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ARCHITECTURE AND SWAHILI PORT CITIES - Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere. By Prita Meier. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 231. $35.00, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-01915-8).

TAXATION IN PORTUGUESE AFRICA - Administration and Taxation in Former Portuguese Africa, 1900–1945. By Philip J. Havik, Alexander Keese, and Maciel Santos. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Pp. 255. $81.95, hardcover (ISBN 9781443870108).

MATERIAL CULTURE, AND AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY - Material Explorations in African Archaeology. By Timothy Insoll. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 473. $125.00, hardcover (ISBN 9780199550067).

THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF AFRICA - The Democratization of Africa: Dynamics and Trends. Edited by Alexius Amtaika. Austin, TX and Ibadan: Pan-African University Press, 2017. Pp. xxix + 401. $20.00, paperback (ISBN 978-1-943533-13-8).

CASHEWS, MIGRATION, AND WOMEN IN MOZAMBIQUE - Women, Migration, & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique 1945–1975. By Jeanne Marie Penvenne. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2015. Pp. xx + 281. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 978184701282).

THE ALMORAVID AND ALMOHAD EMPIRES - The Almoravid and Almohad Empires. By Amira K. Bennison. The Edinburgh History of Islamic Empires. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv + 382. £29,99/$49.95, paperback (ISBN 9780748646807).

VIOLENCE AND STATE FORMATION IN MOZAMBIQUE - Violent Becomings: State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique. By Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. Pp. 332. $54.00, hardback (ISBN 9781785332364); $26.00, paperback (ISBN 9781785332937).

POWER AND POLITICS IN ZIMBABWE - Understanding Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism. By Sara Rich Dorman. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 256. $27.95, paperback (ISBN 9780190634889).

ENVIRONMENTALISM AND FOREIGN AID IN MADAGASCAR - Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar. By Catherine A. Corson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv + 305. $85.00, hardback (ISBN 9780300212273).

URBAN GROWTH IN ETHIOPIA - Urban Growth in Ethiopia, 1887-1974: From the Foundation of Finfinnee to the Demise of the First Imperial Era. By Getahun Benti. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. xvii + 213. $79.00, hardback (ISBN 9781498521932).

A MICROCOSM OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR - An Imperfect Occupation: Enduring the South African War. By John Boje. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 243. $40.00, hardback (ISBN 9780252039560).

THE ADDIS ABABA MASSACRE - The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame. By Ian Campbell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 448. $39.95, hardback (9780190674724).

BIRDERS AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN AFRICA - Birders of Africa: History of a Network. By Nancy J. Jacobs. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii + 325. $85.00, hardback (ISBN 9780300209617).

THE APARTHEID REGIME'S SEARCH FOR SURVIVAL - An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and the Search for Survival. By Jamie Miller. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xix + 439. $78.00, hardback (ISBN 9780190274832).

GERMAN IMPERIALISM AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTALISM - The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa. By Bernhard Gissibl. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. Pp. xiv + 360. $120 (ISBN 978-1-78533-175-6).

THE NAZARETHA CHURCH IN SOUTH AFRICA - Isaiah Shembe's Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha. By Nkosinathi Sithole. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2016. Pp. viii + 212. $128.00, hardcover (ISBN 978090043172222).

URBAN IDENTITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA - The Emergence of the South African Metropolis: Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century. By Vivian Bickford-Smith. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv + 319. $99.99, hardback (ISBN 9781107002937).

SELLING APARTHEID - Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda War. By Ron Nixon. London: Pluto Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 238. $24.00, paperback (ISBN 9780745399140).

THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGY IN ETHIOPIA - The Politics of Technology in Africa: Communication, Development and Nation-Building in Ethiopia. By Iginio Gagliardone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. £64.99. Pp. ix + 179. Hardback (ISBN 9781107177857).

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