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Volume 63 - November 2022

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Revisiting the Colonial Encounter in the Sahel - Des Pays au Crépuscule: le moment de l'occupation coloniale (Sahara-Sahel) By Camille Lefebvre. Paris: Fayard, 2021. Pp. 352. 24.00 €, paperback (ISBN: 9782213718101); 16.99 €, e-book (ISBN: 9782213719610).

An Army's Complicated Legacy - Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar By Luise White. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. $104.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478010623); $27.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781478011729); $27.95, e-book (ISBN: 9781478021285).

Political Authority and Rural Development - Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana By Alice Wiemers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 250. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424452); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424667); e-book (ISBN: 9780821447376).

Zambia and Zambians during the Second World War - War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953 By Alfred Tembo. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424629); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821425107); e-book (ISBN: 9780821447482).

African Art in an Imperial Center - Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art By John Warne Monroe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 368. $45.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781501736353); $29.99, e-book (ISBN: 9781501736377).

The Muridiyya Diaspora - Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making By Cheikh Babou. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 326. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424377); $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424674); e-book (ISBN: 9780821447291).

Queering Colonialism - Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa By T. J. Tallie. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. 240. $100, hardcover (ISBN: 9781517905170); $25.00, paperback (ISBN: 9781517905187).

Using Dirt to Write History - Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos By Stephanie Newell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. xx + 249. $26.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781478006435); $99.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478005391); $25.60, e-book (ISBN: 9781478007067).

Work and Life on the Mission Station - Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926 By Michelle Liebst. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2021. Pp. 240. $99.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781847012753); $24.99, e-book (ISBN: 9781800102859).

African Medicine in the Atlantic World - Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 By Kalle Kananoja. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108491259); $80.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781108865302).

The State of Play in Sports History - Sports in Africa, Past and Present Edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, and Gerard Akindes. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. $60.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424254); $32.95 paperback (ISBN: 9780821424513); e-book (ISBN: 9780821446966).

The Past, Present, and Future of African Opera - African Theatre 19: Opera & Music Theatre By Christine Mazke, Lena van der Hoven, Christopher Odhiambo, and Hilde Roos (eds.). Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2020. Pp. 262. $99.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781847012579); $24.99, e-book (ISBN: 9781787449503).

African Histories of Health: A New Synthesis - Health, Healing and Illness in African History By Rebekah Lee. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 272. $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781474254380); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781474254373); $31.45, e-book (ISBN: 9781474254397).

Productive Tensions? - An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race By Shobana Shankar. London: Hurst Publishers, 2021. Pp. 256, £22, paperback (ISBN: 9781787385696).

The Lutheran Church and the Tanzanian State - Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka's Life and Work By Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 150. $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781793603593); $45.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781793603609).

Diaspora, Music, and Identity in Senegal - In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory and Social Change in Urban Senegal By Catherine M. Appert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 248. $115.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780190913489); $33.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780190913496).

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