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  1. Abaka, Edmund. 2005. Kola is God’s Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives & the Kola Industry of Asante & the Gold Coast c.1820-1950. Athens: Ohio University Press. 166 pp.

  2. Abdi, Ali A. and Ailie Cleghorn (eds). 2005. Issues in African Education: Sociological Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 315 pp.

  3. Adams, Charles H. 2005. The Narrative of Robert Adams – A Barbary Captive: A Critical Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press. 182 pp.

  4. Adams, Anne V. and Esi Sutherland-Addy. 2007. The Legacy of Efua Sutherland: Pan-African Cultural Activism. Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited. 256 pp.

  5. Adebajo, Adekeye, Adedeji Adebayo, and Chris Landsberg. (eds). 2007. South Africa in Africa: The Post-Apartheid Era. Scottsville, South African: University of KwaZulu Natal Press. 329 pp.

  6. Adejumobi, Saheed, A. 2007. The History of Modern Ethiopia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 198 pp.

  7. Adekunle, Julius, O. 2007. Culture and Customs of Rwanda. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 164 pp.

  8. Adhikari, Mohamed. 2005. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Athens: Ohio University Press. 242 pp.

  9. Afolayan, Funso. 2004. Culture and Customs of South Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 301 pp.

  10. Alam, Shamsul S.L. 2007. Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 246 pp.

  11. Alexander, Jocelyn. 2006. The Unsettled Land: State-making & the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe 1893 – 2003. 219 pp.

  12. Allen, Philip, M and Maureen Covell. 2005. Historical Dictionary of Madagascar (Second edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc. 419 pp.

  13. Allman, Jean and John Parker. 2005. Tongnaab: The History of a West African God. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.292 pp.

  14. Argenti, Nicolas. 2007. The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 345 pp.

  15. Armes, Roy. 2005. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film: Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 278 pp.

  16. Armes, Roy. 2006. African Filmmaking: The North and South of the Sahara. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 214 pp.

  17. Arnfred, Signe (ed). 2004. Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa. Uppsala, Sweden: The Nordic Africa Institute. 276 pp.

  18. Asante, Michael, S. 2005. Deforestation in Ghana: Explaining the Chronic Failure of Forest Preservation Policies in a Developing Country. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 261 pp.

  19. Asouzu, Innocent, I. 2005. The Method and Principles of Complementary Reflection in and Beyond African Philosophy. Munster, Germany: LIT Verlag. 513 pp.

  20. Atuobi, Patrick, Anthony O. Boamah, and Sjaak van der Geest. 2005. Life, Love & Death: Conversations with Six Elders in Kwahu-Tafo, Ghana. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis Publishers. 56 pp.

  21. Austin, Gareth. 2005. Labour, Land, and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807 – 1956. 573 pp. Rochester, NY: The University of Rochester Press.

  22. Babou, Cheikh Anta. 2007. Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853 – 1913. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 294 pp.

  23. Banutu-Gomez, Michael Ba. 2006. Africa: We Owe it to Our Ancestors, Our Children, and Ourselves. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books. 187 pp.

  24. Bates, Robert H. 2008. When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 186 pp.

  25. Baudendistel, Rainer. 2006. Between Bombs and Good Intentions: The Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935 – 1936. New York: Berghahn Books. 337 pp.

  26. Bay, Edna G. 2008. Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 186 pp.

  27. Beck, Linda J. 2008. Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientalist Democracy in Senegal. Palgrave Macmillan. 261 pp.

  28. Benson, Peter. 2006. Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press. 343 pp.

  29. Bianchi, Robert, S. Daily Life of the Nubians. 2004. Wesport, CT: Greenwood Press. 284 pp.

  30. Bivens, Mary Wren. 2007. Telling Stories, Making Histories Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 192 pp.

  31. Boase, A. 2005. When the Sun Never Set: A Family’s Life in the British Empire. London: The Radcliffe Press. 231 pp.

  32. Bongmba, Elias, K. 2006. The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 310 pp.

  33. Brockman, Norbert, C. 2006. An African Biographical Dictionary. (Second Edition). Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing. 667 pp.

  34. Cahen, Michel. 2004. Os Outros: Um historiador em Mocambique, 1994. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing. 229 pp.

  35. Cammett, Melani Claire. 2007. Globalization and Business Politics in Arab North Africa: A Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. 265 pp.

  36. Campbell, Gwyn. 2005. An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press. 413 pp.

  37. Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C Miller (eds). 2007. Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic. (Volume One). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 382 pp.

  38. Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C Miller (eds). 2008. Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic. (Volume Two). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 317 pp.

  39. Carswell, Grace. 2007. Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers & Colonial Policies. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 252 pp.

  40. Chabal, Patrick, Ulf Engel, and Leo de Haan (eds.). 2007. African Alternatives (vol. 2). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 178 pp.

  41. Cheney, Kristen, E. 2007. Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 299 pp.

  42. Chernoff, John, M. 2005. Exchange is not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 425 pp.

  43. Chiwengo, Ngwarsungu. 2007. Understanding Cry, the Beloved Country: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. 207 pp.

