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      1. Andrikopoulos, Apostolos. 2023. Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press. 201 pp.
      2. Arndt, Jochen. 2022. Divine by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 326 pp.
      3. Asheeke, Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson. 2023. Arming Black Consciousness: The Azanian Black Nationalist Tradition and South Africa’s Armed Struggle. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 274 pp.
      4. Awedoba, Albert, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler & David Sebudubudu (eds.) 2022. Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy, and Society South of the Sahara in 2020. Leiden: Brill. 555 pp.
      5. Ballim, Faeeza. 2023. Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence. Athens: Ohio University Press. 167 pp.
      6. Billet, Bret. 2023. Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability: Enriching Well-being in the Wake of the Great Recession. London: Lexington. 255 pp.
      7. Boer, Ninke. 2023. The Briny South: Displacement & Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 210 pp.
      8. Byala, Sara. 2023. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 366 pp.
      9. Camara, Mohamed, Alem Hailu, and Sabella Abidde. (eds.) 2024. Issues of Governance, Security, and Development in Contemporary Africa. London: Lexington Books. 414 pp.
      10. Canham, Hugo. 2023. Riotous Deathscapes. Durham: Duke University Press. 269 pp.
      11. Carmichael, Liz. 2022. Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord 1991-1994. Rochester: James Curry. 492 pp.
      12. Chalfin, Brenda. 2023. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Durhan and London: Duke University Press. 348 pp.
      13. Chery, Tshepo. 2023. Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 247 pp.
      14. Ciucci, Alessandra. 2022. The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry, and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 228 pp.
      15. Clapham, Christopher. 2023. The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 244 pp.
      16. Collombier, Virginie and Wolfram Lacher. 2023. Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. New York:  Oxford University Press. 363 pp.
      17. Davis, Muriam. 2022. Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria. Durham: Duke University Press. 264 pp.
      18. Desrosiers, Marie-Eve. 2023. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 386 pp.
      19. Diallo, A. El Hadji Samba. 2022. Sciences et confreries soufies au Senegal: Approches Nouvelles de la violence et de la democratie. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 436 pp.
      20. Dilger, Hansjorg. 2022. Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 266 pp.
      21. Eicher, Joanne (ed). 2022. Global Trade and Cultural Authentication: The Kalabari of the Niger Delta. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 306 pp.
      22. Erlmann, Veit. 2022. Lion’s Share: Remaking South African Copyright. Durham: Duke. 386 pp.
      23. Falkof, Nicky. 2022. Warrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South-Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 244 pp.
      24. Falola, Toyin and Emmanuel Mbah. 2023. Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender, Religion, and Ethno-Cultural Identities. London: Lexington Books. 274 pp.
      25. Falola, Toyin, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso. 2023. African Refugees. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 590 pp.
      26. Featherstone, David, Christian Hogsbjerg & Alan Rice (eds.) 2022. Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic Since 1971. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 317 pp.
      27. Fortes-Lima, Cesar, Ezekia Mtetwa, Carina Schlebusch (eds.) 2022. Africa the Cradle of Human Diversity: Cultural and Biological Approaches to Uncover African Diversity. Leiden: Brill. 333 pp.
      28. Hagberg, Sten, Ludovic Kibora, Sidi Barry, Yacouba Cissao, Siaka Gnessi, Amado Kabore, Binou Kone, and Mariatou Zongo. 2023. Security from below in Burkina Faso: Citizen Perceptions and perspectives. Uppsala: Uppsala 123 pp.
      29. Hanchey, Jenna. 2023. The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 235 pp.
      30. Hannerz, Ulf. 2022. Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria. New York: Berghahn. 226 pp.
      31. Hansen, Tranberg, Karen. 2023. Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 207 pp.
      32. Hanson, Holly. 2022. To Speak and be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca 1500-2015. Athens: Ohio University Press. 252 pp.
