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RELIGION AND THE MAKING OF NIGERIA - Religion and the Making of Nigeria. By Olufemi Vaughan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xi+311. $99.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9780822362067); $25.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780822362272).

ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND A FORMER SLAVE FROM AFRICA - Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’. By Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Harper Collins, 2018. Pp. 208. $24.99, hardback (ISBN: 9780062748201).

FASHION AND BODY POLITICS IN IMPERIAL SUDAN - Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan. By Marie Grace Brown. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. Pp 240. $85.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781503601529); $25.00, paperback (ISBN: 9781503602649).

AFRICAN WOMEN IN AFRICAN HISTORY - African Women: Early History to the 21st Century. By Kathleen Sheldon. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii + 330. $85.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-253-02716-0); $40.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02722-1).

AFRICAN HISTORY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE - Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on Asia and Africa. Edited by Gareth Austin. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. 344. £85.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781474267496).

MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND LAW IN EGYPT - Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. By Kenneth M. Cuno. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi + 305. $39.95, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-8156-3392-1), ebook (978-0-8156-5316-5).

THE EAST AFRICAN REVIVAL IN UGANDA - Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda. By Jason Bruner. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 191. $99.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781580465847); $24.99, e-book (ISBN: 9781787440616).

COMBATANTS OF MUSLIM ORIGIN IN EUROPEAN ARMIES - Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad. Edited by Xavier Bougarel, Raphaëlle Branche, and Cloé Drieu. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. xi + 238. £64.99, hardback (ISBN: 9781474249430).

FOOD, FARMING, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN ETHIOPIA - Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming, and Environmental Change in Ethiopia. By Getnet Bekele. Woodbridge, UK: James Currey. 2017. Pp. 224. Paperback $42.00, (ISBN: 9781847011749).

A SHORT HISTORY OF MOZAMBIQUE - A Short History of Mozambique. By Malyn Newitt. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 254. $24.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780190847425).

THE LIFE OF SOL PLAATJE, REVISTED - Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876–1932. By Brian Willan. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2018. Pp. xxiv + 711. R380, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-4314-2644-7).

MAKING MOVIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - Black and White Bioscope: Making Movies in Africa, 1899 to 1925. By Neil Parsons. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2018. Pp. xii + 252. $80.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781783209439).

THE LIFE OF TIPPU TIP - Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery, and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa. By Stuart Laing. Surbiton, UK: Medina Publishing, 2017. Pp. 196. £25 (ISBN: 9781911487050).

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