  44. Christiansen, Catrine, Mats Utas, and Henrik Vigh (eds).  2006. Navigating Youth and Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute.  266 pp.

  45. Cohen, Jared. 2007. One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 228 pp.

  46. Cole, Catherine M., Takyiwaa Manu, and Stephan F. Miescher (eds). 2007. Africa After Gender? Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press. 328pp.

  47. Coleman, Deirdre. 2005. Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 273 pp.

  48. Coleman, Katharina P. 2007. International Organisations and Peace Enforcement: The Politics of International Legitimacy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 360 pp.

  49. Collins, Robert O. and James M. Burns. 2007. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 389 pp.

  50. Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff (ed). 2006. Law and Order in the Postcolony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 357 pp.

  51. Comaroff, John L., Jean L. Comaroff, and Deborah James (eds). 2007. Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 224 pp.

  52. Conrad, David C. 2004. Sunjata: A West African Epic of the Mande Peoples (Narrated by Djanka Tassey Conde). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 206 pp.

  53. Conteh-Morgan, John. & Olaniyan, T. (eds). 2004. African Drama and Performance. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. 271 pp.

  54. Cronk, Lee. 2004. From Mukogodo to Maasai: Ethnicity and Cultural Change in Kenya. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 172 pp.

  55. Curto, Jose, C. and Paul E. Lovejoy. 2004. Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil During the Era of Slavery. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 323 pp.

  56. Daly, M. W. 2007. Darfur’s Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press. 368 pp.

  57. Davies, J.E. 2007. Constructive Engagement? Chester Crocker & American Policy in South Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981-8. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 241 pp.

  58. De Bruijn, Mirjam, Rijk Van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald (eds). 2007. Strength Beyond Structure: Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa. Leiden: Brill. 344 pp.

  59. De Jong, Ferdinand. 2007. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 216 pp.

  60. Delius, Peter. (ed). 2007. Mpumalanga: History and heritage. Scottsville, South African: University of KwaZulu Natal Press. 510 pp.

  61. Dixon, Bill and Elrena Van Der Spuy, eds. 2004. Justice Gained? Crime and Crime Control in South Africa’s Transition. Cape Town, South Africa: UCT Press. 265 pp.

  62. Dorman, Sarah, Daniel Hammett and Paul Nugent (eds). 2007. Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa. Leiden: Brill Publishers. 264 pp.

  63. Doxtader, Erik & Philippe-Joseph Salazar. 2007. Truth & Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents. Claremont, South Africa: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. 478 pp.

  64. Doyle, Shane. 2006. Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda, 1860 – 1955. London: British Institute in Eastern Africa. 269 pp.

  65. Dubin, Steven C. 2006. Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 321 pp.

  66. Dull, Laura J. Disciplined Development: Teachers and Reform in Ghana. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: 101 pp.

  67. Durrani, Shirazi. Never Silent: Publishing & Imperialism in Kenya, 1884 – 1963. London: Vita Books. 268 pp.

  68. Dwyer, Kevin. 2004. Beyond Casablanca: M.A. Tazi and the Adventure of Moroccan Cinema. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 433 pp.

  69. Earle, T. F. and K.J.P. Lowe, eds. 2005. Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press. 400 pp.

  70. Einasdottir, Jonina. 2004. Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau (Second edition). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 236 pp.

  71. Falola, Toyin & Amanda Warnock (eds). 2007. Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 425 pp.

  72. Falola, Toyin. 2004. A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 271 pp.

  73. Feraoun, Mouloud 2005. The Poor Man’s Son: Menrad, Kabyle Schoolteacher. (Translated by Lucy R. McNair). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 153 pp.

  74. Fogel, William Robert. 2004. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700—2100: Europe, American, and the Third World. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. 191 pp.

  75. Fraenkel, P. 2005. No Fixed Abode: A Jewish Odyssey to Africa. London: I.B. Taurus. 249 pp.

  76. Fyle, C. Magbaily. 2006. Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone (New Edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 273 pp.

  77. Gardner, Judith and Judy El Buhsra (eds). 2004. Somalia: The Untold Story- The War Through The Eyes of Somali Women. London: Pluto Press. 257 pp. 

  78. Geller, Sheldon. 2005. Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 216 pp.

  79. Getz, Trevor, R. 2004. Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast. Athens, OH: Ohio University. 257 pp.

  80. Gezon, Lisa L. 2006. Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 215 pp.

  81. Giblin, James L. A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in the Twentieth Century Tanzania. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 304 pp.

  82. Gilbert, Erik. 2004. Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar 1860-1970. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 176 pp.

  83. Gish, Steven. 2004. Desmond Tutu: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 174 pp.

  84. Gocking, Rogers, S. 2005. The History of Ghana. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 331 pp.

  85. Goodhew, David. 2004. Respectability and Resistance: A History of Sophiatown. Westport, CT: Praeger. 190 pp.

  86. Gottlieb, Alma. 2004. The After Life Is Where We Come From. The Culture of Infancy in West Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 408 pp.

