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1. Adesokan, Akin. 2011. Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 230 pp.

2. Arezki, Raba, T. Gylfason and A. Sy, eds. 2011. Beyond the Curse: policies to harness the power of natural resources. Washington D.C: International Monetary Fund.275 pp.

3. Bangura, Abdul Karim. 2012. African Mathematics: from bones to computers. Lanham: University Press of America. 219 pp.

4. Barz, Gregory and Judah M. Cohen, eds. 2011. The Culture of Aids in Africa: hope and healing through music and the arts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 500 pp.

5. Biesele, Megan and Robert K. Hitchcock. 2011. The Ju/'hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence: development, democracy and indigenous voices in Southern Africa. New York: Berghahn Books. 269 pp.

6. Bryden, Alan and Boubacar N'Diaye, eds. 2011. Security Sector Governance in Francophone West Africa: realities and opportunities. Geneva: Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. 277 pp.
   

7. Bouwer, Karen. 2010. Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: the legacy of Patrice Lumumba. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

8. Chait, Sandra M. 2011. Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 298 pp.

9. Clark-Kazak, Christina R. 2011. Recounting Migration: political narratives of Congolese young people in Uganda. Montreal: McGill'-Queen's University Press. 223 pp.

10. Cooksey, Susan. 2011. African Interweave: textile diasporas. Gainesville: The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. 159 pp.

11. Cooper, Barbara M. 2010. Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 462 pp.

12. Davila, Jerry. 2010. Hotel Tropico: Brazil and the challenge of African decolonization, 1950-1980. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 312 pp.

13. DeLancey, Mark D., Rebecca Neh  Mbuh, and Mark W. DeLancey. Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon. 4th ed. Historical Dictionaries of Africa. No. 113. Lanham, Md: The Scarecrow Press. xxxvii, 491 pp.

14. Dib, Mohammed. 2011. At the Café and The Talisman. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 183 pp.
    
    

15. Ensign, Margee M & William E. Bertrand. 2010. Rwanda: history and hope. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc. 154 pp.

16. Evans, Martin. 2012. Algeria: France's Undeclared War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 457 pp.

17. Evers, Sandra, Catrien Notermans, and Erik van Ommering, eds. 2011. Not Just a Victim: the child as catalyst and witness of contemporary Africa. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.

18. Eze, Michael Onyebuchi. 2010. Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 220 pp.

19. Falola, Toyin and Nana Akua Amoonsab. 2012. Women’s Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Inc. 232 pp.

20. Feyissa, Dereje. 2011. Playing Different Games: the paradox of Anywaa and Nuer identification strategies in the Gambella Region, Ethiopia, vol 4. New York: Berghahn Books. 237 pp.

21. Feyissa, Dereje, and Markus Virgil Hoehne. 2010. Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa. Eastern Africa Series. Rochelle NY: James Currey. xiv, 205 pp.

22. Floor, Rob and Gert van Zanten. 2010. African Signs. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers. 208 pp.

23. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain Paris, ed. 2011. Vodun: African Voodoo. Foundation Cartier.Chicago: Hirmer Publishers. 236 pp.
24. Frere, Marie-Soleil. 2011. Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Africa: votes and voices for peace? London: Zed Books. 289 pp.
    

25. Friedman, John T. 2011. Imagining the Post-Apartheid State: an ethnographic account of Namibia. New York: Berghahn Books. 312 pp.

26. Gallab, Abdullahi A. 2011. A Civil Society Deferred: the tertiary grip of violence in the Sudan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 239 pp.

27. Gallagher, Julia. 2011. Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 166 pp.
    

28. Geissler, P. Wenzel and Catherine Molyneux. 2011. Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa. New York: Berghahn Books. 498 pp.

29. Gewald, Jan-Bart, Marja Hinfelaar, and Giacomo Macola, eds. 2011. Living the End of Empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.

30. Ginsburg, Rebecca. 2011. At Home with Apartheid: the hidden landscapes of domestic service in Johannesburg. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 229 pp.

31. Gudmundson, Lowell and Justin Wolfe. 2010. Blacks and Blackness in Central America: between race and place. Durham: Duke University Press. 406 pp.

32. Hahn, Emily and Ken Kuthbertson. 2011. Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 274 pp.

33. Heinonen, Paula. 2011. Youth Gangs and Street Children: culture, nurture and masculinity in Ethiopia. New York: Berghahn Books. 169 pp.

34. Hibou, Beatrice. 2011. The Force of Obedience: The Political Economy of Repression in Tunisia. Cambridge: Polity Press. 381 pp

35. Hellweg, Joseph. 2011. Hunting the Ethical State: the Benkadi Movement of Cote d'Ivoire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 291 pp.

