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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. Adebanwi, Wale and Ebenezer Obadare, eds. 2013. Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 300 pp.

3. Ako-Nai, Ronke Iyabowale, ed. 2013. Gender and Power Relations in Nigeria. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 350 pp.

4. Alexander, Peter et al. 2013. Class in Soweto. Scottsville, KZN: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 306 pp.

5. Allen, Tony and Michael E. Veal. 2013. Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 199pp.

6. Andrews, Penelope. 2012. From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women’s Human Rights. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 221pp.

7. Ayoade, John A. and Adeoye A. Akinsanya. 2013. Nigeria’s Critical Election: 2011. Lanham: Lexington Books. 348 pp.

8. Badat, Saleem. 2013. The Forgotten People: Political Banishment under Apartheid. Leiden: Brill. 364 pp.

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

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

11. Bassil, Noah R. 2013. The Post-Colonial State and Civil War in Sudan: The Origins of the Conflict in Darfur.London: I.B. Tauris. 263 pp.

12. 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. 266 pp.

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

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

15. Bewaji, John Ayotunder Isola. 2012. Narratives of Struggle: The Philosophy and Politics of Development. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 451 pp.

16. Biehl, João and Adriana Petryna, eds. When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 446 pp.

17. Bisschoff, Lizelle and Stefanie Van de Peer, eds. 2013. Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. London: I.B. Tauris. 325 pp.

18. Bollig, Michael, Michael Schnegg, and Hans-Peter Wotzka. 2013. Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future. New York: Berghahn Books. 525pp.

19. Börzel, Tanja A. an Christian R.Thauer, eds. 2013. Business and Governance in South Africa: Racing to the Top? New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 274 pp.

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

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

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

23. Bundy, Colin. 2012. Govan Mbeki. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 168 pp.
    

24. Buresi, Pasal and Hicham El Aallaoui. 2013. Governing the Empire: Provincial Administration in the Almohad Caliphate (1224-1269): Critical Edition, Translation and Study of Manuscript 4752 of the Hasaniyya Library in Rabat. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 538 pp.
    

25. Büscher, Bram. 2013. Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 290 pp.

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

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

28. Campbell, John. 2013. Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink. Updated edition. Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield. 210 pp.

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

30. Carney, J.J. 2014. Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era. New York: Oxford University Press. 343pp.

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

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

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

34. Cochrane, Laura L. 2013. Weaving through Islam in Senegal. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 147 pp.

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

36. Cooksey, Susan, ed. 2011. Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas. Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida.159 pp.

37. Cooper, Brenda. 2013. Pb ed. of 2008 hb ed. A New Generation of African Writers: Migration, Material Culture and Language. Rochester, NY: James Currey. 182 pp.
    

38. Corkin, Lucy. 2013. Uncovering African Agency: Angola’s Management of Credit Lines. SurreyL Ashgate Publishing Limited. 244pp.
    

39. Creary, Nicholas, ed. 2012. African Intellectuals and Decolonization. Athens: Ohio University Press. 183pp.
    

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

41. Dafinger, Andreas. 2013. The Economics of Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Burkina Faso. Suffolk: James Currey. 212pp.

42. Decoteau, Claire Laurier. 2013. Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: The Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 324pp.

43. Derman, Bill, Anne Hellum, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, eds.2013. Worlds of Human Rights: The Ambiguities of Rights Claiming in Africa. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 338 pp.

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

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

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

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

48. Eltringham, Nigel, ed. 2013. Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema. New York and Oxford: Berghahn.183 pp.

49. Engel, Ulf and João Gomes Porto, eds. 2013. Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Continental Embeddedness, Transnational Linkages, Strategic Relevance. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 257 pp.

50. Englund, Harri. 2011. Human Right and Africa Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 294 pp

51. Ensor, Madrid O. 2012. African Childhoods: Education, Development, Peacebuilding, and the Youngest Continent. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 272 pp.

52. Everill, Bronwen.2013. Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 232 pp.

53. Everill, Bronwen and Josiah Kaplan, eds. 2013. The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 250 pp.

54. Falola, Toyin. 2013. The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 418 pp.

55. Falola, Toyin, ed. 2013. Èsù: Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 392 pp.

56. Falola, Toyin and Nana Akua Amponsah, eds. 2013. Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 356 pp.

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

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

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

60. Field, Sean. 2012.Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 221 pp.

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

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

63. Gallois, William. 2013. A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 207 pp.

64. Gerdes, Felix. 2013. Civil War and State Formation: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Liberia. Frankfurt and New York: Campus-Verl. 291pp.

65. Geschiere, Peter. 2013. Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in comparison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 328 pp.

66. Getz, Trevor, ed. 2014. African Voices of the Global Past: 1500 to the Present. Boulder: Westview Press. 223pp.

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

68. 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.

69. Gould, Michael. 2013. The Biafran War: The Struggle for Modern Nigeria. London: I.B. Tauris. 258 pp.
    

70. Grabski, Joanna and Carol Magee. 2013. African Art, Interviews and Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work. Bloomington and Indiana: Indiana University Press. 198pp.
    

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

72. Grünkemeier, Ellen. 2013. Breaking the Silence: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 243 pp.

73. Hamilton, Grant, ed. 2013. Reading Marechera. Suffolk: James Curry. 196 pp.p>

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

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

76. Harrow, Kenneth W. 2013. Trash: African Cinema From Below. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 327pp.

77. 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.

