria, 1962-1985. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 255pp.

28. Dilger, Hansjörg, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick. 2012. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 348pp.

29. Diouf, Mamadou ed. 2013. Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal. New York: Columbia University Press. 282pp.

30. Elphick, Richard. 2012. The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 437pp.

31. Engel, Uld, ed. 2012. New Mediation Practices in African Conflicts. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag GmbH. 261pp.

32. Ensor, Madrid O. African Childhoods: Education, Development, Peacebuilding, and the Youngest Continent. 2012. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 262 pp. 183 pp.

33. Faught, C. Brad. 2012. Into Africa: The Imperial Life of Margery Perham. London: I.B. Tauris. 198 pp.

34. Feld, Steven. 2012. Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana. Durham: Duke University Press. 311 pp.

35. Feraoun, Mouloud. 2012. Land and Blood. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 243 pp.

36. Finnegan, Ruth. 2012. Oral Literature in Africa. Open Book Publishers (E-book). 610pp. http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/97/oral-literature-in-africa
    

37. Fitzsimmons, Scott. 2013. Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 332pp.
    

38. Francis, David. 2012. When War Ends: Building Peace in Divided Communities. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. 217 pp.

39. Garritano, Carmela. 2013. African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History. Athens: Ohio University Press. 246pp.

40. Gibbs, James eds. 2012. African Theatre: Festivals. Leeds: James Currey. 156 pp.

41. Gordon, David M. 2012. Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History. Athens: Ohio University Press. 304pp.

42. Gordon, David M and Shepard Krech III, eds. 2012. Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America. Athens: Ohio University Press. 335 pp.

43. Gray, Richard. 2012. Christianity, The Papacy, and Mission in Africa. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 197 pp.

44. Green, Toby. 2012. Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Precolonial Western Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 415pp.

45. Hamilton, Grant, ed. 2013. Reading Marechera. Suffolk: James Curry. 196pp.

46. Hannigan, John. 2012. Disasters Without Borders. Cambridge: Polity Press. 195 pp.

47. Harbeson, John W. and Donald Rothchild, ed. Africa in World Politics: Engaging a Changing Global Order. Boulder: Westview Press. 368pp.

48. Harper, Mary. 2012. Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State. New York: Zed Books. 247 pp. 217 pp.

49. Hewlett, Bonnie L. 2012. Listen, Here is a Story: Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin. New York: Oxford University Press. 272 pp.

50. Higgins, Maryellen. 2013. Hollywood’s Africa After 1994. Athens: Ohio University Press. 274pp.

51. Hill, J.N.C. 2012. Nigeria Since Independence: Forever Fragile? New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 173pp.

52. Houngikpo, Mathurin C. and Samuel Decalo. 2012. Historical Dictionary of Benin. 4th ed. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. 452pp.

53. Idrissa, Abdourahmane and Samuel Decalo. 2012. Historical Dictionary of Niger. 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 540 pp.

54. Imperato, Gavin H. and Piscal James Imperato. 2012. Bundu: Sowei Headpieces of the Sande Society of West Africa, The Imperato Family Collection. 175 pp.

55. Irwin, Ryan M. 2012. Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of Liberal World Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 244 pp.

56. Jenkins, Elwyn. 2012. English Children’s Reading & Writers in South Africa. Pretoria: Unisa Press. 235pp.

57. Kecskési, Maria (Hrsg.). 2012. Die Mwera in Südost-Tansania: Ihre Lebensweise und Kultur um 1920 nach Joachim Ammann OSB und Meinulf Küsters OSB mit Fotografrien von Nikolaus von Holzen OSB. München: Herbert Utz Verlag GmbH. 331pp

58. Kelley, Robin D.G. 2012. Africa Speaks, America Answers: modern jazz in revolutionary times. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 244 pp.

59. Kobo, Ousman Murzik. 2012. Unveiling Mordernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. Leiden: Brill. 383 pp.

60. Kreitzer, Linda. 2012. Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press. 242 pp.

61. Lawrance, Benjamin N. and Richard L. Roberts, eds. 2012. Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 271pp.

62. Lorcin, Patricia M. E. 2012. Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia: European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 317 pp.
    

63. Lovejoy, Paul E. 2012. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa, 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 381 pp.

64. Lynch, Hollis R. 2012. K. O. Mbadiwe: A Nigerian Political Biography, 1915-1990. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 294 pp.
    

65. Mains, Daniel. 2013. Hope is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 193pp.

66. Mamdani, Mahmood. 2012. Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 154 pp.

67. Mangala, Jack, ed. 2013. Africa and the European Union: A Strategic Partnership. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 257pp.

68. Marback, Richard C. 2012. Managing Vulnerability: South Africa’s Struggle for a Democratic Struggle. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 138pp.

69. Martinez-Ruiz, Barbaro. 2013. Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 228pp.

70. Matthies, Volker. 2012. The Siege of Magdala: The British Empire Against the Emperor of Ethiopia. Princeton: Markus Weiner Publishers. 207pp.

71. Miescher, Giorgio. 2012. Namibia's Red Line: The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 392 pp.

72. Miles, William F.S. 2012. Jews of Nigeria: An Afro-Judaic Odyssey. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers. 159pp.

73. Mohamed, Mohamed Hassan. 2012. Between Caravan and Sultan: The Bayruk of Southern Morocco. Leiden: Brill. 360 pp.
    

74. Monroe, J. Cameron and Akinwumi Ogundiran, eds. 2012. Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 390 pp.

75. Mudhai, Okoth Fred. 2013. Civic Engagement, Digitial Networks, and Political Reform in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 259pp.