36. Hodgson, Dorothy L. 2011. Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 265 pp.

37. Isser, Deborah, ed. 2011. Customary Justice and the Rule of Law in War-Torn Societies. Washington D.C: United States Institute for Peace Press.386 pp.

38. Ivaska, Andrew. 2011. Cultured States: youth, gender, and modern style in 1960s Dar es Salaam. Durham: Duke University Press. 276 pp.

39. James, W. Martin. 2011. Historical Dictionary of Angola, 2nd Edition. Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, Inc. 346 pp.

40. Janzen, John M., (ed). 2010. A carved Loango tusk: local images and global connections. Lawrence, kansas: University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology, 24. 69 pp.

41. Jones, Stuart and Robert W. Vivian. 2010. South African Economy and Policy, 1990-2000: an economy in transition. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 580 pp.

42. Jorritsma, Marie. 2011. Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: the sacred music of a South African coloured community. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 201 pp.

43. Kebede, Messay. 2011. Ideology and Elite Conflicts: autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution. Lanham: Lexington Books. 388 pp.

44. Karen E. Ferree. 2011. Framing the Race in South Africa: the political origins of racial-census elections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 291 pp.

45. Karem, Jeff. 2011. The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-U.S. Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press. 297 pp.

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

47. Kepe, Thembela and Lungisile Ntsebeza, eds. 2011. Rural Resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo revolts after fifty years. Koninklijke Brill.

48. Kiikpoye K. Aaron and Dawari George (eds). with a foreword by Michael Watts. 2010. Placebos as Medicine: The Poverty of Development Intervention and Conflict Resolution Strategies in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Kemuela Publications. 249 pp.

49. Kilgore, James. 2011. We Are All Zimbabweans Now: a novel. Athens: Ohio University Press. 259 pp.

50. Kinsman, John. 2010. Aids Policy in Uganda: evidence, ideology, and the making of an African success story. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 240 pp.

51. LaGamma, Alison. 2011. Heroic Africans: legendary leaders, iconic sculptures. New Haven: Yale University Press. 298 pp.
    

52. Landau, Paul S, ed. 2011. The Power of Doubt: essays in honor of David Henige. Madison: Parallel Press. 281 pp.

53. Langwick, Stacey A. 2011. Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: the matter of maladies in Tanzania. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. 300 pp.

54. Lee, Rebekah. 2009.  African women and apartheid: migration and settlement in urban South Africa. 282 pp. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 282 pp.

55. Lindley, Anna. 2010. The Early Morning Phone Call: Somali refugees? remittances. New York: Berghahn Books. 188 pp.

56. Magaziner, Daniel R. 2010. The Law and Prophets: black consciousness in South Africa, 1968-1977. Athens: Ohio University Press. 283 pp.

57. Makoba, Johnson. 2011. Rethinking Development Strategies in Africa: the triple partnership as an alternative approach – the case of Uganda. Oxford: Peter Lang. 269 pp.

58. Mason, John Edwin. 2010. One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 128 pp.

59. Matthies, Volker. 2012. The Siege of Magdala: the British empire against the emperor of Ethiopia. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers. 207 pp.

60. Marais, Hein. 2011. South Africa Pushed to the Limit: the political economy of change. London: Zed Books Ltd. 566 pp.

61. Martinez, Jenny S. 2012. The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 254 pp.

62. Massey, Daniel. 2010. Under Protest: the rise of student resistance at the University of Fort Hare. Pretoria: Unisa Press. 310 pp.

63. McCluskey, Audrey Thomas. (ed). 2009. The Devil You Dance With: film culture in the new South Africa. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 236 pp.

64. McGovern, Mike. 2011. Making War in Cote d'Ivoire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 238 pp.

65. Melady, Thomas Patrick and Margaret Badum Melady. 2011. Ten African Heroes: the sweep of independence in black Africa. New York: Orbis Books. 205 pp.

66. Moore-Harell, Alice. 2010.  Egypt's African Empire: Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon & the Creation of Equatoria. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. xiii, 250 pp.

67. Mpe, Phaswane. 2011. Welcome to our Hillbrow: a novel of post-apartheid South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 124 pp.

68. Muehlenbeck, Philip E. 2012. Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 333 pp.

69. Murray, Martin J. 2011. City of Extremes: the spatial politics of Johannesburg. Durham: Duke University Press. 470 pp.

70. Murrell, Nathaniel Samuel. 2010. Afro-Caribbean Religions: an introduction to their historical, cultural, and sacred traditions. Philadephia, PA: Temple University Press. 431 pp.

