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REFLECTIONS ON SOL PLAATJE - Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present. Edited by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, and Bhekizizwe Peterson. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016. Pp. lxvi + 263. $35.00, paperback (ISBN 9781868149810).

SOUTH AFRICA IN WORLD HISTORY - Modern South Africa in World History: Beyond Imperialism. By Rob Skinner. London, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Pp. 216, $26.95, paperback (ISBN 978-14411-0844-9).

DECOLONIZING THE METROPOLE - Decolonizing the Republic: African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946–1974. By Félix F. Germain. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv + 232. $39.95, paperback (ISBN 9781611862041).

BUFFALO BILL IN CENTRAL AFRICA - Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence and Masculinity in Kinshasa. By Ch. Didier Gondola. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 254. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780253020666); $30.00, paperback (ISBN 9780253020772).

NIGERIAN SEAFARERS AND NATIONALISM - Nation on Board: Becoming Nigerian at Sea. By Lynn Schler. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 241. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780821422175); $32.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821422182).

THE SLAVE SHIP HARE - The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina. By Sean M. Kelley. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 290. $30.00, hardback (ISBN 9781469627687).

STRUGGLING FOR HOME IN SOUTH AFRICA - Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home. By Anne-Maria Makhulu. London/Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp 228, $23.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8223-5966-1).

REVISITING THE AMISTAD - Amistad: A Hidden Network of Slavers and Merchants. By Michael Zeuske. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2015. Pp. xiv + 268. $88.95, hardback (ISBN 9781558765924); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 9781558765931).

MODERNIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN COTE D'IVOIRE - African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast. By Abou B. Bamba. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $89.00, hardback (ISBN 978081422380); $34.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821422397).

ART CAPITALIZED - The Art of Life in South Africa. By Daniel Magaziner. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp xix + 377. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821422526).

SLAVERY BEYOND THE ATLANTIC WORLD - Shackles of Iron: Slavery Beyond the Atlantic. By Stewart Gordon. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2016. Pp. xxx + 142. $18.00, paperback (ISBN 9781624664748).

RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN NIGERIA - Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian and Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town. Edited by Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen, and Rebecca Jones. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2017. Pp. xviii + 318. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9781847011534).

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICA - Searching for Boko Haram: A History of Violence in Central Africa. By Scott MacEachern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 352. $29.95, paperback (ISBN 9780190492526).

THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS AND JIHAD IN WEST AFRICA - Jihad in West Africa During the Age of Revolutions. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 396. $90.00 hardback (ISBN 9780821422403) $34.95 paperback (ISBN 9780821422410).

ORGANIZED CRIME IN NIGERIA - This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime. By Stephen Ellis. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 313. $29.95, hardback (ISBN 9780190494315).

ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE IN AFRICA - Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa. By Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton, and Noemi Tousignant. Chicago, IL: Intellect, 2016. Pp. 255. $28.50, paperback (ISBN 9781783207251).

AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MUSLIM WEST AFRICA - Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. By Ousmane Oumar Kane. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 296. $39.95, hardback (ISBN: 9780674050822).

VICHY AND THE AFRICAN RESISTANCE - Free French Africa in World War II: The African Resistance. By Eric T. Jennings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 300. $84.99, hardback (ISBN 9781107048485); $27.99, paperback (ISBN 9781107696976).

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