  87. Graeber, David. 2007. Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 445 pp.

  88. Gugler, Josef. 2004. World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 386 pp.

  89. Guy, Jeff. 2006. Remembering the Rebellion: The Zulu Uprising of 1906. Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 197 pp.

  90. Guyer, Jane I. 2004. Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 207 pp.

  91. Hale, Thomas, A. 2007.Griots and Griottes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 391 pp.

  92. Harneit-Sievers, Axel. 2006. Constructions of Belonging: Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 388 pp.

  93. Harris, Hermione. 2006. Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 283 pp.

  94. Hassim, Shireen. 2006. Women’s Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 339 pp.

  95. Hebinck, Paul and Peter C. Lent (eds). 2007. Livelihoods and Landscapes: The People of Guquba and Koloni and their Resources. Leiden, Netherlands. Brill. 390 pp.

  96. Held, David & Ayse Kaya. (eds). 2007. Global Inequality: Patterns and Explanations. Malden, MA: Polity Press. 272 pp.

  97. Henk, Dan. 2007. The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African Environment. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 219 pp.

  98. Hodgson, Dorothy L. 2004. Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 333 pp.

  99. Holl, Augustin, F.C. 2004. Saharan Rock: Archaeology of Tassilian Pastoralist Iconography. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. 157 pp.

  100. Hughes, David McDermott. 2006. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.285 pp. 

  101. Iliffe, John. 2005. Honour in African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 404 pp.

  102. Iliffe, John. 2006. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 214 pp.

  103. Iliffe, John. 2007. Africans: The History of a Continent. New York: Cambridge University Press. 365 pp.

  104. Isaacman, Allen F. and Barbara S. Isaacman. 2004. Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South–Central Africa, 1750-1920. Protsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 370 pp.

  105. Johnston, Michael. 2005. Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.256 pp.

  106. Kaarsholm, Preben (ed). 2006. Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 208 pp.

  107. Kagan, Alfred (ed). 2005. Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography. (Second Edition). 188 pp.

  108. Kanogo, Tabitha. 2005. African Womandhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50. Athens: Ohio University Press. 259 pp.

  109. Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield. 2007. African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 364 pp.

  110. Katongole, Emmanuel. 2005. A Future for Africa: Classical Essays in Christian Social Imagination. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press. 262 pp.

  111. Kieh, George Klay (ed). 2007. Beyond State Failure and Collapse: Making the State Relevant in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 293 pp.

  112. Klausen, Susanne M. 2004. Race, Maternity, and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910 – 39. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 221 pp.

  113. Konadu, Kwasi. 2007. Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society. New York: Routledge. 240pp.

  114. Konde, Emmanuel. 2005. African Women and Politics: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Male-Dominated Cameroon. Lewinston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. 239 pp.

  115. Korn, Fadumo (with Sabine Eichhorst). 2004. Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival. (Translated by Tobe Levin) New York: The Feminist Press (CUNY).

  116. Kreike, Emmanuel. 2004. Re-Creating Eden: Land Use, Environment, and Society in Southern Angola and Northern Namibia. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 285 pp.

  117. Krikler, Jeremy. 2005. White Rising: The 1922 insurrection and racial killing in South Africa. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. 385 pp.

  118. Kroslak, Daniela. 2008. The French Betrayal of Rwanda. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 322 pp.

  119. Kuhanen, J. 2005. Poverty, Health and Reproduction in Early Colonial Uganda. Joensuu, Finland: University of Joensuu Faculty of Humanities.434 pp.

  120. Kynoch, G. 2005. We are Fighting the World: A History of Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 346 pp.200 pp.

  121. Kyomuhendo, Grace B. & Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. 2006. Women, work & domestic virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 308pp.

  122. Laband, John (ed). 2007. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 301 pp.

  123. Lata, Leenco. 2004. The Horn of African as Common Homeland: The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 213 pp.

  124. Lawrence, Benjamin N. 2007. Locality, Mobility, and ‘Nation’: Periurban Colonialism in Togo’s Eweland 1900-1960. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 288 pp.

  125. Lawson-Halle, Laté. 2004. Roman africain et idologie: Tchicaya U Tam’Si et la réécriture de l’Histoire. Quebec: Les Presses de L’Université Laval. 233 pp.

  126. Levine, Stephen B. 2007. Demystifying Love: Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional. New York: Routledge. 184 pp.

  127. Lewis, Peter, M. 2007. Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan. 345 pp.

  128. Limb, Peter. 2008. Nelson Mandela: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 136 pp.

  129. Livingstone, Julie. 2005. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 310 pp.

  130. Lobban, Richard, A & Paul Khalil Saucier. 2007. Historical Dictionary of Republic of Cape Verde (4th edition). Lanham, MD. Scarecrow Press, Inc. 306 pp.

  131. Louw, P. Eric. 2004. The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid. Westport, CT: Praeger. 255 pp.

  132. Lubkemann, Stephen C. 2008. Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 391 pp.

  133. Luedke, Tracy J. 2006. Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University