      33. Hecht, Gabrielle. 2023. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 269 pp.
      34. Ige, Segun, Gilbert Mitsaathebe & Omedi Ochieng. 2022. A Companion to African Rhetoric. Lanham: Lexington Books. 342 pp.
      35. Jean-Baptiste, Rachel. 2023. Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 309 pp.
      36. Jolaosho, Omotayo. 2022. You Can’t Go to War without Song: Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa. Bloomington:  Indiana University Press. 289 pp.
      37. Joslin, V. Isaac. 2023. Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions. Athens: Ohio University Press. 340 pp.
      38. Kayira, Gift Wasambo. 2023. The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi. Lanham: Lexington Books. 270 pp.
      39. Kidenda, Mary, Lize Kriel & Ernst Wagner (eds.) 2022. Visual Cultures of Africa. Munster: Waxmann. 255 pp.
      40. Klemm, Peri. 2022. Dressing Modern Like Our Mothers: Dress, Identity, and Cultural Praxis in Oromia. Trenton: The Red Sea Press. 189 pp.
      41. Kniknie, Sam and Karen Buscher. 2022. Rebellious Riots: Entangled Geographies of Contention in Africa. Leiden: Brill. 233 pp.
      42. Kunz, Sarah. 2023. Expatriate: Following a Migration Category. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 304 pp.
      43. Laakso, Liisa and Siphamandla Zondi. 2024. Political Science in Africa: Freedom, Relevance, Impact. London and New York: Bloomsbury. 272 pp.
      44. Lamarque, Hugh & Paul Nugent. 2022. Transport Corridors in Africa. Rochester: James Curry. 325 pp.
      45. Landau, Paul. 2022. Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. Athens: Ohio University Press.  412 pp.
      46. Levin, Ayala. 2022. Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973. Durham: Duke University Press. 308 pp.
      47. Lieberman, Evan. 2022. Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 326 pp.
      48. Lodge, Tom. 2022. Red Road to Freedom: A Story of the South African Communist Party 1921-2021. Rochester: James Curry. 626 pp.
      49. Manjate, Fernando. 2022. Something Good but Nothing to be Proud of: Inheritance and Success Practices, and Sociopolitical Stakes in Times of Decentralization in Marracuene, Mozambique. Sweden: Uppsala. 253 pp.
      50. Marr, Stephen and Patience Mususa. 2024. Diy Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice. London and New York: Bloomsbury. 235 pp.
      51. McGregor, JoAnn, Heather Akou & Nicola Stylianou. 2022. Creating African Fashion Histories: Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 350 pp.
      52. McNamara, Thomas. 2022. A Village and Its NGOs: Co-constructing NGO Presence in Rural Malawi. Leiden: Brill. 169 pp.
      53. Moitt, Bernard. 2024. Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 223 pp.
      54. Morier-Genoud, Eric. 2023. Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique. New York: Oxford University Press. 240 pp.
      55. Mudimbe, Valentin-Yves. 2023. The Scent of the Father. Cambridge and Hoboken: Polity. 215 pp.
      56. Newitt, Malyn. 2022. The Zambezi: A History. London: Hurst & Company. 349 pp.
      57. Niehuus, Rachel. 2024. An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 201 pp.
      58. Ochonu, Moses. 2022. Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria’s Modernity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 373 pp.
      59. Okeja, Uchenna. 2022. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 217 pp.
      60. Olawoye, Salewa (ed.) 2023. Covid -19 and the Response of Central Banks: Coping with Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 143 PP.
      61. Oliver, Abraham, John Lamola, and Justin Sands. 2023. Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges. Albany: State University of New York Press. 347 pp.
      62. Osborn, Myles. (ed.) 2024. Making Marital Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 337 pp.
      63. Pailey, N. Robtel. 2022. Development, (Dual) Citizenship and its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 276 pp.
      64. Paustian, Megan. 2024. Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination. New York: Fordham University Press. 276 pp.
