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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. 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.
      3. Ballim, Faeeza. 2023. Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence. Athens: Ohio University Press. 167 pp.
      4. Billet, Bret. 2023. Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability: Enriching Well-being in the Wake of the Great Recession. London: Lexington. 255 pp.
      5. Boer, Ninke. 2023. The Briny South: Displacement & Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 210 pp.
      6. Byala, Sara. 2023. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 366 pp.
      7. Camara, Mohamed, Alem Hailu, and Sabella Abidde. (eds.) 2024. Issues of Governance, Security, and Development in Contemporary Africa. London: Lexington Books. 414 pp.
      8. Canham, Hugo. 2023. Riotous Deathscapes. Durham: Duke University Press. 269 pp.
      9. Chalfin, Brenda. 2023. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Durhan and London: Duke University Press. 348 pp.
      10. Chery, Tshepo. 2023. Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 247 pp.
      11. Clapham, Christopher. 2023. The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 244 pp.
      12. Collombier, Virginie and Wolfram Lacher. 2023. Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. New York:  Oxford University Press. 363 pp.
      13. Falola, Toyin and Emmanuel Mbah. 2023. Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender, Religion, and Ethno-Cultural Identities. London: Lexington Books. 274 pp.
      14. 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.
      15. Hansen, Tranberg, Karen. 2023. Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 207 pp.
      16. Hecht, Gabrielle. 2023. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 269 pp.
      17. Jean-Baptiste, Rachel. 2023. Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 309 pp.
      18. Joslin, V. Isaac. 2023. Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions. Athens: Ohio University Press. 340 pp.
      19. Kayira, Gift Wasambo. 2023. The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi. Lanham: Lexington Books. 270 pp.
      20. Kunz, Sarah. 2023. Expatriate: Following a Migration Category. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 304 pp.
      21. Laakso, Liisa and Siphamandla Zondi. 2024. Political Science in Africa: Freedom, Relevance, Impact. London and New York: Bloomsbury. 272 pp.
      22. Marr, Stephen and Patience Mususa. 2024. Diy Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice. London and New York: Bloomsbury. 235 pp.
      23. Moitt, Bernard. 2024. Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 223 pp.
      24. Morier-Genoud, Eric. 2023. Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique. New York: Oxford University Press. 240 pp.
      25. Mudimbe, Valentin-Yves. 2023. The Scent of the Father. Cambridge and Hoboken: Polity. 215 pp.
      26. Niehuus, Rachel. 2024. An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 201 pp.
      27. Olawoye, Salewa (ed.) 2023. Covid -19 and the Response of Central Banks: Coping with Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 143 PP.
      28. 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.
      29. Osborn, Myles. (ed.) 2024. Making Marital Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 337 pp.
      30. Paustian, Megan. 2024. Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination. New York: Fordham University Press. 276 pp.
      31. Pendle, Naomi. 2023. Spiritual Contestations: The Violence of Peace in South Sudan. Rochester: James Currey. 306 pp.
      32. Plaut, Martin and Sarah Vaughan. 2023. Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War. London: Hurst and Company. 459 pp.
      33. Raeymaekers, Timothy. 2024. The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 227 pp.
      34. Rarey, Matthew. 2023. Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 288 pp.
      35. Ray, Daren. 2024. Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 329 pp.
      36. Rice, Kathleen. 2023. Right and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 183 pp.
      37. Rijke-Epstein, Tasha. 2023. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built from in Urban Madagascar. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 347 pp.
      38. Rubner, Nat. 2023. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Political, Intellectual & Cultural Origins(Volume 1). Rochester: James Curry. 666 pp.
      39. Sarro, Ramon. 2023. Inventing and African Alphabet: Writing Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 199 pp.
      40. Schilling, Hannah. 2023. Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan: Young Men and the Digital Economy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 221 pp.
      41. Shaffer, Ryan. 2023. The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. 805 pp.
      42. Shinn, David and Joshua Eisenman. 2023. China’s Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press. 484 pp.
      43. Siddiqi, Anooradha. 2024. Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement. Durham and London: Duke University Press.412 pp.
      44. 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.
      45. Traore, Makhroufi. 2024. Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethics-State of Gajaaga. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 459 pp.
      46. Trefon, Theodore. 2023. Bushmeat: Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. 264 pp.
      47. Van Beer, Walter & Harrie Leyten. 2023. Masquerades in African Society: Gender, Power, and Identity. Rochester: James Currey. 397 pp.
      48. Vaziri, Parisa. 2023. Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive. Minneapolis & London: University of Minneapolis Press. 354 pp.
      49. Vlavonou, Gino. 2023. Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 243 pp.
      50. Williams, Elizabet. 2024. Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 235 pp.
      51. Woolner, Christina. 2023. Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago. 247 pp.
      52. Young, Hershini. 2023. Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance. New York: New York University Press. 306 pp.