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

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

80. Iddrisu, Abdulai.2013. Contesting Islam in Africa: Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana 1920-2010. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 279 pp.

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

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

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

84. Jones, Hilary. 2013. The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 278 pp.

85. Judd, Denis and Keith Surridge. 2013. new pb ed. The Boer War. London: I.B. Tauris. 352 pp.

86. Kandji, Mamadou, ed. 2011. Health and Mental Issues in the Literary Imagination. Dakar: Diaspora Academy Press. 241 pp.

87. Kane, Abdoulaye and Todd H. Leedy, eds. 2013. African Migrations: Patterns and Perspectives. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 301 pp.

88. Kasfir, Sidney Littlefied and Till Förster, eds. 2013. African Art and Agency in the Workshop. Bloomington and Indiana: Indiana University Press. 410pp.

89. 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.

90. Keim, Curtis. 2014. Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of American Mind. Boulder: Westview Press. 234pp.

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

92. Kepe, Thembela and Lungisile Ntsebeza, eds. 2011. Rural Resistance in South Africa: The Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 282 pp.

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

94. Krings, Matthias and Onookome Okome, eds. 2013. Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 371pp.

95. Lawley, Jonathan. 2013. Beyond the Malahite Hills: A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa. London: I.B. Taurus. 304 pp.

96. 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. 271 pp.

97. Leonardi, Cherry. 2013. Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 253 pp.

98. Lewis-Williams, J.D. 2011. San Rock Art. Athens: Ohio University Press. 157pp.

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

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

101. MacGaffey, Wyatt. 2013. Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 227 pp.
     

102. Marsh-Lockett, Carol P. and Elizabeth J. West, eds. 2013. Literary Expressions of African Spirituality. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 239 pp.
     

103. Martin, Guy. 2012. African Political Thought. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 215 pp.

104. Mazrui, Ali A. and Kindah L. Mhando. 2013. Julius Nyerere: Africa’s Titan on a Global Stage—Perspectives from Arusha to Obama. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 390 pp.

105. Mbah, Emmanuel M. and Steven J. Salm. 2012. Globalization and the African Experience. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 299 pp.

106. Mbali, Mandisa. 2013. South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 295 pp.

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

108. Mimiko, N. Oluwafemi. 2012. Globalization: The Politics of Global Economic Relations and International Business. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 193 pp.

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

110. Mohlele, Nthikeng. 2013. Small Things. Scottsville, KZN: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 108 pp.

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

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

113. Murungi, John. 2013. An Introduction to African Legal Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 232 pp.

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

115. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. 2013. Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 272 pp.

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

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

118. 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. 237 pp.

119. Norridge, Zoe. 2013. Perceiving Pain in African Literture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 239 pp.

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

121. Ojaide, Tanure. 2012. Contemporary African Literature. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 194 pp.
     

122. 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. 224 pp.

123. Ojwang, Dan. 2013. Reading Migration and Culture: The World of East African Indian Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 245 pp.

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

125. Okome, Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké. 2013. State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 259 pp.

126. Okome, Mojúbàolú Olúfúké. 2013. Contesting the Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 259pp.

127. Ola, Yomi. 2013. Satires of Power in Yoruba Visual Culture. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 249 pp.
     

128. Olurode, ‘Lai. 2013. Perspectives on Feminism from Africa. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 192 pp.
     

129. Oriola, Temitope B. 2013. Criminal Resistance?: The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 243 pp.

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

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

132. Phillips, Howard. 2012. Epidemics: The Story of South Africa’s Five Most Lethal Human Diseases. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 168 pp.

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

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

135. Renne, Elisha P., ed. 2013. Veiling in Africa. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 238 pp.

136. Ryan, Christine. 2012. Children of War: Child Soldiers as Victims and Participants in the Sudan Civil War. New York: I.B. Tauris. 273 pp.

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

138. 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.

139. Scheub, Harold. 2012. Trickster and Hero: Two Characters in the Oral and Written Worlds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 214 pp.

140. Schmidt, Elizabeth. 2013. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. New York: Cambridge University Press. 267 pp.

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

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

143. Severino, Jean-Michel and Oliver Ray. Trans. David Fernbach. 2011. Africa’s Moment. Malden, MA: Polity Press. 317 pp.

144. 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.

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

146. Smith, Lahra. 2013. Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicitiy, Gender and National Identity in Ethiopia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 252pp.

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

148. Southall, Roger. 2013. Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in Southern Africa. Rochester, NY: James Currey. 384 pp.

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

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

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

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

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

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

155. Tissières, Hélène Colette.2013. Transmigrational Writings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa: Literature, Orality, Visual Arts. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 227 pp.

156. Tomaselli, Keyan. G, ed. 2012. Cultural Tourism and Identity: Rethinking Indigeneity. Leiden: Brill. 238 pp.

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

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

159. van Walraven, Klaas. The Yearning of Relief: A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 968 pp.

160. Wai, Zubairu. 2012. Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 263 pp.

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

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

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

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

165. White, Kaye. 2014. Lagos: A Cultural History. Northampton, MA: Interlink Books. 271pp.

166. Wieder, Alan. 2013. Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid. New York: Monthly Review Press. 390 pp.

167. Willink, Robert Joost.2011. The Fateful Journey: The Expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 455 pp.

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

169. Zeilig, Leo. 2013. Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: I.B. Taurus. 336 pp.

170. Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe. 2012. In Search of African Diasporas: Testimonies and Encounters. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 574 pp.