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Volume 56 - December 2018

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Guinea: Masks, Music and Minerals by Bram Posthumus London: Hurst Publishers, 2016. Pp. 240. $40 (pbk).

The Africans: The History of a Continent by John Iliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 402. $26 (pbk).

Arts of Being Yorùbá: Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric, by Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. Pp. 200, $28 (pbk).

Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic by Paul Richards London: Zed Books, 2016. Pp. 180. £12·99 (pbk).

Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction by Shirin Edwin. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Pp 248. $34.95 (pbk).

For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State by Noah Salomon Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 264. $29.95 (pbk).

Political Power and Tribalism in Kenya by Westen K. Shilaho. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, Pp. xvii + 186. $54.99 (hbk).

Neoliberal Moral Economy: Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda by Jörg Wiegratz London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. Pp. x + 375. £90·00 (hbk). £29·95 (pbk). £29·99 (e-pub).

Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond by Jon D. Holtzman Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. Pp. 224. $29.95 (pbk).

Beyond Ethnic Politics in Africa by Dominika Koter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, Pp. 202. $28.99 (pbk).

The Good Holiday: Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique by Joåo Afonso Baptista. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. Pp. 292. $120 (hbk).

Balancing Sovereignty and Development in International Affairs: Cameroon's Post-Independence Relations with France, Africa, and the World by Moses K. Tesi Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Pp. 225. $95 (hbk).

Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions: When Elephants Fight by John James Quinn. London: Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. 377. $54.99 (pbk).

Democracy's Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid by Antina von Schnitzler Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 238. £22·95 (pbk).

Migration and Development in Africa: Trends, Challenges and Policy Implications edited by Steve Tonah, Mary Boatemaa Setrana and John A. Arthur. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. 210. $95 (hbk).

After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda by Holly Porter Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 255. £75 (hbk).

Modernizing Sexuality: U.S. HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa by Anne Esacove New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 197. $41.95 (pbk).

Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics After Apartheid by Louise Meintjes Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 338. $26.95 (pbk).

Nigeria's Niger Delta: Militancy, Amnesty, and the Postamnesty Environment by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. 195. $90 (hbk).

Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State and Pan-Africanism in Ghana by Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. 322. $32.95 (pbk).

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