76. Nathan, Laurie. 2012. Community of Insecurity: SADC’s Struggle for Peace and Security in Southern Africa. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. 186 pp.

77. Newell, Sasha. 2012. The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 305 pp.

78. Ngcobo, Lauretta, ed. 2012. Prodigal Daughters: Stories of South African Women in Exile. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 209 pp

79. Njoh, Ambe J. 2012. Urban Planning and Public Health in Africa: Historical, Theoretical and Practical Dimensions of a Continent’s Water and Sanitation Problematic. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. 237pp.

80. Nielssen, Hilde. 2012. Ritual Imagination: A Study of Tromba Possession among the Betsimisaraka in Eastern Madagascar. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. 326 pp.

81. Nudelman, Jill. 2012. Inheriting the Earth. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 320 pp.

82. Ojo, Olantunji and Nadine Hunt, eds. 2012. Slavery in Africa and The Caribbean: A History of Enslavement and Identity Since the Eighteenth Century. London: I.B Taurus & Co Ltd. 224pp

83. Okia, Opolot. 2012. Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya: The Legitimization of Coercion, 1912-1930. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 186 pp.

84. Owusu, J. Henry. 2012. Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs, and Trade: Geographic Perspectives on Ghana’s Timber Industry and Development. Lanham: Lexington Books. 256pp.

85. Patel, Sujata and Tina Uys. 2012. Contemporary India and South Africa: Legacies, Identities, Dilemmas. New Delhi: Routledge. 330 pp.

86. Pollecoff, Eve A. 2012. Pioneer Merchant Trader: The Life and Times of Otto Markus. London: The Radcliffe Press. 192 pp.

87. Ranger, Terence. 2013. Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism 1957-67. Suffolk: James Currey. 206pp.

88. Reid, Graeme. 2013. How To Be a Real Gay: Gay Identities is Small-Town South Africa. Scottsville: University of Kwazu-Natal Press. 306pp.

89. Rupley, Lawrence, Lamissa Bangali and Boureima Diamitani. 2013. Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso. 3rd ed. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 315pp.

90. Salami, Iwa. 2012. Financial Regulation in Africa: An Assessment of Financial Integration Arrangements in African Emerging and Frontier Markets. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. 228 pp.

91. Sandgren, David P. 2012. Mau Mau's Children: The Making of Kenya's Postcolonial Elite. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 185 pp.

92. Sears, Christine E. 2012. American Slaves and African Masters: Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776 -1820. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 240 pp.
    

93. Scheub, Harold. 2012. Trickster and Hero: Two Characters in the Oral and Written Worlds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
    

94. Schimdt, Heike L. 2013. Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe: A History of Suffering. Suffolk: James Currey. 287pp.
    

95. Shipley, Jesse Weaver. 2013. Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanain Popular Music. Durham: Duke University Press. 329pp.

96. Sidikou, Aissata G. and Thomas A. Hale, eds. 2012. Women's Voices from West Africa: An Anthology of Songs from the Sahel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 143 pp.

97. Smith, Beatrice Quarshie. 2012. Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 206 pp.

98. Smith, James H. and Rosalind I. J. Hackett, eds. 2012. Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 299 pp.

99. Sodikoff, Genese Marie. 2012. Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 245pp.

100. Sommers, Marc. 2012. Stuck: Rwandan Youth and The Struggle for Adulthood. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press. 281 pp.

101. Spronk, Rachel. 2012. Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi. New York: Berghahn Books. 310 pp.

102. Sterling, Cheryl. 2012. African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity in Brazil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 260 pp.

103. Sutton, Elizabeth A. 2012. Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. 276pp.

104. Taylor, Scott D. 2012. Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 247pp.

105. Thompson, Katrina Daly. 2013. Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 237pp.

106. Tibebu, Teshale. 2012. Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 218pp.

107. Tijani, Hakeem Ibikunle. 2012. Union Education in Nigeria: Labor, Empire, and Decolonization since 1945. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 178 pp.

108. Tomaselli, Keyan. G, ed. 2012. Cultural Tourism and Identity: Rethinking Indigeneity. Leiden: Brill. 231 pp.

109. Tonchi, Victor L, William A. Lindeke and John J. Grotpeter. 2012. Historical Dictionary of Namibia. 2nd ed. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 548 pp.

110. Torrent, Mélanie. 2012. Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa: Franco-British Relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire. London: I.B. Tauris. 304 pp.
     

111. Van Dyke, Kristina and Bisi Silva. 2012. The Progress of Love. New Haven: Yale University Press. 184pp.

112. Vinson, Robert Trent. 2012. The Americans Are Coming!: Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 235 pp.

113. Waites, Bernard. 2012. South Asia and Africa after Independence: Post-Colonial in Historical Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 456 pp.
     

114. Waters, Mary Alice, ed. 2013. Cuba & Angola: Fighting for Africa’s Freedom and Our Own. New York: Pathfinder. 144 pp.
     

115. Weatherby, John M. 2013. The Sor or Tepes of Karamoja (Uganda): Aspects of Their History and Culture. Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. 212pp.

116. Wells, Julia C. 2012. The Return of Makhanda: Exploring the Legend. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 280 pp.

117. Youngstedt, Scott M. 2013. Surviving with Dignity: Hausa Communities of Niamey, Niger. Lanham: Lexington Books. 226pp.