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GUNS, POLITICS, AND CULTURE IN CENTRAL AFRICA - The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics. By Giacomo Macola. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 249. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780821422120); $32.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821422113).

TANZANIA, BLACK POWER, AND PAN-AFRICANISM - A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism, 1964-1974. By Seth Markle. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. Pp. 296. $39.95 paperback (ISBN 9781611862522).

THE KONGO STATE - Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order. By Jelmer Vos. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 218. $65.00, hardcover (ISBN 9780299306205).

HUMOR AND VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN ART - Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art. By Z. S. Strother. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 344. $50.00, paperback (ISBN 9780253022677).

THE SLAVE TRADE ON THE WESTERN SLAVE COAST - Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550–c. 1885. By Silke Strickrodt. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2015. Pp. xiv + 266. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9781847011107); $29.95, paperback (ISBN 9781847011787).

POPULAR INTELLECTUALS IN POSTCOLONIAL TANZANIA - Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania. By Emily Callaci. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 286. $94.95, hardback (ISBN 9780822369844); $25.95, paperback (ISBN 9780822369912).

IMAGINING THE CONGO - The Dark Continent? Images of Africa in European Narratives About the Congo. By Frits Andersen. Aarhus University Press, 2016. Pp. 690. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9788771248531).

AMBITIONS AND DISENCHANTMENTS IN THE CONGO - Congo: Ambitions et désenchantements 1880–1960. By Jean-Luc Vellut. Paris: Karthala, 2017. Pp. 520. €30.00, paperback (ISBN 9782811117993).

IDENTITY, TRAUMA, AND POLITICS IN RWANDA - A History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma: The Mythmakers’ Victims. By Randall Fegley. Lanham, Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. vii + 169. $80,00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-4985-1943-4).

ANXIETY AND POWER IN COLONIAL CONGO - A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo. By Nancy Rose Hunt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 352. $99.95, hardback (ISBN 978082235946); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 9780822359634).

REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ROCK ART AND ETHNOGRAPHY - Rock Art and Regional Identity: A Comparative Perspective. By Jamie Hampson. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2015. Reprinted by New York: Routledge Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 247, $82.95, hardback (ISBN 978-1-61132-371-9).

MAPPING LIVES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD - Africans of the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World. By Randy J. Sparks Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 204. $26.95, hardback (ISBN 97800674495166).

A FEMALE PROPHET IN WEST AFRICA - West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition. By Robert M. Baum. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 301. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780253017673); $32.00, paperback (ISBN 9780253017888).

ARTS AND POLITICS IN THE CONGO - Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture. By Sarah Van Beurden. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. Pp. xix + 372. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780821421901); $34.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821421918)

EARLY INDIAN TRADERS IN SOUTH AFRICA - Crossing Space and Time in the Indian Ocean: Early Indian Traders in Natal – A Biographical Study. By Goolam Vahed and Surendra Bhana. Pretoria: Unisa Press (Indian Ocean Series), 2015. Pp. xi + 275. $29,00, paperback. (ISBN 978-1-86888-779-8).

GENDER AND POWER IN MODERN YORUBA - What Gender is Motherhood? Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation and Identity in the Age of Modernity. By Oyèrónké Oyewùmí. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xi + 262. $100.00, hardback (ISBN 9781137538772).

RELIGION, POLITICS, AND PERFORMANCE IN THE CONGO - Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo. By Yolanda Covington-Ward. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 287. $94.95, hardback (ISBN 9780822360209); $25.95, paperback (ISBN 9780822360360).

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