71. Nicolini, Beatrice. 2011. The First Sultan of Zanzibar: scrambling for power and trade in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers. 179 pp.

72. Noret, Joel. 2010. Deuil et funerailles dans le Benin meridional: enterer a tout prix. Belgique: Editions de l ' Universite de Bruxelles. 204 pp.

73. Noret, Joel and Pierre Petit. 2011. Mort et dynamiques socials au Katanga. Tervuren: Musee royal de l'Afrique central et l'Harmattan. 159 pp.

74. Nwakanma, Obi. 2010. Christopher Okigbo, 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight. Suffolk: James Currey. xviii, 276 pp.

75. Obotetukudo, Solomon Williams, ed. 2011. The Inaugural Addresses and Ascension Speeches of Nigerian Elected and Non-elected Presidents and Prime Minister, 1960-2010. Lanham: University Press of America. 195 pp.Olorunnisola, Anthony and Keyan G. Tomaselli, eds. 2011. Political Economy of Media Transformation in South Africa. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc. 304 pp.

76. Okediji, Moyo. 2011. Western Frontiers of African Art. Rochester: University of Rochester Press.

77. Oji, Mazi A. Kanu and Valerie U. Oji. 2010. Corruption in Nigeria: the fight and movement to cure the malady. Lanham: University Press of America. 66 pp

78. Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne. 2011. Shaken Wisdom: irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 178 pp.

79. Osborn, Emily Lynn. 2011. Our New Husbands are Here: households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule. Athens: Ohio University Press. 273 pp.

80. Ostebo, Terje. 2012. Localising Salafism: religious change among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia. Lieden: Koninklijke Brill. 380 pp.

81. Probst, Peter. 2011. Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: monuments, deities, and money. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 207 pp.
    

82. Rahier, Jean Muteba, Percy C. Hintzen & Felipe Smith, eds. 2010. Global Circuits of Blackness: interrogating the African Diaspora. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 261 pp.

83. Rice, Alan. 2010. Creating Memorials Building Identity: the politics of memory in the black Atlantic. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 244 pp.

84. Rupp, Stephanie. 2011. Forests of Belonging: identities, ethnicities and stereotypes in the Congo River Basin. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 306 pp.

85. Ryle, John, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo, and Jok Madut Jok. 2011. The Sudan Handbook. Suffolk: James Currey. 220 pp.

86. Sakhela Buhlungu. 2010. A AParadox of Victory: COSATU and the Democratic Transformation in South Africa. South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 209 pp

87. Saks, Lucia. 2010. Cinema in a Democratic South Africa: the race for representation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 256 pp.

88. Scheub, Harold. 2010. The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance. Athens: Ohio University Press. 240 pp.

89. Searcy, Kim. 2011. The Formation of the Sudannese Mahdist State: ceremony and symbols of authority, 1882-1898. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.

90. Semley, Lorelle D. 2011. Mother is Gold, Father is Glass: gender and colonialism in a Yoruba Town. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 235 pp.

91. Severino, Jean Michel and Olivier Ray. 2011. Africa’s Moment. Cambridge: Polity Press. 317 pp.

92. Shapiro, Ian and Kahreen Tebeau, eds.2011. After Apartheid: reinventing South Africa? Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 376 pp.

93. Shumway, Rebecca. 2011. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 232 pp.  

94. Sidikou Aissata G. and Thomas Hale, eds. 2012. Women’s Voices from West Africa: an anthology of songs from the Sahel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 143 pp.

95. Soares, Mariza de Carvalho. 2011. People of Faith: slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. Durham: Duke University Press. 321 pp.
    

96. Smith, Jeremy H. 2011. The Staircase of a Patron: Sierra Leone and The United Brethren in Christ. Lexington: Emeth Press. 313 pp.

97. Stanard, Matthew G. 2011. Selling the Congo: a history of European pro-empire propaganda and the making of Belgian imperialism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 387 pp.

98. Strindberg, Anders and Mats Warn. 2011. Islamism. Cambridge: Polity Press. 238 pp.
    

99. Trotter, Henry. 2011. Sugar Girls & Seamen: a journey into the world of dockside prostitution in South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 242 pp.

100. Walonen, Michael K. 2011. Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: space and power in expatriate and North African Literature. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. 163 pp.

101. Wasserman, Herman. 2010. Tabloid journalism in South Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 208 pp.

102. Wendland, Claire L. 2010. A Heart for the Work: journeys through an African Medical School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 330 pp.  

103. Wickett, Elizabeth. 2010. For the Living and the Dead: The Funerary Laments of Upper Egypt, Ancient and Modern. London: I.B. Tauris. xviii, 307 pp.