      65. Pellow, Deborah. 2022. A New African Elite: Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation. New York: Berghahn. 259 pp.
      66. Pendle, Naomi. 2023. Spiritual Contestations: The Violence of Peace in South Sudan. Rochester: James Currey. 306 pp.
      67. Plaut, Martin and Sarah Vaughan. 2023. Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War. London: Hurst and Company. 459 pp.
      68. Pointe, Stefano, Christine Noe & Dan Brockington (eds.) 2022. Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. Rochester: James Curry. 315 pp.
      69. Pradines, Stephane. 2022. Historic Mosques in Sub- Saharan Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 350 pp.
      70. Raeymaekers, Timothy. 2024. The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 227 pp.
      71. Ramutsindela, Maano, Frank Matose & Tafadzwa Mushonga (eds.).2022. The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarization, and Alternatives. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 251 pp.
      72. Rarey, Matthew. 2023. Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 288 pp.
      73. Ray, Daren. 2024. Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 329 pp.
      74. Resende-Santos, Joan & Aminah Fernandes. 2022. Economic Growth and Democracy in Post-Colonial Africa: Cabo Verde, Small States, and the World Economy. Lanham: Lexington Books. 334 pp.
      75. Rice, Kathleen. 2023. Right and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 183 pp.
      76. Rijke-Epstein, Tasha. 2023. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built from in Urban Madagascar. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 347 pp.
      77. Röschenthaler, Ute. 2022. African Agency in China’s Tea Trade: Commercial Networks, Brand Creation, and Intellectual Property. Leiden: Brill. 350 pp.
      78. Rubner, Nat. 2023. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Political, Intellectual & Cultural Origins(Volume 1). Rochester: James Curry. 666 pp.
      79. Sarro, Ramon. 2023. Inventing and African Alphabet: Writing Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 199 pp.
      80. Schilling, Hannah. 2023. Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan: Young Men and the Digital Economy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 221 pp.
      81. Schomerus, Mareike. 2022. The Lord’s Resistance Army: Violence and Peacemaking in Africa. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 318 pp.
      82. Shaffer, Ryan. 2023. The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. 805 pp.
      83. Shinn, David and Joshua Eisenman. 2023. China’s Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press. 484 pp.
      84. Siddiqi, Anooradha. 2024. Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement. Durham and London: Duke University Press.412 pp.
      85. Sigma, Rachel. 2023. Parties, Political Finance, and Government in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 310 pp.
      86. Skinner, Ryan. 2022. Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 308 pp.
      87. Smeets, Max. 2022. No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force. New York: Oxford. 291 pp.
      88. Stephens, Rhiannon. 2022. Poverty and Wealth in East Africa. Durham: Duke University Press. 295 pp.
      89. Táíwò, Olúfémi. 2022. Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously. London: Hurst & Company. 270 pp.
      90. Tomas, Antonio. 2022. In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda. Durham: Duke University Press. 266 pp.
      91. Traore, Makhroufi. 2024. Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethics-State of Gajaaga. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 459 pp.
      92. Trefon, Theodore. 2023. Bushmeat: Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. 264 pp.
      93. Tsika, Noah. 2022. Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria. Oakland:  University of California Press. 262 pp.
      94. Van Beer, Walter & Harrie Leyten. 2023. Masquerades in African Society: Gender, Power, and Identity. Rochester: James Currey. 397 pp.
      95. Vaziri, Parisa. 2023. Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive. Minneapolis & London: University of Minneapolis Press. 354 pp.
      96. Verbuyst, Rafael. 2022. Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town. Leiden: Brill. 398 pp.
      97. Vlavonou, Gino. 2023. Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 243 pp.
      98. Williams, Elizabet. 2024. Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 235 pp.
      99. Woolner, Christina. 2023. Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago. 247 pp.
      100. Young, Hershini. 2023. Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance. New York: New York University Press. 306 pp.