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MORE SINNED AGAINST THAN SINNING - Search for the Nile's Source: The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer. By John Humphries. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 178. $30, paperback (ISBN 978-0-7083-2673-2).

JUDAIC AFRICA - Black Jews in Africa and the Americas. By Tudor Parfitt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+225. $29.95, hardback (ISBN 9780674066984).

SWAHILI VOICES IN THE CONTACT ZONE - De la Côte aux confins: Récits de voyageurs swahili. By Nathalie Carré. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2014. Pp. 395. €25, paperback (ISBN 978-2-271-07597-0).

THE ONTOLOGY OF CANCER - Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic. By Julie Livingston. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 228. $23.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8223-5342-3).

SELLING LIKE A STATE - Africa for Sale? Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa. Edited by Sandra J. T. M. Evers, Caroline Seagle, and Froukje Krijtenburg. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013. Pp. xii+304. $64/€46, paperback (ISBN 9789004251939).

EDUCATORS, JUDGES, AND JOURNALISTS - Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change. By Ousseina D. Alidou. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. Pp. xix + 225. $26.95, paperback (978-0-299-29464-9).

A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BLOOD - The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa. By William H. Schneider. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. ix+239. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2037-9).

CONVERTING TO CONSERVATION - Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere. By Genese Marie Sodikoff. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. xix + 245. $70, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-00309-6); $25, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-00577-9).

FROM MOTHERHOOD TO WIFEHOOD - A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700–1900. By Rhiannon Stephens. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xv+223. $95, hardback (ISBN 9781107030800).

CATHOLIC MISSIONS BETWEEN THE WARS - The White Fathers in Colonial Africa (1919–39). By Francis Nolan. Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2012. Pp. 472. $13, paperback (ISBN 9966-08-655-2).

FIREARMS AND WARRIORS - Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier. By John Laband. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 345. $40, hardback (ISBN 9780300180312).

A BLOODY AND BLOODLESS INDUSTRY - Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds. By Todd Cleveland. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 225. $26.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2100-0).

A MISSED SHOT - Light on Darkness? Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. By T. Jack Thompson. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012. Pp. xviii + 286. $45, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8028-6524-3).

THE ARABIST IN THE ARCHIVE - Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s–1930s). By Amal N. Ghazal. London: Routledge, 2010. Pp. xiv+171. $130, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-415-77980-7).

RENEWING HOPE - South Africa's Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects. By Adam Habib. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+307. $69.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2076-8); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2072-0).

WHEN BIOGRAPHY BECOMES HAGIOGRAPHY - Thomas Pringle: South African Pioneer, Poet & Abolitionist. By Randolph Vigne. Suffolk, England: James Currey, 2012. Pp. xvii + 270. $80, hardback (ISBN 978-1-84701-052-0).

EXAMINING AND RE-EXAMINING SOUTH AFRICA'S PAST - The South Africa Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited By Clifton Crais and Thomas V. McClendon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 606. $99.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8223-5514-4); $29.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8223-5529-8).

RECOGNIZING ANGRY YOUTH - War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State. By Pamela Reynolds. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 239. $75, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8232-4309-9); $26, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8232-4310-5).

INDIGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS SOURCES - The Akan People: A Documentary History. By Kwasi Konadu. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2014. Pp. xv + 446. $68.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-44879-5795).

CULTURAL ECONOMY - Purchasing Culture: The Dissemination of Associations in the Cross River Region of Cameroon and Nigeria. By Ute Röschenthaler. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011. Pp. xxi+593. $49.95, paperback (ISBN 978-1-59221-830-1).

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